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

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Journal name abbreviations

Mathematical Reviews generally does follow ISO standards on abbreviations for journals. However, some journals existed in our coverage before the ISO standards were adopted. … Some of our in-house librarians and catalogers are looking into a way to update old abbreviations for current journals that would avoid making a new record or otherwise complicating our representation …
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Publishing papers that became classics before they were submitted

There were several important unpublished results floating around representation theory for years, including the Langlands classification irreducible admissible representations of real algebraic groups …
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Math Review #'s — Include the initial zeros?

In most instances, when displaying items with MR numbers that are less than 1000000, we pad the number by prepending with zeros to obtain a 7-digit number. The numbers, however, are stored just as nu …
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Frequency of papers showing academic misconduct among the articles indexed by MathSciNet and...

As with zbMATH, when a case of duplicated text or duplicated papers comes up, we contact the editorial boards of both journals, inform the editors at zbMATH, and add a note to the listing of the paper. …
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Missing citations of "to appear" papers on MathSciNet

For citations from a reference list at the end of an article, we try to match items in the list to items already in the Math Reviews database. If a paper is "to appear" at the time it is cited, there …
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When is an erratum necessary?

Checking MathSciNet in the five-year period from 2010 to 2014, there were 1319 entries with "erratum" or "errata" in the title. Sampling a few dozen of them, most cases involve a misstatement severe …
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