Annals of Mathematics
The Annals of Mathematics , or Ann for short . Math. (German Annals of Mathematics ), ISSN 0003-486X , is one of the most important specialist journals in mathematics . The annals are published bimonthly by Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Study .
The first forerunner appeared between 1874 and 1883 under the name The Analyst (edited by Joel E. Hendricks of Des Moines, Iowa). In 1884 the first edition appeared under the current name with Ormond Stone from the University of Virginia as first editor. Between 1899 and 1911 the Annals were published by Harvard University before they finally found their present home in Princeton. From 1933 the Institute for Advanced Study appears as co-editor.
The rise of the Annals to one of the most respected journals in mathematics is closely linked to Solomon Lefschetz , who was editor from 1928 to 1958. A publication in the Annals of Mathematics has a special reputation because of the high hurdles the journal has for the publication of articles, not only in the peer-review, but also in the selection of the articles. The articles published there include, for example, the proof of the Fermat conjecture by Andrew Wiles .
After the first peer review of Thomas Hale's proof of the Kepler conjecture , which mainly used computers, had failed because the reviewers were only 99 percent certain (as they said) about the correctness after extensive years of work, the Annals of Mathematics 2005 removed the human part of the proof and then changed their statutes to include an addition that specified more precisely how the computer part of the proof is documented and checked for publication.
The journal's impact factor in 2012 was 3.027. In the statistics of the ISI Web of Knowledge , the journal was ranked 3rd out of 295 considered journals in the mathematics category .
The current (2016) editors are:
- Peter Sarnak
- Charles Fefferman
- David Gabai , Princeton
- Nick Katz , Princeton
- Sergiu Klainerman , Princeton
- Tian Gang , Princeton
From 1998 to 2008 the articles were freely accessible online, but not since then. Only articles that are more than five years old are made accessible in the JSTOR archive (also no longer freely accessible) . However, the articles are often preprinted in ArXiv before publication , a procedure that the editors of the Annals of Mathematics expressly recommend on their website.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information on computer evidence on the official website
- ^ ISI Web of Knowledge, Journal Citation Reports Science Edition, 2012.
- ↑ Annals of Mathematics, JSTOR , freely accessible up to Volume 24, 1922