Begun as a merger of Journal de Physique, Il Nuovo Cimento and Zeitschrift für Physik in 1998, EPJ presents itself today as a yet broader coalition and continuation of these founding journals plus
Acta Physica Hungarica, Anales de Fisica, Czechoslovak Journal of Physics, and Portugaliae Physica. Consequently, EPJ is characterized by a rapidly growing author- and readership.
