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 Collection devoted to the legacy of Peter Schuck
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EPJ A Topical Collection: Radiative Corrections: From Medium to High Energy Experiments
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EPJ A Topical Collection: Short-Range Correlations and the EMC Effect
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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 D Topical Issue: Electron and Positron Interactions and Their Applications: a tribute to Professor Michael Brunger
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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: Physics of Ionized Gases and Spectroscopy of Isolated Complex Systems: Fundamentals and Applications (2022)
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EPJ D Topical Issue: Quantum Walks and applications
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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: Festschrift in honor of Philip (Fyl) Pincus
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EPJ E Topical Issue: Novel Molecular Materials and Devices from Functional Soft Matter
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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: 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 Plus Focus Point Issue: The Magic of Glass
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EPJ Quantum Technology - Open Calls for Papers
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EPJ ST Special Issue Celestial Mechanics: new discoveries and challenges for space exploration
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EPJ ST Special Issue: Application of Fractional-Calculus in Physical Systems
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EPJ ST Special Issue: Machine Learning for quantum many-body systems
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EPJ ST Special Issue: Molecular and Cellular Mechanics
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EPJ Techniques and Instrumentation - Open Calls for Papers