SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences

SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences is published by Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Publications 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 Sparse and Compressive Sensing Techniques, Image and Signal Denoising Methods and Numerical methods in inverse problems, together about 37.5% of its articles. Its main subfields are Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

SIAM Journal on Imaging Sciences (SIIMS) covers all areas of imaging sciences, broadly interpreted. It includes image formation, image processing, image analysis, image interpretation and understanding, imaging-related machine learning, and inverse problems in imaging; leading to applications to diverse areas in science, medicine, engineering, and other fields. The journal’s scope is meant to be broad enough to include areas now organized under the terms image processing, image analysis, computer graphics, computer vision, visual machine learning, and visualization. Formal approaches, at the level of mathematics and/or computations, as well as state-of-the-art practical results, are expected from manuscripts published in SIIMS. SIIMS is mathematically and computationally based, and offers a unique forum to highlight the commonality of methodology, models, and algorithms among diverse application areas of imaging sciences. SIIMS provides a broad authoritative source for fundamental results in imaging sciences, with a unique combination of mathematics and applications. SIIMS covers a broad range of areas, including but not limited to image formation, image processing, image analysis, computer graphics, computer vision, visualization, image understanding, pattern analysis, machine intelligence, remote sensing, geoscience, signal processing, medical and biomedical imaging, and seismic imaging. The fundamental mathematical theories addressing imaging problems covered by SIIMS include, but are not limited to, harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, differential geometry, numerical analysis, information theory, learning, optimization, statistics, and probability. Research papers that innovate both in the fundamentals and in the applications are especially welcome. SIIMS focuses on conceptually new ideas, methods, and fundamentals as applied to all aspects of imaging sciences.

Source: LetPub

Research area (LetPub): COMPUTER SCIENCE, ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-COMPUTER SCIENCE, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

Editor-in-chief Gabriele SteidlPublisher website

Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Hong Kong, China 1, Denmark 1, Finland 1, Israel 1, Singapore 1 (5 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

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Impact

Impact factor

2.47LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore 2026-06

4.4LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

0.78LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

1.35LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

53LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

106OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

745OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

2.6OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

16%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

3.91%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

82LetPub · 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)

over 12 weeksLetPub · 2026-09-13

Average acceptance (community reports)

Fairly 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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Publisher

Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Publications

Country or region

UNITED STATES

Language

English

Frequency

Quarterly

Founded

2008

ISSN

1936-4954

Latest issue on the website

Volume 19 (2026)

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Submission system ↗LetPub
• Special issues ↗Publisher website