Journal History
| 2000 | Inaugural issue released, initially published as a quarterly journal. |
| 2007 | Indexed by Scopus. |
| 2009 | Indexed by Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE). |
| 2010 | Started to publish monthly. |
| 2011 | First Impact Factor received (1.109). |
| 2012 | Entropy received an Impact Factor of 1.183 for the year 2011. |
| 2013 | Entropy received an Impact Factor of 1.347 for the year 2012. |
| 2014 | Entropy received an Impact Factor of 1.564 for the year 2013. Launched six sections: Thermodynamics, Statistical Mechanics, Information Theory, Astrophysics and Cosmology, Quantum Information, Complexity |
| 2015 | Entropy received an Impact Factor of 1.502 for the year 2014. |
| 2016 | Entropy received an Impact Factor of 1.743 for the year 2015. |
| 2017 | Entropy received an Impact Factor of 1.821 for the year 2016. |
| 2018 | Entropy received an Impact Factor of 2.305 for the year 2017. Entropy celebrates its 20th anniversary and its first edition of Entropy 2018: From Physics to Information Sciences and Geometry was held in Barcelona, Spain. Launched four new sections: Entropy Reviews, Entropy and Biology, Signal and Data Analysis, Multidisciplinary Applications. |
| 2019 | Entropy received an Impact Factor of 2.419 for the year 2018. Published 5000th paper. Launched one new section: Time. |
| 2020 | Entropy received an Impact Factor of 2.494 for the year 2019. Indexed in PubMed and PubMed Central. Launched one new section: Non-Equilibrium Phenomena. |
| 2021 | Entropy received an Impact Factor of 2.524 for the year 2020. |
Editors-in-Chief
| 1999-2003 | Founding Editor-in-Chief Dr. Shu-Kun Lin |
| 2003-2006 | Editor-in-Chief Dr. Michel Petitjean |
| 2006-2008 | Editor-in-Chief Dr. Shu-Kun Lin |
| 2009-2011 | Editor-in-Chief Prof. Dr. Peter Harremoëse |
| 2012- | Editor-in-Chief Prof. Dr. Kevin H. Knuth |
| 2014- | Section Editor-in-Chief Prof. Dr. Jay Lawrence for the Section “Quantum Information” Section Editor-in-Chief Dr. Antonio M. Scarfone for the Section “Statistical Mechanics” Section Editor-in-Chief Prof. Dr. J. A. Tenreiro Machado for the Section “Complexity” |
| 2015- | Section Editor-in-Chief Prof. Dr. Raúl Alcaraz Martínez for the Section “Information Theory” Section Editor-in-Chief Prof. Dr. Milivoje M. Kostic for the Section “Thermodynamics” |
| 2016- | Section Editor-in-Chief Dr. Remo Garattini for the Section “Astrophysics and Cosmology” |
| 2018- | Section Editor-in-Chief Prof. Dr. Miguel Rubi for the Section “Entropy Reviews” Section Editor-in-Chief Prof. Dr. William B. Sherwin for the Section “Entropy and Biology” |
| 2019 | Section Editor-in-Chief Prof. Dr. Gregg Jaeger appointed for the Section “Time” Section Editor-in-Chief Prof. Dr. Robert Niven appointed for the Section “Multidisciplinary Applications” |
| 2020 | Section Editor-in-Chief Prof. Dr. Ernestina Menasalvas appointed for the Section “Signal and Data Analysis” Section Editor-in-Chief Prof. Dr. Lamberto Rondoni appointed for the Section “Non-Equilibrium Phenomena” |