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Advances in Calculus of Variations

Walter de Gruyter GmbH · Germany · Est. 2008

ISSN1864-8266
SJR Q1WOS SCIEScopus / SJR
Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

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📊 Standing in its field
Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.
Q1
SJR · Scopus
Top 25% in field
Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ
SJR Scorei
1.66
H-Indexi
30
SNIPi
1.203
Total Worksi
544
Total Citationsi
4,381
2yr Mean Citednessi
0.89
Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Advances in Calculus of Variations publishes high quality original resear ch focusing on that part of calculus of variation and related applications which combines tools and methods from partial differential equations with geometrical techniques. Topics existence and regularity for minimizers and critical points variational methods for partial differential equations geometrical aspects of calculus of variati on: minimal surfaces, harmonic mappings, geometrically motivated flows, curvature equations, quasi-conformal mappings applications of variational methods to non-linear elasticity, free boundary problems, general relativity geometric measure theory

General Information

Country / RegionGermany
Primary LanguageEnglish
1st Year Published2008
Annual Volume~ 39 articles / year
StatusActive (last: 2026)
Total Publications544
Publisher OrgDe Gruyter
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Submission Info

Peer ReviewRigorous and thorough peer-review
OA LicenseCreative Commons license
OA Rate

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No
OASPA Member✗ No
Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes
Plagiarism Detection✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

8/11 · 73%
Do you know the journal / publisher?
Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Does the journal have a website?
✓ Linked
Is the ISSN verified?
1864-8266
Indexed in a trusted database?
WoS, Scopus
Peer review process documented?
Rigorous and thorough peer-review
Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?
N/A
Not on predatory/blacklists?
✓ Clean
Long-term digital preservation?
N/A
Plagiarism detection in place?
Yes
Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?
N/A
Primary language documented?
English

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published
Citations received
23
254
2019
37
173
2020
42
198
2021
41
192
2022
35
128
2023
40
63
2024
43
29
2025
20
3
2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

AnalysisQ1
Applied MathematicsQ1

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

MathematicsMathematics, Applied

Scopus Categories

Applied MathematicsAnalysis

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Nonlinear Partial Differential EquationsAdvanced Mathematical Modeling in EngineeringGeometric Analysis and Curvature FlowsNumerical methods in inverse problemsAnalytic and geometric function theoryPoint processes and geometric inequalitiesGeometry and complex manifoldsNonlinear Differential Equations AnalysisOptimization and Variational AnalysisAdvanced Harmonic Analysis Research

Frequently asked questions about Advances in Calculus of Variations

Is Advances in Calculus of Variations a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Advances in Calculus of Variations: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Advances in Calculus of Variations?

Advances in Calculus of Variations is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 0.89.

Is Advances in Calculus of Variations indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Advances in Calculus of Variations is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Advances in Calculus of Variations?

Advances in Calculus of Variations publishes high quality original resear ch focusing on that part of calculus of variation and related applications which combines tools and methods from partial differential equations with geometrical techniques. Topics existence and regularity for minimizers and critical points variational methods for partial differential equations geometrical aspects of calculus of variati on: minimal surfaces, harmonic mappings, geometrically motivated flows, curvature equations, quasi-conformal mappings applications of variational methods to non-linear elasticity, free bou

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Data updated: 2026-05-22 · Sources: SJR, DOAJ, OpenAlex, WoS, Crossref