Questions tagged [journals]
Questions about mathematical publishing, including specific journals, peer review etc.
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Mathematical emails
How should one archive mathematical emails (especially keeping in mind that one may move from one institution to another, or may forget precise wording later on so that searching becomes difficult)?
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Journal name abbreviations
When MathSciNet and Zentralblatt disagree on a journal name abbreviation, is there any way to get them to agree on a common abbreviation?
For example, one of the big journals in algebra in ...
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What are journal rankings that employers look at? [closed]
What are journal rankings that employers look at?
There are few questions on this topic already, but I don't think they fully address my question. Please close this one if it is not appropriate for ...
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What's up with old volumes of the Journal of Algebraic Geometry?
I'm not sure if this question is appropriate for MO, but I'm certain that some people visiting MO must have been confronted with the same issue as mine.
It happened several times that a reference ...
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Where can I access American Mathematical Monthly problems given an index?
I don't know if this is the appropriate website to ask, so I understand if this post gets closed. I want to explore (and maybe solve) some of the currently-unsolved problems submitted by readers on ...
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Tips for reading arXiv papers in mathematics
What tips do you have for reading arXiv papers in mathematics?
This could be too broad if I'm not careful, so here are some limitations on how to make the question appropriate for MO:
I'm interested ...
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Where can I publish a paper about how to write mathematical papers?
I am thinking about writing a paper: "How (not) to write a mathematical paper." I want to share my thoughts and experience about good and bad habits, and common mistakes. While it will be a ...
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Is an easy proof of an interesting result worth publishing?
I am a Phd math student, and I was wondering what was the general consensus on what is publishable and what is not.
I've come here with an example in mind which should give some insight. I recently ...
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Finding the DOI for a paper
How can we find the DOI of an old paper. For example, what are the DOI of the following papers?
Anderson, D.D. and Jayaram, C., 1995. Regular lattices. Studia Scientiarum Mathematicarum Hungarica, 30(...
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University library dropping independent journal subscriptions. What to do?
We received an email from our university library stating that they plan to drop subscriptions to the following journals. These are some of the best journals published by independent sources. Of course,...
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How to select suitable journals for submission? [closed]
I think this post should be made community wiki, as there may not be some definitive answer, and it's more like a discussion.
My question is actually more subtle than the title of the post. What I ...
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Notation for spectral sequences [closed]
Every single spectral sequence I have seen in my life was denoted by $E$. Even when there is more than one spectral sequence, people tend to use the same letter with some workaround (e.g. a fourth ...
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What causes some mathematical journals to discontinue?
This is soft question. I decided to ask my question on MathOverflow rather than on academia StackExchange because I believe that the community here is more equipped to answer the question.
The ...
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What are "originality" and "novelty" in mathematics research? [closed]
When a journal is looking for "originality/novelty/newness," what are they looking for? Sure, this is a somewhat subjective question and open to personal opinion, but I think there are ...
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Can editors move a journal to a different publisher?
This question might be more suitable for a law forum, but I thought somebody may be able to share their experience.
Can the editors of a research journal unilaterally decide to move
their journal to ...