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).

[citation needed] Each year, it currently publishes about 60 articles in six issues.

It has one of the highest index ratings and is considered authoritative academically.

The following individuals have served as editor-in-chief of the journal: