Rising Mathematics journals compared with their field
These are the Mathematics journals whose OJR rose faster than the median journal of their field between 2022 and 2025, by +10% or more relative to that median and by at least 2 standard errors. 43 journals qualify.
Between indicator years 2022 and 2025, the median OJR change among 358 eligible Mathematics journals was about +3%, taking the median on a log scale (the group ratio below).
Ordered by the lower bound of the relative-change range at two standard errors, highest first, then higher z (the signed difference in standard errors), then title. How trajectory is calculated (traj-v1)
| Journal | OJR 2022 → 2025 The OpenJournalRank Indicator (OJR) is a free, publicly available metric of a journal’s field-normalized citation impact, computed from open OpenAlex citation data. It compares citations to a journal’s papers from the previous three years with the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and values can be compared across fields. It is computed with the NCI3 method. | Change relative to Mathematics median (2 SE range) | z (standard errors) |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Quarterly Journal of Mathematics | 0.28 → 0.89 | +212.6% (+91.7% to +409.8%) | 4.7 |
| Journal of Geometric Analysis | 0.64 → 1.20 | +81.9% (+49.1% to +121.8%) | 6.0 |
| Mathematische Zeitschrift | 0.66 → 1.15 | +68.8% (+37.5% to +107.2%) | 5.1 |
| Fractional Calculus and Applied Analysis | 0.80 → 1.49 | +80.3% (+36.9% to +137.5%) | 4.3 |
| Taiwanese Journal of Mathematics | 0.25 → 0.56 | +112.7% (+30.4% to +246.8%) | 3.1 |
| Journal of Fourier Analysis and Applications | 0.63 → 1.12 | +71.5% (+26.4% to +132.7%) | 3.5 |
| Mathematische Annalen | 1.03 → 1.64 | +54.2% (+26.1% to +88.7%) | 4.3 |
| Journal d Analyse Mathématique | 0.63 → 1.21 | +86.7% (+24.1% to +180.8%) | 3.1 |
| Journal de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées | 1.04 → 1.73 | +60.7% (+21.3% to +113.0%) | 3.4 |
| Opuscula Mathematica | 0.40 → 0.84 | +101.6% (+19.8% to +239.3%) | 2.7 |
| International Mathematics Research Notices | 0.67 → 0.97 | +40.2% (+19.5% to +64.5%) | 4.2 |
| Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics | 0.38 → 0.64 | +65.1% (+15.9% to +135.4%) | 2.8 |
| SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis | 0.84 → 1.19 | +37.3% (+14.8% to +64.2%) | 3.5 |
| Scandinavian Journal of Statistics | 0.33 → 0.56 | +62.0% (+14.3% to +129.6%) | 2.8 |
| Journal of Pseudo-Differential Operators and Applications | 0.75 → 1.22 | +58.2% (+11.2% to +124.9%) | 2.6 |
| Statistics | 0.30 → 0.53 | +71.3% (+11.2% to +164.0%) | 2.5 |
| Electronic Communications in Probability | 0.28 → 0.45 | +55.4% (+10.6% to +118.3%) | 2.6 |
| American Journal of Mathematics | 1.29 → 2.03 | +51.6% (+9.3% to +110.3%) | 2.5 |
| Inventiones mathematicae | 2.39 → 3.46 | +40.1% (+8.8% to +80.4%) | 2.7 |
| Annales de l Institut Henri Poincaré Probabilités et Statistiques | 0.61 → 0.95 | +50.4% (+8.8% to +108.0%) | 2.5 |
| Studia Mathematica | 0.36 → 0.61 | +63.3% (+8.7% to +145.3%) | 2.4 |
| Indiana University Mathematics Journal | 0.62 → 0.97 | +52.7% (+8.6% to +114.7%) | 2.5 |
| Journal of Differential Equations | 1.10 → 1.35 | +19.3% (+6.6% to +33.6%) | 3.1 |
| Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computing | 0.86 → 1.15 | +28.6% (+6.5% to +55.2%) | 2.7 |
| Complex Analysis and Operator Theory | 0.56 → 0.85 | +46.2% (+6.0% to +101.6%) | 2.4 |
| Kinetic and Related Models | 0.42 → 0.77 | +77.5% (+5.6% to +198.2%) | 2.2 |
| Boundary Value Problems | 0.78 → 1.17 | +45.4% (+5.0% to +101.3%) | 2.3 |
| Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations | 1.12 → 1.49 | +28.7% (+4.9% to +57.9%) | 2.5 |
| The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics | 0.28 → 0.41 | +40.9% (+4.9% to +89.3%) | 2.3 |
| Electronic Journal of Statistics | 0.42 → 0.62 | +42.8% (+4.4% to +95.2%) | 2.3 |
| Groups Geometry and Dynamics | 0.38 → 0.62 | +60.3% (+4.1% to +146.7%) | 2.2 |
| Advances in Mathematics | 1.24 → 1.49 | +17.2% (+2.7% to +33.7%) | 2.4 |
| Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics | 0.64 → 0.90 | +36.8% (+2.5% to +82.7%) | 2.2 |
| Journal of Functional Analysis | 1.08 → 1.36 | +22.3% (+2.4% to +46.1%) | 2.3 |
| Mathematics in Engineering | 0.42 → 0.68 | +56.9% (+2.0% to +141.3%) | 2.1 |
| Geometric and Functional Analysis | 1.47 → 2.30 | +51.7% (+1.1% to +127.6%) | 2.1 |
| Bulletin of Mathematical Biology | 0.58 → 0.75 | +25.7% (+0.8% to +56.8%) | 2.1 |
| Communications on Pure and Applied Mathematics | 1.50 → 2.13 | +38.3% (+0.8% to +89.8%) | 2.0 |
| The Annals of Applied Probability | 0.77 → 1.02 | +28.1% (+0.7% to +63.0%) | 2.1 |
| Electronic Journal of Differential Equations | 0.17 → 0.27 | +49.9% (+0.6% to +123.5%) | 2.0 |
| Advances in Applied Mathematics | 0.43 → 0.66 | +47.2% (+0.2% to +116.2%) | 2.0 |
| Bernoulli | 0.61 → 0.86 | +35.3% (+0.1% to +82.8%) | 2.0 |
| Biometrika | 1.01 → 1.36 | +30.8% (+0.1% to +71.0%) | 2.0 |
How to read this list
Relative change = journal OJR ratio ÷ median group ratio − 1. The journal ratio is its OJR in 2025 divided by its OJR in 2022. The group ratio is the median of those ratios among eligible journals of the field, taken on a log scale: with an even number of journals, it is the geometric mean of the two middle ratios rather than their average.
Indicator year 2022 counts citations to papers published 2019–2021; indicator year 2025 counts citations to papers published 2022–2024. The two publication cohorts do not overlap.
A journal is listed when it is ranked, its relative change is +10% or more, and the change is at least 2 standard errors above zero (z ≥ 2), so the low end of its two-standard-error range is zero or above.
Large relative changes often start from very low scores: the top journal’s OJR rose from 0.28 to 0.89, still below the world average of 1.00. Relative to the median journal of its field, its change was +212.6%.