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Why do Special Issues have no issue numbers?

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Why do Special Issues have no issue numbers?

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Special Issues are journal overlays: every Special Issue paper is published (within a few days of acceptance) in a regular, numbered issue; it simultaneously appears on the Special Issue web page. Special Issues do have DOI numbers so they can be linked to collectively.