The ''Journal of Symbolic Computation'' is a

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monthly

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covering all aspects of

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published by

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and then by

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. It is targeted to both

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s and

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s. It was established in 1985 by

Bruno Buchberger Bruno Buchberger (born 22 October 1942) is Professor of Computer Mathematics at Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria. In his 1965 Ph.D. thesis, he created the theory of Gröbner bases, and has developed this theory throughout his career ...

, who served as its

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until 1994. The journal covers a wide variety of topics, including: *

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, for which it is considered the top journal * Computational geometry *

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* Applications of symbolic computation in education, science, and industry According to the ''

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'', its 2020

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is 0.847. The journal is abstracted and indexed by

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and the

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* {{Official website, http://www.elsevier.com/locate/jsc Computer algebra journals Academic journals established in 1985 Elsevier academic journals Monthly journals English-language journals Computer algebra

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