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

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Need list of top journals with shortest review time

The Notices of the American Mathematical Society publishes such a list once a year. Well, strictly speaking, it is not "review time" but time from submission to publication. Look in the table of conte …
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Can editors move a journal to a different publisher?

The Mathematical Association of America moved all of its journals to a new publisher (Taylor and Francis) a few years ago. So: this was done by the owner (MAA) not the editors, per se. …
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Properties of a "research announcement"

Anecdotally: back in those days, some Soviet journals published research announcements, but corresponding papers never appeared subsequently, leading some in the West to suspect that: in fact there were …
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Rejection for a seemingly odd reason

Yes, it is common for journals that receive far more submissions than they can publish to reject most of them — sometimes for boilerplate reasons, sometimes for no reason at all. …
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A nice result for an sub-area I am not working in

Probably more like: Contact the author, and ask for his reaction. It could be: "Great, let me help you publish it". Or it could be: "You made the following well-nown error."
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Where to publish a new proof of an old theorem?

If the old theorem is something commonly seen in an undergraduate math class (with the old demonstration), then this might be appropriate as a "Note" in the American Mathematical Monthly. What coul …
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Mathematical journals that accept long papers (up to 100 pages)

Lecture Notes in Mathematics (Springer) has a minimum of 100 pages. But it may not be "peer reviewed" in the conventional sense.
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When (if ever) disclose your identity as a reviewer?

According to the instructions given to referees by certain journals ... the submitted material is to be treated as privileged information. …
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Which magazines should I read?

College Mathematics Journal
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What is due diligence when translating a paper?

I wrote to the copyright owners (such as learned societies who published the journals) for permission to do this. …
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Can American Math. Monthly be used to publish hard research?

Of course read the description on the AMM web page about what sort of thing they publish. https://www.maa.org/press/periodicals/american-mathematical-monthly The Monthly's readers expect a high stand …
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What about a mathematics journal for 'negative' results?

There have been papers like the following in the American Mathematical Monthly Guy, Richard K., "Unsolved Problems: Don't Try to Solve These Problems". Amer. Math. Monthly 90 (1983), no. 1, 35–38+39– …
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When should a supervisor be a co-author?

One anecdote ... Serving on a university-wide committee, I found that in one field (I think zoology?) the norm is having the advisor as co-author; and when the advisor does not appear as co-author it …
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Is there any published summary of Erdos's published problems in the American Mathematical Mo...

I do not know of such a summary. But JSTOR has spent considerable time indexing the Monthly, including the "Problems and Solutions" sections. So if your library has a JSTOR subscription you can sear …
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Which journals publish expository work?

These journals say that they publish expository and/or survey papers... …

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