''Mathematical Reviews'' is a journal published by the

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(AMS) that contains brief synopses, and in some cases evaluations, of many articles in

mathematics Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes methods, Mathematical theory, theories and theorems that are developed and Mathematical proof, proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself. There are many ar ...

statistics Statistics (from German language, German: ', "description of a State (polity), state, a country") is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of data. In applying statistics to a s ...

, and

theoretical computer science Theoretical computer science is a subfield of computer science and mathematics that focuses on the Abstraction, abstract and mathematical foundations of computation. It is difficult to circumscribe the theoretical areas precisely. The Associati ...

. The AMS also publishes an associated online

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called

MathSciNet MathSciNet is a searchable online bibliographic database created by the American Mathematical Society in 1996. It contains all of the contents of the journal ''Mathematical Reviews'' (MR) since 1940 along with an extensive author database, links ...

, which contains an electronic version of ''Mathematical Reviews''.

Reviews

Mathematical Reviews was founded by

Otto E. Neugebauer Otto Eduard Neugebauer (May 26, 1899 – February 19, 1990) was an Austrian-American mathematician and historian of science who became known for his research on the history of astronomy and the other exact sciences as they were practiced in a ...

in 1940 as an alternative to the German journal '' Zentralblatt für Mathematik'', which Neugebauer had also founded a decade earlier, but which under the Nazis had begun censoring reviews by and of Jewish mathematicians. The goal of the new journal was to give reviews of every mathematical research publication. As of November 2007, the ''Mathematical Reviews'' database contained information on over 2.2 million articles. The authors of reviews are volunteers, usually chosen by the editors because of some expertise in the area of the article. It and '' Zentralblatt für Mathematik'' are the only comprehensive resources of this type. (The Mathematics section of ''

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'' is available only in

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and is smaller in scale and difficult to access.) Often reviews give detailed summaries of the contents of the paper, sometimes with critical comments by the reviewer and references to related work. However, reviewers are not encouraged to criticize the paper, because the author does not have an opportunity to respond. The author's summary may be quoted when it is not possible to give an independent review, or when the summary is deemed adequate by the reviewer or the editors. Only bibliographic information may be given when a work is in an unusual language, when it is a brief paper in a conference volume, or when it is outside the primary scope of the Reviews. Originally the reviews were written in several languages, but later an "English only" policy was introduced. Selected reviews (called "featured reviews") were also published as a book by the AMS, but this program has been discontinued.

Online database

In 1980, all the contents of ''Mathematical Reviews'' since 1940 were integrated into an electronic searchable database. Eventually the contents became part of

, which was officially launched in 1996. MathSciNet also has extensive citation information.

Mathematical citation quotient

''Mathematical Reviews'' computes a mathematical citation quotient (MCQ) for each journal. Like the

impact factor The impact factor (IF) or journal impact factor (JIF) of an academic journal is a type of journal ranking. Journals with higher impact factor values are considered more prestigious or important within their field. The Impact Factor of a journa ...

and other similar citation rates, this is a numerical statistic that measures the frequency of citations to a journal. The MCQ is calculated by counting the total number of citations into the journal that have been indexed by ''Mathematical Reviews'' over a five-year period, and dividing this total by the total number of papers published by the journal during that five-year period. For the period 2012 – 2014, the top five journals in ''Mathematical Reviews'' by MCQ were: # '' Acta Numerica'' — MCQ 8.14 # ''

Publications Mathématiques de l'IHÉS ''Publications Mathématiques de l'IHÉS'' is a peer-reviewed mathematical journal. It is published by Springer Science+Business Media on behalf of the Institut des Hautes Études Scientifiques, with the help of the Centre National de la Recher ...

'' — MCQ 5.06 # ''

Journal of the American Mathematical Society The ''Journal of the American Mathematical Society'' (''JAMS''), is a quarterly peer-reviewed mathematical journal published by the American Mathematical Society. It was established in January 1988. Abstracting and indexing This journal is abs ...

'' — MCQ 4.79 # ''

Annals of Mathematics The ''Annals of Mathematics'' is a mathematical journal published every two months by Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Study. History The journal was established as ''The Analyst'' in 1874 and with Joel E. Hendricks as t ...

'' — MCQ 4.60 # '' Forum of Mathematics, Pi'' — MCQ 4.54 The "All Journal MCQ" is computed by considering all the journals indexed by ''Mathematical Reviews'' as a single meta-journal, which makes it possible to determine if a particular journal has a higher or lower MCQ than average. The 2018 All Journal MCQ is 0.41.

''Current Mathematical Publications''

''Current Mathematical Publications'' was a subject index in print format that published the newest and upcoming mathematical literature, chosen and indexed by ''Mathematical Reviews'' editors. It covered the period from 1965 until 2012, when it was discontinued.

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