Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal focusing on data mining published by Springer Science+Business Media. It was started in 1996 and launched in 1997 by Usama Fayyad as founding Editor-in-Chief by Kluwer Academic Publishers (later becoming Springer). The first Editorial provides a summary of why it was started. Academic status Since its founding in 1997, this journal has become the most influential academic journal in the field. Each year, it currently publishes about 60 articles in six issues. It has one of the highest index ratings and is considered authoritative academically. Editors in chief The following individuals have served as editor-in-chief of the journal: 2015–present: Johannes Fürnkranz 2005–2014: Geoffrey I. Webb 1997–2004: Usama Fayyad, Heikki Mannila 2000–2004 with Raghu Ramakrishnan 1997–1998 with Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro References External links Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery at DBLP Bibliography Server Computer science journals Data mining Springer Science+Business Media academic journals Publications established in 1997 English-language journals Bimonthly journals