Journal of Symbolic Computation

The Journal of Symbolic Computation is a peer-reviewed monthly scientific journal covering all aspects of symbolic computation published by Academic Press and then by Elsevier. It is targeted to both mathematicians and computer scientists. It was established in 1985 by Bruno Buchberger, who served as its editor until 1994.

Journal of Symbolic Computation

Discipline	Computer science
Language	English
Edited by	Josef Schicho
Publication details
History	1985-present
Publisher	Elsevier
Frequency	Monthly
Impact factor	0.847 (2020)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	J. Symb. Comput.
MathSciNet	J. Symbolic Comput.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
ISSN	0747-7171
LCCN	85644369
OCLC no.	10791050
Links
Journal homepage Online access

The journal covers a wide variety of topics, including:

• Computer algebra, for which it is considered the top journal^[1]
• Computational geometry
• Automated theorem proving
• Applications of symbolic computation in education, science, and industry

According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2020 impact factor is 0.847.^[2] The journal is abstracted and indexed by Scopus and the Science Citation Index.

See also

• Higher-Order and Symbolic Computation
• International Symposium on Symbolic and Algebraic Computation