This journal advances and promotes the theory and applications of combinatorial optimization, which is an area of research at the intersection of applied mathematics, computer science, and operations research and which overlaps with many other areas such as computation complexity, computational biology, VLSI design, communication networks, and management science. It includes complexity analysis and algorithm design for combinatorial optimization problems, numerical experiments and problem discovery with applications in science and engineering.

The Journal of Combinatorial Optimization publishes refereed papers dealing with all theoretical, computational and applied aspects of combinatorial optimization. It also publishes reviews of appropriate books and special issues of journals.

    Advances and promotes the theory and applications of combinatorial optimization
    Deals with all theoretical, computational and applied aspects of combinatorial optimization
    Includes reviews of appropriate books and special issues of journals
    100% of authors who answered a survey reported that they would definitely publish or probably publish in the journal again