Acta Numerica is a mathematics journal publishing research on numerical analysis

Numerical analysis

Numerical analysis is the study of algorithms that use numerical approximation for the problems of mathematical analysis ....

. It was established in 1992 to publish widely-accessible summaries of recent advances in the field.
One volume is published each year, consisting of review and survey articles from authors invited by the journal's editorial board.

The journal is indexed by Mathematical Reviews

Mathematical Reviews

Mathematical Reviews is a journal and online database published by the American Mathematical Society that contains brief synopses of many articles in mathematics, statistics and theoretical computer science.- Reviews :...

and Zentralblatt MATH

Zentralblatt MATH

Zentralblatt MATH is a service providing reviews and abstracts for articles in pure and applied mathematics, published by Springer Science+Business Media. It is a major international reviewing service which covers the entire field of mathematics...

. During the period of 2004–2009, it had an MCQ of 3.43, the highest of all journals indexed by Mathematical Reviews over that period of time.