Mathematics: Journal Rankings

Journal Rankings

TQCC Average citations Median citations H4-Index Number of Papers Impact Factor

(A journal has H4-Index of h when h of its past four year's publications has h citations, whereby h is the highest possible number that renders the former statement true. The citation data are based on CrossRef. The ranking can be re-used under a CC0-license.)

(Using publications from roughly 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01)

Rank	Journal	H4-Index
1	IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence	130
2	Expert Systems With Applications	116
3	IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems	110
4	IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics	102
5	ACM Computing Surveys	99
6	Computers in Biology and Medicine	96
7	Information Fusion	89
8	Neurocomputing	88
9	Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence	86
10	Reliability Engineering & System Safety	83
11	Pattern Recognition	82
-	IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems	82
13	Knowledge-Based Systems	81
-	IEEE Transactions on Image Processing	81
15	IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering	79
16	Applied Soft Computing	78
-	Medical Image Analysis	78
18	Artificial Intelligence Review	75
19	Nature Machine Intelligence	73
-	European Journal of Operational Research	73
21	Briefings in Bioinformatics	72
-	Journal of Manufacturing Systems	72
23	Management Science	70
24	Neural Computing & Applications	69
25	Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering	68
26	Mathematics	67
-	Chaos Solitons & Fractals	67
-	International Journal of Production Economics	67
29	Multimedia Tools and Applications	66
30	IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics	65
31	Advanced Engineering Informatics	64
-	IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles	64
33	Future Generation Computer Systems-The International Journal of Escience	63
34	Neural Networks	62
35	International Journal of Production Research	61
-	IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering	61
37	Bioinformatics	59
38	IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security	58
-	Technovation	58
40	Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering	57
-	IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation	57
-	IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing	57
-	Transportation Research Part E-Logistics and Transportation Review	57
44	Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine	56
45	Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience	54
46	IEEE Systems Journal	52
-	International Journal of Computer Vision	52
48	Safety Science	51
49	Annals of Operations Research	49
-	Mathematics and Computers in Simulation	49

-	IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems	49
-	Journal of Big Data	49
-	Journal of Computational Physics	49
54	Applied Intelligence	47
-	Applied Mathematical Modelling	47
56	Soft Computing	46
57	BMC Bioinformatics	45
-	Production and Operations Management	45
-	Advanced Intelligent Systems	45
-	Swarm and Evolutionary Computation	45
61	Socio-Economic Planning Sciences	44
-	Artificial Intelligence in Medicine	44
-	Fractal and Fractional	44
64	OMEGA-International Journal of Management Science	43
65	M&SOM-Manufacturing & Service Operations Management	42
-	Cluster Computing-The Journal of Networks Software Tools and Applications	42
-	Complex & Intelligent Systems	42
-	IEEE-ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics	42
-	IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing	42
-	International Journal of Systems Science	42
-	International Journal of Intelligent Systems	42
72	Econometrica	41
-	Information Systems Frontiers	41
-	Computer Physics Communications	41
75	Computers & Operations Research	40
-	Pattern Recognition Letters	40
-	Proceedings of the Vldb Endowment	40
-	Decision Support Systems	40
-	Journal of Supercomputing	40
80	Robotics and Autonomous Systems	39
-	IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence	39
-	Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing	39
-	Transportation Research Part B-Methodological	39
84	PeerJ Computer Science	38
-	Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation	38
-	Mathematical Problems in Engineering	38
-	IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems	38
-	Engineering Analysis With Boundary Elements	38
89	Applied Mathematics Letters	37
-	Journal of Systems and Software	37
-	Review of Economics and Statistics	37
-	Journal of the Franklin Institute-Engineering and Applied Mathematics	37
93	IEEE Transactions on Big Data	35
-	Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine	35
-	Computer Science Review	35
-	International Journal of Modern Physics B	35
-	Financial Innovation	35
98	Expert Systems	34
-	Fractals-Complex Geometry Patterns and Scaling in Nature and Society	34
-	IEEE-ACM Transactions on Networking	34
-	ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications	34
-	AIMS Mathematics	34
-	International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control	34
104	Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences	33
-	Neural Processing Letters	33
-	CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology	33
-	Journal of Econometrics	33
108	Chaos	32
-	Applied Artificial Intelligence	32
-	Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems	32
-	ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology	32
-	Modern Physics Letters B	32
113	Publicationes Mathematicae-Debrecen	31
-	Intelligent Automation and Soft Computing	31
-	Journal of Computational Science	31
-	Artificial Intelligence	31
-	Axioms	31
-	Production Planning & Control	31
-	Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics	31
-	Journal of Differential Equations	31
121	Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics	30
-	Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment	30
-	Cognitive Computation	30
-	Communications of the ACM	30
-	Image and Vision Computing	30
-	Concurrency and Computation-Practice & Experience	30
-	Journal of Operations Management	30
128	Physica D-Nonlinear Phenomena	29
-	Computer Systems Science and Engineering	29
-	Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing	29
-	Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Computational Molecular Science	29
-	Operations Research	29
-	Computational & Applied Mathematics	29
-	International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow	29
135	Microprocessors and Microsystems	28
-	Applied Mathematics and Mechanics-English Edition	28
-	IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems	28
-	Applied Mathematics and Computation	28
-	Computers & Mathematics With Applications	28
-	Computer Vision and Image Understanding	28
-	Journal of Physics A-Mathematical and Theoretical	28
-	Knowledge and Information Systems	28
143	Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing	27
-	Chemometrics and Intelligent Laboratory Systems	27
-	Egyptian Informatics Journal	27
-	International Journal of Approximate Reasoning	27
-	Frontiers in Neurorobotics	27
-	Transportation Science	27
-	Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews-Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery	27
-	Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems	27
-	Journal of Molecular Graphics & Modelling	27
-	Journal of Scientific Computing	27
-	International Journal of Fuzzy Systems	27
154	Multimedia Systems	26
-	International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering	26
-	Fuzzy Sets and Systems	26
-	International Journal of Neural Systems	26
-	Machine Learning	26
-	Applied Numerical Mathematics	26
-	Computer Speech and Language	26
-	Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research	26
-	International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics	26
163	Complexity	25
-	IET Image Processing	25
-	Frontiers of Computer Science	25
166	Quantum Information Processing	24
-	Journal of the American Statistical Association	24
-	Psychonomic Bulletin & Review	24
-	Research Synthesis Methods	24
-	Communications in Mathematical Physics	24
-	International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos	24
-	Computational Mechanics	24
-	Statistics in Medicine	24
174	Autonomous Robots	23
-	Risk Analysis	23

-	Annals of Statistics	23
-	Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience	23
-	Computing	23
-	Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery	23
-	Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications	23
-	International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics	23
-	Nonlinear Analysis-Hybrid Systems	23
-	Connection Science	23
-	IEEE Intelligent Systems	23
-	Journal of Real-Time Image Processing	23
-	Journal of Statistical Mechanics-Theory and Experiment	23
-	International Journal of Information Security	23
188	ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing	22
-	Finite Elements in Analysis and Design	22
-	Journal of Mathematics	22
-	International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems	22
-	Journal of Theoretical Biology	22
-	Quality and Reliability Engineering International	22
-	Informs Journal on Computing	22
-	International Journal of Computer Integrated Manufacturing	22
-	Frontiers in Neuroinformatics	22
-	International Journal of Quantum Chemistry	22
-	Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B-Statistical Methodology	22
-	Systems & Control Letters	22
200	Qualitative Theory of Dynamical Systems	21

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