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

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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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22 votes

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. …
21 votes

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 …
15 votes

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 …
14 votes

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? …
14 votes

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. …
8 votes

Citation of a paper with a proof you would like to improve

[2] Insert standard rant about journals here. …
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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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6 votes

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. …
6 votes

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 …
4 votes

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 …
3 votes

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 …