| Discipline | Mathematics |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Publication details | |
Former name | The Analyst |
| History | 1874–present |
| Publisher | Princeton University and theInstitute for Advanced Study (United States) |
| Frequency | Bimonthly |
| Delayed, after 5 years | |
| 5.7 (2023) | |
| Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt  ) | |
| ISO 4 | Ann. Math. |
| MathSciNet | Ann. of Math. |
| Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L | |
| CODEN | ANMAAH |
| ISSN | 0003-486X |
| LCCN | 49006640 |
| JSTOR | 0003486X |
| OCLC no. | 01481391 |
| Links | |
TheAnnals of Mathematics is amathematical journal published every two months byPrinceton University and theInstitute for Advanced Study.
The journal was established asThe Analyst in 1874[1] and withJoel E. Hendricks as the foundingeditor-in-chief. It was "intended to afford a medium for the presentation and analysis of any and all questions of interest or importance in pure and applied Mathematics, embracing especially all new and interesting discoveries in theoretical and practical astronomy, mechanical philosophy, and engineering".[2] It was published inDes Moines, Iowa, and was the earliest American mathematics journal to be published continuously for more than a year or two.[3] This incarnation of the journal ceased publication after its tenth year, in 1883, giving as an explanation Hendricks' declining health,[4] but Hendricks made arrangements to have it taken over by new management,[5] and it was continued from March 1884 as theAnnals of Mathematics.[6] The new incarnation of the journal was edited byOrmond Stone (University of Virginia). It moved toHarvard in 1899 before reaching its current home in Princeton in 1911.
An important period for the journal was 1928–1958 withSolomon Lefschetz as editor.[7]Norman Steenrod characterized Lefschetz' impact as editor as follows: "The importance to American mathematicians of a first-class journal is that it sets high standards for them to aim at. In this somewhat indirect manner, Lefschetz profoundly affected the development of mathematics in the United States."[7]
Princeton University continued to publish theAnnals on its own until 1933, when theInstitute for Advanced Study took joint editorial control. Since 1998, it has been available in an electronic edition, alongside its regular print edition. The electronic edition was available without charge, as anopen access journal, but since 2008, this is no longer the case. Issues from before 2003 were transferred to the non-freeJSTOR archive, and articles are not freely available until 5 years after publication.
The journal is abstracted and indexed in theScience Citation Index,Current Contents/Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences,[8] andScopus.[9] According to theJournal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2023impact factor of 5.7, ranking it third out of 330 journals in the category "Mathematics".[10]
