The Journal of Differential Geometry is a peer-reviewed

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 mathematical

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 journal

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 published by the Lehigh University

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. The journal publishes nine issues (in three volumes) per year and is distributed by International Press. Surveys in Differential Geometry] It also publishes an annual supplement in book form called Surveys in Differential Geometry. It publishes research papers on differential geometry and related subjects such as differential equations, mathematical physics

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, algebraic geometry

Algebraic geometry

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 and geometric topology

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History

The Journal of Differential Geometry was founded in 1967 by Chuan-Chih Hsiung

Chuan-Chih Hsiung

Chuan-Chih Hsiung , also known as Chuan-Chih Hsiung, C C Hsiung, or Xiong Quanzhi, is a notable Chinese-born American differential geometer...

, who was a Professor in the Department of Mathematics at Lehigh University at the time.
Hsiun served as the journal's editor-in-chief, and later co-editor-in-chief, until his death in 2009.

In May 1996, the annual Geometry and Topology conference which was held at Harvard University

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 was dedicated to commemorating the 30th anniversary of the journal and the 80th anniversary of its founder. Similarly, in May 2008 Harvard held a conference dedicated to the 40th anniversary of the Journal of Differential Geometry.

Journal information

The journal is regarded as prestigious and highly selective by the mathematical community. In his 2005 book Mathematical publishing: a guidebook, Steven Krantz writes the following about the journal's editorial practices: "At some very prestigious journals, like the Annals of Mathematics or the Journal of Differential Geometry, the editorial board meets every couple of months and debates each paper in detail."

The journal is reviewed in Mathematical Reviews

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 and Zentralblatt MATH

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 and is indexed in the Web of Science

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. According to the 2008 issue of Journal Citation Reports

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, the journal had an impact factor

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 of 1.244, 19th out of 215 in the Mathematics category.
The journal's Editor-in-chief is Shing-Tung Yau

Shing-Tung Yau

Shing-Tung Yau is a Chinese American mathematician working in differential geometry. He was born in Shantou, Guangdong Province, China into a family of scholars from Jiaoling, Guangdong Province....

, and Huai-Dong Cao

Huai-Dong Cao

Huai-Dong Cao is A. Everett Pitcher Professor of Mathematics at Lehigh University. He collaborated with Xi-Ping Zhu of Zhongshan University in verifying Grigori Perelman's proof of the Poincaré conjecture. The Cao–Zhu team is one of three teams formed for this purpose...

 serves as the Managing Editor. The editorial board also includes five Editors (Simon Donaldson

Simon Donaldson

Simon Kirwan Donaldson FRS , is an English mathematician known for his work on the topology of smooth four-dimensional manifolds. He is now Royal Society research professor in Pure Mathematics and President of the Institute for Mathematical Science at Imperial College London...

, Richard Hamilton

Richard Hamilton (professor)

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, Richard Schoen

Richard Schoen

Richard Melvin Schoen is an American mathematician. Born in Fort Recovery, Ohio, he received his PhD in 1977 from Stanford University where he is currently the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Humanities and Sciences...

, H. Blaine Lawson

H. Blaine Lawson

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 and Jun Li) and eight Associate Editors.

External links

• Journal of Differential Geometry webpage, Department of Mathematics, Lehigh University
  Lehigh University
  Lehigh University is a private, co-educational university located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in the Lehigh Valley region of the United States. It was established in 1865 by Asa Packer as a four-year technical school, but has grown to include studies in a wide variety of disciplines...
  
  
• Surveys in Differential Geometry web page