Plasma physics suffered great losses during the recent year. This includes Ken Golden (November 24, 1932–August 18 2020), for an obituary, see Ref. [1] and Vladimir Evgenevich Fortov (January 23, 1946–November 29, 2020). Fortov was a leading figure in nonideal plasmas, shock compressed matter, and dusty plasmas. Aside from his extensive scientific contributions he earned high recognition for preserving Russian science in the chaotic post‐soviet years and for his unique contributions to Russian‐German scientific collaborations. This is reflected in two obituaries in our journal.^{[2, 3]} In addition, CPP is devoting a special issue on nonideal plasmas to the memory of V.E. Fortov (see below).

As mentioned in the most recent editorial,^[4] CPP was among the first journals to broadly offering free open access to a large fraction of authors via the consortium Projekt DEAL.^[4] We are satisfied that many authors took this opportunity. As a consequence, the visibility of scientific results published in CPP increased significantly since 2019 which is manifested in a substantial increase of article downloads.

Our editorial board is continuing its efforts to provide the best possible service to authors and the plasma physics community. Our focus is on improving the scientific quality of published research articles enforcing our high standards that were described in a recent editorial.^[5] About 50% of the manuscripts have to be rejected without external review. At the same time, authors are encouraged to thoroughly revise their work removing all critical issues. In that case, our editors are ready to give those new manuscripts full consideration – an opportunity that has been used by a substantial number of authors. Aside from quality, our second major objective is rapid manuscript handling. The average time from submission to publication in CPP is among the shortest in the field. Moreover, authors contributing to special issues do not have to wait until all other submissions have been processed. Manuscripts are published online (“Early View”) shortly after acceptance and receive a DOI, so they can be cited immediately, even before inclusion into a journal issue.

Finally we note another novelty: CPP now requires authors to include a data handling statement in their manuscript. The goal is to enable reproducibility and verification of data, methodology, and reporting standards. Therefore, our journal now expects that data supporting the results in the paper will be archived in an appropriate public repository. Authors are required to provide a data availability statement to describe the availability or the absence of shared data. When data have been shared, authors are required to include in their data availability statement a link to the repository they have used, and to cite the data they have shared. Whenever possible, the scripts and other artefacts used to generate the analyses presented in the paper should also be publicly archived. If sharing data compromises ethical standards or legal requirements then authors are not expected to share it.

The editorial board is looking forward to receiving your excellent manuscripts, rapid research letters or proposals for special issues.

Michael Bonitz, for the editors.

近年来，等离子体物理遭受了巨大损失。其中包括肯·金（Ken Golden，1932年11月24日至2020年8月18日）的an告，请参阅参考资料。[ 1 ]和弗拉基米尔·埃夫格涅维奇·福托夫（1946年1月23日至2020年11月29日）。Fortov在非理想等离子体，冲击压缩物质和多尘等离子体中处于领先地位。除了他的广泛科学贡献之外，他还因在后苏联混乱的岁月中保存俄罗斯科学以及对俄罗斯与德国科学合作的独特贡献而获得了高度认可。这在我们的期刊中有两个itu告中反映出来。^{[ 2，3 ]}此外，CPP正在将非理想等离子体的特殊问题专门用于VE Fortov的记忆（请参阅下文）。

正如最近的社论所提到的那样^{[ 4 ]，} CPP是最早通过Projekt DEAL财团向大部分作者提供免费开放访问的期刊之一。^{[ 4 ]}我们感到满意的是，许多作者抓住了这个机会。因此，自2019年以来，CPP发表的科学成果的知名度显着提高，这体现在文章下载量的大幅增加上。

我们的编辑委员会将继续努力，为作者和等离子物理学界提供最好的服务。我们的重点是提高发表的研究论文的科学质量，以加强我们在最近社论中描述的高标准。^{[ 5 ]}约有50％的手稿必须在未经外部审查的情况下被拒绝。同时，鼓励作者彻底修改其工作，以消除所有关键问题。在这种情况下，我们的编辑人员准备充分考虑这些新手稿，这是很多作者都在利用的机会。除了质量，我们的第二个主要目标是快速处理原稿。在CPP中从提交到发表的平均时间是该领域中最短的时间。此外，对特殊问题做出贡献的作者不必等到所有其他提交物都经过处理后再提交。稿件在接受后不久就会在线发布（“早期查看”）并收到DOI，因此即使在收录到期刊之前，也可以立即对其进行引用。

最后，我们注意到另一个新颖之处：CPP现在要求作者在其手稿中包含数据处理声明。目的是实现数据，方法论和报告标准的可重复性和验证。因此，我们的期刊现在希望将支持论文结果的数据存储在适当的公共资源库中。要求作者提供数据可用性声明，以描述共享数据的可用性或不存在。共享数据后，要求作者在其数据可用性声明中包括指向他们已使用的存储库的链接，并引用他们已共享的数据。只要有可能，用于生成本文中介绍的分析的脚本和其他文物也应公开归档。

编辑委员会期待收到您的优秀手稿，快速研究信函或特殊问题的建议。

迈克尔·博尼兹（Michael Bonitz），编辑。