Topical issue on the tower of effective (field) theories and the emergence of nuclear phenomena Vincent Bontems, Thomas Duguet, Gaute Hagen and Vittorio Somà Eur. Phys. J. A, 57 1 (2021) 42 Published online: 29 January 2021 DOI: 10.1140/epja/s10050-021-00356-4