Zentralblatt MATH

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Zentralblatt MATH (German: central math journal) is a service providing reviews and abstracts for articles in pure and applied mathematics. It is published by Springer Science+Business Media.

The purpose of abstracting service is to provide reviews of current scientific research articles published in different journals. A review should give a brief and clear account of the contents of an article. There are two major reviewing services which cover the entire field of mathematics. The other is Mathematical Reviews. Both use the Mathematics Subject Classification codes for organising their reviews by topic.

The service was founded in 1931 by Otto Neugebauer as Zentralblatt für Mathematik und ihre Grenzgebiete. The name was later shortened to Zentralblatt MATH. Nowadays, Zentralblatt MATH is provided in both electronic and printed form. The service is reviewing more than 2,300 journals and serials worldwide, as well as books and conference proceedings. Zentralblatt MATH is edited by the European Mathematical Society, FIZ Karlsruhe, and the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences.

The Zentralblatt database also incorporates the 200,000 entries of the earlier similar publication Jahrbuch über die Fortschritte der Mathematik (JFM) 1868-1942.