Special Issues

Continent and Life Evolution runs virtual special issues to collect papers on cutting-edge topics, a special event, a group of scholars, etc. to build a community of authors and readers in discussing the latest ideas or research. The special issue publication would follow the normal peer review procedure and would be grouped together on the special issue website. For any special issue proposal, please contact the journal editorial office via  contle@elspub.com.

In Progress
Continent evolution and plate tectonics in Precambrian
Special Issue Editors: Xiaoping Long, Simon A. Wilde, Jian Zhang, Shuanhong Zhang, Changqing Yin
Submission Due:  03 July 2026
Konservat-Lagerstätten and Early Animal Evolution
Special Issue Editors: Jian Han, Dongjing Fu, Dmitriy V. Grazhdankin, Yanhong Pan , Timothy P. Topper
Submission Due:  01 June 2026
Human Activities and Global Changes
Special Issue Editors: Jiading Wang , Abdiev Arstanbek, Dengfei Zhang , Pengfei Jia , Ping Li
Submission Due:  10 April 2026
Coupled Solid–Earth–Surface Processes in the Tethyan Region
Special Issue Editors: Chao Wang, Shin-ichi Sano, Jan-Peter Duda, Xin Cheng, Anlin Ma, Songlin He
Submission Due:  31 August 2026
Cambrian Explosion of Metazoans: Triggers and Consequences from a Multi-spheric Perspective
Special Issue Editors: Zhifei Zhang, Jinhua Li, Jinlong Yao, Luke C. Strotz, Lars E. Holmer
Submission Due:  31 August 2026