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: 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: Advances in Multi-Scale Modelling of Intense Electronic Excitation Processes
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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 Data Science Special Issue on Data Science Perspectives on Economic Crime
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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: Chaotic variable-order fractional neural networks
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EPJ ST Special Issue: Complex Bio Rhythms
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EPJ ST Special Issue: Current Trends in Computational and Experimental Techniques in Nonlinear Dynamics
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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: Symmetry, Dynamics and Strings: A Centennial Issue in Honor of Yoichiro Nambu
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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 ST Special Issue: Transport Phenomena and Phase Transitions in Soft and Disordered Systems
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EPJ Techniques and Instumentation: Diagnostics for electric propulsion systems