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

This tag is for questions related to publishing mathematical writings in mathematical journals, including which journal to choose for certain kinds of work, questions about peer review, preprint servers and related topics.

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How to correct an error in a submitted paper?

Suppose that after submitting a paper for publication, but before hearing anything back from the referee, I discover an error in the paper that needs to be corrected, or an omission that needs to be rectified. What is the best course of action? …
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Publishing mathematical coincidences

I've always wondered how some "mathematical coincidences" are published, or spread to a wider audience. For instance, the almost integer: $$ e^\pi -\pi = 19.9990999\ldots $$ was "noticed almost simultaneously around 1988 by N. J. A. Sloane, J. H.…
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Submitting a companion paper with detailed proofs ?

In papers there are often sketchy arguments in proofs that I find hard to understand. Filling in the gaps is laborious and time-consuming. According to the post www.mathoverflow.net/questions/40729/does-a-referee-have-to-check-carefully-the-proof,…
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Computer calculations in a paper

I think I can improve the current upper bound concerning an open problem. The ideas are purely combinatorial, but in the end I have to calculate the maximum of a really ugly, non elementary function with four variables. I did this with a computer,…
Daniel Soltész
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Rankings of mathematical conferences and journals

Just to keep it simple: What rankings of mathematical conferences and journals are available in the internet? (I'm only interested in rankings, not about any discussion about rankings.)
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Properties of a "research announcement"

Some mathematics journals publish "research announcements", a class of publication that before today I had not heard of. An example is Electronic Research Announcements in Mathematical Sciences. I presume that after publishing a research…
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Rejection for a seemingly odd reason

I sent a paper to an elite journal (the top in the field). Two weeks later I got a decision "reject" but the editors added that "we believe it should deserve a good publicity and publication". The paper was described by the associate editor as "of…
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Which journals publish 1-page papers

Having read a thread on a similar question on expository papers I'm reminded of reason #99 to drop my math PhD thingy, late c20th: I just couldn't blow up this paper to 4 pages. (OK, one half-page calculation was left to the expert reader (and other…
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Fast turn-around times

This is a very soft question, but it is somewhat relevant to some other questions, like Which are the best mathematics journals, and what are the differences between them?. I've read that Notices AMS provides annual (at least) stats on backlogs,…
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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, the library does not touch any journals from…
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Is "Notices of the American Mathematical Society" available before 1995?

I tried to find some paper published in Notices of the American Mathematical Society 1975 By E. Calabi, On manifolds with non-negative Ricci curvature II Notices of the American Mathematical Society 22 1975 A205 But when I searched at mathscinet…
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Which journals publish research announcements?

Can anybody advise mathematical journals that publish research announcements? (I mean little papers without proofs.) It sometimes happens that a proof is so long that it takes years to review and few journals are willing to accept it. I think in…
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What are good venues for publishing original mathematical research in monograph form?

Of course, it's very easy to find journals which publish original mathematical work, and there are a number of book series that publish expository monographs. But if you have a work of original research which has reached monograph length, I don't…
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Where to publish math that's original but easy but requires theorems not every undergrad knows?

I'm struggling to find a home for a certain paper of mine. The problem is that the mathematical content of it is extremely easy: a couple definitions and a theorem with a five-line proof, invoking the Recursion Theorem and the Smn Theorem. It's…
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same paper was published in the same journal twice

I just realized that the paper "Hitchin's connection and differential operators with values in the determinant bundle" by Xiaotao Suna and I-Hsun Tsai and was published twice in the Journal of Differential Geometry: in 67 (2004), no. 2, 335–376 and…
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