American Journal of Combinatorics

Volume 1, 2022

Editorial

We are pleased to publish the first volume of the American Journal of Combinatorics (AJC). This volume of AJC is a regular volume which will continue to publish accepted manuscripts until the end of 2022. We sincerely thank the reviewers for writing reports on the manuscripts submitted to AJC. I would like to thank all the editors of AJC for their selfless work. We appreciate authors and readers of AJC for their interests in this new open-access journal. We are happy to see the increasing excitement for AJC from the combinatorics community.

Research on combinatorics is growing all over the world and there is still a need for free online research publishing platforms that are accessible to all. This led us to establish AJC which has neither subscription fees nor article processing charges. AJC is inclusive of all topics of combinatorics and does not arbitrarily reject submissions before the review process. The existence of AJC is possible because of the time and money spent by its editors.

For a sustainable future of AJC, it will need more editors and more participation from the combinatorics community. In the future AJC may consider hiring professionals for proofreading of accepted articles and for maintaining the AJC website and an editorial management system. This will require more funding which may be obtained from grant money and donations. But AJC will always remain an open-access nonprofit online research publishing platform. Long live AJC.

Sudipta Mallik

January 3, 2022