Europhysics Letters was founded in 1986 by the
European Physical Society (EPS),
Société Française de Physique (SFP) and its subsidiary
EDP Sciences, the
Società Italiana di Fisica (SIF) and the
Institute of Physics (IOP). The new journal incorporated
Lettere al Nuovo Cimento and
Journal de Physique: Lettres and was published by EPS, EDP Sciences and SIF until 2006.
EPL is now published under the scientific policy and control of the EPS by EDP Sciences, IOP Publishing and SIF for a partnership of 17 European physical societies (the
EPL Association). == Abstracting, indexing, and impact factor ==