The Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering that part of algebra likely to be of general mathematical interest: algebraic results with immediate applications, and the development of algebraic theories of sufficiently general relevance to allow for future applications.

Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra

Discipline	Algebra
Language	English
Edited by	Eric Friedlander Charles Weibel Srikanth Iyengar
Publication details
History	1971-present
Publisher	North-Holland
Frequency	Monthly
Impact factor	0.720 (2017)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt1 · alt2) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	J. Pure Appl. Algebra
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus
CODEN	JPAAA2
ISSN	0022-4049
LCCN	79612749
OCLC no.	1800179
Links
Journal homepage Online access

Its founding editors-in-chief were Peter J. Freyd (University of Pennsylvania) and Alex Heller (City University of New York). The current managing editors are Srikanth Iyengar (University of Utah) and Charles Weibel (Rutgers University).