EPL comes of age
EPL comes of age
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英超已经成熟
DOI：
10.1209/0295-5075/77/10000
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发表时间：
2006
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通讯作者：
D. Jérome
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D. Jérome
《欧洲物理学快报》（Europhysics Letters）是由两个学会的物理学期刊合并而成，分别属于法国物理学会（SFP）和意大利物理学会（SIF）。这本新杂志也得到了英国物理研究所（IOP）和许多其他国家物理学会，欧洲物理学会（EPS）成员的支持。这一合并的目的用G. H.斯塔福德，1985年EPS主席，对他来说，《欧洲物理学快报》标志着“欧洲走向更大团结的一个重要里程碑”，这一进程始于近20年前欧洲物理学会的成立。《欧洲物理学快报》被认为是一本强大的欧洲期刊，在EPS的监督和科学控制下发表涵盖物理学所有领域的简短重要通信。21年后的2007年，《欧洲物理学快报》已经成熟，董事会在EPS的控制下决定使该期刊成熟，现在更名为EPL，并以新的封面设计和新的印刷格式为特色，从而鼓励发展成为一本顶级期刊，成为全球领先的突破性物理学研究快报之家。我们的目标是使EPL成为一个高影响力的物理学期刊，从而提高知名度，影响力，声望，科学质量，声誉和影响因子，尽管所有科学家目前都意识到影响因子的呈现必须有所保留。除了EDPS（SFP的出版公司）和SIF之外，EPL合作伙伴之间的新出版合同将直接涉及物理研究所通过其出版部门（IOP出版）发挥更积极的作用，其任务是托管期刊的在线设施。EDPS、IOP Publishing和SIF的出版专业知识和营销知识相结合，应确保EPL在未来几年内大大增加出版论文的数量。此外，EPL也应该增加发表论文的数量在一个显着的方式，因为IOP出版在2007年将停止在物理学杂志的信件部分，并鼓励他们重定向到EPL。因此，EPL将成为唯一一个在欧洲独家编辑和出版的顶级物理学专业期刊。EPL有时被非欧洲科学界视为欧洲期刊。虽然它的出版商确实是欧洲的，但它的内容是真正的国际化，因为目前2006年出版的论文中有三分之一来自非欧洲国家。我们希望这一比例在不久的将来还会增加。EPL仍将由N固定的初始目标引导。Kurti，《欧洲物理学快报》的第一任主编：“科学出版......是一个需要在国际层面上处理的问题。IOP出版社将通过广泛的广告和营销活动，包括参加所有重大科学活动，以及通过不断开发和更新的新网站www.example.com，提高期刊的知名度和宣传http://www.epljournal.org。2007年，EPL编辑委员会的科学广度将在主题和地理上都有所扩大，特别努力吸引来自高能和粒子领域的文章物理学、原子、分子和光学物理学、天体粒子和宇宙学研究、量子光学和信息研究以及生命科学。EPL还将加强与凝聚态和软物质主题的联系，并将其范围扩大到美国和亚洲的物理学界。EPL很自豪能成为物理学家为物理学家制作的期刊。编辑委员会是致力于评估论文的活跃研究科学家的核心，目前由35名知识渊博的科学家组成，2007年可能会扩大，他们在各自的专业领域具有公认的能力。EPL的出版时间（提交在线出版物）是同行评审信件期刊中最短的。2006年，从提交到电子版首次发表的平均时间，经修订和未经修订的文章分别为16周和9.2周，从接受到在线首次发表的平均时间保持在4周以下。“最新文章”服务提供了全球可见度，最新一期的EPL的完整在线版以开放方式张贴30天。评估过程确保了一个有用和诚实的同行评审，将来自世界各地的物理学家联系起来，并在必要时为作者提供建设性的改进建议。EPL为作者提供的另一个附加值是相互转让的编辑协议，该协议已扩展到主要合作期刊，欧洲物理杂志系列和物理杂志系列。这为发表科学合理的手稿提供了另一种机会，这些手稿可能不适合原始提交的期刊。因此，EPL注定要成为整个世界科学界的欧洲出版平台的基石。尽管EPL的工作人员和董事会成员将尽一切努力为读者和作者提供最好的服务，但只有作者和读者才能增加评论的影响力，相信期刊会发表他们最好的作品。
Twenty-one years have now passed since the launch of Europhysics Letters which merged the physics letters journals of two learned societies: Journal de Physique Lettres and Lettere al Nuovo Cimento belonging, respectively, to the French Physical Society (SFP) and to the Italian Physical Society (SIF). This new journal was also supported by the UK Institute of Physics (IOP) and many other National Physical Societies, members of the European Physical Society (EPS). The aim of this merger was expressed by the words of G. H. Stafford, the President of EPS in 1985, for whom Europhysics Letters marked `an important milestone in the progress towards greater unity in Europe' which began with the creation of the European Physical Society nearly twenty years earlier. Europhysics Letters was supposed to be a strong European-based journal for the publication of short important communications covering all domains of physics under the supervision and the scientific control of EPS. In 2007, 21 years later, Europhysics Letters has now come of age and the Board of Directors, under the control of EPS, has decided to mature the journal, now re-branded as EPL and characterized by a new cover design and a new printed format, thus encouraging development into a top-tier journal, a leading global home for ground-breaking physics research letters. The objective is to make EPL a high-impact physics journal leading towards an increase in visibility, impact, prestige, scientific quality, reputation and impact factor although all scientists are currently aware that the presentation of impact factors must be taken with a grain of salt. A new publishing contract amongst the EPL partners will directly involve, besides EDPS (the publishing company of SFP) and SIF, the Institute of Physics through its publishing department (IOP Publishing) in a more active role, its task being hosting the on-line facilities of the journal. The combined publishing expertise and marketing knowledge of EDPS, IOP Publishing and SIF should ensure that EPL considerably increases the number of published papers over the next few years. In addition, EPL should also increase the number of published papers in a significant manner since IOP Publishing in 2007 will discontinue the letter sections in Journal of Physics and encourage their redirection to EPL. Thus EPL will become the only top-tier physics letters-specific journal edited and published exclusively within Europe. EPL has sometimes been considered as a European journal by the non-European scientific community. Although its publishers are indeed European, its content is truly international as presently already one-third of the papers published in 2006 come from non-European countries. We hope this proportion will still increase in the near future. EPL will still be guided by the initial target fixed by N. Kurti, the first Editor-in-Chief of Europhysics Letters: `Scientific publishing ... is one of those matters which is desirable to handle on an international level'. IOP Publishing will provide increased visibility and promotion of the journal through an extensive advertising and marketing campaign including presence at all major scientific events and additionally through a developing and constantly updated new website available at http://www.epljournal.org. The scientific breadth of EPL Editorial Board will increase during 2007 both thematically and geographically with a special effort towards attracting articles from high energy and particles physics, atomic, molecular and optical physics, astroparticles and cosmology research, quantum optics and information research and from life sciences. EPL will also strengthen its links with the condensed and soft matter topics and extend its range to cover physics communities in the USA and Asia. EPL is proud to be a journal produced by physicists for physicists. The Editorial Board, the essential core of active research scientists devoted to the evaluation of the papers, presently comprises 35 highbrow scientists, with a likely expansion in 2007, qualified by their recognized competences in their fields of expertise. The publication times (submission to on-line publication) of EPL are amongst the shortest for peer-reviewed letters journals. In 2006 the average time between submission and e-first publication has been 16 and 9.2 weeks for articles with and without revision, respectively, and the average time from acceptance to on-line first publication was kept lower that 4 weeks. The `Latest articles' service supplies world-wide visibility with the full on-line edition of the most recent issues of EPL posted for 30 days in open access. The evaluation process ensures a helpful and honest peer review connecting physicists from all over the world and providing the authors with constructive suggestions for improvement whenever they are necessary. Another added value that EPL offers to authors is the editorial agreement for mutual transfer which has been extended to the major partner journals, The European Physical Journal series and the Journal of Physics series. This provides an alternative opportunity for publishing scientifically sound manuscripts that may not be suitable for the journal of original submission. EPL is therefore destined to become the keystone of the European publishing platform for the whole world scientific community. Although the staff and Board members of EPL will make all possible efforts to provide the best services to readers and authors, it is only authors and readers that will increase the impact of the review, trusting the journal to publish their best works.