Publication Schedule
The journal is published both in electronic and paper format. It offers four issues per year, with an annual volume limited to 800 pages.
Editorial policy
- Peer review: All published papers undergo a single-anonymous peer review and have to be approved by the corresponding editor.
- Code of practice: The journal supports the principles of the Code of Practice (https://euromathsoc.org/code-of-practice) recommended by the European Mathematical Society.
- Open access policy: The journal provides immediate open access to its content. No subscription is needed, and no download fees are charged. For authors, there are no charges for submission, processing or publication of papers in this journal.
- Copyright: Authors retain copyright, and grant the journal right of first publication of the article under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence, and without any financial compensation.
- Open archiving: The Journal of Lie Theory allows authors to deposit their publications in open archives, with the agreement of their co-authors. Authors may deposit all versions of their article, including the final accepted version, provided that they indicate the URL of the original article.
- Retraction policy: Papers that constitute a case of unethical research misconduct, for example, plagiarism and duplicate publication, will be removed from the platform and/or the journal site.
- Privacy statement: The names and email addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of the journal, and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.
- Use of AI: Authors submitting to JoLT may use AI tools for minor editing tasks, such as spell-checking, grammar improvements, or assistance with figures and diagrams, without providing an explicit acknowledgment. Any use of generative AI that contributes to the substance of the paper must be acknowledged through a brief declaration at the end of the manuscript. In all cases, the authors remain fully responsible and accountable for the paper’s content. Manuscripts that are largely generated by AI tools are not eligible for submission to this journal.
- Publisher: The Journal of Lie Theory is published by the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne.
History
The Journal of Lie Theory was founded in 1991 under the name Seminar Sophus Lie by Karl Heinrich Hofmann. For three years, it served as seminar proceedings of the seminar series Seminar Sophus Lie (https://math.uni-paderborn.de/ag/arbeitsgruppe-unendlich-dimensionale-analysis-und-geometrie/seminar-sophus-lie) which was established to connect mathematicians from East and West Germany interested in Lie groups and their wider horizon. In 1994, this series of proceedings was converted into an international journal with the name Journal of Lie Theory.
Karl Heinrich Hofmann carried on as managing editor of the journal until 1998. He was succeeded by Karl-Hermann Neeb who did this job between 1998 and 2023. Since 2023 Jan Frahm has been managing the journal, and he was joined by Michael Pevzner in 2026.
Between 1991 and 2025 the journal was published by Heldermann Verlag. Since 2026 it is owned by the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne and published online by the Centre Mersenne under the diamond open access model.