The ''Electronic Journal of Combinatorics'' is a

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covering research in

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. The journal was established in 1994 by

Herbert Wilf Herbert Saul Wilf (June 13, 1931 – January 7, 2012) was a mathematician, specializing in combinatorics and graph theory. He was the Thomas A. Scott Professor of Mathematics in Combinatorial Analysis and Computing at the University of Pennsylv ...

(

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) and Neil Calkin (

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). The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics is a founding member of the

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. According to the ''

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'', the journal had a 2017

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of 0.762.

Editors-in-chief

Current

The current

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are: * Maria Axenovich,

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT; german: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie) is a public research university in Karlsruhe, Germany. The institute is a national research center of the Helmholtz Association. KIT was created in 2009 w ...

, Germany *

Miklós Bóna Miklós Bóna (born October 6, 1967, in Székesfehérvár) is an American mathematician of Hungarian origin. Bóna completed his undergraduate studies in Budapest and Paris, then obtained his Ph.D. at MIT in 1997 as a student of Richard P. Sta ...

University of Florida The University of Florida (Florida or UF) is a public land-grant research university in Gainesville, Florida. It is a senior member of the State University System of Florida, traces its origins to 1853, and has operated continuously on its ...

, United States * Julia Böttcher,

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, United Kingdom * Richard A. Brualdi,

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, United States * Eric Fusy, CNRS/LIX,

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, France *

Catherine Greenhill Catherine Greenhill is an Australian mathematician known for her research on random graphs, combinatorial enumeration and Markov chains. She is a professor of mathematics in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of New Sout ...

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, Australia * Brendan McKay,

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, Australia *

Bojan Mohar Bojan Mohar (born September 21, 1956) is a Slovenian and Canadian mathematician, working in graph theory. He is a professor of mathematics at the University of Ljubljana and the holder of a Canada Research Chair in graph theory at Simon Fraser Unive ...

Simon Fraser University Simon Fraser University (SFU) is a public research university in British Columbia, Canada, with three campuses, all in Greater Vancouver: Burnaby (main campus), Surrey, and Vancouver. The main Burnaby campus on Burnaby Mountain, located from ...

, Canada * Marc Noy,

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, Spain *

Greta Panova Greta Cvetanova Panova ( bg, Грета Цветанова Панова, born 1983 in Sofia, Bulgaria) is a Bulgarian-American mathematician. She is a professor of mathematics at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Her resea ...

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, United States *

Bruce Sagan Bruce E. Sagan (born March 29, 1954, Chicago, Illinois, United States) is an American Professor of Mathematics at Michigan State University. He specializes in enumerative, algebraic, and topological combinatorics. He is also known as a musician, ...

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, United States * Paco Santos,

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, Spain * Maya Stein,

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, Chile * Edwin van Dam,

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, Netherlands *

Ian Wanless Self-portrait photograph Ian Murray Wanless (born 7 December 1969 in Canberra, Australia) is a professor in the School of Mathematics at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. His research area is combinatorics, principally Latin squares, g ...

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, Australia * David Wood,

, Australia * Qing Xiang,

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, United States Since 2013, one of the editors-in-chief has been designated the Chief Editorial Officer. The present officer is Richard Brualdi.

Past

The following people have been

of the ''Electronic Journal of Combinatorics'':

Dynamic surveys

In addition to publishing normal articles, the journal also contains a class of articles called Dynamic Surveys that are not assigned to volumes and can be repeatedly updated by the authors.

Open access

Since its inception, the journal has been diamond-model open access, charging no fees to either authors or readers.

Copyright

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References

External links

* {{Official website, http://www.combinatorics.org Combinatorics journals Publications established in 1994 Open access journals English-language journals Online-only journals