Discrete Mathematics (journal)

For the area of mathematics, see Discrete mathematics.

Discrete Mathematics  

Abbreviated title (ISO 4)	Discrete Math.
Discipline	Mathematics
Language	English
Edited by	Douglas B. West
Publication details
Publisher	North-Holland Publishing Company
Publication history	1971–present
Frequency	24/year
Impact factor (2012)	0.578
Indexing
ISSN	0012-365X
LCCN	72621801
CODEN	DSMHA4
OCLC no.	471516939
Links
Journal homepage Online archive

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).

History

The journal was established in 1971. The very 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 2012 impact factor of 0.578.

Notable publications

• The 1972 paper by László Lovász on the study of perfect graphs ()
• The 1973 short note "Acyclic orientations of graphs" by Richard Stanley on the study of the chromatic polynomial and its generalizations ()
• Václav Chvátal introduced graph toughness in 1973 ()
• The 1975 paper by László Lovász on the linear programming relaxation for the set cover problem.
• The 1980 paper by Philippe Flajolet on the combinatorics of continued fractions. (P. Flajolet, Combinatorial aspects of continued fractions, Discrete Math. 32 (1980), 125–161.)
• The 1985 paper by Bressoud and Zeilberger proved Andrews's q-Dyson conjecture ()

External links

• Official website