Mathematics is MDPI's general mathematics journal, launched in 2013 and published online under eISSN 2227-7390.《Mathematics》是 MDPI 的综合数学刊物，2013 年创刊，以电子刊号 2227-7390 在线出版。
The scope covers pure and applied mathematics without a preferred subfield, and the publisher describes the journal as a forum for reviews, regular research papers and short communications.范围覆盖纯数学与应用数学，不设偏重的分支，出版方把它说成一个论坛，收综述、常规研究论文与短通讯。
Survey articles on current trends and new techniques belong to the brief as well, which is unusual for a journal of this size.讨论当下趋势与新方法的综述也在办刊范围里，对这样体量的刊物来说并不常见。
The section list is long. Algebra and logic sit beside geometry and topology, and mathematical analysis holds a section of its own.栏目分得很细。代数与逻辑同几何与拓扑并列，数学分析单设一栏。
Statistics and operations research form a separate section, and applied mathematics is divided further into computer science, control theory and mechanics.统计与运筹自成一栏，应用数学再往下分成计算机科学、控制理论与力学几块。
Mathematical biology, mathematical physics and financial mathematics each have a home, which is why a table of contents reads like several journals stapled together.数学生物学、数学物理与金融数学各有归宿，目录读起来像几份刊物订在一起。
Recent issues show the applied side at full stretch. Queue convergence rates, hazmat routing under time windows and magnetotelluric forward modelling in a mixed space-wavenumber domain appear in one issue.近几期把应用那一边铺得很开。排队系统的收敛速率、带时间窗的危险品运输路径、混空间波数域的大地电磁正演，出现在同一期里。
Statistics papers arrive steadily. One tests goodness of fit for the generalized extreme value distribution with a tail-weighted statistic, and another estimates the ratio of medians in a bivariate log-normal model.统计类论文来得很稳。有文章用尾部加权统计量检验广义极值分布的拟合优度，另有文章估计二元对数正态模型中位数之比。
Machine learning applications have become the largest single category. Campus behaviour detection, monocular depth estimation, graph anomaly detection and battery health prognostics all appear in issue 21 of the current volume.机器学习应用成了最大的一类。校园异常行为检测、单目深度估计、图异常检测与电池健康预测，都出现在本卷第 21 期。
Numerical analysis keeps a separate identity, with spectral collocation for time-fractional equations, block preconditioning for all-at-once formulations and error bounds for Legendre approximations of singular functions.数值分析保持独立身份。时间分数阶方程有谱配置法，一次性求解的格式有块预条件，奇异函数的勒让德逼近则有人给出误差界。
Corrections are deposited as items in their own right. A 2026 issue carries a correction to a 2025 paper on Euler sum identities, filed with its own DOI.更正会单独成为条目。2026 年的一期里有一则对 2025 年欧拉和恒等式论文的更正，带自己的 DOI。
Volume numbers track the calendar. Volume 1 is 2013 and volume 14 is 2026.卷号跟年份对齐。第 1 卷是 2013 年，第 14 卷是 2026 年。
Issues come twice a month. The current volume had reached issue 21 by late October, and two issue numbers can be open at the same time.期次半月一出。本卷到十月底已排到第 21 期，同时开着两个期号是常事。
History
The first item in the archive is an editorial announcing the journal, deposited twice under two spellings of the same DOI.存档里的第一条是宣告创刊的社论，同一篇文字按两个 DOI 写法各存了一次。
The papers that followed in 2013 were narrower than the journal is now, with the finite-field analogue of Euler's integral theorem and p-adic analogues of Ramanujan-type formulas for 1/π.2013 年随后发表的论文比今天的刊物窄得多，有欧拉积分定理的有限域类比，也有 1/π 的拉马努金型公式在 p 进情形下的类比。
Indexing arrived in stages. The journal entered the Emerging Sources Citation Index in 2015, Scopus in 2017 and the Science Citation Index Expanded in 2018.收录是分几步完成的。2015 年进入新兴来源引文索引，2017 年进入 Scopus，2018 年进入科学引文索引扩展版。
Volume has grown by two orders of magnitude. The deposit holds 29,274 records and the 2025 count alone is 4,025 articles.体量涨了两个数量级。存档共 29,274 条记录，仅 2025 年一年就记了 4,025 篇。
The impact factor has stayed in a band. It was 2.258 in 2021 and 2.592 in 2022, then 2.3 in 2023, 2.2 in 2024 and 2.3 in 2025.影响因子在一个带子里待着。2021 年是 2.258，2022 年 2.592，2023 年 2.3，2024 年 2.2，2025 年 2.3。
The five-year factor is 2.1, slightly below the current value, which is what a three-year half-life produces.五年影响因子是 2.1，略低于当年值，三年半衰期算出来就是这个结果。
That half-life is 3.0 years and the citation base is 46,237, the largest of any journal in this group.这个半衰期是 3.0 年，引用基数是 46,237，在本组刊物里最大。
Journal Citation Reports ranks it 28th of 492 in mathematics with a percentile of 94.4 and a JCI of 1.94, the same JCI as the Journal of Differential Equations.引文报告把它排在数学类 492 种里的第 28，百分位 94.4，JCI 为 1.94，与《Journal of Differential Equations》同值。
The article influence score tells a different story. It places the journal in the third quartile at 275 of 482, far below its JIF position.文章影响力得分讲的是另一个故事。它把这本刊放在第三分位，482 种里排第 275，与影响因子的位置差得很远。
Open access is the whole model. Gold accounts for 99.98 percent of the output and the article charge is 2,600 Swiss francs.开放获取就是全部模式。金色占产出的 99.98%，文章处理费是 2,600 瑞士法郎。
The National Library of Medicine still lists the frequency as quarterly, an entry that has not caught up with a journal issuing two dozen numbers a year.美国国家医学图书馆仍把刊期记作季刊，这条著录没跟上一年二十多期的现实。
PubMed coverage is partial by design. The catalogue records selected citations only, so papers with a medical bearing appear there at a fraction of the output.PubMed 的覆盖是有意留了口子。著录写明仅收选摘引文，沾医学的论文在那里只出现一小部分。
Nothing suggests a turn in editorial direction. The spread across pure and applied mathematics has been there since the first volumes, and only the machine-learning share has grown.编辑方向看不出转向。纯数学与应用数学的铺开从最早的卷次就有，变大的只有机器学习那一块。
Editors
Francisco Chiclana of De Montfort University in the United Kingdom is editor-in-chief, and he comes from a school of computer science and informatics rather than a mathematics department.主编是英国德蒙福特大学的 Francisco Chiclana，他出自计算机与信息学院，不在数学系。
That background suits a journal whose centre of gravity is applied, and it suits the composition of the board as well.这个出身与刊物的应用重心相合，也与编委的构成相合。
The editorial board has more than 900 members from 45 countries, and an advisory board sits above it.编委会有九百多人，来自四十五个国家，上面另设顾问委员会。
Dachun Yang of Beijing Normal University is among the advisers, and the journal keeps a working relationship with the mathematical logic committee of the Chinese Mathematical Society.北京师范大学的杨大春在顾问之列，刊物还与中国数学会的数理逻辑专业委员会保持合作。
Review is single anonymous, as the journal's directory entry states, and speed is the selling point. First decision takes 17.3 days on the publisher's figures and acceptance to publication 2.8 days.评审采用单匿名制，这是刊物在目录里的自述，速度才是它的卖点。出版方给的数字是初审 17.3 天，录用后到出版 2.8 天。
Special issues do most of the commissioning. Guest editors run them against fixed deadlines, and a single call can carry a dozen co-editors.约稿主要靠专辑。客座编辑按固定截稿日主持，一次征稿可以挂上十几位客座编辑。
A young editorial board was recruited in 2025, with applications sent to the journal's own mailbox and a three-step selection from CV screening to public listing.2025 年公开招募过青年编委，申请发到刊物自己的邮箱，遴选分简历初筛、编委会遴选与公示三步。
Production stays in-house. Managing editors at the publisher carry the correspondence and the checks, and authors deal with them rather than with the academic editors.制作留在出版方内部。责任编辑负责通信与各项检查，作者打交道的是他们，不是学术编辑。
The breadth of the roster is what makes four thousand papers a year possible. One editor cannot hold algebra and battery diagnostics in the same remit.一年四千篇论文靠的是名单的宽度。同一位编辑没法把代数与电池诊断都放在自己的盘子里。
The journal publishes its own statistics. The quoted acceptance-to-publication figure implies a production queue measured in days rather than months.刊物公布自己的统计。出版方给出的录用至出版数据说明排产队列以天计，不是以月计。
Fees are set per accepted article and the schedule is public. The current rate is 2,600 Swiss francs, and the journal is funded that way rather than by subscription.费用按录用文章收取，价目公开。现行标准是 2,600 瑞士法郎，刊物靠这笔钱运转，不靠订阅。
Correspondence goes to the publisher's Basel office and is picked up by a dedicated mailbox rather than by an individual editor.往来邮件寄到出版方的巴塞尔办公室，由专用邮箱接收，不落在某位编辑个人名下。