Applied Mathematics and Computation

Applied Mathematics and Computation is a journal on the meeting point of applied mathematics and computation, published by Elsevier.《Applied Mathematics and Computation》是一份聚焦应用数学与计算之交汇点的期刊，由爱思唯尔出版。

It was founded in 1975 and asks for a paper of a computational kind, giving a new algorithm along with its analysis and its numbers.该刊创办于 1975 年，要求投稿属计算一类，给出新算法连同其分析与数值结果。

In the 2025 edition of the journal citation report it holds an impact factor of 3.2, and it stands in the first quartile of applied mathematics.在 2025 年版期刊引证报告中，该刊的影响因子为 3.2，在应用数学类目列第一区。

Scope

• The journal takes the interface between applied mathematics and numerical computation as its subject, and it carries work that belongs to both.该刊以应用数学与数值计算之间的交界为题材，刊载兼属二者的工作。

• Systems oriented ideas are named, and the journal admits work that brings a method from one science to bear on another.系统化思想被点名，该刊收载把一门科学的方法用于另一门科学的工作。

• The physical sciences are treated, and the journal carries work on how a physical model is put into a computable form.物理科学得到处理，该刊刊载物理模型如何被变为可计算形式的工作。

• The biological sciences are named, and the journal takes work on how a living process is modelled and solved.生物科学被点名，该刊收载生命过程如何被建模与求解的工作。

• The social and behavioural sciences are treated, and the journal admits work on how a system of people is captured in equations.社会科学与行为科学得到处理，该刊收载人的系统如何被收入方程的工作。

• New algorithms are sought, and the journal carries work that sets out a method which did not exist before.新算法受到求取，该刊刊载阐明先前不存在之方法的工作。

• The analysis of an algorithm is named, and the journal takes work on whether a method converges and how fast.算法的分析被点名，该刊收载方法是否收敛、收敛多快的工作。

• Numerical results are treated, and the journal admits work that puts a method to the test and reports what came out.数值结果得到处理，该刊收载把方法付诸检验并报告其结果的工作。

• Differential equations are a recurring subject, and the journal carries work on how one is solved by a scheme rather than in closed form.微分方程是反复出现的选题，该刊刊载以格式而非闭式解之的工作。

• Linear algebra is named, and the journal takes work on how a large system of equations is handled.线性代数被点名，该刊收载大型方程组如何被处理的工作。

• Optimisation is part of the remit, and the journal carries work on how a best choice is found by an iterative route.优化属于收稿范围，该刊刊载最优选择如何经迭代路线被找到的工作。

• Review articles are admitted alongside research papers, and the journal asks that a survey end in a judgement.综述与研究论文一并收载，该刊要求述评以判断作结。

• Single topic issues are assembled from time to time, and the journal gathers work on one method or one application.该刊不时编成单主题专号，汇集关于某一方法或某一应用的工作。

• The journal is meant to be of use to those who compute as well as to those who prove, and it takes work from either side.该刊意在既服务于做计算的人，也服务于做证明的人，两侧的工作均予收载。

History

• The journal was founded in 1975, and it has carried work at the meeting point of mathematics and computation since.该刊创办于 1975 年，此后一直载有数学与计算交汇处的工作。

• It was issued from New York for much of its life, and it later moved onto a large scientific platform.该刊在其大部分岁月中自纽约发行，后来登上一个大型科学平台。

• The pair of numbers has stayed with the title, and the print and electronic editions share the same strings of digits.该对刊号一直伴随题名，印本与电子版共用同样的数字串。

• Volumes were gathered several to a year for a long stretch, and the journal now issues continuously, with each volume holding articles rather than numbered parts.该刊长期每年汇集数卷，如今连续出版，每卷容纳论文而非编号分期。

• Articles are published online ahead of a volume, so that a paper may appear before it is gathered.论文先于某一卷在线发表，因而一篇论文可以在被结集之前出现。

• The journal is hybrid, and an author may pay a charge to make a paper free to read or leave it behind a subscription.该刊为混合模式，作者可以缴费使论文免费阅读，也可以留其在订阅之后。

• The impact figure reached above four in the early 2020s, and it has since eased to 3.2 in the 2025 edition.影响因子在 2020 年代初曾超过四，此后回落，2025 年版为 3.2。

• The journal is indexed in the science citation index expanded, and it is carried in Scopus and in the usual mathematical abstracting services.该刊被科学引文索引扩展版收录，并被 Scopus 与惯常的数学文摘服务收录。

• A decision is reached promptly, and the journal reports a median time from submission to a first decision.该刊迅速作出决定，报告从投稿到首次决定的中位时间。

• Special issues are assembled around a theme, and the journal gathers work on a single class of problem.该刊围绕主题编成专刊，汇集关于某一类问题的工作。

Editors

• Theodore Simos is editor-in-chief, and his own field is numerical analysis and the computation of a special function.（Theodore Simos）担任主编，其本人领域为数值分析与特殊函数的计算。

• He has held chairs in Greece and in Saudi Arabia, and he has edited the journal for many years.他曾在希腊与沙特阿拉伯担任教授席，并多年主编该刊。

• An associate editor-in-chief works alongside him, and the journal names a further associate taken on in recent years.一位副主编与其共事，该刊另列近年受聘的一位副主编。

• The board is large and international, and the journal draws its members from scores of institutions across more than twenty countries.编委会规模庞大且遍及国际，该刊从二十多个国家的数十家机构遴请成员。

• The journal sets out the classes of manuscript it takes, along with the length and structure each of them should follow.该刊列明所收稿件的类别，以及各类别应遵循的篇幅与结构。

• Each paper is sent to independent referees, and the review is anonymous on the side of the reviewer.每篇论文送交独立审稿人，评审在审稿人一侧为匿名。

• Authors must declare any competing interest, and the journal states its ethical requirements in full.作者必须声明任何利益冲突，该刊完整说明其伦理要求。

• A paper on a new method is asked to compare it with one already in use, and the journal weighs the comparison.论及新方法的论文须把它与已在使用的方法相比较，该刊权衡这一比较。

• A numerical claim is asked to be reproducible, and the journal points to the publisher's policy on sharing data and code.数值论断须可复现，该刊指明出版方关于共享数据与代码的政策。

• Manuscripts are submitted through the publisher's platform, and an enquiry may be made before a paper is written.稿件通过出版方的平台投递，在动笔之前可先行询问。

• The journal is read by numerical analysts and by applied mathematicians, by engineers and by scientists who compute, and it writes for all of them.该刊的读者既有数值分析家与应用数学家，也有工程师与从事计算的科学工作者，它为这几类人写作。

• Work that carries a laboratory model toward a working code is given room, and the journal asks what the carrying changes.把实验室模型带向可运行代码的工作有篇幅可用，该刊追问这一带动改变了什么。

• Studies that report a negative result are taken, since a scheme that failed to converge is worth recording.报告阴性结果的研究也在收载之列，因为未能收敛的格式同样值得记录。

• Work on a finite element method appears among the subjects, and the journal carries papers on how a domain is cut into pieces.有限元方法方面的工作列于选题之中，该刊刊载区域如何被剖分的工作。

• Work on an inverse problem is treated, and the journal admits papers on how a cause is inferred from what is measured.反问题方面的工作得到处理，该刊收载如何自测量推断原因的工作。

• The journal keeps its reviews distinct from its research papers, and a reader can tell from the rubric which is which.该刊把综述与研究论文区分开来，读者可从栏目看出何者为何者。

• Work on a fractional differential equation is named, and the journal carries papers on how such a system is solved numerically.分数阶微分方程方面的工作被点名，该刊刊载此类系统如何被数值求解的工作。

• Work on the stability of a scheme is treated, and the journal asks whether an error stays bounded as the mesh is refined.格式稳定性方面的工作得到处理，该刊追问误差在网格加密时是否有界。

• Work on a stochastic model is named, and the journal admits papers on how randomness is put into a computation.随机模型方面的工作被点名，该刊收载随机性如何被置入计算的工作。

• Work that weighs a method against its computing cost is welcomed, and the journal carries papers on what the method buys.把方法与其计算代价相权衡的工作受到欢迎，该刊刊载该方法换得何物的论文。

• Work on a graph or a network problem is treated, and the journal carries papers on how a structure is searched.图或网络问题方面的工作得到处理，该刊刊载结构如何被搜索的论文。

• The journal follows the publisher's policy on research integrity, and it records corrections and withdrawals where they arise.该刊遵循出版方的研究诚信政策，出现更正与撤稿时予以记录。