The ''Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici'' is a quarterly

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. The

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(SMG) started the journal in 1929 after a meeting in May of the previous year. The Swiss Mathematical Society still owns and operates the journal; the publishing is currently handled on its behalf by the

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. The scope of the journal includes research articles in all aspects in mathematics. The

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have been

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(1929–1949), J.J. Burckhardt (1950–1981), P. Gabriel (1982–1989), H. Kraft (1990–2005), and

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(2006–present).

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'', the journal has a 2019

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of 0.854.

History

The idea for a society-owned research journal emerged in June 1926, when the SMG petitioned the Swiss Confederation for a CHF 3,500 subsidy "to establish its own scientific journal" and thus raise the international profile of Swiss mathematics. A special commission drafted the project, and at the spring meeting in

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on 20 May 1928 the Society approved it; before year's end the first issue of ''Commentarii Mathematici Helvetici'' (CMH) appeared. To secure its future, the "Foundation for the Promotion of Mathematical Sciences in Switzerland" was created at an extraordinary members' meeting on 16 June 1929 and registered by the end of that year. From the outset the journal was governed by a six-yearly elected editorial committee—comprising a president, general secretary, assistant secretary and all former SMG presidents—while

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was appointed publisher and a

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title chosen to avoid favouring any one national language. Under its founding statutes, CMH was to publish only original research by Swiss or resident scholars, in one of the three

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s, subject to approval by the editorial committee. Subscription rates were set at CHF 15 for members and CHF 25 for non-members, and from 1928 to 1956 federal subsidies rose stepwise from CHF 1,000 to CHF 8,500, supplemented by income from subscriptions and by foundation grants—initially CHF 450 and rising to CHF 1,930 by 1936.

served as the first general secretary, promoting the journal and securing its finances; in April 1938 he wrote that without CMH "Swiss mathematics would again be dependent on the goodwill of foreign states". Through the mid-20th century CMH remained under SMG oversight while its editorial structures and funding adapted to changing conditions. In 1951, the Society confirmed a new editorial regime and consultative body to accompany the six-year cycle, and in 1964 its foundation began sponsoring an information service for seminars and research notices. When the

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curtailed support in the early 1990s, CMH emphasised its international reputation and ultimately—in 2005—transferred production and distribution from

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to the EMS Publishing House in

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. Subscriber numbers, which peaked at 912 in 1973, stood at about 550 in 2008.

References

External links

* {{Official website, https://ems.press/journals/cmh Mathematics journals Academic journals established in 1929 English-language journals Quarterly journals European Mathematical Society academic journals Academic journals associated with learned and professional societies of Switzerland Creative Commons Attribution-licensed journals