Special Issues - General Information

EPJ welcomes the publication of selected and topical Special Issues.The journal EPJ - Special Topics is explicitly devoted to this type of publication. To submit a proposal to EPJ ST please proceed as described here.

As of 2010 EPJ ST offers a new feature in form of Discussion and Debate issues. The aim of such topical issues is the balanced critical presentation of specific unsolved problems, controversial topics, rival theories, alternative methodologies, and negative results of interest at the cutting edge of scientific and technological development. To submit a proposal to EPJ ST Discussion and Debate please proceed as described here.

Occasionally, however, it will also be possible to publish a Special Issue of one of the journals EPJ A-E or EPJ Applied Physics. To see which EPJ journals are calling for papers for the following special issues please view Open Calls for Papers.

If a special issue is based on a scientific meeting, the organizers will be asked to adhere to quite stringent rules to ensure the success of such an endeavour. In particular, the journal will expect the meeting organizers to recognize and announce to participants that:

1. There will be no conference proceedings.
2. Instead, a special issue provides an opportunity to have original material (only) refereed quickly and published inthe EPJ journal concerned.
3. Accordingly, authors interested in making a contribution should,on their own initiative, submit their full paper at the time of the conference.
4. Articles must be strictly journal length and quality and each will be refereed like any regular paper of its kind submitted to the EPJ journal concerned.

Provided that in this way a critical mass of papers is reached so as to form a representative and coherent survey of the subject matter, they will be released together as a self-contained (but regular) journal issue.

Open Calls for Papers