Tuesday, 19 July 2016 Ars Mathematica Contemporanea in first quarter of best scientific journals
Slovene science recorded another important achievement: Science Citation Index for 2015 placed the journal Ars Mathematica Contemporanea (AMC) in the first quarter of scientific journals in the field of mathematics according to the journal's impact factor.
The Journal AMC was established in 2008 by prof. Dragan Marušič, PhD and prof. Tomaž Pisanski, PhD. Together with an enthusiastic team of international editors, they are still managing the journal today.
AMC is published by the University of Primorska in cooperation with the Society of Mathematicians, Physicists and Astronomers of Slovenia and the Institute for Mathematics, Physics and Mechanics Ljubljana. The journal publishes top scientific articles in modern mathematics, especially in the field of discrete mathematics. Articles from algebra, geometry, topology, theoretical computer sciences and combinatorics can also be found in the journal.
The on-line version of the AMC Journal is availanle open.source on the journal's website.
The impact factor is used in science as a tool for measuring the influence of the journal and with this the reputation of researchers, who are publishing in the journal. It is set and measured only for the most important scientific journals in the world by the Institute for Scientific Information. 14,000 journals are included in institute's specialised database. The impact factor calculates the citations of the published articles in journals included in the database. 19 scientific periodic publications are included into the database from Slovenia, while the Slovenian Research Agency co-finances the publication of 138 periodic scientific and 18 popular science publications.
The journal AMC with its impact factor 0.985 took 60th place among the 312 mathematical journals included in ISI. The impact for 2015 counts citations in 2015 from the articles published in 2013 and 2014 and divides them with the number of these articles.
AMC was included on the list of mathematical journal with an impact factor in 2011 and it was so far included in twice in the third quarter and twice in the second quarter. Constant improvement of journal's influence demands also increase in quality of published articles. To assure high standard of articles, the editorial board accepts less than a third of received manuscripts and with this success, the submission rate increased and acceptance rate further decreased.
AMC journal is the first Slovene journal, who managed to get into the top quarter of scientific magazines with its impact factor, which represents a new milestone of the Slovenian science. This further defines the Slovenian research in the world.
