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Questions about mathematical publishing, including specific journals, peer review etc.
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How to select a journal?
At the moment, one of the measures that they use is citation indexes so there is a strong incentive for me to get my papers into journals with the best citation indexes. …
6
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How to select a journal?
Some official body in Norway assigns journals a "level": 2 is very good, 1 is ordinary, and there are journals that don't get a level at all. There are about 100 at level 2 in mathematics. … So I try to publish in higher ranked journals than lower ones. …
21
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How to select a journal?
Many journals publish details of the breakdown between submission and publication, but as far as CV points are concerned then once it's accepted then I don't care how long it takes to get actually published …
6
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How to select a journal?
MSC.
I look back at the last N articles in a journal (where N is of the order of a hundred or so) and extract the MSC information. I then divide that into percentages and according to major and mino …
3
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How to select a journal?
Finally, I guess I should mention how I collate all of that information. I shan't put the whole details here but anyone interested can see it all at this page on my website. Unfortunately, the relev …
4
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How to select a journal?
I guess I should mention eigenfactor as well.
As far as I'm concerned, I don't give this much weight. It may be a "better" version of impact factor/citation index but as it isn't used (to my knowled …
14
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How to select a journal?
"Honest Joe" factor.
(I'm lumping a few together here as this is rapidly going to get out of hand!) How close does the journal fit with my view of how a journal should work? Can I retain copyright? …
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Which are the best mathematics journals, and what are the differences between them?
With a little bit of data munging (technical term), you can figure out which journals publish in which areas.
Unfortunately, if you read the AMS copyright, you can't distribute this information. …
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What proportion of math papers are collaborative?
According to the article, the original data was provided by the AMS. I don't think that the AMS leaves this sort of data lying around on laptops on trains, so do to it again you'd have to go and ask …
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Citation of a paper with a proof you would like to improve
[2] Insert standard rant about journals here. …
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Accepted
Combinatorics journals processing time
One possibility is the "backlog" published annually in the AMS Notices. The latest version is here (as PDF).
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Submitting to arXiv when unaffiliated
Official report number(s) from the author(s) institution(s) must be provided.
I have absolutely no idea what that phrase means. I have a few papers on the arXiv and have never knowingly provided …