The JAMI is mainly devoted to original research articles. However, research-expository survey articles are sometimes solicited and accepted for publication. These are papers of the highest quality that present a clear and insightful exposition of significant aspects of contemporary applied and computational research. Primary emphasis is placed on high quality, original work that has neither appeared in, nor is under review by other journals. There are important criteria which are applied in determining whether or not a submitted paper is suitable for publication in the JAMI, beyond formal correctness and coherence. These are :

(1) The results in the paper should be genuinely applied or applicable or computational.
(2) The paper should make a serious contribution to the mathematical theory of Applied Mathematics and Informatics, or in some other sense carry a substantial level of applied and informatics innovation, or be likely to stimulate such innovation.
(3) Mathematical depth and difficulty will not be the sole criteria with respect to which submissions are evaluated. Fundamentally, we seek a broad spectrum of papers which enrich our profession intellectually, and which illustrate the role of computational thinking in the solution of applied problems.
(4) Most papers should contain an Introduction which presents a discussion of the context and importance of the issues they address and a clear, non-technical description of the main results. The Introduction should be accessible to a wide range of readers.