The Journal of Algebra is a leading international journal and publishes papers that demonstrate high quality research results in algebra and related computational aspects. Only the very best and most interesting papers are to be considered for publication in the journal. With this in mind, it is important that the contribution offer a substantial result that will have a lasting effect upon the field. The journal also seeks work that presents innovative techniques that offer promising results for future research.
The Computational Algebra Section
The Computational Algebra section has been introduced to provide an appropriate forum for contributions which make use of computer calculations and to broaden the scope of the Journal.
The following papers are particularly welcome in the Computational Algebra section of the Journal of Algebra:
• Results obtained by computer calculations - to be suitable for publication such results must represent a major advance of mathematics. It is not sufficient to extend previous computations by means of higher computer power. Rather the contribution has to exhibit new methods and mathematical results to be accepted.
• Classifications of specific algebraic structures (in form of tables, if appropriate), which are not easily obtained and are useful to the algebraic community.
• Description and outcome of experiments, to put forward new conjectures, to support existing conjectures, or to give counter examples to existing conjectures.
• Papers emphasizing the constructive aspect of algebra, such as description and analysis of new algorithms (not program listings, nor, in the first instance, discussions of software development issues), improvements and extensions of existing algorithms, description of computational methods which are not algorithms in the strict sense (since, e.g., they need not terminate).
• Interactions between algebra and computer science, such as automatic structures, word problems and other decision problems in groups and semigroups, preferably, but not necessarily, with an emphasis on practicality, implementations, and performance of the related algorithms.
• Contributions are welcome from all areas of algebra, including algebraic geometry or algebraic number theory, if the emphasis is on the algebraic aspects.
Contributions describing applications of algebraic results or methods, for example in coding theory, cryptography, or the algebraic theory of differential equations are highly welcome. An important general criterion for the publication of a paper in the Computational Algebra section is its emphasis on the constructive aspects.
This journal has an Open Archive. All published items, including research articles, have unrestricted access and will remain permanently free to read and download 48 months after publication. All papers in the Archive are subject to Elsevier's user license.

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Editor-in-Chief
Gunter Malle
University of Kaiserslautern Department of Mathematics, Erwin-Schrödinger-Str. 48, Postfach 3049, 67653, Kaiserslautern, Germany
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Editorial Board
Nicolás Andruskiewitsch
National University of Cordoba, Cordoba, Argentina
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Luchezar L. Avramov
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States
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Prakash Belkale
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
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Gwyn Bellamy
University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Inna Capdeboscq
University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
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Steven Dale Cutkosky
University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States
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Alberto Elduque
University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain
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David Hernandez, PhD
Institute of Mathematics Jussieu Paris Left Bank, Paris, France
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E.I. Khukhro
University of Lincoln, Lincoln, United Kingdom
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Martin Liebeck
Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
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Markus Linckelmann
INTO City University London, London, United Kingdom
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Volodymyr Mazorchuk
Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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Amnon Neeman
Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
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Louis Rowen
Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
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Leonard L. Scott, Jr.
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
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Dan Segal
University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Peng Shan
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
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Vasudevan Srinivas
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India
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Bernd Ulrich
Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States
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Changchang Xi
Capital Normal University, Beijing, China
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Managing Editor of the Section on Computational Algebra
Eamonn O'Brien
The University of Auckland Department of Mathematics, Auckland, New Zealand
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Section on Computational Algebra
Kirsten Eisenträger
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, United States
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Susan Hermiller
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska, United States
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Gerhard Hiss
RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
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Derek Holt
University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom
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William M. Kantor
University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, United States
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Hannah Markwig
Eberhard Karls University Tübingen, Tubingen, Germany
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Seth Sullivant
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
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Founding Editor
Graham Higman
1964-1984
Publisher
Giovanni Raneri
Elsevier BV, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Former Editors-in-Chief
Michel Broué, 2001-2017
Walter Feit, 1985–2000