Special issues - General Information
EPJ welcomes the publication of selected and topical Special Issues.
EPJ Special Topics
The journal EPJ - Special Topics is exclusively devoted to the publication of topical issues, and individual papers cannot be submitted with the exception of long review, tutorial or working report type papers filling a complete issue.
To submit a proposal to EPJ ST as guest editor of a topical issue please proceed as described here. We strongly encourage the submission of proposals that take the format of “Discussion and Debate” issues: the aim of such publications 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.
To submit a proposal to EPJ ST as author of a topical issue consisting of a single, review-type monograph, please send the names and affiliations of all authors along with the title, outline and table of contents to
either:
Anne Ruimy
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Vijala Kiruvanayagam
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EDP Sciences
or:
Sabine Lehr
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EPJ Plus
The journal EPJ Plus, with its particular focus on the setting, verification and improvement of standards, procedures and performances offers the possibility to publish short, topical focus points, consisting typically of 4-6 articles devoted to a specific aspect of the journal's aims and scope.
To submit a proposal, please proceed as described here.
Open Calls for Papers
To see which other EPJ journals are calling for papers for special issues please view the list of Open Calls for Papers on the right or follow these links
EPJB: Condensed Matter and Complex Systems
EPJD: Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics
EPJE: Soft Matter and Biological Physics
EPJ Techniques and Instrumentation
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:
- There will be no conference proceedings.
- Instead, a special issue provides an opportunity to have original material (only) refereed quickly and published inthe EPJ journal concerned.
- Accordingly, authors interested in making a contribution should,on their own initiative, submit their full paper at the time of the conference.
- 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 (virtual) journal issue.
Open calls for papers
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EPJ A Topical Issue: Heavy and Super-Heavy Nuclei and Elements: Production and Properties
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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: Recent developments in the functional renormalization group approach to correlated electron systems
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EPJ D Topical Issue on Electron-Driven Processes from Single Collisions to High-Pressure Plasmas
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EPJ D Topical Issue: Dynamics and Photodynamics: from isolated molecules to the condensed phase
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EPJ D Topical Issue: Dynamics of Systems on the Nanoscale (2021)
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EPJ D Topical Issue: High Field QED Physics
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EPJ D Topical Issue: Precision Physics of Simple Atomic Systems
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EPJ D Topical Issue: Quantum Optics of Light and Matter: Honouring Alain Aspect
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EPJ D Topical Issue: Quantum Walks and applications
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EPJ Data Science Special Issue on Data Science Perspectives on Economic Crime
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EPJ E Topical Issue: 50 years of Small Angle Neutron Scattering at the ILL in Grenoble
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EPJ E Topical Issue: Quantitative AI in Complex Fluids and Complex Flows: Challenges and Benchmarks
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EPJ H Special Issue: History for Physics: Contextualizing modern developments in the foundations of quantum theory
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EPJ Plus Focus Point Issue: Advances in cryogenic detectors for dark matter, neutrino physics and astrophysics
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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 Plus Focus Point Issue: Citizen science for physics: From Education and Outreach to Crowdsourcing fundamental research
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EPJ Plus Focus Point Issue: Focus Point on Higher Derivatives in Quantum Gravity: Theory, Tests, Phenomenology
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EPJ Quantum Technology: Special Issue on Quantum Random Number Generation
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EPJ Quantum Technology: Special Issue on Quantum Standardization
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EPJ ST Special Issue: Collective behavior of nonlinear dynamical oscillators
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EPJ ST Special Issue: Fluid-Fluid and Fluid-Soft Matter Interaction
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EPJ ST Special Issue: Framework of Fractals in Data Analysis: Theory and Interpretation
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EPJ ST Special Issue: Noncommutativity and Physics
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EPJ ST Special Issue: Physics of Animal Navigation
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EPJ ST Special Issue: Structural Transformations and Non-Equilibrium Phenomena in Multicomponent Disordered Systems
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EPJ Techniques and Instrumentation: New methodologies and approaches for the control of illicit production, use and trafficking of nuclear material
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EPJ Techniques and Instrumentation: SI units and experimental techniques