IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics

IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics is published by Oxford University Press and is in Zone 4 of Mathematics in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Advanced Mathematical Modeling in Engineering, Differential Equations and Numerical Methods and Numerical methods in inverse problems, together about 25.1% of its articles. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

The IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics is a direct successor of the Journal of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications which was started in 1965. It is an interdisciplinary journal that publishes research on mathematics arising in the physical sciences and engineering as well as suitable articles in the life sciences, social sciences, and finance. Submissions should address interesting and challenging mathematical problems arising in applications. A good balance between the development of the application(s) and the analysis is expected. Papers that either use established methods to address solved problems or that present analysis in the absence of applications will not be considered. The journal welcomes submissions in many research areas. Examples are: continuum mechanics materials science and elasticity, including boundary layer theory, combustion, complex flows and soft matter, electrohydrodynamics and magnetohydrodynamics, geophysical flows, granular flows, interfacial and free surface flows, vortex dynamics; elasticity theory; linear and nonlinear wave propagation, nonlinear optics and photonics; inverse problems; applied dynamical systems and nonlinear systems; mathematical physics; stochastic differential equations and stochastic dynamics; network science; industrial applications.

Source: LetPub

Research area (LetPub): Mathematics, Applied

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

SCIEScopusLetPub

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Impact

Impact factor

2.17LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore 2026-06

2.7LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

0.54LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

0.79LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

35LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

95OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

1,195OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

4.1OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

0%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

47.06%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

19LetPub · 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.

Average review time (community reports)

6–12 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Average acceptance (community reports)

EasyLetPub · 2026-09-13

Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.

A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.

The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Country or region

ENGLAND

Language

English

Frequency

Bimonthly

ISSN

0272-4960

Electronic ISSN

1464-3634

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Submission system ↗LetPub