The Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications is an open access

Open access journal

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 electronically published

Electronic publishing

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 academic journal

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 devoted to the subject of graph algorithms and graph drawing

Graph drawing

Graph drawing is an area of mathematics and computer science combining methods from geometric graph theory and information visualization to derive two-dimensional depictions of graphs arising from applications such as social network analysis, cartography, and bioinformatics...

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The journal was first published in 1997; its first eight volumes were also reprinted in five books by World Scientific

World Scientific

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. The journal's editors in chief are Roberto Tamassia

Roberto Tamassia

Roberto Tamassia is a computer scientist, the Plastech Professor of Computer Science at Brown University, and since 2007 has been chair of the Brown Computer Science department...

 and Ioannis G. Tollis. It is hosted by the Computer Science Department at Brown University

Brown University

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, and mirrored

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 worldwide by servers of the European Mathematical Information Service, the electronic library of the European Mathematical Society

European Mathematical Society

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. It is indexed by MathSciNet.

According to studies of the journal's scientific impact by SCImago Journal Rank

SCImago Journal Rank

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, it is one of the top eight journals out of 32 listed in discrete mathematics

Discrete mathematics

Discrete mathematics is the study of mathematical structures that are fundamentally discrete rather than continuous. In contrast to real numbers that have the property of varying "smoothly", the objects studied in discrete mathematics – such as integers, graphs, and statements in logic – do not...

 and combinatorics

Combinatorics

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, and is in the second of four tiers out of 79 journals in theoretical computer science

Theoretical computer science

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