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Acta Numerica is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 20.3), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme, which pays the article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions. Published by Cambridge University Press.
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ISSN 0962-4929Verify ISSN ↗1474-0508Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Cost to publish: APC covered for authors at ONOS-subscribed Indian institutions
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mathematics (all) | 2 / 414 | 99th | Q1 |
| Numerical Analysis | 1 / 93 | 99th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1992–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 20.3.
Acta Numerica is Q1 in Mathematics (all) (rank 2 of 414) and Q1 in Numerical Analysis (rank 1 of 93), by CiteScore 2025.
Acta Numerica is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 20.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 5.330, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 94.
For authors at Indian institutions covered by One Nation One Subscription (ONOS), the article processing charge is paid by the scheme. The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,260 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Acta Numerica is published by Cambridge University Press. Its print ISSN is 0962-4929 and its online ISSN is 1474-0508.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS also covers its article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Acta Numerica has an h-index of 111 and a 2-year mean of 21 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 20.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #1 of 392 Scopus journals in Mathematics (all).
Acta Numerica published 8 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 with 10. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 38 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (34.6%), Germany (12.7%) and United Kingdom (12.3%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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