Aims
Entropy (ISSN 1099-4300), an international and interdisciplinary journal of entropy and information studies, publishes reviews, regular research papers and short notes. Our aim is to encourage scientists to publish as much as possible their theoretical and experimental details. There is no restriction on the length of the papers. If there are computation and the experiment, the details must be provided so that the results can be reproduced. There are in addition three unique features:
Manuscripts regarding research proposals and research ideas will be particularly welcome.
Comments on any related papers published in this journal and other journals can be published as short letters.
Electronic files regarding the full details of the calculation and experimental procedure, if unable to be published in a normal way, will be deposited as supplementary material.
Scope
Entropy deals with the development and/or application of entropy or information-theoretic concepts in a wide variety of applications. Relevant submissions ought to focus on one of the following:
develop the theory behind entropy or information theory
provide new insights into entropy or information-theoretic concepts
demonstrate a novel use of entropy or information-theoretic concepts in an application
obtain new results using concepts of entropy or information theory
Some Common Subject or Application Areas include:
Physics and Engineering: thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, the second law of thermodynamics, reversibility, quantum mechanics, black hole physics, maximum entropy methods, maximum entropy production, evolution of the universe
Information Theory: Shannon entropy, Kullback-Leibler divergence, channel capacity, Renyi and other entropies, and applications
Complex Systems: self-organization, chaos and nonlinear dynamics, simplicity and complexity, networks, symmetry breaking, similarity
Inquiry: experimental design, database querying, sensor placement, intelligent sampling
Computing: big data, database design and querying, networks, cloud computing, pattern recognition, coding and compression, information transfer, reversibility, information loss, social networking
Chemistry and Biology: chemical networks, energy, enthalpy, maximum entropy methods, biological networks, evolution, DNA and RNA, diversity
Machine Learning and Systems Theory: artificial intelligence, neural networks, cybernetics, robotics, man-machine interfaces
Economics: thermoeconomics, info-metrics, maximum entropy methods, game theory

Editorial Board
Editorial Board
Thermodynamics Section
Statistical Physics Section
Information Theory, Probability and Statistics Section
Astrophysics, Cosmology, and Black Holes Section
Quantum Information Section
Complexity Section
Entropy Reviews Section
Entropy and Biology Section
Signal and Data Analysis Section
Multidisciplinary Applications Section
Time Section
Editors (14)
Prof. Dr. Kevin H. Knuth E-Mail Website 
Editor-in-Chief
Department of Physics, University at Albany, 1400 Washington Avenue, Albany, NY 12222, USA
Tel. 518-209-0734; Fax: +1 518 442 5260 
Interests: entropy; probability theory; Bayesian; foundational issues; lattice theory; data analysis; maxent; machine learning; robotics; information theory; entropy-based experimental design
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Dr. Udo Von Toussaint E-Mail 
Associate Editor


Max-Planck-Institute for Plasma Physics, Boltzmannstrasse 2, 85748 Garching, Germany
Interests: Bayesian probability theory; Surface physics; ion-solid interactions; Experimental design and data fusion; data analysis; MCMC-methods; Robotics; Gaussian processes
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Prof. Dr. Philip Broadbridge E-Mail Website 
Associate Editor


Department of Mathematics and Statistics, La Trobe University Melbourne, VIC 3086, Australia
Fax: +1 3 9479 3060 
Interests: concepts of entropy and their applications
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Prof. Dr. Gregg Jaeger E-Mail Website 
Section Editor-in-Chief


Quantum Communication and Measurement Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Division of Natural Science and Mathematics, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Interests: quantum information; foundations of quantum mechanics; quantum cryptography; quantum metrology; history and philosophy of science; quantum optics; stochastic processes; genetics
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Prof. Dr. Robert Niven E-Mail Website 
Section Editor-in-Chief


School of Engineering and Information Technology, The University of New South Wales, Canberra, ACT, 2600, Australia
Tel. 02 6268 8735 
Interests: Bayesian and maximum entropy methods for the analysis of engineering and scientific systems; theoretical foundations of Bayesian inference, Bayesian estimation and plausible reasoning; entropy-based inference and extremum methods; Bayesian risk assessment; heuristics and methods for the selection of prior probabilities; probabilistic transport and evolution equations and operators
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Prof. William B. Sherwin E-Mail Website 
Section Editor-in-Chief


Evolution & Ecology Research Centre, School of Biological Earth and Environmental Science, UNSW Sydney, Sydney NSW 2052, Australia
Tel. 61293852119 
Interests: molecular ecology; evolutionary genetics; biodiversity; genomics, transciptomics; mathematics of forecasting and measuring biodiversity; conservation genetics and demography; endangered harvested and invasive species; evolutionary ecology of parentage, relatedness and group formation, especially in dolphins
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Prof. Dr. Miguel Rubi * E-Mail Website 
Section Editor-in-Chief


University of Barcelona, Department of Condensed Matter Physics, Diagonal 647, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
Tel. +34934021162 (office), +34609348478 (cell phone) 
Interests: non-equilibrium thermodynamics; non-equilibrium statistical physics; thermodynamics of small systems; heat exchange at the nanoscale; Casimir forces; diffusion in confined systems; small biological systems; non-equilibrium self-assembly
* Section: Entropy Reviews 
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Dr. Antonio M. Scarfone * E-Mail Website 
Section Editor-in-Chief


Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (ISC-CNR), c/o DISAT, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, I-10129 Torino, Italy
Tel. +390110907339 
Interests: nonextensive statistical mechanics; nonlinear Fokker–Planck equations; geometry information; nonlinear Schroedinger equation; quantum groups and quantum algebras; complex systems
* Statistical Mechanics 
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Prof. José A. Tenreiro Machado * E-Mail Website 
Section Editor-in-Chief


Department of Electrical Engineering, Institute of Engineering, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, 4249-015 Porto, Portugal
Tel. +351 22 8340500; Fax: +351 22 8321159 
Interests: nonlinear dynamics; fractional calculus; modeling; control; evolutionary computing; genomics; robotics; and intelligent transportation systems
* Complexity 
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Prof. Dr. Jay Lawrence * E-Mail Website 
Section Editor-in-Chief


The James Franck Institite, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA; and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 03755, USA
Tel. 1 (603) 667 - 1111 
Interests: condensed matter and many-body theory; quantum information and quantum foundations; entanglement, measurement and decoherence
* Quantum Information 
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Dr. Raúl Alcaraz * E-Mail Website 
Section Editor-in-Chief


Research Group in Electronic, Biomedical and Telecommunication Engineering, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Campus Universitario s/n, 16071, Cuenca, Spain
Tel. +34969179100 
Interests: entropy; complexity; information theory; information geometry; nonlinear dynamics; computational mathematics and statistics in medicine; biomedical time series analysis; cardiac signal processing
* Information Theory 
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Prof. Dr. Milivoje M. Kostic * E-Mail Website1 Website2 
Section Editor-in-Chief


Department of Mechanical Engineering, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 60115, USA
Tel. +18154142021 
Interests: fundamental laws of nature; thermodynamics and heat transfer fundamentals; the second law of thermodynamics and entropy; energy efficiency; conservation and sustainability; fluids-thermal-energy components and systems; nanotechnology and nanofluids
* Thermodynamics 
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Prof. Dr. Luca Faes E-Mail Website 
Section Associate Editor


Department of Engineering, University of Palermo, 90128 Palermo, Italy
Interests: time series analysis; cardiovascular neuroscience; network physiology
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Dr. Remo Garattini E-Mail Website 
Section Editor-in-Chief


Department of Engineering and Applied Sciences, University of Bergamo, Viale Marconi 5, 24044 Dalmine (Bergamo), Italy
Tel. +390352052320; Fax: +39 035 2052310 
Interests: quantum gravity; quantum cosmology; traversable wormholes; Casimir effect; quantum field theory; black hole physics; physics of the quantum vacuum
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Editorial Board Members (221)
Prof. Miguel A.F. Sanjuán E-Mail Website 


Department of Physics, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, 28933 Mostoles, Madrid, Spain
Interests: chaos; nonlinear dynamics; complex systems; dynamical systems; mathematical neuroscience
Prof. Dr. Ali E. Abbas E-Mail Website 


Epstein Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA
Tel. +1 217 265 7578 
Interests: entropy; probability theory; utility theory; Bayesian analysis; decision making; maximum entropy methods
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Special Issue in Entropy: Entropy, Utility, and Logical Reasoning
Prof. Dr. Reza Abbaschian E-Mail Website 


Winston Chung Global Energy Center, Bourns College of Engineering, University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA
Interests: solidification and materials processing; interfacial kinetics; high entropy alloys; mechanical properties; graphene growth; and high temperature-high pressure diamond growth
Prof. Dr. Tapio Ala-Nissila E-Mail Website 


1. Head of the Multiscale Statistical and Quantum Physics group in the Quantum Technology Center of Excellence and Professor of Physics at the Department of Applied Physics, Aalto University,00076 Aalto, Finland2. Head of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical Modelling and Professor of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, Loughborough University, Leicestershire LE11 3TU, UK
Interests: theoretical and computational statistical and condensed matter physics; stochastic dynamics, stochastic thermodynamics, soft matter physics, multiscale materials modeling, nano and microplasmonics, fluid dynamics and heat transfer, open quantum systems, quantum thermodynamics, micro and nanofluidistics
Dr. Anastasios Anastasiadis E-Mail Website 


Space Research & Technology Group, Institute for Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Applications and Remote Sensing, National Observatory of Athens, GR-15236 Penteli, Greece
Fax: +30 2 106138343 
Interests: cellular automata; complexity; acceleration, transport and diffusion processes in dynamical systems
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Special Issue in Entropy: Tsallis Entropy
Prof. Dr. Ciro Aprea E-Mail Website 


Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Salerno, Via Giovanni Paolo II 132, 84084, Fisciano, SA, Italy
Interests: thermal engineering; heat exchangers; heat transfer; vapour compression refrigeration systems; autocascade systems; magnetic refrigeration; elastocaloric refrigeration; electrocaloric refrigeration
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Special Issue in Energies: Refrigeration Systems and Applications 2019
Special Issue in Energies: Refrigeration Systems and Applications 2020
Assoc. Prof. Hiroshi Ashikaga E-Mail Website 


Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Interests: ventricular fibrillation; information theory; complex systems; artificial intelligence
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Special Issue in Entropy: Application of Information Theory and Entropy in Cardiology
Prof. Dr. Marcel Ausloos E-Mail Website 


1. School of Business, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE2 1RQ, United Kingdom 
2. Department of Statistics and Econometrics, Bucharest University of Economic Studies, Bucharest, 010552 Sector 1, Romania
Interests: time series analyses; statistical methods; multifractals; socio-eonophysics; models; religion implications; bibliometrics; scientometrics
Special Issues and Collections in MDPI journals:
Special Issue in Entropy: Statistical Mechanics of Complex and Disordered Systems
Special Issue in Sustainability: Sustainability and Econophysics
Special Issue in Entropy: Disordered Systems, Fractals and Chaos

Prof. Dr. Nihat Ay E-Mail Website 


Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Inselstrasse 22, 04103 Leipzig, Germany
Interests: learning and evolution; embodied cognitive systems; complexity; robustness; information geometry; graphical models and causality; information theory
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Special Issue in Entropy: Information Geometric Characterization of Classical and Quantum Complex Systems
Prof. Dr. Kazuharu Bamba E-Mail Website 


Division of Human Support System, Faculty of Symbiotic Systems Science, Fukushima University, Fukushima 960-1296, Japan
Tel. +81-24-503-3263; Fax: +81-24-598-3187 
Interests: modified theories of gravity; dark energy; cosmology; particle-theory and field-theory models of the early universe; electric and magnetic fields; quantum aspects of black holes, evaporation, thermodynamics
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Special Issue in Entropy: Modified Gravity: From Black Holes Entropy to Current Cosmology
Special Issue in Entropy: Holographic Principle and Its Application
Special Issue in Universe: Modified Gravity Cosmology: From Inflation to Dark Energy
Special Issue in Symmetry: Cosmological Inflation, Dark Matter and Dark Energy
Special Issue in Entropy: Gravitational Waves