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Open access (OA) publishing in Mathematics has expanded rapidly, yet systematic evidence on the scientific profile of OA mathematics journals remains limited. This study presents a scientometric analysis of mathematics journals indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) and matched to the SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) database. We examine SJR indices and citations per article across mathematical subareas, map the distribution of OA journals by continent and country, and characterize publication output by mathematical area among SJR-ranked OA journals. These findings suggest that open access journals in mathematics exhibit distinct patterns by region and topic of research.
Keywords: Scientometrics, Mathematics, research journals, open access, journal ranking