History
The journal was established in 1971, under the leadership of Peter Hammer, with an advisory board consisting of Claude Berge, M. Harrison, Victor Klee, Jack van Lint, and Gian-Carlo Rota. The very first article it published was written by Paul Erdős, who went on to publish a total of 84 papers in DM.
One of the oldest and leading journals in the field, Discrete Mathematics has published a number of articles by many well known combinatorialists. These include Noga Alon (25 papers), László Babai, Béla Bollobás (41 papers), Leonard Carlitz, Fan Chung (10 papers), Václav Chvátal, Don Coppersmith, Persi Diaconis, Philippe Flajolet, Ron Graham, Branko Grünbaum, Richard Guy, Gil Kalai, Daniel Kleitman (25 papers), Donald Knuth, László Lovász, Jaroslav Nešetřil (27 papers), Cheryl Praeger (11 papers), John Riordan, Marcel-Paul Schützenberger, Vera Sós (10 papers), Joel Spencer, Richard Stanley, Endre Szemerédi, W. T. Tutte, Herb Wilf, and Doron Zeilberger (16 papers).
The journal was one of the first in the area of discrete mathematics and remained the broadest. Over the years it grew enormously along with the growth of the field, reaching the point of publishing 3500 pages per year. Hammer remained the managing editor until his death in 2006. In 2007 the editorial structure was overhauled and the journal became more selective. The new editor-in-chief is Douglas West, with managing editor Wayne Goddard and six associate editors who consider submissions by subfields.
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