''Combinatorics, Probability and Computing'' is a

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in mathematics published by

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. Its

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Béla Bollobás Béla Bollobás FRS (born 3 August 1943) is a Hungarian-born British mathematician who has worked in various areas of mathematics, including functional analysis, combinatorics, graph theory, and percolation. He was strongly influenced by Paul ...

(

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and

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History

The journal was established by Bollobás in 1992. Fields Medalist

Timothy Gowers Sir William Timothy Gowers, (; born 20 November 1963) is a British mathematician. He is Professeur titulaire of the Combinatorics chair at the Collège de France, and director of research at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Trinity Col ...

calls it "a personal favourite" among combinatorics journals and writes that it "maintains a high standard".

Content

The journal covers

combinatorics Combinatorics is an area of mathematics primarily concerned with counting, both as a means and an end in obtaining results, and certain properties of finite structures. It is closely related to many other areas of mathematics and has many a ...

probability theory Probability theory is the branch of mathematics concerned with probability. Although there are several different probability interpretations, probability theory treats the concept in a rigorous mathematical manner by expressing it through a set o ...

, and

theoretical computer science Theoretical computer science (TCS) is a subset of general computer science and mathematics that focuses on mathematical aspects of computer science such as the theory of computation, lambda calculus, and type theory. It is difficult to circumsc ...

. Currently, it publishes six issues annually. As with other journals from the same publisher, it follows a hybrid green/gold

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policy, in which authors may either place copies of their papers in an

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after a six-month embargo period, or pay an open access charge to make their papers free to read on the journal's website.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2014

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of 0.623. Since 2007, it has been ranked by

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as a first-quartile journal in four areas:

applied mathematics Applied mathematics is the application of mathematical methods by different fields such as physics, engineering, medicine, biology, finance, business, computer science, and industry. Thus, applied mathematics is a combination of mathemat ...

computational theory In theoretical computer science and mathematics, the theory of computation is the branch that deals with what problems can be solved on a model of computation, using an algorithm, how efficiently they can be solved or to what degree (e.g., ...

, statistics and probability, and theoretical computer science..

References

External links

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