Journal of the Iranian Mathematical Society

About Journal of the Iranian Mathematical Society

Journal of the Iranian Mathematical Society — the younger research journal of Iran's national mathematics society

The Journal of the Iranian Mathematical Society, cited as J. Iran. Math. Soc. and shortened to JIMS, is a peer-reviewed mathematics journal published by the Iranian Mathematical Society (IMS), the national mathematical society of Iran. Its online ISSN is 2717-1612, the identifier carried on this JournalsWorld record and printed on the journal's own published articles. The journal's own site states that it was founded in 2019 and that its first volume appeared in 2020; by 2026 its archive had reached Volume 7. In its own words, it "provides a platform for presenting high-level mathematical research in most areas of mathematics conceivable by its editorial body and of interest to considerable readers worldwide", and it occasionally publishes invited survey articles on current topics from distinguished mathematicians.

JIMS needs to be placed carefully, because its name invites two easy confusions, and this profile deals with both head-on. It is not the Bulletin of the Iranian Mathematical Society, the society's older flagship, published since the 1970s and now issued through a commercial partner — that is a separate journal with its own ISSNs, and it appears in this journal's story only as an elder sibling. Nor is it the Journal of the Iranian Statistical Society, a different society's journal covering probability and statistics. JIMS is the IMS's younger, open, society-run research journal: two issues a year, published under a continuous article publishing model since 2023, indexed in the discipline's own reviewing services, and free to read on the society's own platform. For mathematicians considering where to submit, and for readers assessing what they have found, that identity — society-owned, mathematics-wide, diamond in spirit if not in the label it uses for itself — is the essential fact.

Journal at a glance

The society behind the journal

The Iranian Mathematical Society was founded in 1971 — Mehdi Behzad, a central figure in Iranian graph theory, was its first president — and it has been the organisational home of Iranian mathematics ever since: running national conferences and specialist seminars in algebra, differential equations, numerical analysis, linear algebra, harmonic analysis, group theory, geometry and topology and applied mathematics, supporting mathematics education conferences and student competitions, awarding a suite of named prizes, and publishing. Its best-known publication, the Bulletin, began in the 1970s and built an international reputation over five decades. A society with that history launching a new journal in 2019 was making a considered decision, not starting from nothing: the new title could draw on an established national community of authors, referees and editors, an existing seminar and conference culture in which to find special-issue material, and a readership that already looked to the society's publications.

Why a second research journal at all? The journal's own framing suggests the answer. The Bulletin, published through an international commercial partner, carries the society's flagship ambitions in a conventional subscription-era form. JIMS, run on the society's own platform, free to read, publishing accepted articles continuously rather than holding them for an issue, gives the society a modern, open channel of its own — one whose costs and policies it controls directly, whose archive lives on its own domain, and whose pages can host the community's special occasions: the journal's archive already includes special issues honouring individual mathematicians, including issues associated with S.-T. Yau, A. T.-M. Lau, O. A. S. Karamzadeh and D. J. S. Robinson. Those named special issues are a telling detail. A young journal that senior figures in the field agree to be honoured by, and to publish in, is borrowing credibility the honest way — through the participation of the community it serves.

Scope and subjects

The scope, as the journal states it, is deliberately mathematics-wide: high-level research in most areas of mathematics, with invited surveys on current topics from distinguished mathematicians. The published record shows what that breadth means in practice. A single recent issue, Volume 6, Number 1 (2025), contains a long survey on the G-graph of groups — group theory meeting graph theory and network structure — alongside work on warped product slant submanifolds of nearly Kähler manifolds in differential geometry, and a paper on frames for erasures in Hilbert space, in functional analysis with a coding-theory motivation, complete with the standard apparatus of the field: Mathematics Subject Classification codes, keywords, received and accepted dates, and a communicating editor. Algebra, geometry, analysis, topology, graph theory and combinatorics, differential equations, and applied areas with genuine mathematical content all sit inside a remit written this way. Authors should judge fit the way the editors' own readers do — by the recent volumes, which are openly readable in full on the journal's site — rather than by the scope sentence alone.

The survey component deserves separate emphasis, because the journal states it as part of its identity rather than an occasional indulgence. Invited surveys from distinguished mathematicians serve a specific function in a national-community journal with international ambitions: they anchor each volume with a piece that teaches, they draw readers who then meet the research articles around them, and they signal which areas the editorial body considers alive. The G-graph survey in the 2025 volume runs to more than forty pages — a substantial, reference-rich account, not a brief note — which indicates the scale of exposition the journal is willing to publish when the topic and the author warrant it. Prospective authors of surveys should note the word "invited", however: unsolicited survey proposals are a matter to raise with the editorial office before writing, not assumed.

Publishing model: two issues a year, articles published continuously

JIMS publishes two issues per year. Since 2023 it has operated under what it calls the CAP model — Continuous Article Publishing. The journal explains the arrangement plainly: each article, after standard peer review and acceptance, is published immediately within the current issue, rather than waiting for the issue to close; the first issue of a year closes on 15 March and the second on 15 September. For authors this removes the familiar dead time between acceptance and appearance that afflicts issue-based journals, while keeping the discipline of dated, citable issues and volumes. Citation form follows the classic pattern — journal abbreviation, volume, year, issue and page range, under copyright of the Iranian Mathematical Society — and each article carries a DOI under the prefix 10.30504/jims, as printed on its published papers.

The journal's site is a full journal-management platform of the kind Iranian scholarly publishers use widely: browsing by issue, author and subject, author and keyword indexes, articles in press, a journal archive running from Volume 1 (2020) to Volume 7 (2026), and the standard policy architecture — aims and scope, editorial board, publication ethics, peer review process, indexing and abstracting, journal metrics and a guide for authors, with manuscript submission through the site. Editorial board membership, the current officers of the journal and any fee position could not be verified from the sources checked for this profile in a form safe to print as fixed fact, and are therefore recorded as could not be verified here: the journal's own pages carry the current masthead and policies, and authors should take those details from there at the moment of submission. The site's own metadata describes the journal as accessible for free, and its articles are openly readable in full text and PDF; no article processing charge is asserted in this profile, because none could be verified from the checked sources either way.

Indexing and reviewing services

For a mathematics journal, the indexing that matters most is the discipline's own: the journal states that it is indexed and reviewed by Mathematical Reviews (MathSciNet) and by zbMATH Open, and that it is indexed in Scopus. Those three names carry real weight with the journal's intended readers. MathSciNet and zbMATH are how mathematicians themselves search the literature; a journal reviewed by both is inside the field's own map of itself, with its papers abstracted, classified by subject code and linked into the discipline's citation fabric. Scopus coverage adds the bibliometric layer that universities and evaluators use. This is, for a journal founded in 2019, a substantive position to have reached within its first several volumes, and it is stated here exactly as the journal states it.

Two negative results are recorded with equal care. A search of the Directory of Open Access Journals by the journal's ISSN at the time of checking returned no record; and the OpenAlex ISSN endpoint returned no source for 2717-1612 at the time of checking, so no OpenAlex figures are cited for this journal — there is no verified works count or citation count from that source to report, and this profile does not borrow numbers from aggregators that could not be traced. A secondary SCImago listing located in search results places the journal in the fourth quartile for mathematics (miscellaneous) with a low SJR figure; that is reported as a secondary listing consistent with a very young journal, not as a headline metric, and readers who rely on SCImago should consult its current page for the title directly. No Clarivate Journal Impact Factor could be verified, and none is claimed. The older JournalsWorld template text for this record quoted an h-index of 4; its source database is not named in that text, so it is noted here only as a sign that small, database-specific counts for this title exist and differ — as they always do — by source and date.

How to submit

Submission runs through the journal's website at jims.ims.ir, which provides a manuscript submission route, a guide for authors, and the journal's stated peer review process and publication ethics. Manuscripts are in English. Authors should prepare the paper in the journal's format as its guide directs, include Mathematics Subject Classification codes and keywords, as its published articles uniformly do, and expect the standard sequence the journal describes: editorial handling, peer review, and — on acceptance — immediate publication within the current issue under the continuous publishing model, ahead of the issue's closing date in March or September. Because the journal's fee position and current editorial officers could not be verified for this profile, authors should confirm both on the journal's own pages before submitting, and should direct questions through the contact route the site provides. Researchers considering a survey contribution should approach the editorial office first, since the journal presents surveys as invited pieces.

Reading JIMS: what a volume looks like from the inside

A reader opening a recent volume meets a journal that behaves like an established mathematics title in the details that matter day to day. Articles carry the full scholarly apparatus — abstract, keywords, Mathematics Subject Classification codes in the current scheme, introduction, referenced results, and a bibliography anchored in the international literature of the subfield. Papers name a communicating editor, and print their received and accepted dates, so the handling history of each article is a matter of public record. The lengths are serious: the survey described earlier runs beyond forty pages, and research articles are given the space their arguments need rather than being trimmed to a uniform short format. The subject spread within a single issue — group-theoretic graph constructions, submanifold geometry in nearly Kähler settings, frame theory in Hilbert spaces — shows the editors using the journal's broad remit as written, accepting strong work wherever in mathematics it arises instead of narrowing the journal into a speciality niche. For a prospective author, those pages are the most reliable guide that exists to the journal's standards: the theorems are proved, the literature is engaged, the exposition is aimed at specialists who will check it, and the presence of the journal in MathSciNet and zbMATH means each paper will be summarised and classified by the field's own reviewers. A manuscript that can sit comfortably in that company — correct, clearly written, honestly placed against prior work — is the manuscript this journal is built to receive.

Similar journals, and the place of JIMS among them

The inevitable comparison is with the Bulletin of the Iranian Mathematical Society, and it should be made precisely, because the two journals are siblings, not rivals for the same slot. The Bulletin is the elder flagship: founded in the 1970s, published six times a year through Springer, carrying an established Journal Impact Factor and a five-decade archive. JIMS is the society's own-platform journal: younger, free to read, continuously published, two issues a year, reviewed by MathSciNet and zbMATH and indexed in Scopus, with room for community special issues honouring mathematicians. An author chooses between them by fit, by audience and by the practicalities of each route, not by imagining one is the other with a different name — their ISSNs, publishers' arrangements and archives are entirely distinct, and this profile's twin check confirmed the Bulletin's record carries its own identifiers (1017-060X and 1735-8515) with no overlap with 2717-1612.

Beyond the society's own pair, JIMS sits in the company of national mathematics society journals across the region and the wider world — titles that publish broad, high-level mathematics from a home community to an international readership. Its distinguishing marks within that company are its youth, its free-to-read society platform, its continuous-publishing rhythm, and its presence in mathematics' own reviewing services from an early age. For an Iranian mathematician, a researcher in the region, or any author with a strong paper in pure mathematics who values a society journal that mathematicians themselves will actually find through MathSciNet and zbMATH, JIMS is a credible and increasingly well-anchored address. For readers, it offers something equally concrete: a free, complete, openly readable run of current mathematics, edited by a national society with half a century of publishing behind it.

Frequently asked questions

What is the Journal of the Iranian Mathematical Society's ISSN? Its online ISSN is 2717-1612, printed on its published articles and carried on this record.

When was it founded? The journal states that it was founded in 2019; Volume 1 appeared in 2020 and Volume 7 in 2026.

Who publishes it? The Iranian Mathematical Society, Iran's national mathematical society, founded in 1971. Copyright in its articles is held by the society, as printed on its papers.

Is it the same as the Bulletin of the Iranian Mathematical Society? No. The Bulletin is a separate, older IMS journal, published through Springer, with its own ISSNs (1017-060X and 1735-8515). JIMS is a distinct journal founded in 2019.

How often does it appear? Two issues a year, with articles published continuously within the current issue since 2023; the first issue closes on 15 March and the second on 15 September.

Where is it indexed? The journal states that it is indexed and reviewed by Mathematical Reviews (MathSciNet) and zbMATH Open, and indexed in Scopus.

Does it have an impact factor or OpenAlex metrics? No Clarivate impact factor could be verified, and the OpenAlex ISSN endpoint returned no source for its ISSN at the time of checking, so no OpenAlex figures are reported. A secondary SCImago listing places it in the fourth quartile for its mathematics category.

Is it free to read? Yes — its full text and PDFs are openly readable on its site, whose metadata marks the journal as accessible for free. Its fee position for authors could not be verified from the sources checked.

Profile prepared for JournalsWorld from the journal's official website, checked directly, together with DOAJ and OpenAlex searches by ISSN that returned no record at checking time, in October 2026. Statements are attributed to their sources as at checking time.