Being aware of the fact that citation indices do not offer a satisfactory measure of the quality of a mathematical journal, we have based the evaluation of the quality of the preprints on the citation index for the year 2001 of the ISI journal citation reports. For each of the relevant categories "Mathematics", "Mathematics, applied", "Physics, condensed matter", "Physics, mathematical", "Physics, multidisciplinary", and "Physics, particles and fields", we have considered the top 10% of the journals in that category. Remarkably, 108 of the 819 ESI preprints produced in the years between 1993 and 1999 have appeard in such top 10% journals. This means that about 13% of all the ESI preprints made it into journals of highest quality.

The table below collects information on the publication data of all the preprints that we know of (i.e. not only those produced before 2000) at the time of writing of this page (August 2002). The first column contains the name of the journal (according to the journal database of the AMS). In the second column, there is the number of ESI preprints which have appeared in that journal. Finally, journals that are among the top 10% in some of the categories listed above in the ISI journal citation index, the name of that category can be found in the last column. Together with the list of journals in which a single ESI preprint has appreared (see below) this shows that in less than 10 years of the existence of the ESI, 144 ESI preprints have been published in top 10% journals.

Acta Appl. Math.	2
Acta Math.	2	Mathematics
Acta Math. Univ. Comenian.	7
Acta Phys. Polon. B	3
Adv. Math.	4	Mathematics
Adv. Theor. Math. Phys.	2
Ann. Global Anal. Geom.	9
Ann. Henri Poincaré	4
Ann. Inst. H. Poincaré Phys. Théor.	5
Ann. Inst. H. Poincaré Probab. Statist.	2
Ann. of Math.	5	Mathematics
Ann. Physics	4
Ann. Sci. École Norm. Sup.	2	Mathematics
Arch. Math. (Brno)	2
Asian J. Math.	3
Asymptot. Anal.	3
Classical Quantum Gravity	25
Colloq. Math.	2
Comm. Math. Phys.	54	Physics, mathematical
Comm. Partial Differential Equations	4
C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris Sér. I Math.	8
Differential Geom. Appl.	10
Duke Math. J.	9	Mathematics
Ergodic Theory Dynam. Systems	15
Eur. Phys. J. C	2
Fortschr. Phys.	2
Fund. Math.	3
Geom. Dedicata	6
Geom. Funct. Anal.	6	Mathematics
Hadronic J.	7
Indiana Univ. Math. J.	4
Integral Equations Operator Theory	2
Internat. J. Theoret. Phys.	4
Internat. Math. Res. Notices	2
Int. J. Math.	3
Int. J. Mod. Phys. A	3
Invent. Math.	6	Mathematics
Israel J. Math.	5
J. Algebra	5
J. Anal. Math.	2
J. Approx. Theory	2
J. Funct. Anal.	8
J. Geom. Anal.	2
J. Geom. Phys.	26
J. High Energy Phys.	10	Physics, particles and fields
J. Lie Theory	5
J. London Math. Soc.	3
J. Math. Phys.	57
J. Math. Pures Appl.	3
J. Math. Sci. (New York)	2
J. Nonlinear Math. Phys.	4
J. Operator Theory	2
J. Phys. A	14
J. Pure Appl. Algebra	3
J. Statist. Phys.	7
K-Theory	3
Lett. Math. Phys.	27
Markov Process. Related Fields	2
Math. Ann.	3
Math. Notes	3
Math. Phys. Electron. J.	2
Math. Proc. Cambridge Philos. Soc.	3
Math. Z.	3
Mem. Amer. Math. Soc.	4	Mathematics
Modern Phys. Lett. A	4
Monatsh. Math.	7
Moscow Math. J.	2
Nonlinearity	2	Mathematics, applied
Nuclear Phys. B	18
Nuclear Phys. B Proc. Suppl.	2
Osaka J. Math.	2
Pacific J. Math.	2
Phys. A	2
Phys. Lett. A	2
Phys. Lett. B	21	Physics, multidisciplinary
Phys. Rev. D	27
Phys. Rev. Lett.	8	Physics, multidisciplinary
Probab. Theory Relat. Fields	2
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc.	8
Proc. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh Sect. A	2
Proc. Roy. Soc. London Ser. A	2
Proc. Steklov Inst. Math.	3
Rend. Circ. Mat. Palermo Suppl.	4
Rend. Sem. Mat. Univ. Pol. Torino	2
Rep. Math. Phys.	6
Rev. Math. Phys.	17
Selecta Math.	3
St. Petersburg Math. J.	3
Theor. Math. Phys.	3
Trans. Amer. Math. Soc.	10
Transform. Groups	4
Transport Theory Statist. Phys.	4
Ukrain. Fiz. Zh.	3
Z. Angew. Math. Phys.	3

The following is a list of journals in which one ESI preprint has appeared. The top 10% journals (as described above) are indicated by a * with the category in brackets.

Aequationes Math.
Amer. J. Math. *(Mathematics)
Ann. Inst. Fourier (Grenoble)
Ann. Mat. Pura Appl.
Ann. Polon. Math.
Ann. Probab.
An. Univ. Timis., Ser. Mat.-Inform.
Arch. Ration. Mech. Anal.
Ark. Mat
Banach Center Publ.
Bull. London Math. Soc.
Bull. Polish Acad. Sci. Math.
Cahier Topol. Geom. Diff. Categor.
Calc. Var. Partial Differential Equations
Canad. J. Math.
Comm. Algebra
Comment. Math. Univ. Carolin.
Comm. Pure Appl. Math. *(Mathematics and Mathematics, applied)
Comput. Geom.
Discrete Comput. Geom.
Discrete Math.
Dokl. Akad. Nauk
Dopov. Nats. Akad. Nauk Ukr. Mat. Prirodozn. Tekh. Nauki
Electron. J. Differential Equations
Electron. Res. Announc. Amer. Math. Soc.
European J. Appl. Math.
Expo. Math.
Forum Math.
Found. Phys.
Funktsional. Anal. i Prilozhen.
Gen. Math.
Helv. Phys. Acta
Hokkaido Math. J.
Indag. Mathem.
Infin. Dimens. Anal. Quantum Probab. Relat. Top.
Interfaces Free Bound.
Internat. J. Modern Phys. B
Internat. J. Modern Phys. D
Int. J. Math. Math. Sci.
Int. J. Mod. Phys. D
Int. Math. Res. Notices
Izv. Math.
Izv. Nats. Akad. Nauk Armenii Mat.
J. Amer. Math. Soc. *(Mathematics)
J. Appl. Math. Stochastic Anal.
J. Differential Equations *(Mathematics)
J. Differential Geom.
J. Dynam. Control Systems
J. Geom.
J. Group Theory Phys.
J. Math. Anal. Appl.
J. Math. Soc. Japan
J. Reine Angew. Math.
J. Symb. Comput.
J. Symbolic Logic
J. Theoretical Probab.
Linear Algebra Appl.
Lobachevskii J. Math.
Manuscr. Math.
Mat. Contemp.
Matem. Studii
Mat. Fiz. Anal. Geom.
Math. Models Methods Appl. Sci.
Math. Nachr.
Math. Res. Lett.
Math. Scand.
Modern Phys. Lett. B
Nonlinear Anal.
Nova J. Theor. Phys.
Particles & Nuclei
Phys. D *(Mathematics, applied)
Phys. Rep. *(Physics, multidisciplinary)
Phys. Rev. A
Phys. Rev. B *(Physics, condensed matter)
Phys. Rev. E *(Physics, mathematical)
Proc. London Math. Soc. *(Mathematics)
Progr. Theoret. Phys. Suppl.
Publ. Math. Debrecen
Random Structures Algorithms
Rend. Mat. Appl.
Rev. Mat. Iberoam.
Rev. Roumaine Math. Pures Appl.
Sb. Math.
SIAM J. Appl. Math. *(Mathematics, applied)
SIAM J. Math. Anal.
SIAM J. Sci. Comput. *(Mathematics, applied)
Sichuan Daxue Xuebao
Studia Math.
Studia Sci. Math. Hungar
Tohoku Math. J.
Topology Appl.
Vychisl. Tekhnol.
Z. Anal. Anwendungen
Zap. Nauchn. Semin. POMI