'' Probability Theory and Related Fields'' is a peer-reviewed

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published by

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. Established in 1962, it was originally named ''Zeitschrift für Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie und verwandte Gebiete'', with the English replacing the German starting from volume 71 (1986). The journal publishes articles on

probability Probability is the branch of mathematics concerning numerical descriptions of how likely an event is to occur, or how likely it is that a proposition is true. The probability of an event is a number between 0 and 1, where, roughly speakin ...

. The journal is indexed by '' Mathematical Reviews'' and

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. Its 2019

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was 2.29, and its 2019

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was 2.125. The current

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are Fabio Toninelli (Technical University of Vienna) and Bálint Tóth (University of Bristol and Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics). The journal CiteScore is 3.8 and its SCImago Journal Rank is 3.198, both from 2020. It is currently ranked 11th in the field of Probability & Statistics with Applications according to

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Past Editors-in-chief

1961-1971: Leopold Schmetterer (Vienna) 1971-1985: Klaus Krickeberg (Bielefeld) 1985-1991: Hermann Rost (Heidelberg) 1991-1994: Olav Kallenberg (Auburn AL) 1994-2000: Erwin Bolthausen (Zurich) 2000-2005:

Geoffrey Grimmett Geoffrey Richard Grimmett (born 20 December 1950) is a mathematician known for his work on the mathematics of random systems arising in probability theory and statistical mechanics, especially percolation theory and the contact process. He is ...

(Cambridge) 2005-2010: Jean-Francois Le Gall (Paris) and Jean Bertoin (Paris) 2010-2015:

Gérard Ben Arous Gérard Ben Arous (born 26 June 1957) is a French mathematician, specializing in stochastic analysis and its applications to mathematical physics. He served as the director of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York Universit ...

(New York) and

Amir Dembo Amir Dembo (born 25 October 1958, Haifa) is an Israeli-American mathematician, specializing in probability theory. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2022. Biography Dembo received his bachelor's degree in electrical en ...

(Stanford) 2015-2020:

Michel Ledoux Michel Ledoux (born 1958) is a French mathematician, specializing in probability theory. He is a professor at the University of Toulouse. Ledoux received in 1985 his PhD from the University of Strasbourg with thesis ''Propriétés limites des vari ...

(Toulouse) and Fabio Martinelli (Rome) 2021-2024: Fabio Toninelli (Vienna) and Bálint Tóth (Budapest and Bristol)

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