The Journal of Symbolic Computation is a peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 monthly scientific journal

Scientific journal

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 covering all aspects of symbolic computation

Symbolic computation

Symbolic computation or algebraic computation, relates to the use of machines, such as computers, to manipulate mathematical equations and expressions in symbolic form, as opposed to manipulating the approximations of specific numerical quantities represented by those symbols...

  published by Academic Press

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. It is targeted to both mathematician

Mathematician

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s and computer scientist

Computer scientist

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s. It was established in 1985 by Bruno Buchberger

Bruno Buchberger

Bruno Buchberger is Professor of Computer Mathematics at Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria. In his 1965 Ph.D. thesis, he created the theory of Gröbner bases, and has developed this theory throughout his career. He named these objects after his advisor Wolfgang Gröbner...

, who served as its editor until 1994.

The journal covers a wide variety of topics, including:

• Computer algebra
  Computer algebra system
  A computer algebra system is a software program that facilitates symbolic mathematics. The core functionality of a CAS is manipulation of mathematical expressions in symbolic form.-Symbolic manipulations:...
  
  , for which it is considered the top journal
• Computational geometry
  Computational geometry
  Computational geometry is a branch of computer science devoted to the study of algorithms which can be stated in terms of geometry. Some purely geometrical problems arise out of the study of computational geometric algorithms, and such problems are also considered to be part of computational...
  
  
• Automated theorem proving
  Automated theorem proving
  Automated theorem proving or automated deduction, currently the most well-developed subfield of automated reasoning , is the proving of mathematical theorems by a computer program.- Decidability of the problem :...
  
  
• Applications of symbolic computation in education, science, and industry

According to the Journal Citation Reports

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, its 2009 impact factor

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 is 0.853. The journal is abstracted and indexed by Scopus

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 and the Science Citation Index

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