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Introduction
This is a list of journal special issues related to Shujun's personal research interests.Journal Special Issues/Sections with Open Calls
This section is not actively maintained and will be used only when one or more relevant journal special issues draw Shujun's attention. Do feel free to recommend relevant journal special issues to him.
Selected Journal Special Issues/Sections with Past Deadline(s)
| Journal Title | Special Issue Topic | Submission Deadline | Decision/Publication Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| IEEE Transactions on Technology & Society | Trustworthy Data Ecosystems for Digital Societies | June 30, 2025 (rolling) | Latest August 15, 2025 |
| ACM Journal on Responsible Computing | Trustworthy AI and Autonomous Systems | October 10, 2025 (Submission) March 6, 2026 (Revision) | January 5, 2026 (Reviews) April 13, 2026 (Decision) |
| IEEE Transactions on Technology & Society | Emerging Technologies, Ethics, and Social Justice | October 15, 2025 | January 15, 2026 (Initial Reviews) February-April 2026 (Further Reviews) |
| IEEE Security & Privacy | Privacy As Contextual Integrity | October 21, 2025 (rolling) | May/June 2026 (Publication) |
Journals with Regular Special Issues/Collections
Many journals regularly have calls for special issues. A particular phenomenon in the scientific publishing community is that some publishers have a tedency to rely on such special issues much more than others. Having special issues is not a problem by itself, but how they are managed matters. There are a substantial amount of debate around such journal special issues and some publishers and editors' practices. This section lists some useful statistics about special issues from a specific publisher MDPI and some other non-MDPI journals with regular special issues.Useful Statistics: Paolo Crosetto's dataset on MDPI special issues and his 2021 blog article "Is MDPI a predatory publisher?"