zbMATH Open
Latest screenshot: 2024-07-23
Access to search interface:
open
Last major interface update:
N/A
Owner of search system:
FIZ Karlsruhe – Leibniz Institute for Information Infrastructure
Location of system headquarters:
Berlin, DE
Year of launch:
1989
Type:
Bibliographic database
Twitter:
Description of search system (by system owner)
zbMATH Open (formerly known as Zentralblatt MATH) is the world's most comprehensive and longest-running abstracting and reviewing service in pure and applied mathematics. Since January 2021, zbMATH Open has been available as an open access database. Currently, zbMATH Open contains around 4.2 million bibliographic entries with reviews or abstracts drawn from more than 3,000 journals and book series, and some 190,000 books.
Total coverage:
4.36M
Year-over-year growth (2020-2021):
-15.14%
Subject coverage:
Mathematics (78.37 %); Decision Sciences (5.96 %); Computer Science (5.36 %)
Retrospective coverage:
1868–2022
Record types:
3
Open Access records:
4.36M / 100.00%
Search functionality and interface
Systematic keyword searching:
extensive
Backward citation searching:
sufficient
Forward citation searching:
sufficient
Query builder:
Search history:
Match preview:
Sorting options:
7
Query
Latency with short query:
1.2 seconds
Latency with long query:
10.24 seconds
Controlled vocabulary:
Field codes:
15
Full text search:
Search string length (narrow):
250 terms max.
Search string length (wide):
250 terms max.
Language support: Chinese:
Language support: Cyrillic:
Truncation:
Wildcards:
Keyword position irrelevant:
Longer strings, fewer hits:
Automatic query expansion (stemming):
Verbatim queries:
Reproducible queries (time):
Reproducible queries (locations):
Operators
Search operators:
3
Boolean 'OR':
Boolean 'AND':
Boolean 'NOT':
Proximity operator:
Boolean works exact:
Nested search (parentheses):
Citation search / filtering
Record type filters:
3
Results filters:
8
Suggested related records:
Supported by bibliometric tools:
N/A
Backward citation information:
Backward citation score:
60.00%
Forward citation information:
Forward citation score:
14.09%
Retrieval
Number of accessible records:
10000
Bulk select records:
Bulk export records:
200
Export formats:
4
API:
open
Bulk select records' backward citations:
Bulk export backward citations:
1
Bulk select records' forward citations:
Bulk export forward citations:
200
