The ''Journal of Integer Sequences'' is a
peer-reviewed
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open-access
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academic journal
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in mathematics, specializing in research papers about
integer sequence
In mathematics, an integer sequence is a sequence (i.e., an ordered list) of integers.
An integer sequence may be specified ''explicitly'' by giving a formula for its ''n''th term, or ''implicitly'' by giving a relationship between its terms. For ...
s.
It was founded in 1998 by
Neil Sloane
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Neil James Alexander Sloane (born October 10, 1939) is a British-American mathematician. His major contributions are in the fields of combinatorics, error-correcting codes, and sphere packing. Sloane is best known for being the creator ...
.
Sloane had previously published two books on integer sequences, and in 1996 he founded the
On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS) is an online database of integer sequences. It was created and maintained by Neil Sloane while researching at AT&T Labs. He transferred the intellectual property and hosting of the OEIS to the ...
(OEIS). Needing an outlet for research papers concerning the sequences he was collecting in the OEIS, he founded the journal. Since 2002 the journal has been hosted by the
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at the
University of Waterloo
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, with Waterloo professor
Jeffrey Shallit
Jeffrey Outlaw Shallit (born October 17, 1957) is a computer scientist, number theorist, and a noted critic of intelligent design. He is married to Anna Lubiw, also a computer scientist.
Early life and education
Shallit was born in Philadelp ...
as its editor-in-chief. There are no page charges for authors, and all papers are free to all readers. The journal publishes approximately 50–75 papers annually.
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In most years from 1999 to 2014,
SCImago Journal Rank has ranked the ''Journal of Integer Sequences'' as a third-quartile journal in
discrete mathematics and
combinatorics
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. It is indexed by ''
Mathematical Reviews
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The AMS also pu ...
'' and
Zentralblatt MATH
zbMATH Open, formerly Zentralblatt MATH, is a major reviewing service providing reviews and abstracts for articles in pure and applied mathematics, produced by the Berlin office of FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastruct ...
.
References
External links
*{{official website, https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/journals/JIS/
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