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

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Publishing mathematical coincidences

There is actually the possibility for publishable research on this topic, in the context of computational complexity: How many formulas should one try for a relative accuracy of $10^{-p}$? The answer …
43 votes

Publishing conjectures

If you have numerical evidence in support of the conjecture, the journal of Experimental Mathematics seems to fit the bill: Experimental Mathematics publishes original papers featuring formal re …
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What percentage of published mathematics papers are correct?

Comments are undercounted for journals that choose to identify them as “letters”. …
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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 …
35 votes

Original source for Littlewood’s three precepts of refereeing in mathematics

According to Ralph Boas, in his memoir Lion Hunting and Other Mathematical Pursuits (page 10), it was not Littlewood but G.H. Hardy who asked these three questions to referees, as editor of the Journa …
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Free open-access peer-reviewed math journals

Here are some math journals of this type, that use arXiv as a repository (socalled "overlay journals"): Discrete Analysis (blog) Symmetry, Integrability and Geometry Logical Methods in Computer Science … A more complete list can be accessed at the Directory of Open Access Journals (doaj.org) …
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On Mathematical Analysis of MathSciNet & MathOverflow

• Mathoverflow has been studied as a "complex network" in Social achievement and centrality in MathOverflow, by L.V. Montoya, A. Ma, and R.J. Mondragón. The analysis distinguishes degree centrality (b …
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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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28 votes

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 …
26 votes

Misspelling my name on my mathematical publications

Since you have the luxury of a double surname, there is an easy solution that avoids having to go back and correct older publications: use Leyli Jafari from now on. Spanish authors do this all the tim …
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How many papers are posted a year?

At SCImago you can find pretty much the entire statistics: The first graph gives the total number of math papers per year. The second graph breaks it down per subject area (so you can distinguish "pu …
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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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Early examples of mathematicians publishing (from home) in a foreign language?

Maurice Fréchet published some of his work in Esperanto (for example, La kanonaj formoj de la 2, 3, 4 - dimensiaj paraanalitikaj funkcioj) -- it can't get more foreign than that, I presume.
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In a publication, should an `\ldots` always be followed by a period?

The principle mentioned by Iosif Pinelis that equations should follow the rules of grammar suggests to look at the OP in the broader context of the use of ellipsis in text: is $\ldots$ to be followed …

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