About Special Issues

The Special Issue is the collection of articles that reveal the questions in specific research topics and meets the journal requirements, aims, and scope.
All articles will be peer-reviewed and published in the World Science journal and will be listed together on the Special Issue webpage. As a rule, each Special Issue is published as a collective monograph after the Special Issue publication date. Thus, the author who submits the article to Special Issue gets, as a benefit, published article in the regular journal, in Special Issue, and in the collective monograph.


Proposing a Special Issue

All of our journals publish Special Issues. If you carry out some research in emerging areas and would like to publish your results and invite your colleagues to share their outcomes as well, you can submit the Special Issue proposal and be a Guest Editor. In order to propose a new topic for Special Issue, you need to prepare the Special Issue Title, an Abstract that describes scientific challenges and goals, and some keywords that characterize your field of science. After your submission, our editorial office will assess your proposal and make a decision about accepting articles in the Special Issue and arranging you as a Guest Editor.

Guest Editor's responsibilities:
• Handling and sending out suitable Special Issues manuscripts for peer review;
• Searching and invitation new researchers to the Guest Editorial team;
• Promoting the Special Issue among the Editor's scientific network to raise awareness of new research in the Editor's field of science.

Guest Editor's benefits:
• Guest Editor and his co-authors are entitled to get a 100% reduction on the Article Processing Charge for two articles in the Special Issue;
• Collective monograph will be published by the Guest Editor editing.

Use the link for Submitting your Special Issue proposal


Submitting to a Special Issue

Manuscripts should be submitted online until the deadline (find on the Special Issue webpage) at the "Submit Article" webpage.
During submission, you have to provide in the "Comments for the Editor" section information that you would like to publish your article in Special Issue and give the Special Issue Title respectively.
All articles will be peer-reviewed and published in the World Science journal and will be listed together on the special issue website.
Please read the Author Guidelines before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charges (APCs) for publication in the Special Issue are 50 USD.