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Math Forum / Mathematics / General Topics / July 2009Your personal opinion about a journal
I was considering the Journal called Mathematical Forum. (http://www.m-hikari.com/imf.html) It looks nice. Before submitting anything, though, I would like to ask whether there is something perhaps I should be aware of. [First of all, Is this a "real" journal and present in libraries ?] Thank you. In article <84c94435-6b1c-4a65-9b9c-15b032bf9ef0@g1g2000yqh.googlegroups.com>, > I was considering the Journal called Mathematical Forum. > (http://www.m-hikari.com/imf.html) [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Thank you. This is "International Mathematical Forum" Just "Mathematical Forum" is a different journal based in India... To answer the question, "International Mathematical Forum" is indexed cover-to-cover by MathSciNet, so yes it is a "real" journal. Present in libraries: I checked here at Ohio State: we don't have a paper subscription, but do have a link to the on-line publication.  SignatureG. A. Edgar http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/~edgar/ > I was considering the Journal called Mathematical Forum. > (http://www.m-hikari.com/imf.html) [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > > Thank you. I don't think there's a print version of it; I think it is online only. We have access to it through our library at Michigan State University. It's a pretty young journal (started 2006), so I do not know if it has a reputation yet. It almost surely is too young to have a reliable impact factor. On the one hand, I would like to be supportive of online journals. Commercial publishers of print journals are creating budgetary havoc with university libraries. On the other hand, I have a bit of trepidation about whether young journals, online journals, and journals with rather generic missions (i.e., a "math journal" versus, say, a journal devoted to approximation theory or differential equations) will put a paper I write in front of the right sets of eyeballs. IMF fits all three descriptors: young; online; generic. For a young academic, the key question probably is "Will a promotion and tenure committee think this is a good journal?". You might want to look at the editorial board. In the absence of a longer track-record, if you recognize some "heavy hitters" on the board, you may be able to make an argument for journal quality. HTH, Paul thank you, Edgar and Paul. Very helpful advice! Paul A. Rubin wrote (in part): > > I was considering the Journal called Mathematical > Forum. [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > have a reliable > impact factor. Actually, there is a print version of these journals. This webpage says that all their journals for Hikari, Ltd., have both online and print versions available: http://www.m-hikari.com/index.html. Jonathan Groves > I was considering the Journal called Mathematical > Forum. [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > Thank you. Dear All, This is strange. When I was at the University of Kentucky, Dr. Ed Enochs mentioned a journal to me that I might want to consider as a possibility for publishing one of my mathematics research papers. I do remember the editor-in-chief was Emil Minchev, and I am almost sure the journal Enochs mentioned was this same journal, International Mathematical Forum. I rejected it at the time because the printing costs the author had to pay were about 15 Euro or so per page, which I could not afford easily because my paper was over 20 pages long. However, I see no mention of printing costs at all anywhere on this website. I wonder if you should e-mail Emil Michev about this to be sure. If the journal I am thinking that Enochs referred to really is this one, then if there are no printing charges to pay, then something must have happened in the last year or so to change their minds about this. If there are no printing charges after all, I would like to know because I might want to consider this journal sometime in the future. Jonathan Groves I had written earlier about the journal International Mathematical Forum: > I rejected it at the time because the printing costs > the author [quoted text clipped - 18 lines] > consider this > journal sometime in the future. The printing charge of 15 Euro per page does apply after all. I had submitted a paper in early March to International Journal of Algebra. Emil Minchev is also the editor-in-chief of this journal and the President of Hikari, Ltd., which publishes International Mathematical Forum and International Journal of Algebra and other journals. My paper was accepted, and I got the e-mail Friday morning (July 3), and it mentioned printing charges of 15 Euro per page. I find it unfair that the website says nothing about printing charges, so I knew nothing about this up front. I do not remember how I knew up front that there were printing charges for International Mathematical Forum. Maybe Enochs told me, but I don't remember. I guess it is not surprising that International Journal of Algebra does have printing charges since the other journal does as well. But I am almost completely certain that I had seen two journals somewhere before with the same editor-in-chief but with completely different rules regarding either printing charges (one is free, but the other is not) or regarding cost of issues (one is free, but the other is not). So that gave me another reason not to believe that International Journal of Algebra has printing charges though it has the same editor as another journal that does-- especially when the journal I had submitted to didn't mention anything about these charges. By the way, the e-mail I had received acknowledging receipt of my submitted paper did not mention printing charges either. Jonathan Groves In article <33386174.71635.1246686233134.JavaMail.jakarta@nitrogen.mathforum.org>, > The printing charge of 15 Euro per page This is part of a larger debate about "high subscription rates of traditional journals" vs "journals offered free on-line (but supported by page charges)". For medical, physics, etc. journals, where the research published is supported by government or industry, the addition of 15 Euro per page is easily absorbed. But for literary, historical, philosophical (or to some extent mathematical) journals, that fee may not be so easy. I, too, object to journals with charges that do not mention them until after the paper has been submitted, refereed, accepted. SignatureG. A. Edgar http://www.math.ohio-state.edu/~edgar/ |
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