Versita

Fractional Calculus and Applied Analysis

Aims and Scope

The FCAA journal (abbreviated in the databases as “Fract. Calc. Appl. Anal.”) is a specialized international journal for theory and applications with primary topics: Fractional Calculus, Special Functions and Integral Transforms, and secondary related topics of Applied Analysis. For more information, visit the journal webpage at Springer, and go to Aims and Scope and Editorial Policy. The high standards of its contents are guaranteed by the list of the Editors and invited external referees, all of them selected from the world prominent experts in the FCAA areas.

Why subscribe and read

  • Source of high quality research and survey papers authored by researchers from all over the world
  • The specialized FCAA areas of applied mathematical analysis are gaining fast growing interest and applications in mathematics, other nature sciences, engineering, medicine, finance, other social sciences, etc.
  • The area of fractional calculus and its applications is enjoying recently a very   fast development, with several new entries in MSC 2010, along with the earlier existing ones; with more than 70 monographs, great number of proceedings of specialized conferences, edited volumes, numerical algorithms and packages, patents, etc.
  • Editorship and reviewing by the world best known experts in the journal’s area. Among the founding editors we have the famous pioneers in fractional calculus. The Editorial Board is now enforced by several most active scientists in fractional calculus, related areas of applied analysis areas and their applications
  • Readers can find also actual information on the main recent and forthcoming events and books in the area
  • Readers can find useful archive of preprinted old sources of high interest that are now hardly accessible
  • See Table of Contents of all previous volumes 1-13 (1998-2010)
  • High publishing quality available in both forms, electronic and printed

Why submit

  • Fair and constructive peer-reviewing process by the best world experts in FCAA topics
  • Specialized mathematical journal that enables the authors to expose deeper their results, skipping the basic preliminaries and providing more sophisticated details, suitable for a well prepared interested audience
  • Online First publication of accepted papers at SpringerLink
  • Promotion of the published articles to hundreds of researchers in the same field as well as to wider scientific audience
  • The journal is abstracted and indexed in some of the major repositories and electronic databases
  • The journal is distributed and marketed by Springer, to be available for thousand libraries and readers accessing SpringerLink
  • Electronic submissions and queries are addressed directly to the Managing Editor

Submission

Manuscripts should be submitted to FCAA electronically by e-mail to the Managing Editor (Virginia Kiryakova virginia@diogenes.bg). Although for the first stage of reviewing a PDF file is enough, the authors should be ready to provide ASAP upon acceptance, finally revised versions of the LaTeX source and the figures’ files (if any) together with the final PDF file and the TCA.

Resources

The following resources are to assist the authors in preparing and submitting manuscripts in a proper form:

Authors Kit
Editorial Policy
Instructions for Authors

Why publish with Versita?

  • Fair and constructive peer-reviewing process by the best world experts in FCAA topics
  • Specialized mathematical journal that enables the authors to expose deeper their results, skipping the basic preliminaries and providing more sophisticated details, suitable for a well prepared interested audience
  • Online First publication of accepted papers at SpringerLink
  • Promotion of the published articles to hundreds of researchers in the same field as well as to wider scientific audience
  • The journal is abstracted and indexed in some of the major repositories and electronic databases
  • The journal is distributed and marketed by Springer, to be available for thousand libraries and readers accessing SpringerLink
  • Electronic submissions and queries are addressed directly to the Managing Editor

Transfer of Copyright Agreement (TCA)

Submission of a manuscript to FCAA indicates a tacit understanding that the paper is not published and not actively under consideration for publication in other journals. Read carefully the terms stated in the TCA form. Once the paper is accepted, the authors are asked to email a scanned copy of the signed form to the Managing Editor of the journal.

Copyright Agrrement

Your contribution

We greatly appreciate the time and effort given by reviewers in evaluating papers for publication in our journal. Thanks to your contribution and expertise, the authors in FCAA journal receive fast, fair and comprehensive reviews.

Our standards

  • Our reviewers are kindly requested to deliver reports in 40 days
  • Research articles are reviewed by a minimum of two reviewers
  • We pay special attention to receive unbiased, fair opinions
  • Whenever submission qualifies for publication but needs revision, reviewers are asked to give comprehensive opinion on necessary improvements
  • Although the Referee Form consists of some formal questionnaire’s items to fill in, most important for our decision and for author’s revision will be your informal comments given in “Comments / Suggestions to the author”, “Comments to the editor” and “Referee’s Recommendation”.

Tools

There is a stuff on the second page of the referee form that will be kept confidential:  including your name, remarks to the editor only, etc. So, either send the form in text format (MsWord *.doc, *.rtf) and accompany with LaTeX produced part (only if necessary for Maths); or if the file is pdf or scan format, take care that this confidential stuff goes on next separate page. 

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Managing Editor

Virginia Kiryakova, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria 

Honorary Founding Editors

Anatoly A. Kilbas†, Belarusian State University, Belarus
Eric R. Love†, University of Melbourne, Australia
Ian N. Sneddon†, University of Glasgow, UK

Editors

Honorary Editors

Paul Butzer, RWTH – Aachen University, Germany
Michele Caputo, Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy
Rudolf Gorenflo, Free University Berlin, Germany
Shyam L. Kalla, Vyas Institute of Higher Education, Jodhpur, India
Danuta Przeworska-Rolewicz, Institute Math., Polish Acad. of Sciences, Poland
Gary Roach, University of Strathclyde, UK
Megumi Saigo, Fukuoka University, Japan
Jerome Spanier, Claremont Graduate University & University of California, USA
Hari M. Srivastava, University of Victoria, Canada
Bogoljub Stanković, University of Novi Sad - Serbian Acad. of Sci. and Arts, Serbia

Editors

Boris Baeumer, University of Otago, New Zealand
Lyubomir Boyadjiev, Technical University of Sofia, Bulgaria
Yury Brychkov, Dorodnicyn Computing Center - Russian Acad. of Sciences, Russia
Kai Diethelm, Technische Universität Braunschweig & GNS Gesellschaft für Numerische Simulation mbH, Germany
Ivan Dimovski, Institute of Math. & Inform. – Bulg. Acad. of Sciences, Bulgaria
Neville Ford, University of Chester, UK
Alan Freed, Saginaw Valley State University, University Center, USA
Rudolf Hilfer, Universität Stuttgart, Germany
Mourad Ismail, University of Central Florida, USA
Ravi N. Kalia, St Cloud State University, USA
Anatoly Kochubei, Institute of Mathematics – Nat. Acad. of Sci. of Ukraine, Ukraine
Yury Luchko, Beuth Technical University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Richard Magin, University of Illinois at Chicago,  USA
Francesco Mainardi, University of Bologna, Italy
Oleg Marichev, Wolfram Research, Inc., USA
Piotr Mikusinski, University of Central Florida, USA
Juan J. Nieto, University Santiago de Compostela,Spain
Ivo Petras, Technical University of Košice, Slovakia
Igor Podlubny, Technical University of Košice, Slovakia
Sergei Rogosin, Belarusian State University, Belarus
Boris Rubin, Louisiana State University,  USA
Peter Rusev, Institute of Mathematics & Inform. – Bulg. Acad. of Sciences, Bulgaria
Jocelyn Sabatier, Bordeaux1 University, France
Stefan Samko, Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
Enrico Scalas, Universita' del Piemonte Orientale "Amedeo Avogadro", Italy
Jose A. Tenreiro Machado, Institute of Engineering of Polytechnic of Porto, Portugal
Juan J. Trujillo, University of La Laguna,  Spain
Sabir Umarov, Tufts University,  USA
Blas Vinagre, University of Extremadura, Spain
Vu Kim Tuan, University of West Georgia, USA
YangQuan Chen, Utah State University, USA
Ahmed Zayed, DePaul  University - Chicago, USA

Technical Assistant

Stefan Kiryakov, Diogenes Co., Bulgaria

Managing Editor: 
Prof. Dr.Sc. Virginia Kiryakova,

Institute of Mathematics and Informatics - Bulgarian Academy of Sciences,
"Acad. G. Bontchev" Str., Block 8, Sofia 1113 - Bulgaria
e-mail: virginia@diogenes.bg (fcaa@math.bas.bg)
Fax: +359-2-947 8608
Tel. (+359-2-) 947 8612, Mobile: +359-888 269 527 

Journal’s websites (for access to back volumes):
www.math.bas.bg/~fcaa, www.diogenes.bg/fcaa