The Publications mathématiques de l'IHES is an international journal that publishes high-level mathematical research papers. It became a fully open access journal since the beginning of 2021 with a globally renowned editorial board.
Publication schedule
This journal is published in both electronic and paper format. It offers two issues per year, with an annual volume limited to 800 pages.
Editorial policy
- Peer review: All published papers are reviewed by peers, and approved by the Editorial Board.
- Fees: For authors, there are no charges for submission, processing or publication of papers in this journal.
- Copyright: Authors retain copyright, and grant the journal right of first publication of the article under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence, and without any financial compensation.
- Open archiving: The Publications Mathématiques de l'IHES allows authors to deposit their publications in open archives, with the agreement of their co-authors. Authors may deposit all versions of their article, including the final accepted version, provided that they indicate the url of the original article.
- Retraction policy: Papers that constitute a case of unethical research misconduct, for example, plagiarism and duplicate publication, will be removed from the platform and/or the journal site.
- Privacy statement: The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of the journal, and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.
- Publisher: The Publications mathématiques de l'IHES is published by the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques (IHES).
History of the journal
The Publications mathématiques de l’IHES was created in 1959 under the leadership of Léon Motchane, founder and director of the institute, and Jean Dieudonné, professor at the institute.
Issues were first published at irregular intervals and in four languages: French, English, German and Russian. Today, German and Russian are discontinued. Gradually, IHES published two annual volumes totalling 800 pages. Today, 80 copies of the journal have been printed. It is also available online and on numdam.org.
The Publications mathématiques de l’IHES is an international journal publishing papers of highest scientific level. Thanks to its worldwide distribution (it can be found in the libraries of the major mathematical institutions in the world), to its tradition of publishing landmark articles and to its broad coverage of the discipline, it has won international recognition.
Jean Dieudonné was the journal’s first editor-in-chief. Jacques Tits succeeded him in 1980 to 1998, followed by Etienne Ghys until 2009.
The editorial board has expanded over the years. Pierre Deligne, Dennis Sullivan, René Thom, all IHES professors, were the first to join the committee in 1980.
They were followed by Mikhail Gromov in 1982, Jean Bourgain in 1987, Maxim Kontsevich in 1996, Laurent Lafforgue in 1999 and Claire Voisin in 2007.
The Publications mathématiques de l’IHES was managed in 2010 and 2011 by Claire Voisin and Sergiu Klainerman and by Claire Voisin from January 2012 until June 2019. It is then on Nicolas Bergeron’s initiative, editor-in-chief from 2019 to 2022, that the Publications mathématiques de l’IHES became diamond open access (more information here). Sébastien Boucksom has been the editor-in-chief since July 2022.