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[sildra]

This came up in a couple conversations with different people last week

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[ursule]

Well, there are a couple of obvious suspects, as far as journals go. One of them has my advisor as managing editor, so if I want to submit there I have to negotiate with him about whether it would be weird (esp. if I've told him too much about the paper and he has ended up as a co-author). When I'm trying to come up with a new journal to submit to, I usually use the Australian Math Society rankings. Typically I start with A-ranked journals in the Australian list, and (if necessary) default to conference proceedings. I also try to judge prestige based on the people publishing in a venue whom I know; mostly, though, it's a process of trial and error

[sildra]

Interesting--that list seems to have a lot of physics journals, too. Any idea what their ranking criteria are?

[ursule]

I think they use some combination of impact factor and reputation.

[sildra]

Hmm... looking up impact factor for the physics journals, I see one get an A* rating that has half the impact factor of another with an A rating, but the former probably has more mathy papers.

[ursule]

Yeah. Mathematical publishing moves comparatively slowly, so they may also be using a longer time window to account for "late" citations.