Discrete Mathematics is a biweekly peer-reviewed scientific journal in the broad area of discrete mathematics, combinatorics, graph theory, and their applications. It was established in 1971 and is published by North-Holland Publishing Company. It publishes both short notes, full length contributions, as well as survey articles. In addition, the journal publishes a number of special issues each year dedicated to a particular topic. Although originally it published articles in French and German, it now allows only English language articles. The editor-in-chief is Douglas West (University of Illinois, Urbana).

History

The journal was established in 1971. The first article it published was written by Paul Erdős, who went on to publish a total of 84 papers in the journal.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: • ACM Computing Reviews • Cambridge Scientific Abstracts • Current Contents/Physics, Chemical, & Earth Sciences • International Abstracts in Operations Research • Mathematical Reviews • PASCAL • Science Citation Index • Zentralblatt MATH • Scopus According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 0.87.