Journal question

[dhilbert83]

Kind of a dumb question perhaps, but how do Proceedings of the AMS and Bulletin of the LMS compare in terms of prestige? They seem to serve the same purposes (national journals for short papers) so I'm finding it hard to see which is 'better'. Are they more or less equal in prestige?

Comments

[lobosolo]

In this listing they are both given an A rating, but BLMS is number 77 among the As, and PAMS is down at number 353. As a former editor of BLMS I may be a bit biased, but I would say that that is a fair estimate of their relative prestige.

[dhilbert83]

Hey Lobosolo yea I figured myself that BLMS was a little better. Thanks for the info though. I only myself saw that website for the first time yesterday and didn't know it actually ranked each journal.

[jackbishop]

I'm pretty sure the ERAID column is just an internal sequential numbering scheme and is not actually an assessment of the journal's quality -- note that many of the alphabetically ordered journals have sequential numbers (even when they're in different tiers). Presumably So BLMS is #77 because it begins with a "B", and PAMS is #353 because it begins with a "P".

[dhilbert83]

Yea obviously it can't be an assessment of quality since number seem to go in the hundreds of thousands.