About

A half-century ago enumerative combinatorics was considered to be mostly a collection of isolated results and methods, mainly originating with Euler. Since then enumerative combinatorics has been transformed into a rich and important research area in mathematics, partly due to its deep connections with other fields of research. The pioneering work of Stanley, especially the two-volume Enumerative Combinatorics, and the book of Flajolet and Sedgewick on Analytic Combinatorics (also, see the Handbook of Enumerative Combinatorics by Bóna and Combinatorial Enumeration by Goulden and Jackson), helped to shape and popularize the subject. Inspired in particular by these books, and more generally by the many fine papers in the subject, we introduce this Journal, Enumerative Combinatorics and Applications.

Enumerative Combinatorics and Applications (ECA) is a fully-refereed scientific electronic journal with very high standards, devoted to the publication of research articles of the highest quality. Therefore, the journal will consider only submissions that contain new insights/ideas/methods/concepts/bijections/applications related to enumeration. The journal covers research from the field of Enumerative Combinatorics as well as research resulting from the rich interplay between enumerations, applications, and other branches of mathematics and science.

The scope of ECA includes enumerative aspects of combinatorial structures and their connections to various areas of mathematics (linear algebra, probability theory, complex analysis, commutative algebra, representation theory, algebraic geometry, algebraic topology), physics, chemistry, computer science, etc. ECA publishes high quality full papers, reviews, surveys, historical papers and biographies of mathematicians. Our main objective is to help amplify the trend of high quality research in enumerative combinatorics by providing a medium dedicated to this exciting field of mathematics and making it publicly available and free of charge to all researchers across the globe.

The Abbreviation of the journal’s title is “Enumer. Combin. Appl.”.
The websites http://ecajournal.haifa.ac.il and https://ecajournal.kms-ks.org are copy of each another.


Editorial Team

Editor-in-Chief Toufik Mansour, University of Haifa, Israel; tmansour@univ.haifa.ac.il
Managing Editor Armend Sh. Shabani, University of Prishtina, Republic of Kosova; armend.shabani@uni-pr.edu

Honorary Board

Noga Alon, Princeton University, USA and Tel Aviv University, Israel.
Gill Kalai, Hebrew University, Israel.
Michelle Wachs, University of Miami, USA.
Doron Zeilberger, Rutgers University, USA.

Editorial Board

Ron Adin, Bar-Ilan University, Israel. Eli Bagno, Jerusalem College of Technology, Israel. Gill Barequet, Technion, Israel. Jean-Luc Baril, Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté, France. Alexander Burstein, Howard University, USA. Nenad Cakić, University of Belgrade, Serbia. David Callan, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. Gi-Sang Cheon, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea. Chak-On Chow, Hong Kong. Rosena Ruo Xia Du, East China Normal University, China. Mark Dukes, University College Dublin, Ireland. David Garber, Holon Institute of Technology, Israel. Qing-Hu Hou, Tianjin University, China. Sergey Kitaev, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom. Ilias Kotsireas, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada. Arnold Knopfmacher, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Vsevolod Lev, University of Haifa, Israel. Shi-Mei Ma, Northeast University At Qinhuangdao Campus, China. Anna Melnikov, University of Haifa, Israel. Emanuele Munarini, Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Kieka Mynhardt, University of Victoria, Canada. Lara Pudwell, Valparaiso University, USA. Jose L. Ramirez, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia. Reza Rastegar, University of Tulsa, USA. Yuval Roichman, Bar-Ilan University, Israel. Michael J. Schlosser, University of Vienna, Austria. Matthias Schork, Germany. Mark Shattuck, University of Tennessee, USA. Rebecca Smith, SUNY Brockport University, USA. Chunwei Song, Peking University, China. Einar Steingrimsson, University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom. Alek Vainshtein, University of Haifa, Israel. Vincent Vajnovszki, Université de Bourgogne, France. Vincent Vatter, University of Florida, USA. Catherine Yan, Texas A&M University, USA. Sherry H.F. Yan, Zhejiang Normal University, China. Gökhan Yıldırım, Bilkent University, Turkey. Raphael Yuster, University of Haifa, Israel.

Volumes and issues


Volume 2021 Issue 1 (In progress)

Volume 2021 Issue 2 (In progress)

Volume 2021 Issue 3 (In progress)

Submission of Manuscript

Manuscripts should be written in English, prepared in LaTeX, and must be submitted as a PDF file in an email attachment to Editor-in-chief: tmansour@univ.haifa.ac.il

Within a week you will receive acknowledgment that your submission has been received.

Submitted manuscripts to ECA will be refereed according to the highest standards. The median time from submission to publication is 6 months. Thus, we ask kindly not to send questions about your manuscript if it has been under consideration for less than 6 months.

After a manuscript is accepted and the final version of the accepted paper is received, it will be published within a few days.

Notes: If your file is larger than 8 MB, contact the Editor-in-chief. Also, in case you did not receive an acknowledgment within a week, then again contact the Editor-in-chief.

When submitting a manuscript, the (corresponding) author, should make sure that the manuscript contains:
(1) Title of the manuscript. The title should be concise and indicate as clearly as possible the subject of the manuscript.
(2) Author names and affiliations. The affiliation should include the postal address, country, and email address of each author.
(3) Abstract. The abstract should describe the problem studied and the main results. It should be concise, informative, and self-contained. It should not contain equation numbers, citations, or references.
(4) Keywords. Specify 2 to 5 keywords.
(5) Mathematics Subject Classification. Include one or more Math. Subj. Class. codes - see https://mathscinet.ams.org/mathscinet/msc/msc2020.html

By submitting the manuscript, the authors confirm that:
- The manuscript has not been previously published.
- The manuscript is not under consideration elsewhere, nor will it be submitted for publication elsewhere while it is being handled by EAC.
- If the manuscript is accepted by ECA, then it will not be published elsewhere.
- The submission file is in PDF document file format.

Upon acceptance of the paper author/s will provide the document in the LaTeX style provided by ECA. The final version Manuscripts accepted for publication must be prepared in LaTeX according to the ECA format example.tex. The LaTex version of the paper should be executed without errors. When submitting the LaTex version of the paper, please send also all ‘supplementary files’. The recommended format for image files is PDF, but EPS format is also acceptable. Regarding references, authors should use the abbreviations of the journals’ names, provided by MathSciNet. Also, make sure that all your references are carefully formatted following the examples provided in the sample file.

In addition to the above, the authors should pay attention to the following matters: When submitting a manuscript, the corresponding author may suggest some potential referees, who have not coauthored with them during the last 5 years. The editorial office may or may not use such suggestions.

Open Access and Copyright Articles in Enumerative Combinatorics and Applications are published under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Publication Ethics Enumerative Combinatorics and Applications adheres to the following documents regarding the Publication Ethics.
(1) Policy Statement on Ethical Guidelines, American Mathematical Society
(2) Best Current Practices for Journals, International Mathematical Union
(3) Code of Practice, European Mathematical Society (EMS) Ethics Committee
(4) EMS Ethics Committee Comments on the EMS Code of Practice


Author Index

  • Amal Alofi
          Parallelogram polyominoes and rectangular EW-tableaux: Correspondences through the Sandpile model
  • Elena Barcucci
          Non-overlapping matrices via Dyck words
  • Sudip Bera
          Combinatorialization of Sury and McLaughlin identities and general linear recurrences by a unified approach
  • Antonio Bernini
          Non-overlapping matrices via Dyck words
  • Stefano Bilotta
          Non-overlapping matrices via Dyck words
  • Colin Defant
          Highly sorted permutations and Bell numbers
  • Mark Dukes
          Parallelogram polyominoes and rectangular EW-tableaux: Correspondences through the Sandpile model
  • Jonathan L. Gross
          Enumerating graph embeddings and partial-duals by genus and Euler genus
  • Brian Hopkins
          Euler's Enumerations
  • Caleb Ji
          Brussels sprouts, noncrossing trees, and parking functions
  • Renzo Pinzani
          Non-overlapping matrices via Dyck words
  • Helmut Prodinger
          Retakh's Motzkin paths and some combinatorial comments
  • James Propp
          Brussels sprouts, noncrossing trees, and parking functions
  • Alfred Schreiber
          Inverse relations and reciprocity laws involving partial Bell polynomials and related extensions
  • Mark Skandera
          Generating functions for monomial characters of wreath products ℤ/dℤ≀ 𝕾_n
  • Chunwei Song
          On combinatorial rectangles with minimum ∞-discrepancy
  • Bridget E. Tenner
          Forced perimeter in Elnitksy polygons
  • Thomas W. Tucker
          Enumerating graph embeddings and partial-duals by genus and Euler genus
  • Bowen Yao
          On combinatorial rectangles with minimum ∞-discrepancy