International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos

International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos is published by World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte Ltd 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 Chaos control and synchronization, Nonlinear Dynamics and Pattern Formation and Quantum chaos and dynamical systems, together about 45.6% of its articles. Its main subfields are Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

The International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos is widely regarded as a leading journal in the exciting fields of chaos theory and nonlinear science. Represented by an international editorial board comprising top researchers from a wide variety of disciplines, it is setting high standards in scientific and production quality. The journal has been reputedly acclaimed by the scientific community around the world, and has featured many important papers by leading researchers from various areas of applied sciences and engineering. The discipline of chaos theory has created a universal paradigm, a scientific parlance, and a mathematical tool for grappling with complex dynamical phenomena. In every field of applied sciences (astronomy, atmospheric sciences, biology, chemistry, economics, geophysics, life and medical sciences, physics, social sciences, ecology, etc.) and engineering (aerospace, chemical, electronic, civil, computer, information, mechanical, software, telecommunication, etc.), the local and global manifestations of chaos and bifurcation have burst forth in an unprecedented universality, linking scientists heretofore unfamiliar with one another's fields, and offering an opportunity to reshape our grasp of reality.

Source: LetPub

Research area (LetPub): Mathematics, Interdisciplinary Applications

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

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Impact

Impact factor

2.42LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore 2026-06

4.3LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

0.56LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

0.75LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

90LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

142OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

3,824OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

2.78OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

16.7%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

1.55%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

284LetPub · 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)

2–4 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.

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

Publisher

World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte Ltd

Country or region

SINGAPORE

Language

English

Frequency

Monthly

Founded

1991

ISSN

0218-1274

Electronic ISSN

1793-6551

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Submission system ↗LetPub