BIT Numerical Mathematics

BIT Numerical Mathematics is a quarterly peer-reviewed mathematics journal that covers research in numerical analysis. It was established in 1961 by Carl Erik Fröberg and is published by Springer Science+Business Media. The name "BIT" is a reverse acronym of Tidskrift för Informationsbehandling (Swedish: Journal of Information Processing).^[1]

BIT Numerical Mathematics

Discipline	Numerical analysis
Language	English
Edited by	Gunilla Kreiss
Publication details
History	1961–present
Publisher	Springer Science+Business Media
Frequency	Quarterly
Impact factor	1.663 (2020)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	BIT Numer. Math.
MathSciNet	BIT
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
ISSN	0006-3835 (print) 1572-9125 (web)
LCCN	sn95029245
OCLC no.	51522871
Links
Journal homepage Journal page at publisher's website Online access

Previous editors-in-chief have been Carl Erik Fröberg (1961-1992), Åke Björck (1993-2002), Axel Ruhe (2003-2015), and Lars Eldén (2016). As of 2021^[update], the editor-in-chief is Gunilla Kreiss.

Peter Naur served as a member of the editorial board between the years 1960 and 1993, and Germund Dahlquist between 1962 and 1991.^[1]

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

• Science Citation Index
• Scopus
• Zentralblatt Math
• EBSCO databases
• Academic OneFile
• ACM Digital Library
• Computer Abstracts International Database
• Computer Science Index
• Current Contents/Physical, Chemical and Earth Sciences
• Current Index to Statistics
• International Bibliography of Book Reviews
• International Bibliography of Periodical Literature
• Mathematical Reviews
• PASCAL

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 1.663.^[2]