What Is The Mathematica Journal Website?

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The Mathematica Journal (mathematica-journal.com) is a Platinum Open-Access journal published by Wolfram Research that ran from 1990 to 2021, offering free articles on all aspects of Mathematica for users at every proficiency level. It is no longer accepting submissions, but its full archive remains accessible online. If you are looking for historical, in-depth Mathematica techniques and applications, this site is a useful reference; if you need current, actively published content, you will need to look elsewhere (see below).

What the site offers

  • Free articles covering all aspects of Mathematica, aimed at helping readers use the software more effectively.
  • A complete volume archive spanning Volumes 1 through 23, with individual issues listed by volume and issue number.
  • Links to related Wolfram resources, including the Wolfram Blog, Wolfram Demonstrations Project, Wolfram U courses, Wolfram Media books, and the Worldwide Web Store.

Archive coverage

The archive is organized by volume, with most volumes broken into numbered issues:

Range Volumes Notes
Volumes 12–23 2010–2021 Listed by year
Volumes 2–11 — Listed by issue, e.g. Vol. 11 (1)–(3)
Volume 1 — Issues (1) and (4) marked unavailable; (2) and (3) listed

A few early issues are marked unavailable, so not every issue from the journal's first volume can be retrieved.

Submission status

The Mathematica Journal is no longer accepting submissions. According to the site, articles of similar depth are now published on Wolfram Community, which also hosts engagement from a broad and knowledgeable audience. If your goal is to publish Mathematica-related work, Wolfram Community is the current venue the journal itself points to.

Reading articles without Mathematica

To view the notebook version of an article without having Mathematica installed, you can download the free Wolfram Player from wolfram.com/player. This lets you open notebook-format articles even if you do not own the full software.

When to use this site — and when not to

Use it if you want:

  • Historical, peer-style articles on Mathematica techniques and applications.
  • Free access to a decades-spanning archive (1990–2021).
  • Notebook-format content you can open with the free Wolfram Player.

Look elsewhere if you want:

  • Newly published Mathematica articles — go to Wolfram Community instead.
  • To submit your own work — the journal is closed to submissions.
  • Current product news and events — the site links out to the Wolfram Blog and Wolfram Research news pages for that.

In short, mathematica-journal.com is best treated as a free, permanent archive of Mathematica knowledge rather than an active publication.