EPJ H now explicitly invites submissions of tandem papers

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Published on 14 February 2025

Encouraging physicists to actively engage with their discipline‘s history has long been a key goal of The European Physical Journal H: Historical Perspectives on Contemporary Physics (EPJ H). As part of these efforts, EPJ H now explicitly invites submissions of "tandem papers".

In their basic form, these are co-authored papers in which the physicist provides a state-of-the-art overview of a contemporary topic and the historian complements this with a historical contextualization. For examples of this, see the recent EPJH special issue on "History for Physics: Contextualizing modern developments in the foundations of quantum theory". In the future, we also welcome a wider variety of collaborations between historians and physicists. The Editorial Board explicitly also encourages expressions of interest in this format and offers support, both for individual researchers looking for suitable tandem partners (from history as well as from physics) and for pairs of researchers seeking to develop the tandem format.

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