The ''Journal of Computational Geometry'' (JoCG) is an

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that was established in 2010. It covers research in all aspects of

computational geometry Computational geometry is a branch of computer science devoted to the study of algorithms which can be stated in terms of geometry. Some purely geometrical problems arise out of the study of computational geometric algorithms, and such problems ar ...

. All its papers are published free of charge to both authors and readers, and are made freely available through a

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license. The current

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are Kenneth L. Clarkson and Günter Rote. Along with its regularly contributed papers, the journal has since 2014 invited selected papers from the annual

Symposium on Computational Geometry The International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG) is an academic conference in computational geometry. It was founded in 1985, and was originally sponsored by the SIGACT and SIGGRAPH Special Interest Groups of the Association for Computin ...

to a special issue.

Abstracting and indexing

The ''Journal of Computational Geometry'' is abstracted and indexed in

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, ''

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'', and the

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. Long-term preservation of journal contents are ensured by the journal's membership in the Global

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Network.Publishers & Titles (GLN)

, retrieved 2018-09-07.

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