To better serve the academic community, we welcome collaboration with academic and research institutions to publish special issues. If you are interested in proposing a special issue for our journal, please submit your inquiry and proposal to the journal’s email address.

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Before submitting a proposal, please note the following:

• The special issue should focus on a specific research topic, conference theme, or closely related area within the journal’s scope.
• All manuscripts submitted to the special issue will follow the same editorial and peer-review process as regular submissions.
• Proposed guest editors and reviewers are subject to approval by the journal.
• Proposals should be submitted to the journal at least five months before the planned publication date.
• An article processing charge (APC) applies to each accepted article.
• All published articles will be freely available online as open-access articles.