The ''European Physical Journal'' (or ''EPJ'') is a joint publication of

EDP Sciences EDP Sciences (Édition Diffusion Presse Sciences) is an STM publisher that specialises scientific information for specialist and more general audiences (general public, decision-makers, teachers, etc.). EDP produces and publishes international ...

Springer Science+Business Media Springer Science+Business Media, commonly known as Springer, is a German multinational publishing company of books, e-books and peer-reviewed journals in science, humanities, technical and medical (STM) publishing. Originally founded in 1842 in ...

, and the

Società Italiana di Fisica The (SIF) or Italian Physical Society was founded in 1897 and is a non-profit organization whose aim is to promote, encourage, protect the study and the progress of physics in Italy and in the world. It is associated with the journal series '' Nuo ...

. It arose in 1998 as a merger and continuation of ''Acta Physica Hungarica'', ''

Anales de Física ''Anales de Física'' was a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research in all areas of physics published by the Royal Spanish Society of Physics (Real Sociedad Española de Física). It continued '' Anales de la Real Sociedad Española d ...

'', ''Czechoslovak Journal of Physics'', ''

Il Nuovo Cimento ''Nuovo Cimento'' is a series of peer-reviewed scientific journals of physics. The series was first established in 1855, when Carlo Matteucci and Raffaele Piria started publishing ''Il Nuovo Cimento'' as the continuation of ''Il Cimento'', wh ...

'', ''Journal de Physique'', ''Portugaliae Physica'' and ''

Zeitschrift für Physik ''Zeitschrift für Physik'' (English: ''Journal for Physics'') is a defunct series of German peer-reviewed physics journals established in 1920 by Springer Berlin Heidelberg. The series stopped publication in 1997, when it merged with other journ ...

''. The journal is published in various sections, covering all areas of

physics Physics is the natural science that studies matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge which r ...

History

In the late 1990s, Springer and EDP Sciences decided to merge ''Zeitschrift für Physik'' and ''Journal de Physique''. With the addition of ''Il Nuovo Cimento'' from the Societa Italiana di Fisica, the ''European Physical Journal'' commenced publication in January 1998. Now ''EPJ'' is a merger and continuation of ''Acta Physica Hungarica'', ''Anales de Fisica'', ''Czechoslovak Journal of Physics'', ''Il Nuovo Cimento'', ''Journal de Physique'', ''Portugaliae Physica'' and ''Zeitschrift für Physik''. The short-lived

open-access journal Open access (OA) is a set of principles and a range of practices through which research outputs are distributed online, free of access charges or other barriers. With open access strictly defined (according to the 2001 definition), or libre op ...

family

PhysMath Central PhysMath Central was an imprint of Springer Science+Business Media, publishing online open-access scientific journals in physics and mathematics and operated by BioMed Central. It was active from 2007 until 2011. Journals published were: * ''P ...

was merged in 2011 into the ''European Physical Journal'', which has offered an open-access option since 2006.

Topics covered

The EPJ is published in the following sections: * ''

European Physical Journal A The ''European Physical Journal A: Hadrons and Nuclei'' is an academic journal, recognized by the European Physical Society, presenting new and original research results in a variety of formats, including Regular Articles, Reviews, Tools for Experi ...

: Hadrons and Nuclei'' * '': Applied Metamaterials'' * '': Applied Physics'' * ''

European Physical Journal B ''The European Physical Journal B: Condensed Matter and Complex Systems'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that covers condensed matter physics, statistical and nonlinear physics, and complex systems. Part of the ''European Physical Jou ...

: Condensed Matter and Complex Systems'' * ''

European Physical Journal C The ''European Physical Journal C'' (''EPJ C'') is a biweekly peer-reviewed, open access scientific journal covering theoretical and experimental physics. It is part of the SCOAP3 initiative. See also * ''European Physical Journal The ''Europe ...

: Particles and Fields'' * ''

European Physical Journal D {{Infobox Journal , title = European Physical Journal D: Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics , cover = Epjd webcover.jpg , editor = A. Beige, S. Ptasinska and A.V. Solov'yov , discipline = Atomic Physics , langu ...

: Atomic, Molecular, Optical and Plasma Physics'' * '': Data Science'' * ''

European Physical Journal E The ''European Physical Journal E: Soft Matter and Biological Physics'' is a scientific journal focusing on the physics of soft matter and biophysics. It publishes papers describing advances in the understanding of physical aspects of soft, liqui ...

: Soft Matter and Biological Physics'' * ''

European Physical Journal H The ''European Physical Journal H: Historical Perspectives on Contemporary Physics'' (''EPJ H'') is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal which focuses on the history of modern physics. It is the newest journal from the ''European Physical Jou ...

: Historical Perspectives on Contemporary Physics'' * '': Nuclear Sciences and Technologies'' * '': Nonlinear Biomedical Physics'' * ' * '': Photovoltaics'' * '': Quantum Technology'' * '': Special Topics'' * '': Techniques and Instrumentation'' * '': Web of Conferences'': journal of

conference proceedings In academia and librarianship, conference proceedings is a collection of academic papers published in the context of an academic conference or workshop. Conference proceedings typically contain the contributions made by researchers at the conferen ...

References

External links

*{{Official website, http://www.epj.org/
EPJ APEPJ ConferencesEPJ Data Science
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