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The European Physical Journal (EPJ) is a series of peer-reviewed journals covering the whole spectrum of physics and related interdisciplinary subjects. EPJ is committed to high scientific quality in publishing and is indexed in all main citation databases.
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EPJ Data Science appoints Dr. Ingmar Weber as co-Editor-in-Chief
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- Published on 07 January 2021

EPJ is pleased to announce that Dr Ingmar Weber of Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) has been appointed as a co-Editor-in-Chief for EPJ Data Science, effective January 2021. He will be responsible for overseeing the editorial process of the journal, working closely with Prof Markus Strohmaier, who continues to serve as co-Editor-in-Chief. Ingmar Weber is the Research Director for Social Computing at QCRI where his research focuses on using social media and other non-traditional data to study phenomena such as international migration, digital gender gaps, and wealth inequalities. Of particular interest is how such data can be used to provide better statistics on global development and how, in turn, such statistics can be used for better interventions and policy decisions. This work is done in close collaboration with different United Nations entities and NGOs. Ingmar Weber currently serves as an ACM Distinguished Speaker and is a Senior Member of AAAI, IEEE, and ACM. He has been a member of the Editorial Board for EPJ Data Science since 2018.
EPJ Data Science Highlight - Women’s disadvantage: because of who they are, or what they do?
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- Published on 02 August 2019

Women often find themselves strongly disadvantaged in the field of software development, in particular when it comes to open source. In a study recently published in EPJ Data Science, Orsolya Vasarhelyi and Balazs argue that this disadvantage stems from gendered behavior rather than categorical discrimination: women are at a disadvantage because of what they do, rather than because of who they are.
Continue reading the guest post by Orsolya Vasarhelyi and Balazs Vedres on the SpringerOpen blog.
EPJ Data Science Highlight - What ‘Twitch Plays Pokémon’ tells us about crowd behavior
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- Published on 05 July 2019

No one would deny that the behavior of the people we know, and even of our own, can radically change depending on those who surround us. The problem of understanding how being in a group changes the way we behave has been subject of intense research in psychology since the beginning of the past century. The beginning of the XXI century gave rise to a new kind of group: the online crowds. Nowadays, it is no longer necessary to have all individuals in the same place in order to have a ‘crowd’. What is more, it is possible to connect together thousands, even millions, of individuals in a matter of minutes.
In the work recently published in EPJ Data Science, we study one such occasion that gathered millions of users: Twitch Plays Pokémon.
Continue reading the guest post by Alberto Aleta on the SpringerOpen blog.
Open calls for papers
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EPJ A Topical Issue: First joint gravitational wave and electromagnetic observations: Implications for nuclear and particle physics
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EPJ A Topical Issue: Heavy and Super-Heavy Nuclei and Elements: Production and Properties
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EPJ A Topical Issue: Light clusters in nuclei and nuclear matter: Nuclear structure and decay, heavy ion collisions, and astrophysics
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EPJ A Topical Issue: The QCD Phase Diagram in Strong Magnetic Fields
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EPJ B Topical Issue: Extreme Value Statistics and Search in Biology: Theory and Simulations
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EPJ B Topical Issue: Evolutionary Game Theory
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EPJ B Topical Issue: Recent progress and emerging trends in Molecular Dynamics
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EPJ D Topical Issue: Atoms and Molecules in a Confined Environment
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EPJ D Topical Issue: Low Temperature Plasmas: Processes, Diagnostics and Applications
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EPJ D Topical Issue: Quantum Aspects of Attoscience
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EPJ D Topical Issue: Spectroscopy of biomolecular ions in vacuo
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EPJ D Topical Issue: “Advances in Physics of Ionized Gases and Spectroscopy of Isolated Complex Systems: from Biomolecules to Space Particles" (2020)
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EPJ E Special Issue: Diffusion and Convection in Nature
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EPJ E Topical Issue: Physics and Geometry of Flexible Plates and Shells
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EPJ E Topical Issue: Advances in Computational Methods for Biological Physics
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EPJ E Topical Issue: Disordered, non-equilibrium systems: From supercooled liquids to amorphous solids
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EPJ E Topical Issue: Physics of phase separation in cell biophysics: From non-equilibrium droplets to reaction-diffusion systems
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EPJ E Topical Issue: Tissue Mechanics
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EPJ N Topical Issue: Liquid-gas and liquid-vapour flows: theory, simulation and experiments
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EPJ Plus Focus Point Issue: Breakthrough optics- and complex systems-based technologies of modulation of drainage and clearing functions of the brain
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EPJ Quantum Technology: Special Issue on Quantum Industry
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EPJ Quantum Technology: Special Issue on Quantum Metrology & Quantum Enhanced Measurement
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EPJ ST Special Issue: Transport properties of non-Newtonian nanofluids and applications
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EPJ ST Special Issue: Chaotic variable-order fractional neural networks
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EPJ ST Special Issue: Circuit Application of Chaotic Systems: Modeling, Dynamical Analysis and Control
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EPJ ST Special Issue: Complex Bio Rhythms
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EPJ ST Special Issue: Intense laser-matter interaction in atoms, finite and condensed systems
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EPJ ST Special Issue: Modeling, Machine Learning and Astronomy
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EPJ ST Special Issue: Non-equilibrium phase transitions in heterogeneous systems: biophysical aspects
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EPJ ST Special Issue: Strong Correlations in Dense Matter Physics
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EPJ ST Special Issue: The Accelerating Universe – Evidence and Theories
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EPJ ST Special Issue: Tipping in Complex Systems: Theory, Methods & Applications
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EPJ Techniques and Instrumentation: Instrumentation and Control of Large Helium Cryogenic Systems
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EPJ Techniques and Instumentation: Diagnostics for electric propulsion systems