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BIT Numerical Mathematics

BIT Numerical Mathematics is a quarterly peer-reviewed mathematics journal that covers research in numerical analysis. It was established in 1961 by Carl Erik Fröberg and is published by Springer Science+Business Media. The name "BIT" is a reverse acronym of Tidskrift för Informationsbehandling.

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BIT Numerical Mathematics
DisciplineNumerical analysis
LanguageEnglish
Edited byGunilla Kreiss
Publication details
History1961–present
Publisher
FrequencyQuarterly
1.663 (2020)
Standard abbreviations
ISO 4 (alt· Bluebook (alt)
NLM (alt· MathSciNet (alt Paid subscription required)
ISO 4BIT Numer. Math.
MathSciNetBIT
Indexing
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MIAR · NLM (alt· Scopus · W&L
ISSN0006-3835 (print)
1572-9125 (web)
LCCNsn95029245
OCLC no.51522871
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BIT Numerical Mathematics is a quarterly peer-reviewed mathematics journal that covers research in numerical analysis. It was established in 1961 by Carl Erik Fröberg and is published by Springer Science+Business Media. The name "BIT" is a reverse acronym of Tidskrift för Informationsbehandling (Swedish: Journal of Information Processing).1

Previous editors-in-chief have been Carl Erik Fröberg (1961-1992), Åke Björck (1993-2002), Axel Ruhe (2003-2015), and Lars Eldén (2016). As of 2021, the editor-in-chief is Gunilla Kreiss.

Peter Naur served as a member of the editorial board between the years 1960 and 1993, and Germund Dahlquist between 1962 and 1991.1

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 1.663.2

References

References

  1. Fröberg, Carl Erik. "BIT - A Nordic computer related journal". Archived from the original on 6 August 2013. Retrieved 31 July 2013.
  2. "BIT Numerical Mathematics". 2020 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Thomson Reuters. 2021.
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