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27 June 2025
Mathematics | Regional Academic Editor Meeting in the UK Held on 11th June 2025
On 11th June 2025, Mathematics (ISSN: 2227-7390) held its Editorial Board meeting, chaired by Editor-in-Chief Prof. Dr. Francisco Chiclana. The hybrid-format meeting brought together 11 Academic Editors, combining in-person and virtual participation to discuss the journal's strategic development.
The Editorial Office expresses its deepest gratitude to all attending Editors for their dedicated support and valuable contributions. The face-to-face interactions proved particularly fruitful in fostering collaborative discussions, and we look forward to welcoming even more editors at future gatherings in different regions.
The meeting began with a presentation including an introduction to Mathematics, journal statistics, and market activities.
The following topics were discussed:
- Journal’s Section restructure—opinions and suggestions;
- Handling submissions from authors with a history of retractions;
- How to handle manuscripts translated from a different language into English;
- Additional strategies to strengthen our position in the WoS and Scopus databases;
- How can the journal improve its value in REF; how can it improve its reputation;
- Experience working with Mathematics—ideas and suggestions.
Attendee List (in no particular order):
Offline:
Name: Prof. Dr. Francisco Chiclana (Editor-in-Chief)
Affiliation: School of Computer Science and Informatics, De Montfort University, The Gateway, Leicester LE1 9BH, UK
Name: Prof. Dr. Sergei Petrovskii (Section Editor-in-Chief)
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, University of Leicester, University Road Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK
Name: Dr. Zacharias Anastassi
Affiliation: Institute of Artificial Intelligence, School of Computer Science and Informatics, De Montfort University, Leicester LE1 9BH, UK
Name: Bo Wang
Affiliation: School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK
Name: Dr. Wei W. Xing
Affiliation: School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK (Accompanied by his research associate, Bin Chen)
Name: Doris Albu
Affiliation: MDPI Journal Relations Specialist
Name: Isabel Nelson
Affiliation: MDPI Journal Relations Specialist
Online:
Name: Prof. Dr. Leonid V. Bogachev
Affiliation: Department of Statistics, School of Mathematics, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK
Name: Dr. Yang-Hui He
Affiliation: 1 London Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Royal Institution, London W1S 4BS, UK; 2 Merton College, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 4JD, UK
Name: Dr. Ari Laptev
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK
Name: Dr. Xiang Song
Affiliation: School of Mathematics and Physics, University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth PO1 3HF, UK
Name: Prof. Graham Hall
Affiliation: Institute of Mathematics, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB24 3UE, UK
Name: Dr. Fabio Caraffini
Affiliation: Department of Computer Science, Computational Foundry, Swansea University, Bay Campus, Fabian Way, Skewen SA1 8EN, UK
The journal is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded—SCIE (Web of Science) and Scopus, and has received its latest impact factor of 2.2 and CiteScore of 4.6, currently ranking in the first quartile (Q1) in its JCR and Scopus category.
To access more journal statistics, please click on the link below: here https://www.mdpi.com/journal/mathematics/stats.
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