It was founded in 2015 by the council of the no-profit association AGTA - Advances in Group Theory and Applications, and is published by Aracne.

The journal is published as a diamond open access journal, meaning that the content is immediately freely available to the readers, and the authors do not have to pay any author publication fees.

[1] The journal is abstracted and indexed by Mathematical Reviews[2] and Zentralblatt MATH.

[3] The purpose of this section is to present historical documents, biographical notes and discussions on relevant aspects of group theory and its applications.

[4] Volume 15 publishes the proceedings of the conference Groups & Algebras in Bicocca for Young algebraists 2022.