Questions tagged [journals]
Questions about mathematical publishing, including specific journals, peer review etc.
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How bad is it to publish a paper with an overcomplicated proof?
I don't want to go into details for anonymity purposes, but I have co-authored and submitted a paper with a long proof (dozens of pages), and I think that with some moderate effort, we could find a ...
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Referring to computer software in a paper
I'm performing a calculation of the Smith normal form of an integral matrix based on the SageMath worksheet. Is it sufficient in the paper to say something like "Using a software package like ...
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Including alternative proofs
Suppose I have found two or even more proofs of a theorem and I prepare a paper on it. Is it considered to be a good practice to write down all of the proofs? Or is it considered to be my job as an ...
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Journal of serious opinions on weighty matters for mathematicians
Is there any scholarly journal
of opinion on professional matters,
for mathematicians, that would exclude things just as relevant to other fields as to mathematics,
that is not just $\text{“}\,$...
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Mathematical etiquette: Rephrasing / restructuring a work, limited release (with attribution) acceptable?
I am reading a mathematics textbook (which one is irrelevant, and I do not wish to insult the author if (s)he happens to be reading this). One section relies quite a bit on an appendix and results ...
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Is it appropriate to add a dedication to a paper?
A paper of mine (relatively junior mathematician) was just accepted in a good journal, and I was considering adding a dedication to the memory of a mathematician in my area that passed away, and whose ...
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Use of an appendix in a long paper
I am writing a long paper (around 100 pages). I would consider 50 pages of it interesting in that it solves a problem of some significance in my field and contains an number of difficult ideas in the ...
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What would you do if you improve your own result that is submitted but not published?
Here is a hypothetical situation:
You have proven a result and written up a paper about it. You have submitted your article to some journal and it is being reviewed.
While you are waiting, you have ...
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Publication Of 50 pages [closed]
Does anyone know of a research journal in mathematics that is willing to publish 50 pages of peer-review research? I would like to submit research that explores how to develop predicate models for ...
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Math journals publishing in Spanish
There are plenty of good journals that publish papers in French and German. I'm wondering if you know about some reasonable journals that publish papers in Spanish. Thanks.
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What are journal rankings that employers look at? [closed]
What are journal rankings that employers look at?
There are few questions on this topic already, but I don't think they fully address my question. Please close this one if it is not appropriate for ...
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Use of singular pronoun "I" in the acknowledgements
I understand that in mathematical writing, it is standard to use "we" regardless of how many authors there are because it includes the reader(s). In the acknowledgements, however, it seems ...
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How would you cite a result that it is not quite correct, but whose proof contains some useful ideas
There is a paper that was published 15 years ago; one of the theorems in it is wrong in general. A few years ago some people told the author that this theorem is wrong as stated, but yet a partial ...
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Where can I publish a paper about how to write mathematical papers?
I am thinking about writing a paper: "How (not) to write a mathematical paper." I want to share my thoughts and experience about good and bad habits, and common mistakes. While it will be a ...
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Refereeing a paper containing strong statements about other papers
The title says it all. Suppose you are refereeing a paper where the author A makes strong statements about other papers by a different author B, like: the proof of Theorem 1 in paper [B] is wrong and ...
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What's up with old volumes of the Journal of Algebraic Geometry?
I'm not sure if this question is appropriate for MO, but I'm certain that some people visiting MO must have been confronted with the same issue as mine.
It happened several times that a reference ...
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Where can I access American Mathematical Monthly problems given an index?
I don't know if this is the appropriate website to ask, so I understand if this post gets closed. I want to explore (and maybe solve) some of the currently-unsolved problems submitted by readers on ...
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Tips for reading arXiv papers in mathematics
What tips do you have for reading arXiv papers in mathematics?
This could be too broad if I'm not careful, so here are some limitations on how to make the question appropriate for MO:
I'm interested ...
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Why did _Research in the Mathematical Sciences_ change from open access to subscription-based?
The journal Research in the Mathematical Sciences was founded in 2014 and originally published by SpringerOpen, a division of Springer supporting Open Access journals. In the first article of the ...
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Comparables to Journal of Algebra, Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra
It was recently suggested to me to seek comparable, alternative, journals to the above two (I am not interested in discussing why one would want to do so here). I am wondering if anyone has ...
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Question on academic affiliation when submitting a paper
I just finished grad school, earning a Ph.D. in mathematics. Currently I do not know if I want to continue my academic career or not, but in the meantime I have written an article containing some of ...
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Adding something to a book from an unpublished paper
As many of the people that I am spamming in real life might at this point know, I am turning my coend note into a book.
I would like to add a few pages taken from a (still) unpublished paper of mine (...
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Is an easy proof of an interesting result worth publishing?
I am a Phd math student, and I was wondering what was the general consensus on what is publishable and what is not.
I've come here with an example in mind which should give some insight. I recently ...
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Finding the DOI for a paper
How can we find the DOI of an old paper. For example, what are the DOI of the following papers?
Anderson, D.D. and Jayaram, C., 1995. Regular lattices. Studia Scientiarum Mathematicarum Hungarica, 30(...
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Mathematical journals that accept long papers (up to 100 pages)
I have a problem with finding a suitable mathematical journal (maybe not of the highest level) that accepts longer paper (say 100 pages). I know only two such journals: Memoirs of AMS and Dissert.Math....
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What's wrong with Advanced Studies in Contemporary Mathematics (Kyungshang)?
By some reason the Journal mentioned in the title is no longer covered by the AMS Math. Reviews. On the MathSciNet web page it says:
Last Issue: 24, no. 1 2014
Indexed cover-to-cover
Status: No ...
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University library dropping independent journal subscriptions. What to do?
We received an email from our university library stating that they plan to drop subscriptions to the following journals. These are some of the best journals published by independent sources. Of course,...
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How to select suitable journals for submission? [closed]
I think this post should be made community wiki, as there may not be some definitive answer, and it's more like a discussion.
My question is actually more subtle than the title of the post. What I ...
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Which journals publish experimental results in pure maths?
All pure mathematicians know that the goal is to produce insight, rather than to simply obtain results. However, it might sometimes be of value to disseminate largely empirical work. In the same ...
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How to cite an article with an article number (instead of page range)
I am curious to know what is the standard way (in AMS style) to cite a journal article that has an article number and/or a page range.
For instance, here is a BibTeX entry from MathSciNet of an ...
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Notation for spectral sequences [closed]
Every single spectral sequence I have seen in my life was denoted by $E$. Even when there is more than one spectral sequence, people tend to use the same letter with some workaround (e.g. a fourth ...
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Free open-access peer-reviewed math journals
Is there any free (as in free beer, i.e., no publication fees or other fees whatsoever), open-access (free and open access to everyone) and peer-reviewed mathematics journal?
I am interested in a ...
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What causes some mathematical journals to discontinue?
This is soft question. I decided to ask my question on MathOverflow rather than on academia StackExchange because I believe that the community here is more equipped to answer the question.
The ...
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Endless controversy about the correctness of significant papers
In principle, a mathematical paper should be complete and correct. New statements should be supported by appropriate proofs. But this is only theory. Because we often cannot enter into the smallest ...
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What are "originality" and "novelty" in mathematics research? [closed]
When a journal is looking for "originality/novelty/newness," what are they looking for? Sure, this is a somewhat subjective question and open to personal opinion, but I think there are ...
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Access to journals during pandemic
I have just graduated from the University of Chicago and no longer have access to online journal resources, but I cannot afford to pay for them directly. Normally, I would be able to access library ...
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Can editors move a journal to a different publisher?
This question might be more suitable for a law forum, but I thought somebody may be able to share their experience.
Can the editors of a research journal unilaterally decide to move
their journal to ...
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Open access journals in number theory
I'm a phd student in number theory, and I'm required (by the funding council) to publish any article I write in open access journals. The problem is that all journals I can find are either out of my ...
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Do empirical studies have a place in contemporary mathematics research?
I was thinking about the Collatz conjecture a while back (I know, not the healthiest thing to think about). It occurred to me that while I might not be able to prove it true for all positive integers, ...
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Are there journals for "fun mathematics"?
Are there peer-reviewed journals that focus on "fun mathematics"?
By this I mean fun things that do involve nontrivial mathematics and which I think other mathematicians would enjoy reading ...
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Is two years without a referee report normal?
Firstly, the help page for Mathoverflow does not forbid asking such a question. Secondly I found a similar question on Mathoverflow and thirdly as far as I know, waiting for two years for a referee ...
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Places where one can post open problems
(This must have been asked before and exist somewhere in Community Wiki, but I can't find it...)
Where can you post open (math) problems? And what are the advantages and disadvantages?
Example: This ...
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Top specialized journals
In geometry/topology, there are (at least) three specialized journals that end up publishing a large fraction of the best papers in the subject -- Geometry and Topology, JDG, and GAFA.
What journals ...
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What should one do before submitting a paper?
Assume I just wrote a paper. Now I would like to publish it in a journal.
What kind of things I should do before its submission?
Should I first give a few talks at seminars or conferences? Upload to ...
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Papers of the masters translated to English in one location
Surely someone has collected these papers and translations and has them in a single location for download? For music there is musipedia. Surely there is a mathepedia equivalent?
If I search gauss ...
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Have the "Bayreuther Mathematische Schriften" ever been digitalized?
See update below.
This is borderline off-topic (certainly not a research question), but the rather successful story of a similar question gives me hope.
The Bayreuther Mathematische Schriften were a ...
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Which journals publish PhD abstracts?
With the flavour of this question: Which journals publish expository work?, I would like to ask the following question
Which journals publish Ph.D. thesis abstracts?
Please post one resource per ...
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Journals of applied mathematics with an economics bent?
I'm asking here instead of the economics stackexchange because I'm interested more in the applied mathematics part, instead of just the economics; I'm interested in seeing what new research is being ...
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Math papers where the only issue is that someone else could've done it but didn't
Do editors for top math journals ever read a submitted paper, agree that there are no mistakes and the result is new, yet still reject it on the basis that this is a top math journal and someone could'...
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Is there an alternative to the arXiv for uploading mathematical papers?
Is there an alternative to the arXiv for uploading mathematical papers?
Here is the story. Upon attempting to upload a modified version of a published paper to the arXiv, it was put "on hold"...
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