Editors’ choice in volume 85, issue 5, May 2021 for the thematic issue “Nuclear Physics and Elementary Particle Physics. Nuclear Physics Technologies” is the paper entitled “Relativistic Mean-field Effective NN forces in Dynamical Modeling of Heavy-ion Fusion” by M. V. Chushnyakova, I. I. Gontchar, N. A. Khmyrova, A. А. Klimochkina.