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Questions about mathematical publishing, including specific journals, peer review etc.

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Mathematical emails

See https://wiki.archivematica.org/Email_preservation My own practice is to collect individual messages in a single mbox file, I do this twice a year so that the file is not too big. There are many ro …
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What are journal rankings that employers look at?

Many universities have adopted the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), which forbids considering journal rankings as a proxy for research quality. What matters is the merit of an …
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Can editors move a journal to a different publisher?

Q: Can editors move a journal to a different publisher? A: Only if they represent the owner of the journal (a foundation or university). If the publisher owns the journal it is unlikely they will agre …
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Published AI-generated nonsense math papers

The Problematic Paper Screener tries to identify papers and preprints resulting from Algorithmic Text Generation based on engines such as MathGen (for papers in math) and SCIgen (for papers in compute …
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How to get a research paper published after the author has died?

Which documents are needed would depend on the journal, it should include at least a copyright license and for some journals also a statement of "no conflict of interest". … Journals generally require a statement to the effect that "all authors must have read the paper and approve of it". …
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How to pass on research posthumously

You could use a research notes repository such as Figshare or Zenodo. There is the option to make the contents private, but I would just make them publicly visible right away, so that the whole issue …
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Mathematical journals that accept long papers (up to 100 pages)

The MDPI journal Mathematics states that: Our aim is to encourage scientists to publish their experimental and theoretical results in as much detail as possible. There is no restriction on the length …
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How can I seek help in preparing a very long research article for publication?

First of all, I would consider it against the ethics of scientific publishing to accept an offer as a co-author when you were not involved in the research. So I don't think that is viable route. What …
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How to determine if you've discovered a new identity for a special function

Q: Are there journals which would publish identities of classical functions? …
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Math journals which publish/reject quickly

Don't go there, no reputable journal can validate your work in a four week time frame. If they do promise that, for a fee, you can bet this is a predatory journal. (Meaning: their business model is to …
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Peer review 2.0

Some journals have implemented an open discussion functionality. …
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Can one reuse positive referee reports if paper ends up being rejected?

For many journals the referee is asked to tick a box when they submit their report to indicate whether or not they (1) allow the report to be used for another journal and (2) whether their identity may … This complication will hopefully become a thing of the past, when more and more journals migrate to a practice where referee reports are public documents, even if anonymous. …
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Where can I find journal contents of Ars Combinatoria

The tables of contents are not available online, but you can reconstruct them using Web of Science or MathSciNet (if you have access), or Google Scholar (query source:"Ars Combinatoria"). It should no …
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Progress on a problem list

Q3: A classic of this type is Erdős on Graphs : His Legacy of Unsolved Problems This book is a tribute to Paul Erdős, the wandering mathematician once described as the "prince of problem solvers …
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Is there something like a vision paper in mathematics?

The "mother of all vision papers", the Langlands program, was simply a handwritten letter; so I would not worry too much about "where to post it", it's the content that will determine the impact. Fo …
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