ZENtropy is an international open-access journal dedicated to advancing the understanding and application of entropy to complexity and emergence across diverse scientific, engineering, medical, social, nature, and philosophical domains. The journal is inspired by the concept of zentropy, an all-inclusive fusion of Zen-inspired simplicity and entropy-governed complexity, originally developed by Prof. Zi-Kui Liu and his team to describe the multiscale contributions to entropy in thermodynamics and beyond.
Aims and Scope
Entropy governs the evolution of all systems, biological, nonbiological, and their hybrids, through interactions with their surroundings. Classical statistical mechanics defines entropy based on system configurations, leading to the Gibbs or Shannon information entropy. Zentropy theory expands this view by defining total system entropy as the sum of Gibbs/Shannon entropy and the statistically weighted average of the entropy of each configuration. When the configurations are accessible by quantum mechanics through density functional theory (DFT), zentropy provides an approach to predict emergent behaviors. For complex systems where DFT is intractable, zentropy enables an artificial intelligence (AI) framework to learn key configurations.
ZENtropy Journal provides an open-access platform dedicated to exploring complexity through the lens of entropy. It seeks to uncover how order arises from disorder and to illuminate mechanisms of transformation, adaptation, and organization across all domains of knowledge. The journal welcomes studies where configurations and their properties are predicted from DFT and computer simulations, learned through AI, or synthesized from hybrid approaches.
Editorial Board Structure
- Editor-In-Chief (EIC)
- Advisory Board (AB)
- Executive Editors (EE): Coordinate the Editorial Board
- Deputy Editor-In-Chief (DEIC): Domain experts
- Associate Editors (AE)
- Young AEs (YAE)
Ownership
The journal is co-owned by OAE Publishing Inc and Zentropy Foundation.
Publishing Model
Gold Open Access. All articles published by ZENtropy are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately from the date of publication. For further information, please refer to Open Access.
Copyright and License to Publish
Articles in ZENtropy are published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). The CC BY 4.0 allows for maximum dissemination and re-use of open access materials and is preferred by many research funding bodies. Under this license users are free to share (copy, distribute and transmit) and remix (adapt) the contribution for any purposes, even commercially, provided that the users appropriately acknowledge the original authors and the source.
Copyright is retained by authors. Authors are required to sign a License to Publish (which can be downloaded from the journal's Author Instructions), granting ZENtropy, which identifies itself as the original publisher, exclusive rights to publish their articles, and granting any third party the right to use the articles freely as long as the integrity is maintained and the original authors, citation details and publisher are identified.
Editorial Board
For more information about the editorial team, please refer to Editorial Board.
Editorial Policies
All manuscripts submitted to ZENtropy should adhere to journal's Editorial Policies.
Peer Review
The journal adheres to rigorous peer review and undergoes single-blind peer review. For more details, please refer to Editorial Process and Peer Review Guidelines.
Publication Ethics Statement
ZENtropy fully adheres to the Code of Conduct and the Best Practice Guidelines of Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
The Editors of this journal enforce a rigorous peer-review process together with strict ethical policies and standards to guarantee to add high quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication. Unfortunately, cases of plagiarism, data falsification, image manipulation, inappropriate authorship credit, and the like, do arise. The Editors of ZENtropy take such publishing ethics issues very seriously and are trained to proceed in such cases with a zero tolerance policy. To verify the originality of content submitted to our journals, we use CrossCheck (powered by iThenticate) to check submissions against previous publications.
Journal Information and Statistics
- Publication model: Gold Open Access
- Frequency: Quarterly
- DOI: 10.20517/zentropy
- Digital archive: Portico
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