Experimental Mathematics

Experimental Mathematics is published by Taylor and Francis Ltd. and is in Zone 3 of Mathematics in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Algebraic Geometry and Number Theory, Geometric and Algebraic Topology and Analytic Number Theory Research, together about 28.5% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Experimental Mathematics publishes original papers featuring formal results inspired by experimentation, conjectures suggested by experiments, and data supporting significant hypotheses. Experiment has always been, and increasingly is, an important method of mathematical discovery. (Gauss declared that his way of arriving at mathematical truths was "through systematic experimentation.") Yet this tends to be concealed by the tradition of presenting only elegant, fully developed, and rigorous results. Experimental Mathematics was founded in the belief that theory and experiment feed on each other, and that the mathematical community stands to benefit from a more complete exposure to the experimental process. The early sharing of insights increases the possibility that they will lead to theorems: An interesting conjecture is often formulated by a researcher who lacks the techniques to formalize a proof, while those who have the techniques at their fingertips have been looking elsewhere. Even when the person who had the initial insight goes on to find a proof, a discussion of the heuristic process can be of help, or at least of interest, to other researchers. There is value not only in the discovery itself, but also in the road that leads to it.

Source: LetPub

Research area (LetPub): Mathematics

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

SCIEScopusLetPub

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Impact

Impact factor

0.48LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore 2026-06

2.1LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

0.73LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

1.14LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

29LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

61OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

551OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

0.63OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

0%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

21.05%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

49LetPub · 2026-09-13

Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.

Other sources

Average review time (community reports)

over 12 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Average acceptance (community reports)

EasyLetPub · 2026-09-13

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Publisher

Taylor and Francis Ltd.

Country or region

UNITED STATES

Language

Multi-Language

Frequency

Quarterly

ISSN

1058-6458

Electronic ISSN

1944-950X

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Submission system ↗LetPub