In 2016 EPL is celebrating it's 30th anniversary
The journal was founded in 1986 as Europhysics Letters by EPS, SFP and its subsidiary EDP Sciences, SIF and IOP.
A new type of article for EPL - commentaries authored by leading researchers aimed at highlighting the significance, impact, progress and wider implications of their research field.
In 2015 EPL provided the award for the Best Activities organised for the EPS Young Minds Project.
Professor Giorgio Benedek took over the role of Editor-in-Chief from 10 May 2013 from Professor Michael Schreiber who leaves the position at the end of a 3-year term.
Nominations for Editor in Chief of EPL
Nominations are now open for the Editor in Chief of EPL, a leading, global letters journal owned and published by a consortium of 17 physical societies in Europe.
To make it easy for you to find the very best research published in EPL during 2011, IOP has created this Best of 2011 collection.
Andre Geim article published by EPL
EPL is pleased to publish an article by the 2010 Nobel Prize laureate Andre Geim et al. "Revealing common artifacts due to ferromagnetic inclusions in highly oriented pyrolytic graphite".
EPL article receives press coverage
EPL article "Evolution of strategies for the collective-risk social dilemma relating to climate change" by G. Greenwood receives press coverage on "environmentalresearchweb".
The EPL Best of 2009 is a collection of papers published over the last year, chosen by our readers via the number of downloads.