Journal profile · Mathematics, Applied
Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations
ISSN 0749-159X · eISSN 1098-2426 · John Wiley and Sons Inc. · UNITED STATES · Bimonthly · Founded 1985
Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations: CAS Zone 4 · Mathematics (2025 upgraded edition); impact factor 1.23; hybrid open access; APC about USD 3,750; median 181 days to acceptance (95 articles, last 24 months); community-reported acceptance: easy; 82 articles in 2025; indexed in SCIE and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations is published by John Wiley and Sons Inc. 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 Numerical Methods in Computational Mathematics, Differential Equations and Numerical Methods and Numerical methods in engineering, together about 42.8% of its articles. Its main subfields are Computational Mechanics. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations is an international journal that publishes the highest quality research in the rigorous analysis of novel techniques for the numerical solution of partial differential equations (PDEs). The journal is intended to be accessible to a broad spectrum of researchers into numerical approximation of PDEs throughout science and engineering, with priority given to articles that focus on theoretical results describing robustness, stability, and convergence of the new methods rather than the techniques themselves and specific applications. The Journal seeks to be interdisciplinary, while emphasizing numerical analysis and approximation theory in the following areas of research: discretization schemes for linear, nonlinear, and fractional PDEs; methods for optimal control and parameter estimation problems; techniques for high-dimensional spatial and parameterized PDEs; learning algorithms for data-driven solutions to PDEs; and new approaches for modeling complex phenomena with PDEs.
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): Mathematics, Applied
Editor-in-chief Lili JuPublisher website
Editorial board by country: 5 in mainland China (about 11%); most named United States 28, Mainland China 5, Hong Kong, China 3, United Kingdom 3, France 2 (47 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Advanced Numerical Methods in Computational MathematicsEngineering20.2%
- Differential Equations and Numerical MethodsMathematics11.8%
- Numerical methods in engineeringEngineering10.9%
- Numerical methods for differential equationsMathematics9.2%
- Advanced Mathematical Modeling in EngineeringComputer Science8.1%
- Fractional Differential Equations SolutionsMathematics6.6%
- Computational Fluid Dynamics and AerodynamicsEngineering6%
- Electromagnetic Simulation and Numerical MethodsEngineering5.7%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Mathematics Zone 4
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Mathematics | Zone 4 |
| Minor | Mathematics, Applied | Zone 4 |
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 |
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, Applied | Zone 3 |
Top journal: noReview journal: no
Database indexing
SCIEScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
Indexing the journal's website claims
EI CompendexWeb of ScienceINSPECMathSciNetzbMATHCurrent ContentsPublisher website
Other: ProQuest
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
- 1.23LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 1.4Publisher website ·
- Impact factor (publisher) 2025
- 1.4Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 6.6LetPub ·
- CiteScore (publisher)
- 6.6Publisher website ·
- CiteScore (publisher) 2025
- 6.6Publisher website ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 0.66LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 1.05LetPub ·
- h-index
- 50LetPub ·
- h-index
- 89OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 1,404OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 0.94OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 0%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 10.3%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 64LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher) 2025
- 71Publisher website ·
- Downloads per year (publisher) 2025
- 70,173Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 3,415 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 82 | 24 | 12 |
| 2025 | 82 | 27 | 72 |
| 2024 | 87 | 36 | 152 |
| 2023 | 107 | 51 | 460 |
| 2022 | 122 | 22 | 777 |
| 2021 | 111 | 16 | 1,192 |
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
181 daysMedian, submission to acceptance · P25–P75 127 days – 256 days
- Acceptance to online
- median 18 days (95 articles)
- Submission to online
- median 202 days
- Sample
- 95 articles with submission and acceptance dates (170 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)
- about 8 monthsLetPub ·
- Average acceptance (community reports)
- EasyLetPub ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 13%Publisher website ·
- Acceptance rate (publisher) 2025
- 13%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 24 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to first decision 2025
- 24 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance 2025
- 245 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication 2025
- 16 daysPublisher website ·
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
Hybrid open accessLetPub
A subscription journal in which authors can pay to publish their article open access.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | USD 3,750 / EUR 3,120 / GBP 2,500 | — | — | |
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
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.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
What to prepare4 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- ≤ 250 words
- Keywords
- 7
- Manuscript length
- ≤ 7,500 words
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAuthorship, Conflicts of interest, Data availability, Publication ethics, Peer review, Preprints, Self-archiving
- Authorship Authorship
Please refer to the journal’s authorship policy the Editorial Policies and Ethical Considerations section for details on eligibility for author listing. For all articles, the journal mandates the CRediT (Contribution Roles Taxonomy), for more information please see Author Services. On initial submission, the submitting author will be prompted to provide the email address and country for all contri…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Conflicts of interest Conflict of Interest Statement
Authors will be asked to provide a conflict of interest statement during the submission process. For details on what to include in this section, see the section ‘Conflict of Interest’ in the Editorial Policies and Ethical Considerations section below. Submitting authors should ensure they liaise with all co-authors to confirm agreement with the final statement.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data Sharing and Data Accessibility
Data sharing expected; data accessibility statement required. Model summary
The journal expects authors to share the data and other artefacts supporting the results in the paper by archiving it in an appropriate public repository. Authors should include a data accessibility statement, including a link to the repository they have used, in order that this statement can be published alongside their paper.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Publication Ethics
Member of COPE; uses iThenticate CrossCheck for plagiarism detection. Model summary
This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). Note this journal uses iThenticate’s CrossCheck software to detect instances of overlapping and similar text in submitted manuscripts. Read Wiley's Top 10 Publishing Ethics Tips for Authors here. Wiley’s Publication Ethics Guidelines can be found here.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer Review and Acceptance
Limit of three original research manuscript submissions per author per year. Model summary
The acceptance criteria for all papers are the quality and originality of the research and its significance to journal readership. Papers will only be sent to review if the Editor-in-Chief determines that the paper meets the appropriate quality and relevance requirements.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints PREPRINT POLICY
Preprints on non-commercial servers accepted. Model summary
This journal will consider for review articles previously available as preprints on non-commercial servers such as ArXiv, bioRxiv, psyArXiv, SocArXiv, engrXiv, etc. Authors may also post the submitted version of a manuscript to non-commercial servers at any time. Authors are requested to update any pre-publication versions with a link to the final published article. Click here for more details on …
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Self-archiving Self-Archiving Definitions and Policies
Note that the journal’s standard copyright agreement allows for self-archiving of different versions of the article under specific conditions. Please click here for more detailed information about self-archiving definitions and policies.
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
- John Wiley and Sons Inc.
- Country or region
- UNITED STATES
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Bimonthly
- Founded
- 1985
- ISSN
- 0749-159X
- Electronic ISSN
- 1098-2426
- Latest issue on the website
- Volume 42, Issue 5 (September 2026)
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗LetPub
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations
What CAS zone is Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations is in Zone 4 of Mathematics, and in Zone 4 of the minor category 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 Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 1.23; CiteScore 6.6, h-index 89.
How long does peer review take at Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations?
Based on the dates recorded on 95 articles published between October 2024 and October 2026 (the last 24 months), the median time from submission to acceptance is 181 days (interquartile range 127–256 days); authors report an average review time of about 8 months; the community-reported acceptance is “Easy”; the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 13% (2025). 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.
What are the manuscript requirements of Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≤ 250 words; Keywords: 7; Manuscript length: ≤ 7,500 words; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Where are the editorial board members of Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations based?
Of the 47 board members whose country the journal's board page names, 5 (about 11%) are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (28), Mainland China (5) and Hong Kong, China (3). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations is indexed in SCIE and Scopus. The journal's website also lists EI Compendex, Web of Science, INSPEC, MathSciNet, zbMATH and Current Contents; that list has not been checked against each database.
Is Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations open access, and what is the APC?
Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC about USD 3,750.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex; 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 2026-08-25). Last updated: .