The journal is abstracted and indexed in Current Contents/Physics, Chemical, & Earth Sciences, Mathematical Reviews, PASCAL, Science Citation Index, Zentralblatt MATH, and Scopus. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2016 impact factor of 0.652.1
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