Journal profile · Mathematics
JOURNAL OF INEQUALITIES AND APPLICATIONS
ISSN 1025-5834 · eISSN 1029-242X · Springer International Publishing · UNITED STATES · Bimonthly · Founded 2005
JOURNAL OF INEQUALITIES AND APPLICATIONS: CAS Zone 3 · Mathematics (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.9; fully open access; APC about USD 2,190; median 144 days to acceptance (102 articles, last 24 months); community-reported acceptance: easy; 173 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus; flagged on an early-warning list or for an indexing change: check before submitting.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
JOURNAL OF INEQUALITIES AND APPLICATIONS is published by Springer International Publishing 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 Mathematical Inequalities and Applications, Optimization and Variational Analysis and Fixed Point Theorems Analysis, together about 25.7% of its articles. Its main subfields are Applied Mathematics. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
The aim of this journal is to provide a multi-disciplinary forum of discussion in mathematics and its applications in which the essentiality of inequalities is highlighted. This Journal accepts high quality articles containing original research results and survey articles of exceptional merit. Subject matters should be strongly related to inequalities, such as, but not restricted to, the following: inequalities in analysis, inequalities in approximation theory, inequalities in combinatorics, inequalities in economics, inequalities in geometry, inequalities in mechanics, inequalities in optimization, inequalities in stochastic analysis and applications.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Mathematics
Editor-in-chief Sanjeev SinghPublisher website
Editorial board by country: 1 in mainland China (about 3%); most named India 5, United States 3, Australia 3, United Kingdom 2, Italy 2 (31 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Mathematical Inequalities and ApplicationsMathematics10.3%
- Optimization and Variational AnalysisComputer Science8.6%
- Fixed Point Theorems AnalysisMathematics6.8%
- Functional Equations Stability ResultsMathematics6.8%
- Nonlinear Differential Equations AnalysisMathematics6%
- Advanced Optimization Algorithms ResearchMathematics6%
- Advanced Harmonic Analysis ResearchMathematics4.9%
- Mathematical functions and polynomialsMathematics4.8%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Mathematics Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Mathematics | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Mathematics | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Mathematics, Applied | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Mathematics Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Mathematics | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Mathematics, Applied | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Mathematics | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Mathematics Zone 3
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Mathematics | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Mathematics | Zone 3 |
| Minor | Mathematics, Applied | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIEScopusDOAJLetPub
Early warning / risk: CAS Early Warning Journal List: listed in the 2020 edition (medium risk); not listed in the other 5 editions.LetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
CASzbMATHCurrent ContentsPublisher website
Other: Google Scholar, EBSCO, ProQuest, Dimensions, CNKI, Baidu, Naver, OCLC, Portico, CLOCKSS
As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.
Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor
- 1.9LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 1.9Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 1.5Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 3.3LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.55LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.2LetPub ·
- h-index
- 37LetPub ·
- h-index
- 75OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 1,503OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 2.08OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 5.3%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 100%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 171LetPub ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 1,700,000Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 5,629 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 116 | 116 | 40 |
| 2025 | 173 | 173 | 326 |
| 2024 | 159 | 159 | 567 |
| 2023 | 162 | 162 | 780 |
| 2022 | 165 | 165 | 1,071 |
| 2021 | 199 | 199 | 1,178 |
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.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
Review time from article dates manuscript dates registered with Crossref · to
144 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 93 days – 210 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 18 days (102 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 165 days
- Sample
- 102 articles with submission and acceptance dates (324 in the window); the latest was accepted on
Only articles that were accepted and published are counted, not the time spent on rejected manuscripts, so this usually runs longer than a publisher's "time to first decision".
Other sources
- Average review time (community reports)
- 4–8 weeksLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- EasyLetPub ·
- Submission to first decision
- 14 daysPublisher website ·
- Peer review
- Anonymous peer reviewLetPub
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.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Fully open accessOpenAlex
Every article is open access; authors usually pay an article processing charge (APC).
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | USD 2,190 / EUR 1,890 / GBP 1,390 | — | — | |
| LetPub | GBP 1,290 / USD 1,990 / EUR 1,690 | Yes | — | |
| Publisher website | GBP 1,490 / USD 2,290 / EUR 1,990 | — | — |
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
Open calls for papers2, by deadline
Publisher websiteWhat to prepare1 items from the author guidelines
- Suggested reviewers
- Optional
Article types accepted3
- commentaryFormatting guidelines for specific article types can be found below. Research Article Review CommentaryLength not stated
- research articleFormatting guidelines for specific article types can be found below. Research Article Review CommentaryLength not stated
- reviewFormatting guidelines for specific article types can be found below. Research Article Review CommentaryLength not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteData availability, License & copyright, Open access, Peer review
- Data availability Formatting the 'Availability of data and materials' section of your manuscript
Data availability: datasets should be deposited in public repositories or included in the paper/supporting files; machine-readable format preferred; 'Availability of data and materials' section required. Model summary
The following format for the 'Availability of data and materials section of your manuscript should be used:
Source ↗Publisher website ·- License & copyright Licensing and copyright
Open access licensing under CC BY-NC-ND or CC BY. Model summary
Creative Commons licences Open access articles in Springer Nature journals are published under Creative Commons licences. These provide an industry-standard framework to support easy re-use of open access material. Under Creative Commons licences, authors retain copyright of their articles. Journal of Inequalities and Applications articles are published open access under a CC BY-NC-ND (Creative Co…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Benefits of open access
Publishing open access (OA) offers a number of benefits, including greater reach and readership for your work: Cited more 1.6x more citations of OA articles than non-OA articles across all subjects Downloaded more 4x more downloads of OA articles than non-OA articles Greater impact 2.5x more Altmetric attention. OA articles attracted 1.9x more news mentions and 1.2x more policy mentions Open acces…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review policy
Peer review is the process used to evaluate the quality of a manuscript before publication. Independent researchers in the relevant field assess submitted manuscripts to check their validity and robustness. Their feedback guides editors in making publication decisions. Typically, two or more experts evaluate each manuscript based on three main criteria: scientific robustness: is the research metho…
Source ↗Publisher website ·
Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing
- Country or region
- UNITED STATES
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Bimonthly
- Founded
- 2005
- ISSN
- 1025-5834
- Electronic ISSN
- 1029-242X
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗LetPub
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Aims & Scope ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
- Peer review process ↗LetPub
- Editorial board ↗LetPub
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about JOURNAL OF INEQUALITIES AND APPLICATIONS
What CAS zone is JOURNAL OF INEQUALITIES AND APPLICATIONS in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, JOURNAL OF INEQUALITIES AND APPLICATIONS is in Zone 3 of Mathematics, and in Zone 3 of the minor category Mathematics / Mathematics, Applied. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 3 of Mathematics. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of JOURNAL OF INEQUALITIES AND APPLICATIONS?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 1.9; CiteScore 3.3, h-index 75.
How long does peer review take at JOURNAL OF INEQUALITIES AND APPLICATIONS?
Based on the dates recorded on 102 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 144 days (interquartile range 93–210 days); authors report an average review time of 4–8 weeks; the community-reported acceptance is “Easy”. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
Where are the editorial board members of JOURNAL OF INEQUALITIES AND APPLICATIONS based?
Of the 31 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 1 (about 3%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are India (5), United States (3) and Australia (3). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index JOURNAL OF INEQUALITIES AND APPLICATIONS?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, JOURNAL OF INEQUALITIES AND APPLICATIONS is indexed in SCIE, Scopus and DOAJ. The journal's website also lists CAS, zbMATH and Current Contents; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is JOURNAL OF INEQUALITIES AND APPLICATIONS open access, and what is the APC?
JOURNAL OF INEQUALITIES AND APPLICATIONS is a fully open-access journal. APC about USD 2,190.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, OpenAlex, Publisher website; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-26). Last updated: .