Discrete Mathematics (journal)

For the area of mathematics, see Discrete mathematics.

Discrete Mathematics is a biweekly peer-reviewed scientific journal in the broad area of discrete mathematics, combinatorics, graph theory, and their applications. It was established in 1971 and is published by North-Holland Publishing Company. It publishes both short notes, full length contributions, as well as survey articles. In addition, the journal publishes a number of special issues each year dedicated to a particular topic. Although originally it published articles in French and German, it now allows only English language articles. The editor-in-chief is Douglas West (University of Illinois, Urbana).

Discrete Mathematics

Discipline	Mathematics
Language	English
Edited by	Douglas B. West
Publication details
History	1971–present
Publisher	North-Holland Publishing Company
Frequency	24/year
Impact factor	0.87 (2020)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Discrete Math.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
CODEN	DSMHA4
ISSN	0012-365X
LCCN	72621801
OCLC no.	471516939
Links
Journal homepage Online archive

History

The journal was established in 1971. The first article it published was written by Paul Erdős, who went on to publish a total of 84 papers in the journal.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

• ACM Computing Reviews
• Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
• Current Contents/Physics, Chemical, & Earth Sciences
• International Abstracts in Operations Research
• Mathematical Reviews
• PASCAL
• Science Citation Index
• Zentralblatt MATH
• Scopus

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 0.87.^[1]