Bibliometric analysis of the editorial board of the annals of mathematics for the period 1874-2020

Abstract

The purpose of this thesis is the collection, processing, and analysis of the data of the editorial team of the Annals of Mathematics for the whole period of its release so far, 1874-2020. The data collection will be performed using the primary information provided by the issues of the journal that is accessible in electronic form and secondary information concerning demographic features of the editorial team members and will be transformed into an editable format for the analysis. The above data will be evaluated qualitatively, detecting any inconsistencies and omissions within their values, and a set of rules and algorithms will be developed for their qualitative recast. In addition, the result above process will be used to consolidate the information from different sources, developing additional rules and algorithms for either treatment of inconsistencies between different sources or exploiting noncommon information. The data will then be quantified using statistics and econometric methods aimed at investigating and identifying to investigate and identify patterns and trends in the period under study. More specifically, they will be formulated and studied questions about the size of the editorial team, its lifespan, and changes made to it.