Theory and Applications of Categories

Aims & Scope

The journal Theory and Applications of Categories will disseminate articles that significantly advance the study of categorical algebra or methods, or that make significant new contributions to mathematical science using categorical methods.

The scope of the journal includes: all areas of pure category theory, including higher dimensional categories; applications of category theory to algebra, geometry and topology and other areas of mathematics; applications of category theory to computer science, physics and other mathematical sciences; contributions to scientific knowledge that make use of categorical methods.

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Metrics & Ranking

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.560

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q2

h-index

Year	Value
2024	38

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2024	0.40

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	10404

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	81

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Mathematics, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Licensing & Copyright

This journal operates under an Open Access model. Articles are freely accessible to the public immediately upon publication. The content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), allowing users to share and adapt the work with proper attribution.

Copyright remains with the author(s), and no permission is required for non-commercial use, provided the original source is cited.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Framed Bicategories and Monoidal Fibrations

  Citation: 21

  Authors: Michael

• Categorical structures enriched in a quantaloid: categories, distributors and functors

  Citation: 14

  Authors: Isar

• Categorical structures enriched in a quantaloid: tensored and cotensored categories

  Citation: 12

  Authors: Isar

• A unified framework for generalized multicategories

  Citation: 12

  Authors: G.S.H., Michael A.

• On the representability of actionsin a semi-abelian category

  Citation: 10

  Authors: F., G., G.M.

• Familial 2-functors and parametric right adjoints

  Citation: 8

  Authors: Mark

• Cartesian Differential Categories

  Citation: 8

  Authors: R.F., J.R.B., R.A.G.

• Characterization of protomodular varieties of universal algebras

  Citation: 7

  Authors: Dominique, George

• Notes on enriched categories with colimits of some class

  Citation: 6

  Authors: G.M., V.

• Internal categories, anafunctors and localisations

  Citation: 6

  Authors: David Michael

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