Gold Open Access Journal
publishing with Springer-Nature
Impact Factor (2022): 3.0
5-year IF (2022): 2.7
CiteScore: 4.9
H Index: 85



Rapid peer review and publication
14 days submission to first editorial decision for all manuscripts (Median)
162 days submission to accept (Median)
[in 2023]

Article Type
Full Paper without word limit.
Express Letter has a limit of 5000 words including the main text, figure legends and table legends. The sum of the number of figures and tables should be less than or equal to 5.
Frontier Letter can be submitted upon invitation by the Editor-in-Chief.
Technical Report describes the technical development of instrument or software.
Comment is a substantial re-analysis of a previously published article in the journal.

“Express Letter”
Express Letters provide you with a fast turnaround time, while maintaining rigorous peer review.
From submission to first decision, the shortest time is 19 days, and the average is 45 days (based on 2023 data).

"Technical Report"
Technical Reports present a software tool or an experimental or computational method, test or procedure, or hardware design.

Special Issues
We welcome proposals for special issues.

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Article Processing Charge
Non-Members $1,590
Members* $1,283.93
(*) The APC for members is applicable when a corresponding author belongs to any of the five societies that co-publish EPS.



Editor in Chief
Takeshi Sagiya
Nagoya University, Japan

Vice Editors-in-Chief
Masahito Nosé   Aitaro Kato

Advisory Board
Editorial Board