EPL is published under the scientific policy and control of the European Physical Society by EDP Sciences, IOP Publishing and the Società Italiana di Fisica for a partnership of 17 European physical societies (the EPL Association). EPL (formerly Europhysics Letters) is a physics letters journal published twice a month under the scientific responsibility of the European Physical Society. It aims at publishing short papers containing new results, ideas, concepts, experimental methods and theoretical treatments. EPL results from a truly international collaboration: the refereeing procedure is handled by the Editorial Office, which stands by the European Physical Society, while the Production is handled jointly by the Società Italiana di Fisica, EDP Sciences and IOP Publishing. We have brought together our expertises to create a high-quality journal for the international scientific community.

Artistic image based on figure 3 (a) from “Taxis of cargo-carrying microswimmers in traveling activity waves" by Pietro Luigi Muzzeddu, Édgar Roldán, Andrea Gambassi and Abhinav Sharma

Exploring the frontiers of Physics

Our vision is for EPL to become a leading home for global physics letters, to offer rapid publication of ground-breaking physics results from the international community, and to provide the broadest coverage of physics research.

EPL On-line

EPL is available on-line from  www.epljournal.org and on the EDP Sciences website.

Benefits of publishing your work with EPL

• High standards of peer review – articles are sent to external reviewers (usually two) selected by EPL’s co-editors, a truly international team of active research scientists in your field

•  Fast publication times – the median time in 2023 from receipt of an article to acceptance was just 73 days.

•  Expert copy editing – your accepted article will be professionally copy edited to the journal’s high quality standards

•  Efficient ‘proofs to authors’ service – to ensure fast publication we ask that you return the proofs of your article within 48 hours

•  International readership – regularly read in more than 90 countries

•  Solid citation record – 2023 2-year Impact Factor*: 1.8 (*JCR, Clarivate Analytics © 2024)

•  Free PDF offprint of your published article

•  No page or article charges