Sunday, 15 February 2009

soft question - Which are the best mathematics journals, and what are the differences between them?

I seem to remember this being discussed not too long ago on a certain blog not a long way from here ... but then maybe your question is a little more specific than that one was.



To the extent that this information is subjective, I don't think you'll get a good answer. To make it more objective, you need some way of classifying "this sort of article". One simple way is by subject, specifically MSC. Then one can do it by looking at MathSciNet and comparing, say, the last 100 articles published in a given journal. 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. In fact, you're not even allowed to keep it on your own computer for very long so you have to redo it every time.



I've got some scripts for automating this stuff here on my website (I hope that putting links to ones own website isn't considered Bad Form here!)



But maybe you have a different classification scheme in mind - do you?

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