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It's great to see an open access journal sponsored by a major academic entity, but they gave it a terrible name. I could easily see it being confused for the J
by pmiller2 6y ago
It's great to see an open access journal sponsored by a major academic entity, but they gave it a terrible name. I could easily see it being confused for the Journal of Combinatorial Theory, which is one of the best journals in the field.
- armanboyaci 6y ago> Combinatorial Theory was founded in September 2020, when most of the editorial board for one of the oldest and most prestigious journals in Combinatorics, the Elsevier-owned Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Ser. A (JCTA), announced their intention to resign to start a new, open access journal. I guess this is the reason to give a similar name?
- kaitai 6y agoYes -- this is exactly the reason to give it the similar name. (I know you're saying that, but I want to confirm.) It's one in a line of several journals that have undergone similar reconstitution. Compare for instance to AlCo (Algebraic Combinatorics) which was formed primarily by the previous board of Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics, in 2017. AlCo has been successful, as far as I can tell (maybe I'm biased). There is some overlap of boards with this new journal Combinatorial Theory, so they know how to do it by now. The consonance in the naming conventions alone gives a signal to the community what's up.
- jules 6y agoI wonder whether the name reflects the hope that the JCTB editorial board will follow suit.