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Living Reviews in Relativity is a peer-reviewed, full open access, and exclusively online journal, publishing freely available reviews of research in all areas of relativity. Articles are solicited from leading authorities and are directed towards the scientific community at or above the graduate-student level. The articles in Living Reviews provide critical reviews of the current state of research in the fields they cover. Articles also offer annotated insights into the key literature and describe other available resources. Living Reviews is unique in maintaining a suite of high-quality reviews, which are kept up-to-date by the authors. This is the meaning of the word "living" in the journal's title.
Living Reviews in Relativity has become a valuable tool for the scientific community and one of the first places a researcher looks for information about current work in relativity. Articles are placed at the level of a good plenary review talk at an international conference. Written by experts, reviews published in the journal cite, explain, and assess the most relevant, interesting, and important print and electronic resources in a given field. The articles evaluate existing work, place it in a meaningful context, and suggest areas where more work and new results are needed.
Living Reviews in Relativity attracts readers from the entire relativity community. Graduate students can use the journal to start their initial literature surveys or to learn about fields peripheral to their own; researchers can use it to quickly find out about the most up-to-date results in fields in which they are not current, to track down bibliographic references that they have not recorded, or even to find areas in which their own skills can be applied in a new field; and lecturers can use it to find information and visual materials that can be used in presentations at all levels.

Editor-in-Chief:
Bala R. Iyer, International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, TIFR, India


Editorial Board:
Bernd Brügmann, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany
Piotr T. Chruściel, University of Vienna, Austria
Monica Colpi, University of Milano Bicocca, Italy
Arthur B. Kosowsky, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Renate Loll, Radboud University, The Netherlands
Donald Marolf, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Jorge Pullin, Louisiana State University, USA
Mukund Rangamani, University of California, Davis, USA
Clifford Will, University of Florida, USA


Founding Editor-in-Chief (1998-2016):
Bernard F. Schutz, MPI for Gravitational Physics, Germany


Former Editors:
Robert Beig, University of Vienna, Austria
Chris Isham, Imperial College London, UK
Jürgen Renn, MPI for the History of Science, Germany
Edward Seidel, National Center for Supercomputing Applications, USA
Joachim Wambsganss, Heidelberg University, Germany