Journal of Mathematical Research with Applications

About Journal of Mathematical Research with Applications

Journal of Mathematical Research with Applications: A Complete Profile

The Journal of Mathematical Research with Applications (JMRA) is an English-language mathematics journal from China with one of the longer histories in this directory. It was founded in 1981 as the Journal of Mathematical Research and Exposition (JMRE) by Professor L. C. Hsu, took its present name in 2012, and is co-sponsored by Dalian University of Technology and the China Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (CSIAM), of which it is one of the official journals. Its own overview states its ambition in one sentence: it is a home for original research papers of the highest quality in all areas of mathematics with applications. The target audience it names, pure and applied mathematicians, graduate students in broad fields of science and technology, and scientists and engineers interested in mathematics, tells an author a great deal about how a paper should be written for this journal: rigorous mathematics, presented so that a mathematically literate reader outside the immediate speciality can see both the result and why it matters.

This profile is anchored in the Journals World record for the journal (ISSN 2095-2651) and in the journal's official overview and history pages. Two stored-record points need clarification at the outset. The record's coverage dates beginning in 2021 reflect the recent data window from which the record was built, not the journal's history, which begins in 1981 under its former title. And the record's publisher term names Dalian University of Technology, which is correct as far as it goes but incomplete: the journal is co-sponsored by Dalian University of Technology and CSIAM, and the society's role is part of its identity.

Quick Facts

History: From JMRE in 1981 to JMRA in 2012

The journal was created in 1981 by Professor L. C. Hsu, Leetsch C. Hsu, who founded it at Dalian and served as its chief editor, and who is also remembered in mathematics for the Gould-Hsu matrix inversion formula developed with Henry W. Gould and for foundational work in asymptotic analysis, approximation theory and combinatorics. Under its original name, Journal of Mathematical Research and Exposition, the journal built a substantial record over three decades. The journal states that before its rebranding it had published over 4,000 papers, including contributions from renowned mathematicians such as K. L. Chung and P. L. Butzer, and that its contributors originate from more than ten countries, including China, the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, India and Russia.

In 2012 the journal adopted its current name, Journal of Mathematical Research with Applications, accompanied by changes in its ISSN, from 1000-341X to 2095-2651, and in its CN number, from 21-1208/O1 to 21-1579/O1. The name change is a genuine continuation, not a new journal: same sponsors, same editorial home at Dalian, same subject territory, with a title that foregrounds applications alongside research. Bibliographically, however, the two titles are distinct serials with distinct ISSNs, and they must be cited distinctly. A reference to a 2005 paper belongs to the Journal of Mathematical Research and Exposition under ISSN 1000-341X; a reference to a 2015 paper belongs to the Journal of Mathematical Research with Applications under ISSN 2095-2651. That distinction has a direct consequence for the twin question a directory must ask: the former title is this journal's own predecessor, not a rival or a duplicate title, and the correct treatment, which this profile follows, is one journal with a documented title history.

Sponsorship and Editorial Leadership

JMRA is one of the official journals of the China Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, which the journal describes as a top-tier academic society in China with a distinguished reputation in the Chinese academic community, and it is co-sponsored by Dalian University of Technology and CSIAM. The editorial office is associated with the School of Mathematical Sciences at Dalian University of Technology in Dalian, Liaoning, the affiliation printed on many of the journal's papers and the institutional home of its founder's Institute of Applied Mathematics. The journal's current overview names Professors Lei Guo, Yufeng Lu and Zhenxin Liu as serving as co-editors. Editorial arrangements in long-running Chinese journals change by appointment, so authors should confirm the current editorial contacts on the journal's website before addressing correspondence, but the named co-editors are the leadership the journal itself currently publishes.

Scope: All Areas of Mathematics, With Applications

The scope statement is short and comprehensive: original research papers of the highest quality in all areas of mathematics with applications. The journal's published contents show what that means in practice, across both pure and applied territory. Readers will find algebra and group theory, as in a 2025 paper characterising finite solvable groups by the sizes of their minimal generating sets; analysis, as in a 2025 paper on normality criteria for families of meromorphic functions; geometry and topology; combinatorics and graph theory, a field close to the founder's own work; probability and stochastic processes, as in work on Brownian stochastic currents in the white noise framework; differential equations, dynamical systems and control; numerical analysis and scientific computing; optimisation, including distributionally robust option pricing formulated as a tractable linear programme, published in the journal in 2021; mathematical physics; and statistics and its applications. Papers carry Mathematics Subject Classification codes, in current papers under the 2020 classification, and keywords, both printed on the article, which helps browsing readers judge fit quickly.

The phrase with applications deserves emphasis, because it shapes editorial taste. The journal's title and history commit it to mathematics that connects: to other parts of mathematics, to science and engineering problems, to computation, or to the modelling of real systems. A paper in a pure area is in scope, and the journal publishes such work regularly, but authors strengthen any submission by making the result's significance explicit, situating it in the literature it advances, stating precisely what is new, and, where the work has an applied dimension, demonstrating that dimension with an example, a computation or a model rather than asserting it in a closing sentence. Conversely, an applications paper must contain real mathematics: a routine application of a standard method to a new dataset, with no mathematical development, is not the journal's material, however useful the application may be elsewhere.

Publishing Pattern and Article Form

The journal is published bimonthly, six issues a year, and its overview describes an issue of 144 pages. Published papers follow a consistent form visible across its archive: title, authors with full institutional affiliations, an abstract stating the result obtained, keywords, Mathematics Subject Classification codes, the main text with numbered definitions, theorems and proofs, and references, with the journal's DOI printed on the paper in the form 10.3770/j.issn:2095-2651 followed by the year, issue and article sequence. Papers in the archive run to a moderate length, commonly around eight to fifteen pages, long enough for complete proofs and short enough to require economy in exposition. Authors should prepare manuscripts to that scale and standard: complete, self-contained proofs; notation defined at first use; earlier results cited precisely rather than paraphrased; and computational work, where present, described so that it can be repeated.

Indexing and Standing in China and Internationally

The journal's own indexing account, in its updated overview, is extensive, and it divides naturally into international and domestic services. Internationally, the journal states that it is indexed or reviewed in Elsevier Scopus, Mathematical Reviews and Current Mathematical Publications in the United States, Zentralblatt für Mathematik und ihre Grenzgebiete in Germany, and the Russian abstracting journal. Mathematical Reviews and Zentralblatt, now known through MathSciNet and zbMATH respectively, are the two principal reviewing services for mathematics, and presence in both is the standard mark of a serious mathematics journal, because it puts every paper in front of the working mathematicians who search those services by subject classification.

Domestically, the journal states that it is indexed in nearly all major Chinese periodical databases, including the Chinese Journal Full-text Database, China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), Wanfang Data Digital Periodicals and the Chinese Core Periodicals Database, and that since the establishment of the Chinese Science Citation Database in 1993 it has consistently been listed as a core source journal in that database; a Chinese Science Citation Database source list for 2025 to 2026 consulted for this profile likewise includes the journal, in the core collection, under ISSN 2095-2651. The journal further records that in 2000 it ranked second among Chinese core journals in its evaluation context, and that in 2021 it was placed into the Mathematics Journal Grading Table issued by the Chinese Mathematical Society and into the World Journal Clout Index Report for 2020, lists which, it notes, are regarded as recognising journals with regional and subject representativeness. Those historical and evaluative statements are the journal's own account of itself and are reported here as such.

On access and archives, the journal states that electronic archives of published papers are permanently stored in the CNKI database, and that full-text articles on the journal's website are freely accessible. Free availability of full texts on a journal's own website should not, however, be confused with a formal open access licence or a listing in an open access directory: a Directory of Open Access Journals search-API query for ISSN 2095-2651 run for this profile returned no listing, and no licence terms are stated in the sources consulted, so authors who need a specific licence for funder compliance should obtain the journal's terms in writing before submitting. The journal also states that it is financially supported by its sponsoring organisations, does not carry advertisements, and that publication fees or waivers have no influence on the editorial decision-making process for manuscripts, which it presents as a safeguard of academic impartiality. No specific article charge figure is published in the sources consulted, so none is stated here.

Metrics: What Can and Cannot Be Said

This journal is a case where restraint is the accurate position, and this profile takes it deliberately. The Journals World stored record reported an h-index of 4 and a Q4 position for this title. Those figures are best understood as products of the limited international citation data window from which that record was built, and they sit oddly against the journal's documented record: four decades of publication, more than 4,000 papers before 2012 alone, consistent core-journal standing in the Chinese Science Citation Database, and review coverage in both Mathematical Reviews and Zentralblatt. An h-index of 4 cannot describe a journal with that publication history in any complete citation corpus, and it should not be quoted as the journal's standing.

Two further checks were run for this profile. An OpenAlex ISSN query for 2095-2651 returned no source record, a 404 response, so no OpenAlex work, citation or h-index figures exist to report for this title, and none are invented here. And no current SCImago SJR figure for the journal was verified in the foreground sources consulted, so no SJR is stated. The verifiable standing of JMRA, on the evidence in hand, is therefore qualitative and documentary rather than a single number: a continuously published, society and university sponsored mathematics journal, reviewed by the discipline's two main services, listed in Scopus according to its own updated overview, and holding core source standing in China's principal science citation database across three decades. Authors evaluating the journal for a submission, a promotion file or a library recommendation should present that documentary record, and should obtain a dated metric directly from Scopus or Web of Science if their institution requires one, rather than relying on any unsourced figure circulating on aggregator pages.

Who Should Submit

JMRA suits mathematicians, in China and internationally, with a complete original research result in any area of mathematics, presented in English to the journal's standard form, especially where the work has an applied, computational or interdisciplinary dimension that matches the title's emphasis. Its bimonthly schedule and moderate paper length suit substantial but focused results: a new theorem with complete proof, a method with analysis and demonstration, a model with rigorous treatment. Graduate students and early career researchers in its audience should note that the journal's standards are those of an established society journal, so a submission should be a finished piece of work that has been read critically by a supervisor or colleague before it is sent. The journal is a weaker fit for survey material with no new result, for purely computational work with no mathematical content, for manuscripts that are not in English, and for authors whose funder requires a formal open access licence that they have not first confirmed with the journal.

Practical Guidance for Authors

Write the abstract as a statement of results, not of intentions: name the objects studied, state what is proved or constructed, and indicate the method in a phrase. Give the correct current Mathematics Subject Classification codes. Place the work accurately in the literature, citing the JMRE and JMRA archive where earlier papers in this journal are genuinely relevant, under the correct title and ISSN for their year. Keep proofs complete but economical, define all notation, and number displayed results consistently. If the paper has an application, include a worked instance. Check the journal's website for its current submission route and format requirements at the time of submission, since those operational details are the journal's to set and may change; they are not stated here because they were not published in the overview sources consulted for this profile, and inventing them would help no one.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the ISSN of the Journal of Mathematical Research with Applications? 2095-2651, in force since the journal took its current name in 2012. Its former title, Journal of Mathematical Research and Exposition, carried ISSN 1000-341X.

Is JMRA the same journal as JMRE? It is the continuation of the same journal under a new name from 2012, with new ISSN and CN numbers. The two titles are one journal's history, not two separate journals, and not a duplicate pair.

Who sponsors the journal? Dalian University of Technology and the China Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics co-sponsor it, and it is one of CSIAM's official journals. The Journals World stored publisher term names Dalian University of Technology alone, which is incomplete.

When was it founded, and by whom? In 1981, by Professor L. C. Hsu, who founded it at Dalian and served as its chief editor.

Who edits it now? The journal's overview names Professors Lei Guo, Yufeng Lu and Zhenxin Liu as co-editors.

How often is it published, and in what language? Bimonthly, in English.

Where is it indexed? According to the journal, in Scopus, Mathematical Reviews, Current Mathematical Publications, Zentralblatt and the Russian abstracting journal internationally, and in the Chinese Science Citation Database as a core source journal since 1993, together with CNKI, Wanfang and other major Chinese databases domestically.

What is the journal's impact factor or h-index? No verified current figure is stated in this profile. The stored record's h-index of 4 is inconsistent with the journal's documented publication record and should not be used; OpenAlex returned no source for its ISSN; and no SJR was verified in the sources consulted. Obtain a dated figure from Scopus or Web of Science if one is required.

Sources and Verification Note

This profile draws on the journal's official overview and history pages for founding, renaming, ISSN and CN number changes, sponsorship, co-editors, scope, audience, frequency, indexing, archive and funding statements, and its published papers for article form and DOI pattern; on a Chinese Science Citation Database source list for 2025 to 2026 for continued core listing; on OpenAlex, whose ISSN endpoint returned no record for this title; and on a DOAJ search-API query, which returned no listing. No impact factor, SJR, acceptance rate or article charge figure is stated, because none was verified in the sources consulted.