{"id":2488,"date":"2019-07-19T03:24:23","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T07:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/beyondreviews\/?p=2488"},"modified":"2019-07-19T03:25:33","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T07:25:33","slug":"mathscinet-demos-at-iciam-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/beyondreviews\/2019\/07\/19\/mathscinet-demos-at-iciam-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"MathSciNet demos at ICIAM 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/iciam2019.org\/images\/site\/BANNER.jpg\" alt=\"Banner logo for ICIAM 2019, July 25-19, Valencia, Spain\" width=\"1200\" height=\"313\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Besides free MathSciNet at ICIAM in Valencia, it is possible to have demos of how to use MathSciNet.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2489\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/beyondreviews\/files\/2019\/07\/ICIAM-msn-demo1-300x269.jpg\" alt=\"Executive Editor Dunne gives demonstrates how to use MathSciNet to help decide where to submit a paper\" width=\"300\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/beyondreviews\/files\/2019\/07\/ICIAM-msn-demo1-300x269.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/beyondreviews\/files\/2019\/07\/ICIAM-msn-demo1-768x689.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/beyondreviews\/files\/2019\/07\/ICIAM-msn-demo1-1024x919.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/beyondreviews\/files\/2019\/07\/ICIAM-msn-demo1.jpg 1888w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Here I am talking with two mathematicians from Morocco about using the Mathematical Reviews Journal Database behind MathSciNet to help decide where to send a paper.\u00a0 We began by searching for all items in <a href=\"https:\/\/mathscinet.ams.org\/mathscinet\/search\/mscbrowse.html?pc=49\">MSC 49<\/a> [Calculus of variations and optimal control; optimization] that were published in the last three years and that were published in journals (rather than in conference proceedings or as books).\u00a0 We then looked at the\u00a0<strong>Journals<\/strong> facet in the sidebar to see what the most frequently occurring journals in the list were.\u00a0 The most frequent was <em><a href=\"https:\/\/mathscinet.ams.org\/mathscinet\/search\/journal\/profile?journalId=1133\">Journal of Optimization Theory and<\/a><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/mathscinet.ams.org\/mathscinet\/search\/journal\/profile?journalId=1133\"> Applications<\/a>. The second most frequent was <a href=\"https:\/\/mathscinet.ams.org\/mathscinet\/search\/journal\/profile?journalId=5168\"><em>SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 We clicked on the journal link from one of the items in<em> SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization<\/em>, which took us to the MR Journal Profile page for it.\u00a0 From there we could see all sorts of information about the journal:\u00a0 the number of articles published per year, the most commonly occurring subject areas, citation data, and a link to the journal&#8217;s website, where an author could find information about how to submit a paper.\u00a0 Next, we repeated the procedure for <a href=\"https:\/\/mathscinet.ams.org\/mathscinet\/search\/mscbrowse.html?pc=65\">MSC 65<\/a> [Numerical analysis], which led us to look more closely at <a href=\"https:\/\/mathscinet.ams.org\/mathscinet\/search\/journal\/profile?journalId=2273\"><em>Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics<\/em><\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/mathscinet.ams.org\/mathscinet\/search\/journal\/profile?journalId=5173\"><em>SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My earlier blog post, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/beyondreviews\/2019\/06\/10\/journal-profile-pages\/\">Journal Profile Pages<\/a>, has more details about using the MR Journal Profile Pages.\u00a0 Take a <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/beyondreviews\/2019\/06\/10\/journal-profile-pages\/\">look<\/a>!<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Besides free MathSciNet at ICIAM in Valencia, it is possible to have demos of how to use MathSciNet.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" data-url=https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/beyondreviews\/2019\/07\/19\/mathscinet-demos-at-iciam-2019\/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6C2KK-E8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/beyondreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/beyondreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/beyondreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/beyondreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/beyondreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2488"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/beyondreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2492,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/beyondreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2488\/revisions\/2492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/beyondreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/beyondreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ams.org\/beyondreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}