BIT Numerical Mathematics

BIT Numerical Mathematics is a quarterly peer-reviewed mathematics journal that covers research in numerical analysis. It was established in 1961 by Carl Erik Fröberg and is published by Springer Science+Business Media. The name "BIT" is a reverse acronym of Tidskrift för Informationsbehandling (Swedish: Journal of Information Processing).

Previous editors-in-chief have been Carl Erik Fröberg (1961-1992), Åke Björck (1993-2002), Axel Ruhe (2003-2015), and Lars Eldén (2016). , the editor-in-chief is Gunilla Kreiss.

Peter Naur served as a member of the editorial board between the years 1960 and 1993, and Germund Dahlquist between 1962 and 1991.

Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in: • Science Citation Index

• Scopus

• Zentralblatt Math

• EBSCO databases

• Academic OneFile

• ACM Digital Library

• Computer Abstracts International Database

• Computer Science Index

• Current Contents/Physical, Chemical and Earth Sciences

• Current Index to Statistics

• International Bibliography of Book Reviews

• International Bibliography of Periodical Literature

• Mathematical Reviews

• PASCAL According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 1.663.