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- From: mjs@hubcap.clemson.edu (M. J. Saltzman)
- Subject: Re: Top math journals (was: sci.math.* groups
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.192832.15682@hubcap.clemson.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 19:28:32 GMT
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- In article <1k0p4rINNonp@function.mps.ohio-state.edu> edgar@math.ohio-state.edu (Gerald Edgar) writes:
- >In article <C1DE7M.J3p@cmcl2.nyu.edu> hutchins@acf3.nyu.edu (Carol Hutchins) writes:
- >> Please let me know once you come to a consensus
- >>on which 6 are the "top math journals".
- >>
- >> Thanks.
- >> Carol Hutchins
- >> Library
- >> Courant Institute
- >
- >A paper on this, "Pure and Applied Mathematics Journals: What They Cite
- >and Vice Versa", by Eugene Garfield, appeared in _Current Contents_
- >5(15):5-10, March 8, 1982. He measured the "most significant" math
- >journals in five different ways. Of course, the five results did not agree.
- >Journals ranked high in four of the five ratings were:
- > Acta Mathematica-Djursholm
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- Most appropriate group for topics in this journal? Sci.math
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- > American Journal of Mathematcs
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- Sci.math
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- > Annals of Mathematics
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- Sci.math
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- > Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society
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- Sci.math
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- > Inventiones Mathematica
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- Sci.math
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- > Journal of Functional Analysis
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- Sci.math.func-anal?
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- > Mathematics of Computation
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- Sci.math.num-anal? Or comp.theory?
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- > Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society
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- And sci.math
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- Well, it was an interesting idea...
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- Matthew Saltzman
- Clemson University Math Sciences
- mjs@clemson.edu
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