Matematicki Vesnik

About Matematicki Vesnik

Matematički Vesnik — In-Depth Profile

Matematički Vesnik (rendered without diacritics as Matematicki Vesnik) is a peer-reviewed research journal in the mathematical sciences, published since 1949 by the Mathematical Society of Serbia. It is one of the longest-running mathematics journals in south-eastern Europe and the flagship research periodical of Serbia's national mathematical society. The journal carries print ISSN 0025-5165 and online ISSN 2406-0682, confirmed on its official website at vesnik.math.rs, in its Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) record, and in its OpenAlex source record. It is published in general quarterly, and it presents original research papers across pure and applied mathematics to an international readership of mathematicians, university teachers and research students.

This profile brings together everything a prospective author, reader or librarian needs in one place: the journal's history and ownership, its exact identifiers, its aims and scope, how its peer review works, what its author instructions require in practical terms, its indexing footprint, its attributed citation metrics, its open-access and fee position, how to submit, how it compares with neighbouring titles, and answers to the questions researchers most often ask about it. Every factual figure below is attributed to the source it came from — the journal's official site, DOAJ, or OpenAlex — and anything that could not be verified from a fetched source is stated plainly as such rather than guessed.

History

The journal's story begins with the re-founding of organised mathematics in post-war Serbia. The Mathematical Society of Serbia traces its founding meeting to 4 January 1948 in Belgrade, and in the autumn of that year the society's managing board decided to launch a scientific journal under the name Vesnik Društva matematičara i fizičara NR Srbije — the Bulletin of the Society of Mathematicians and Physicists of Serbia. The first issue appeared at the beginning of 1949. Jovan Karamata, one of the most internationally recognised Serbian mathematicians of the twentieth century, served as the first editor-in-chief, and the founding editorial board included figures such as Pavle Savić and Dragoljub Marković.

The first issue set a pattern that mixed research articles with problem columns, criticism and bibliography, and reports of society meetings. Over time the research-article function became dominant, the society-information function faded (it was carried by the journal until about 1980), and the title settled into its modern short form, Matematički Vesnik. A fiftieth-anniversary history of the journal, published in the journal itself, records that the editorial board has been of international character throughout, that the invited referees have likewise been drawn internationally, and that the authorship has shifted over the decades from predominantly domestic to a balance of Serbian and foreign authors. The succession of editors-in-chief after Karamata — recorded in the society's published history — includes Dragoljub Marković, Zlatko Mamuzić, Dušan Adnađević, Zoran Kadelburg, Mila Mršević, Ljubiša Kočinac and Neda Bokan, a lineage that connects the journal directly to the senior figures of Serbian analysis, topology and mathematical education.

Publication has continued without a change of identity since 1949, which makes the journal's archive a unusually complete record of Serbian mathematics across the Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav periods. The back archive is presented on the official website through its published-volumes pages, and recent volumes are openly readable online. The stored JournalsWorld record for this post gives a coverage span of 1999–2025, which reflects the coverage window of the indexing data behind that record; the journal itself is much older, and authors should not mistake the indexing window for the journal's founding date.

Publisher and Ownership

The publisher is the Mathematical Society of Serbia (Društvo matematičara Srbije), whose name appears as publisher in the DOAJ record and on the journal's own author-information page, which gives the society's Belgrade address at Kneza Mihaila 35/IV. The journal is therefore a society-owned, non-commercial academic title: editorial responsibility rests with the society's appointed editorial board rather than with a commercial publishing house. The official website lists the journal's contact address as vesnik(at)math.rs, and the site is maintained under the math.rs domain used by the Belgrade mathematical community.

One correction to the older short record of this journal is worth making explicit: the publisher field in the previous template profile showed a bare numeric code rather than the society's name. The verified publisher is the Mathematical Society of Serbia, as confirmed by both DOAJ and the journal's own pages.

Aims and Scope

The journal's author-information page states that Matematički Vesnik publishes original and survey articles in all areas of pure and applied mathematics. To be published, an article has to be new — containing original results in its field — correct, nontrivial, and of interest to the mathematical community. That single sentence does a great deal of work: it tells authors that routine exercises, minor variations of known results without new ideas, and purely expository pieces without a survey contribution are unlikely to survive refereeing, while genuinely new theorems, methods and well-constructed surveys are the journal's core material.

The OpenAlex topic profile of the journal, built from its published articles, shows where its recent centre of gravity lies: approximation theory and sequence spaces, advanced Banach space theory, advanced topology and set theory, mathematical inequalities and applications, and holomorphic and operator theory. Those topics fit the journal's historical strengths in classical and functional analysis and topology, but they are descriptive, not restrictive — the stated scope is all of pure and applied mathematics, and papers in algebra, geometry, differential equations, probability and applied areas appear as well. DOAJ classifies the journal under the single broad keyword "mathematics".

Article types are original research articles and survey articles. The author page adds practical shape requirements that are covered in the submission section below, including a final-form length expectation of no more than 16 pages.

Editorial Leadership and Governance

Editorial governance sits with an editorial board whose current membership is listed on the journal's official "Editorial board" page; because board membership changes over time, that page — not any directory — is the authoritative source for the current masthead. The journal's published history emphasises the international character of the board and of its referee pool, which matters for authors: manuscripts are judged by specialists who may be based anywhere in the world, and the working standard is that of the international research literature rather than a local one.

The journal states that it approves and supports the IMU's Best Current Practices for Journals (2010) and the European Mathematical Society Ethics Committee's Code of Practice (2012). Those endorsements commit it to recognised norms on authorship, duplicate submission, plagiarism, referee conduct and editorial independence, and they are a useful signal for authors whose institutions ask about publication-ethics alignment.

Peer Review Process

The author-information page is unusually concrete about review. All papers are reviewed by at least two independent referees, and the mean time from the submission date to the final decision is approximately six months. Authors should plan around that average: a straightforward paper may move faster, while a paper needing a second round or a replacement referee can take longer, and the six-month figure is a mean rather than a promise.

Manuscripts must be in final form when submitted, must not be copyrighted material reproduced from elsewhere, and must not be simultaneously submitted or published elsewhere. The journal prefers English; articles may otherwise be in French, Russian or German, a survival of the journal's mid-century multilingual practice, though in practice English is the language that reaches the journal's current international readership and referee pool.

Indexing and Abstracting

The journal's official homepage displays its Web of Science standing: it is covered by the Emerging Sources Citation Index, and the homepage carries Journal Impact Factor figures (discussed in the metrics section). DOAJ lists the journal, confirming its open-access status in that directory. OpenAlex indexes its article output as source S2736353260. The journal has long been covered by the standard mathematical reviewing services that cover society journals of its class, but because directory coverage claims are easy to overstate, this profile asserts only the coverage verified from fetched sources for this profile: Web of Science Emerging Sources Citation Index (official homepage), DOAJ (DOAJ record), and OpenAlex (OpenAlex record). Authors with a hard institutional requirement — for example, a specific index named in a promotion rule — should confirm the current status directly in that index before submitting.

Impact Metrics (Attributed)

Metrics differ by provider because each counts a different corpus over a different window. The figures below are attributed so readers can weigh them properly:

• Journal Impact Factor: the journal's official homepage displays a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 0.2 and a five-year figure of 0.4 (as shown on vesnik.math.rs at the time this profile was prepared).
• OpenAlex (source S2736353260, resolved through the ISSN endpoint for 0025-5165 and checked for this profile): 431 works and 2,309 citations recorded, h-index 20, i10-index 38, and a two-year mean citedness of about 0.38. OpenAlex counts only the works it has matched to this source, so its totals are a floor rather than a complete census of the journal's long archive.
• H-index note: the older template record on this site quoted an h-index of 23, which comes from a different counting corpus than OpenAlex's 20. Both numbers can be "right" inside their own databases; neither should be quoted without naming its source.

For a quarterly society journal in pure mathematics — a field with slow citation accumulation and small citing communities — these are credible, modest figures. They describe a real, continuously publishing journal with a genuine international citation footprint, not a high-volume citation leader, and authors should judge fit by readership and refereeing quality rather than by the impact factor alone.

Open Access, Licensing and Fees

DOAJ records the journal as open access with a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence, and the journal's website carries a dedicated Open Access Statement page. DOAJ's record states that the journal has no article processing charge (has_apc: false), and a directory summary of the official homepage likewise reports that the journal does not charge a publication fee. Authors therefore keep the full benefit of open availability — anyone can read the published paper — without an APC bill, which makes the journal attractive for researchers without grant funding for publication charges. As with any journal, authors should re-confirm the fee position on the official site at submission time, since policies can change.

How to Submit

The official author instructions ask for the following, in practical terms:

• Prepare the manuscript in LaTeX if possible; the journal encourages LaTeX preparation and, on acceptance, authors are asked to transmit the LaTeX source file by e-mail.
• Write preferably in English (French, Russian or German are also accepted).
• Give a short descriptive title, an abstract of no more than 150 words that can be read independently of the paper, the MSC 2020 classification code, and keywords and phrases.
• Keep the paper to no more than 16 pages in its final form.
• Prepare illustrations and diagrams in electronic form as separate files.
• Order citations against an alphabetical bibliography at the end of the paper, in a style conforming to recent issues.
• Acknowledge funding support or grants before the references, where applicable.
• Place each author's institutional affiliation, complete address including e-mail, and ORCID number at the bottom of the last page.
• Send the PDF of the manuscript, in final form and prepared as above, to the journal's e-mail address shown on its official site (vesnik(at)math.rs).

Because every paper is read by at least two independent referees and the mean decision time is about six months, authors should submit complete, polished manuscripts: an incomplete draft cannot be improved through the review process in the way a seminar talk can, and the instructions explicitly ask for final form at submission.

Who Should Publish Here — and Who Should Look Elsewhere

The journal is a strong fit for researchers with a solid, self-contained new result in pure mathematics — especially in analysis, topology, functional analysis, inequalities and neighbouring areas where its referee community is deepest — who want society-journal refereeing, open-access availability, no publication charge, and a readership that has followed the title for decades. It also suits authors of substantial survey articles that organise a research area for other specialists.

It is a weaker fit for authors who need a very fast decision (the stated mean is about six months), who need a high impact factor for a specific evaluation rule (its displayed figure is 0.2), or whose work is primarily computational or interdisciplinary and aimed at a different readership. Those authors are not badly served by the journal — they are simply mismatched to what it optimises for, which is correctness, novelty and durability of mathematical results.

Reading the Archive

For readers rather than authors, the journal's value lies in its continuity. Because publication has run since 1949 under the same society ownership, a literature search that reaches back through its volumes can follow a research thread — for example in summability, inequalities or general topology — from its post-war formulation to its current form without changing venue. The official website organises this material through its published-volumes and in-press pages, and the open-access position recorded by DOAJ means that the recent archive can be read without a subscription barrier. Librarians should note the two ISSNs separately when cataloguing: 0025-5165 for the print edition and 2406-0682 for the online edition, since holdings statements and link resolvers key on the exact ISSN-to-format pairing. Readers searching older literature should also be aware that the title appears in citations in several transliterations — with full Serbian diacritics, in a stripped-ASCII form, and in its early years under the longer bulletin title of the founding society — and a thorough search tries more than one form before concluding that a paper is missing.

Similar Journals

Authors considering Matematički Vesnik often also weigh other long-standing society and university mathematics journals from the wider region and from the same segment of the market: titles such as Publications de l'Institut Mathématique (Belgrade), the Bulletin titles of neighbouring mathematical societies, and mid-sized European general mathematics journals covered by the same reviewing services. The practical differences to compare are refereeing depth, typical decision time, page limits, licence terms and whether a charge applies — on the last two points this journal's CC BY, no-charge position is comparatively generous. Any comparison should be made on the journals' current official pages, since policies change.

Frequently Asked Questions

What are the ISSNs of Matematički Vesnik?
Print ISSN 0025-5165 and online ISSN 2406-0682, as shown on the journal's official website and its DOAJ record.

Who publishes Matematički Vesnik?
The Mathematical Society of Serbia (Društvo matematičara Srbije), Belgrade. The numeric code shown as publisher in the older short record was a template artefact; the society is the verified publisher.

When was the journal founded?
It has been published since 1949, launched by the Society of Mathematicians and Physicists of Serbia, with Jovan Karamata as its first editor-in-chief.

Is Matematički Vesnik peer-reviewed?
Yes. Its author page states that all papers are reviewed by at least two independent referees, with a mean time to final decision of approximately six months.

Is it open access, and does it charge authors?
DOAJ lists it as open access under a CC BY licence and records no article processing charge. Re-confirm on the official site when you submit.

What is its impact factor?
The official homepage displays a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 0.2 (five-year 0.4) and coverage in the Emerging Sources Citation Index. OpenAlex separately records an h-index of 20 for the source; figures from different providers are not interchangeable.

What languages can I submit in, and how long can a paper be?
Preferably English; French, Russian or German are also accepted. Papers should not exceed 16 pages in final form, with an abstract of at most 150 words, an MSC 2020 code and keywords.

Where do I send a manuscript?
By e-mail as a PDF in final form to the address published on the journal's official author page, following the preparation rules summarised above.

Sources consulted for this profile: the journal's official website (homepage, author-information and open-access pages), the DOAJ record for ISSN 0025-5165 / 2406-0682, the OpenAlex source record resolved through the ISSN endpoint, and the Mathematical Society of Serbia's published history of the journal. Metrics are attributed to their providers and were checked at the time of writing; verify current values on the official site before relying on them.