Table of Contents
Volume 16 Issue 2 – In Production
Volume 16 Issue 1
Volume 15 Issue 2-3
Volume 15 Issue 1
Volume 14 Issue 3
Volume 14 Issue 2
Volume 14 Issue 1
Volume 13 Issue 2/3
Volume 13 Issue 1
Volume 12 Issue 3
Volume 12 Issue 2
Volume 12 Issue 1
Volume 11 Issue 3
Volume 11 Issue 2
Volume 11 Issue 1
Volume 10 Issue 3
Volume 10 Issue 2
Volume 10 Issue 1
Editors-in-Chief
Franco F. Orsucci
Co-founder and President of Mayfair Academy for Advanced Studies (MAAS), London
Visiting Professor, University College London
Director, Institute for Complexity Studies, Rome
E-mail: f.orsucci@ucl.ac.uk
Nicoletta Sala
Institute for Complexity Studies, Rome, Italy
CERFIM (Research Center for Mathematics and Physics), Locarno, Switzerland
ISSI (Institute for Scientific and Interdisciplinary Studies), Locarno, Switzerland
E-mail: nicolettasala@alice.it
Editor’s Author Page: https://novapublishers.com/writer/nicoletta-sala/?orderby=brand
Editorial Board Members
Henry Abarbanel, University of California, San Diego, USA
Fred Abraham, Bluberry Brain Institute, USA & NCU, London
Diederik Aerts, Free University, Brussels, Belgium
Valentin Afraimovich, University of Berlin, Germany
Kazuyuki Aihara, University of Tokyo, Japan
Sergio Albeverio, University of Bonn, Germany
Stefano Boccaletti, National Institute of Optics, Florence, Italy
Gabriele Cappellato, University of Lugano, Mendrisio, Switzerland
Elio Conte, University of Bari, Bari, Italy
Giovanni Dosi, University of Rome, La Sapienza, Italy
Jeffrey Elman, University of California, San Diego, USA
Giulio De Felice, Niccolò Cusano University, London
Liane Gabora, University of British Columbia, Canada
Alessandro Giuliani, Istituto Superiore Sanità, Rome, Italy
Celso Grebogi, University of Aberdeen, UK
Fanji Gu, Fudan University, China
Steve Guastello, Marquette University, Milwaukee, USA
Sibel Halfon, Bilgi University Istanbul, Turkey
Alan Hastings, University of California, Davis, USA
Uwe an der Heiden, University of Witten/Herdecke, Germany
Scott Kelso, Florida Atlantic University, USA
Ljubisa Kocic, University of Nis, Yugoslavia
Zbignew Kowalik, University of Dusseldorf, Germany
Juergen Kurths, Universitaet Potsdam, Germany
Terry Marks-Tarlow, UCLA, USA & NCU, London, UK
Danilo Merlini, Cerfim and ISSI, Switzerland
Alexander Mikhailov, Max-Planck-Gesellshaft, Germany
Chiara Mocenni, University of Siena, Siena, Italy
Arianna Palmieri, University of Padua, Italy
Ulrich Parlitz, University Gottingen, Germany
Lou Pecora, Naval Research Laboratory, USA
Heinz-Otto Peitgen, University of Bremen, Germany
Laurent Pezard, Universite Rene Descartes, France
Rita Pizzi, University of Milan, Italy
Kestutis Pyragas, Semiconductor Phys. Inst., Lithuania
Paul Rapp, Norristown State Hospital, USA
Guenther Schiepek, Paracelsus University, Salzburg, Austria
Gabriele Serafini, Universita Niccolo Cusano, Rome, Italy
Bill Sulis, MacMaster University, Canada
Richard Taylor, University of Oregon, USA
Qing Ye Tong, Zhejiang University, China
Wolfgang Tschacher, University of Bern, Switzerland
Ichiro Tsuda, Hokkaido University Sapporo, Japan
Angelo Vulpiani, Università di Roma, Italy
Chuck Webber, Loyola University, USA
Damian Zanette, Centro Atomico Bariloche, Argentina
NOTES FOR CONTRIBUTORS
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Articles should be submitted by email to either of the Editors-in-Chief listed below.
Franco F. Orsucci
University College London & NCU
London, UK
E-mail: f.orsucci@ucl.ac.uk
Nicoletta Sala
Institute for Complexity Studies
Rome, Italy
E-mail: nicolettasala@alice.it
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Manuscript Preparation
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Original Papers
Reviews
News and Ideas
Educational Material
Metaphors
Original Data
Original Papers
These should be original works describing scientific results.
1. It is the report of a study written by the researchers who did the study.
2. The researchers describe their hypothesis or research question and the purpose of the study.
3. The researchers detail their research methods.
4. The results of the research are reported.
5. The researchers interpret their results and discuss possible implications.
The major subdivisions that should be present in a research article: Literature Review or Background; Methods; Results; Conclusions; Discussion. The abstract of the article usually contains these subdivision headings and summarizes each of them.
Original papers should be limited to 15,000 words.
Reviews
A review article is an article that summarizes the current state of understanding on a topic. A review article surveys and summarizes previously published studies, rather than reporting new findings, facts, or analyses. Review articles focus on: main people working in a field; recent major advances and discoveries; significant gaps in the research; current debates; ideas of where research might go next. We would consider proposals of literature reviews, systematic reviews, and metanalyses. Reviews should not exceed 15,000 words. Authors of review papers are encouraged to contact the Editor in advance.
News and Ideas
Suggestions for applications of new ideas or methodologies are welcome.
Contributions should not exceed 3,000 words in length.
Software and Algorithms
Include any of the following:
1) Interactive processes, such as SGI and JAVA.
2) Program packages.
3) Algorithms as demonstrations of new computational ideas and techniques.
Submission of these should be accompanied by: a description of the aims, methods, and implementation; documentation to allow users to install and run the software; some data, scripts, or any other material to provide a demonstration of the software in use, and; arrangements regarding availability. Authors should contact the Editor before submission.
Educational Material
Includes lectures, tutorials, and other educational material. Authors should contact the Editor before submission.
Metaphors
Creative papers on analogical suggestions coming from the arts and the social sciences. Authors should contact the Editor before submission.
Original Data
Samples of any kind of raw original data (e.g. time series, etc.) that could be offered, accompanied by detailed explicative notes, to the scientific community to compare differences. Authors should contact the Editor before submission.
Peer-Review
CCL’s review process
1. Submission of paper.
2. Editorial office assessment.
3. Appraisal by the editor.
4. Invitation to reviewers.
5. Response to invitations.
6. Review is conducted.
7. Journal evaluates the reviews.
8. The decision is communicated within 6 to 8 weeks.
The journal uses double-blind peer-review. The identities of both reviewers and authors are concealed from each other throughout the review. To facilitate this, authors must ensure that their manuscripts are prepared in such a way that they do not reveal their identities to reviewers, either directly or indirectly. Please therefore ensure that the following items are present in your submission and provided as separate files.
– Anonymized Manuscript
– Title Page
Anonymized Manuscript
Please remove any identifying information, such as authors’ names or affiliations, from your manuscript before submission. As well as removing names and affiliations under the title within the manuscript, other steps need to be taken to ensure the manuscript is correctly prepared for double blind peer review. The key points to consider are:
Use the third person to refer to work the authors have previously published. For example, write “Black and Hart (2015) have previously demonstrated” rather than “we/the authors have previously demonstrated (Black & Hart, 2015).”
Make sure that figures and tables do not contain any reference to author affiliations.
Choose file names with care, and ensure that the file’s “properties” are also anonymised. If you are using Office 2007 or later, consider using the Document Inspector Tool prior to submission.
Title Page
The Title Page will remain separate from the manuscript throughout the peer-review process and will not be sent to the reviewers. The Title Page should include:
– The manuscript title
– All authors’ complete names and complete affiliations
– A complete address for the corresponding author, including an e-mail address
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The appropriate statements are provided below. They should be included in the article’s text in a section titled Ethical Compliance. This section should immediately precede the References section
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Statement
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Statement
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or
b) Disclosure of Interest:
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Statement
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Statement
This study was conducted in accordance with the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its subsequent amendments.
5) Statement of Animal Welfare
All studies that involve animals should contain a statement that the study and its procedures have been approved by their affiliate institutional research ethics committee.
Statement
All animals involved in this study were treated in accordance with the ethical standards set forth by the institution at which the study was conducted.
Committee on Publication Ethics
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https://publicationethics.org/resources/code-conduct
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