About this journal
Aims and scope
Journal metrics
Usage
- 55K annual downloads/views
Speed/acceptance
- 67 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
Understanding and using journal metrics
Journal metrics can be a useful tool for readers, as well as for authors who are deciding where to submit their next manuscript for publication. However, any one metric only tells a part of the story of a journal’s quality and impact. Each metric has its limitations which means that it should never be considered in isolation, and metrics should be used to support and not replace qualitative review.
We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
For more details, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
Journal metrics in brief
Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of the following metrics (find out why).
- Usage: the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
- Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles published in the journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
- Impact Factor Best Quartile*: the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
- 5 Year Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal within a five-year window.
- CiteScore (Scopus)†: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over a four-year period.
- CiteScore Best Quartile†: the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
- SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper): the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation potential in the field.
- SJR (Scimago Journal Rank): Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
- From submission to first decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a first decision in the last six months.
- From submission to first post-review decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review. Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last six months.
- From acceptance to online publication: the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published in the last six months.
- Acceptance rate: articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
For more details on the data above, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
Editorial board
Tom Edgar - Pacific Lutheran University
Pamela Pierce - The College of Wooster
Julie Barnes - Western Carolina University
Marc Chamberland - Grinnell College
Alissa S. Crans - Loyola Marymount University
Susan D'Agostino - Inside Higher Ed.
James Grime
Kelsey Houston-Edwards - Olin College of Engineering
Kevin Knudson - University of Florida
Pamela Pierce - The College of Wooster
Alicia Prieto-Langarica - Youngstown State University
Sara Quinn - Dominican University
Amites Sarkar - Western Washington University
Shahriar Shahriari - Pomona College
Amy Shell-Gellasch - Eastern Michigan University
Brittany Shelton - Albright College
Jessica K. Sklar - Pacific Lutheran University
Gabriel Sosa Castillo - Colgate University
Katherine E. Stange - University of Colorado Boulder
Bruce Torrence - Randolph-Macon College
Robert W. Vallin - Lamar University
Ellen Veomett - University of San Francisco
Aris Winger - Georgia Gwinnett College
Abstracting and indexing
Math Horizons is abstracted/indexed in:
- American Mathematical Society
MathSciNet - EBSCOhost
MasterFILE Complete - zbMATH
Open access
Math Horizons is a hybrid open access journal that is part of our Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.
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- Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
- Rigorous peer review for every open access article
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Association information
The mission of the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) is to advance the understanding of mathematics and its impact in the world. MAA is the world’s largest community of mathematicians, students, and math enthusiasts from all sectors.
Member benefits include free access to electronic version of Math Horizons as well as electronic versions of these other MAA journals:
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4 issues per year
Associated with:
- The College Mathematics Journal (1985 - current)
- The American Mathematical Monthly (1894 - current)
- Scatterplot: The MAA Journal of Data Science (2024 - current)
- Mathematics Magazine (1960 - current)
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