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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society
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Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society

0273-0979

Published by: American Mathematical Society

https://www.ams.org/publications/journals/journalsframework/bull

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Mathematics 293 45 49 9

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 54
Documents by Best Scientists*: 57
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 7
SCIMAGO H-index: 69
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.806
Impact Factor: 1.6

Overview

Top Research Topics at Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society?

Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society generally zeroes in on subjects such as Pure mathematics, Mathematical analysis, Algebra, Combinatorics and Discrete mathematics.

  • Pure mathematics (21.46%)
  • Mathematical analysis (13.29%)
  • Algebra (10.47%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • User’s guide to viscosity solutions of second order partial differential equations (4364 citations)
  • Differentiable dynamical systems (2725 citations)
  • Some aspects of the sequential design of experiments (1767 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society:

The most cited papers focus largely on the fields of Pure mathematics, Mathematical analysis, Combinatorics, Algebra and Discrete mathematics.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Quantum mechanics
  • Mathematical analysis
  • Algebra

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

The foci of the journal are Pure mathematics, Algebra, Work (electrical), Ergodic theory and Epistemology. It emphasizes research on Pure mathematics, which includes concerns such as Atiyah–Singer index theorem. Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society investigates Algebra research which frequently intersects with Algebraic statistics.

The presented Work (electrical) research focuses mostly on Fourier transform and, on occasion, topics in Structure (category theory), Mathematical proof, Operator (computer programming), Simple (abstract algebra) and Unitary state. The journal explores issues in Ergodic theory which can be linked to other research areas like Geometry and topology, Nilpotent and Group action. Issues in Epistemology were discussed, taking into consideration concepts from other disciplines like Base (topology) and Counterexample.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Eigenvectors from eigenvalues: A survey of a basic identity in linear algebra (11 citations)
  • The uncertainty principle: Variations on a theme (5 citations)
  • A survey of mass partitions (4 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Virgil Snyder (142 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • David Eugene Smith (101 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Arnold Dresden (75 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Arnold Emch (69 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Leonard Eugene Dickson (63 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Hungarian Academy of Sciences (34 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Princeton University (30 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of California, Berkeley (28 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Santa Clara University (27 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Michigan (26 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 46.43% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 20.00% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 6.67% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 40.00% of all publications and 33.33% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

Top Publications

  • Eigenvectors from eigenvalues: A survey of a basic identity in linear algebra

    Peter B. Denton;Stephen J. Parke;Terence Tao;Xining Zhang

    (2021)
    50 Citations
  • Convex integration constructions in hydrodynamics

    Tristan Buckmaster;Vlad Vicol

    (2020)
    49 Citations
  • Helly-type Problems

    Imre Bárány;Gil Kalai

    (2021)
    29 Citations
  • The uncertainty principle: Variations on a theme

    Avi Wigderson;Yuval Wigderson

    (2021)
    27 Citations
  • Swarming: hydrodynamic alignment with pressure

    (2022)
    17 Citations
  • Modeling the cardiac electromechanical function: A mathematical journey

    (2022)
    13 Citations
  • The Atiyah–Singer index theorem

    Daniel S. Freed

    (2021)
    13 Citations
  • Exploring the toolkit of Jean Bourgain

    Terence Tao

    (2021)
    13 Citations
  • Analysis and applications: The mathematical work of Elias Stein

    Charles Fefferman;Alex Ionescu;Terence Tao;Stephen Wainger

    (2020)
    11 Citations
  • Probabilistic view of voting, paradoxes, and manipulation

    (2021)
    9 Citations

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