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Best Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics journals

97 Scopus-active journals are ranked in Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics. All are listed below, ranked by CiteScore percentile — 25 of them sit in quartile Q1. Every title links to a full profile with Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, DOAJ and open-access details.

# Journal CiteScore Percentile Quartile WoS ABDC OA
1 Forum of Mathematics, Pi 5.8 99th Q1 SCIE – Yes
2 ACM Transactions on Spatial Algorithms and Systems 5.4 98th Q1 ESCI – No
3 Qualitative Theory of Dynamical Systems 4.3 97th Q1 SCIE – No
4 Constraints 3.8 96th Q1 SCIE – No
5 Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics 3.7 95th Q1 SCIE A* No
6 International Journal for Uncertainty Quantification 3.4 94th Q1 SCIE – No
7 SIAM-ASA Journal on Uncertainty Quantification 3.4 93rd Q1 SCIE – No
8 Journal of Inequalities and Applications 3.3 92nd Q1 SCIE – Yes
9 TOP 3.3 91st Q1 SCIE B No
10 Inverse Problems and Imaging 3.2 90th Q1 SCIE – No
11 Journal of Combinatorial Theory. Series B 3.1 89th Q1 SCIE – No
12 International Journal on Engineering Applications 3 88th Q1 – – No
13 Journal of Laboratory Medicine 3 87th Q1 SCIE – Yes
14 Advances in Combinatorics 3 86th Q1 – – Yes
15 Annales de l'Institut Henri Poincare (D) Combinatorics, Physics and their Interactions 2.9 85th Q1 ESCI – Yes
16 Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series B 2.9 84th Q1 SCIE – No
17 Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems - Series S 2.8 83rd Q1 SCIE – Yes
18 Journal of Combinatorial Theory. Series A 2.8 82nd Q1 SCIE – No
19 International Review on Modelling and Simulations 2.6 81st Q1 – – No
20 International Review of Automatic Control 2.5 80th Q1 – – No
21 Communications in Combinatorics and Optimization 2.5 79th Q1 ESCI – Yes
22 Journal of Combinatorial Optimization 2.4 78th Q1 SCIE – No
23 Designs, Codes, and Cryptography 2.4 77th Q1 SCIE – No
24 Discrete Applied Mathematics 2.2 76th Q1 SCIE – No
25 Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems- Series A 2.1 75th Q1 SCIE – No
26 Discussiones Mathematicae - Graph Theory 2.1 74th Q2 SCIE – Yes
27 Combinatorica 2 73rd Q2 SCIE – No
28 Linear Algebra and Its Applications 2 72nd Q2 SCIE – No
29 Advances in Mathematics of Communications 2 71st Q2 SCIE – No
30 Applicable Analysis and Discrete Mathematics 2 70th Q2 SCIE – No
31 WSEAS Transactions on Mathematics 2 69th Q2 – – No
32 European Journal of Combinatorics 2 68th Q2 SCIE – No
33 International Journal of Mathematics and Computer Science 1.9 67th Q2 ESCI – No
34 Forum of Mathematics, Sigma 1.9 66th Q2 SCIE – Yes
35 Discrete Mathematics 1.9 65th Q2 SCIE – No
36 Journal of Graph Theory 1.9 64th Q2 SCIE – No
37 Discrete Mathematics Letters 1.8 63rd Q2 ESCI – Yes
38 Discrete and Computational Geometry 1.8 62nd Q2 SCIE – No
39 AKCE International Journal of Graphs and Combinatorics 1.7 61st Q2 SCIE – Yes
40 Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics 1.7 60th Q2 SCIE – No
41 Algebraic Combinatorics 1.7 59th Q2 ESCI – Yes
42 Combinatorial Theory 1.7 58th Q2 ESCI – Yes
43 Random Matrices: Theory and Application 1.7 57th Q2 SCIE – No
44 Groups, Geometry, and Dynamics 1.6 56th Q2 SCIE – Yes
45 Ars Mathematica Contemporanea 1.5 54th Q2 SCIE – Yes
46 Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society, Series B 1.5 54th Q2 ESCI – Yes
47 Global and Stochastic Analysis 1.5 53rd Q2 – – No
48 Annals of Combinatorics 1.5 52nd Q2 SCIE – No
49 Aequationes Mathematicae 1.5 51st Q2 SCIE – No
50 Discontinuity, Nonlinearity, and Complexity 1.4 50th Q2 – – No
51 Miskolc Mathematical Notes 1.4 48th Q3 SCIE – Yes
52 Discrete Analysis 1.4 47th Q3 SCIE – Yes
53 Electronic Journal of Combinatorics 1.3 46th Q3 SCIE – Yes
54 Annals of Applied Mathematics 1.3 45th Q3 – – No
55 Journal of Combinatorial Algebra 1.3 44th Q3 SCIE – Yes
56 Journal of Combinatorial Designs 1.3 43rd Q3 SCIE – No
57 Electronic Journal of Graph Theory and Applications 1.3 42nd Q3 ESCI – Yes
58 Graphs and Combinatorics 1.2 41st Q3 SCIE – No
59 Rendiconti di Matematica e delle Sue Applicazioni 1.2 41st Q3 – – No
60 Pan-American Journal of Mathematics 1.2 39th Q3 – – Yes
61 Turkish World Mathematical Society Journal of Applied and Engineering Mathematics 1.1 38th Q3 ESCI – No
62 Discrete Mathematics, Algorithms and Applications 1.1 37th Q3 ESCI – No
63 Journal of Automata, Languages and Combinatorics 1.1 36th Q3 – – No
64 Transactions on Combinatorics 1.1 35th Q3 ESCI – Yes
65 Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science 1 34th Q3 SCIE – Yes
66 Stochastics and Quality Control 1 33rd Q3 – – No
67 Dynamics of Continuous, Discrete and Impulsive Systems Series B: Applications and Algorithms 1 32nd Q3 – – No
68 Art of Discrete and Applied Mathematics 0.9 31st Q3 – – No
69 Quasigroups and Related Systems 0.9 30th Q3 – – No
70 Bulletin of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications 0.9 29th Q3 – – No
71 Categories and General Algebraic Structures with Applications 0.8 28th Q3 ESCI – Yes
72 Order 0.8 27th Q3 SCIE – No
73 Contributions to Discrete Mathematics 0.8 26th Q3 SCIE – No
74 Combinatorics and Number Theory 0.8 25th Q3 ESCI – No
75 Mathematical Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 0.8 25th Q3 – – No
76 Journal of Integer Sequences 0.8 23rd Q4 ESCI – No
77 Journal of Combinatorics 0.8 22nd Q4 ESCI – No
78 Discrete Mathematics and Applications 0.8 21st Q4 ESCI – No
79 Australasian Journal of Combinatorics 0.8 20th Q4 ESCI – Yes
80 Integers 0.8 19th Q4 – – Yes
81 Journal of Algebraic Systems 0.8 18th Q4 ESCI – Yes
82 South East Asian Journal of Mathematics and Mathematical Sciences 0.7 17th Q4 – – No
83 Algebra and Discrete Mathematics 0.7 16th Q4 ESCI – No
84 Dynamics of Continuous, Discrete and Impulsive Systems Series A: Mathematical Analysis 0.7 16th Q4 – – No
85 Journal of Software for Algebra and Geometry 0.7 14th Q4 – – No
86 Theory and Applications of Graphs 0.7 13th Q4 – – Yes
87 Journal of the Association for Mathematical Research 0.7 12th Q4 – – No
88 Journal of Algebra and Related Topics 0.6 11th Q4 – – Yes
89 Open Journal of Mathematical Sciences 0.6 10th Q4 – – No
90 Zhurnal Belorusskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta. Matematika. Informatika 0.6 9th Q4 – – Yes
91 Journal of Algebra and Applied Mathematics 0.5 8th Q4 – – No
92 International Journal of Dynamical Systems and Differential Equations 0.5 7th Q4 ESCI – No
93 Prikladnaya Diskretnaya Matematika 0.4 5th Q4 ESCI – No
94 Seminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire 0.4 4th Q4 – – No
95 Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering 0.4 3rd Q4 – – No
96 Online Journal of Analytic Combinatorics 0.3 1st Q4 – – No
97 International Conference on Sampling Theory and Applications, SampTA 0.1 0th Q4 – – No

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