Latest Announcements from MDPI

MDPI is pleased to announce the launch of Biomedicines (ISSN 2227-9059), a new journal aimed at bridging the gap between biological research and clinical practice, led by the Editor-in-Chief Prof. Dr. Kenneth Cornetta. Biomedicines provides a forum for all aspects related to biomedicines—medicines that are made from, or contain, biological active substances. Biomedicines welcomes theoretical and research papers in the field of biologic agents. These include vaccines, monoclonal antibodies, immunotherapy, cell therapeutics, and gene therapy.

The Founding Editor-in-Chief Prof. Dr. Kenneth Cornetta from The Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Indiana University School of Medicine mainly works on gene therapy work. His research focus is on using viral based gene transfer as a means of introducing genetic sequences that will correct mutations and ameliorate disease. To date Dr. Cornetta’s lab has certified over 30 products for Phase I/II trials and has published extensively on release testing to meet FDA requirements.

MDPI is pleased to announce the launch of Toxics (ISSN 2305-6304), a new journal providing an advanced forum for studies related to all aspects of toxics and led by Prof. Dr. David Bellinger. Toxics welcomes theoretical and research papers on a wide range of perspectives on toxicants and naturally occurring toxins, including exposure, biomarkers, kinetics, biological effects, fate and transport, treatment, and remediation.

The Founding Editor-in-Chief is Prof. Dr. David Bellinger from the Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School. He has greatly contributed to studies of developmental impact of early metabolic and chemical insults to the nervous system. Until now he has published 155 original articles, 118 reviews and 6 books.

We hope that Toxics will become an invaluable resource to those working in toxics research and the wider scientific community.

Systems (ISSN 2079-8954) is an academic Open Access Journal on systems engineering and systems management, which has just released its first issue (Volume 1, Issue 1, March 2013, Pages 1-26). In this issue, two papers have been published (see http://www.mdpi.com/2079-8954/1/1).

The topics for submissions include, but are not limited to: socio-technical systems; technological systems; social systems; management systems; complex systems; sensor networks; systems engineering; systems architecting; systems engineering management; complexity; network theory; decision theory; operations research.

The Special Issue "Hopf Algebras, Quantum Groups and Yang-Baxter Equations", guest edited by Dr. Florin Felix Nichita, was released with 11 selected papers published. All published papers can be accessed via the journal website.

We are pleased to announce that Marine Drugs supports the SIG on Natural Products at the 2013 FIP World Congress.

Please visit the conference website for more information on this event.

We are pleased to announce that IJMS supports the 15th EMBL PhD Symposium in Heidelberg, Germany.

The annual Scientific Spirit Prize in China was set up in 2013 by New Threads, a nonprofit organization for promoting the Chinese culture to the general public. Its president Dr. Shi-min Fang was recently awarded the combined Nature and Sense About Science inaugural John Maddox Prize for Standing up for Science 2012.

MDPI is proudly sponsoring the New Threads Scientific Spirit Prize in China by offering 10'000 CHF (Swiss Francs) per year. The first prize was awarded to Professor Zuoxiu He in Beijing on 13 January 2013, see http://www.xys.org/pages3/prize.html.

With the start of 2013, Marine Drugs is instituting an annual award to recognize outstanding papers related to the research, development and production of drugs from the sea, that meet the high standards of this journal. We are pleased to announce the “Marine Drugs Best Paper Award” for 2013. Nominations were solicited from the Editorial Board members, with all papers published in 2009 eligible for consideration.

Article Award

1st prize: Jason C. Kwan, Kanchan Taori, Valerie J. Paul and Hendrik Luesch
Lyngbyastatins 8–10, Elastase Inhibitors with Cyclic Depsipeptide Scaffolds Isolated from the Marine Cyanobacterium Lyngbya semiplena.

2nd prize: Sigrid Hakvåg, Espen Fjærvik, Geir Klinkenberg, Sven Even F. Borgos, Kjell D. Josefsen, Trond E. Ellingsen and Sergey B. Zotchev
Violacein-Producing Collimonas sp. from the Sea Surface Microlayer of Coastal Waters in Trøndelag, Norway.

Review Award

Barbara Forte, Beatrice Malgesini, Claudia Piutti, Francesca Quartieri, Alessandra Scolaro and Gianluca Papeo.
A Submarine Journey: The Pyrrole-Imidazole Alkaloids.

For more details, please refer to the Editorial by Prof. Dr. Hartmut Laatsch, Editor-in-Chief of Marine Drugs.

With the start of 2013, Remote Sensing is instituting an annual award to recognize outstanding papers related to the science and application of remote sensing technology that meet the high standards of this journal. We are pleased to announce the “Remote Sensing Best Paper Award” for 2013. Nominations were solicited from the Editorial Board members, with all papers published in 2009 eligible for consideration.

Article Award

1st prize: Sanna Kaasalainen, Anssi Krooks, Antero Kukko and Harri Kaartinen
Radiometric Calibration of Terrestrial Laser Scanners with External Reference Targets

2nd prize: Steffen Fritz, Ian McCallum, Christian Schill, Christoph Perger, Roland Grillmayer, FrédéricAchard, Florian Kraxner and Michael Obersteiner
Geo-Wiki.Org: The Use of Crowdsourcing to Improve Global Land Cover

Review Award

Susan Kay, John D. Hedley and Samantha Lavender
Sun Glint Correction of High and Low Spatial Resolution Images of Aquatic Scenes: a Review ofMethods for Visible and Near-Infrared Wavelengths

For more details, please refer to the Editorial by Dr. Prasad S. Thenkabail, Editor-in-Chief of Remote Sensing.

Since 2011, Sensors has been awarding an annual prize to recognize outstanding papers related to the science and technology of sensors and biosensors that meet the high standards of this journal. We are pleased to announce the third “Sensors Best Paper Award” for 2013. Nominations were solicited from the Editorial Board members, with all papers published in 2009 eligible for consideration.

Article Award

1st prize: Sabine Achmann, Gunter Hagen, Jaroslaw Kita, Itamar M. Malkowsky, Christoph Kiener and Ralf Moos
Metal-Organic Frameworks for Sensing Applications in the Gas Phase

2nd prize: Alimujiang Fulati, Syed M. Usman Ali, Muhammad Riaz, Gul Amin, Omer Nur and Magnus Willander
Miniaturized pH Sensors Based on Zinc Oxide Nanotubes/Nanorods

3rd prize: Filiberto Chiabrando, Roberto Chiabrando, Dario Piatti and Fulvio Rinaudo
Sensors for 3D Imaging: Metric Evaluation and Calibration of a CCD/CMOS Time-of-Flight Camera

4th prize: Litao Liu, Xiongying Ye, Kang Wu, Rui Han, Zhaoying Zhou and Tianhong Cui
Humidity Sensitivity of Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotube Networks Deposited by Dielectrophoresis

5th prize: Andrea Lingua, Davide Marenchino and Francesco Nex
Performance Analysis of the SIFT Operator for Automatic Feature Extraction and Matching in Photogrammetric Applications

Review Award

1st prize: Alphus D. Wilson and Manuela Baietto
Applications and Advances in Electronic-Nose Technologies

2nd prize: Johanna Brinkel, Mobarak H. Khan and Alexander Kraemer
A Systematic Review of Arsenic Exposure and Its Social and Mental Health Effects with Special Reference to Bangladesh

3rd prize: Tianyou Zhai, Xiaosheng Fang, Meiyong Liao, Xijin Xu, Haibo Zeng, Bando Yoshio and Dmitri Golberg
A Comprehensive Review of One-Dimensional Metal-Oxide Nanostructure Photodetectors

For more details, please refer to the Sensors Best Paper Award 2013 Editorial.

Earlier Editions of the Award

Sensors Best Paper Award 2011
Sensors Best Paper Award 2012

With the start of 2013, Entropy is instituting an annual award to recognize outstanding papers related to entropy and information studies that meet the high standards of this journal. We are pleased to announce the “Entropy Best Paper Award” for 2013. Nominations were solicited from the Editorial Board members, with all papers published in 2009 eligible for consideration.

Article Award

1st prize: Bhashyam Balaji
Continuous-Discrete Path Integral Filtering

2nd prize: Arto Annila and Stanley Salthe
Economies Evolve by Energy Dispersal

Review Award

Michel Feidt
Optimal Thermodynamics—New Upperbounds

For more details, please refer to the Editorial by Prof. Dr. Kevin H. Knuth, Editor-in-Chief of Entropy

In 2012 Molecules started to award an annual price to recognize outstanding papers related to synthetic organic chemistry and natural product chemistry that meet the high standards of this journal. We are pleased to announce the second “Molecules Best Paper Award” for 2013. Nominations were solicited from the Editorial Board members, with all papers published in 2009 eligible for consideration.

Article Award

1st prize: Thomas J. Schmidt, Amal M. M. Nour, Sami A. Khalid, Marcel Kaiser and Reto Brun
Quantitative Structure—Antiprotozoal Activity Relationships of Sesquiterpene Lactones

2nd prize: Sebastian Jäger, Holger Trojan, Thomas Kopp, Melanie N. Laszczyk and Armin Scheffler
Pentacyclic Triterpene Distribution in Various Plants—Rich Sources for a New Group of Multi-Potent Plant Extracts

3rd prize: Linghua Meng, Yves F. Lozano, Emile M. Gaydou and Bin Li
Antioxidant Activities of Polyphenols Extracted from Perilla frutescens Varieties

Review Award

1st prize: Barbara Vu, Miao Chen, Russell J. Crawford and Elena P. Ivanova
Bacterial Extracellular Polysaccharides Involved in Biofilm Formation

2nd prize: Ichiro Minami
Ionic Liquids in Tribology

For more details, please refer to the Editorial by Dr. Derek J. McPhee, Editor-in-Chief of Molecules.

Earlier Editions of the Award

Molecules Best Paper Award 2012

In 2012 the International Journal of Molecular Sciences started to award an annual price to recognize outstanding papers related to chemistry, molecular physics and molecular biology that meet the high standards of this journal. We are pleased to announce the second "International Journal of Molecular Sciences Best Paper Award" for 2013. Nominations were solicited from the Editorial Board members, with all papers published in 2009 eligible for consideration.

Article Award

1st prize: Gerard Giraud, Holger Schulze, Till T. Bachmann, Colin J. Campbell, Andrew R. Mount, Peter Ghazal, Mizanur R. Khondoker, Alan J. Ross, Stuart W.J. Ember, Ilenia Ciani, Chaker Tlili, Anthony J. Walton, Jonathan G. Terry and Jason Crain
Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging of Quantum Dot Labeled DNA Microarrays

2nd prize: Johannes Ranke, Alaa Othman, Ping Fan and Anja Müller
Explaining Ionic Liquid Water Solubility in Terms of Cation and Anion Hydrophobicity

3rd prize: Senthil Chinnasamy, Balasubramanian Ramakrishnan, Ashish Bhatnagar and Keshav C. Das
Biomass Production Potential of a Wastewater Alga Chlorella vulgaris ARC 1 under Elevated Levels of CO2 and Temperature

Review Award

1st prize: Ronald D. Hills Jr. and Charles L. Brooks III
Insights from Coarse-Grained Gō Models for Protein Folding and Dynamics

2nd prize: Anna Brückner, Cécile Polge, Nicolas Lentze, Daniel Auerbach and Uwe Schlattner
Yeast Two-Hybrid, a Powerful Tool for Systems Biology

For more details, please refer to Best Paper Award Editorial.

Earlier Editions of the Award

International Journal of Molecular Science Best Paper Award 2012

With the start of 2013, the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health is instituting an annual award to recognize outstanding papers related to environmental health sciences and public health that meet the high standards of this journal. We are pleased to announce the first “International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health Best Paper Award” for 2013. Nominations were solicited from the Editorial Board members, with all papers published in 2009 eligible for consideration.

Article Award

1st prize: Patricia A. Richter, Ellen E. Bishop, Jiantong Wang and Monica H. Swahn
Tobacco Smoke Exposure and Levels of Urinary Metals in the U.S. Youth and Adult Population: The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 1999–2004

2nd prize: Athanasios Valavanidis, Thomais Vlachogianni and Konstantinos Fiotakis
Tobacco Smoke: Involvement of Reactive Oxygen Species and Stable Free Radicals in Mechanisms of Oxidative Damage, Carcinogenesis and Synergistic Effects with Other Respirable Particles

3rd prize: Melanie Swan
Emerging Patient-Driven Health Care Models: An Examination of Health Social Networks, Consumer Personalized Medicine and Quantified Self-Tracking

Review Award

1st prize: Jong-Su Seo, Young-Soo Keum and Qing X. Li
Bacterial Degradation of Aromatic Compounds

2nd prize: Johanna Brinkel, Mobarak H. Khan and Alexander Kraemer
A Systematic Review of Arsenic Exposure and Its Social and Mental Health Effects with Special Reference to Bangladesh

For more details, please refer to Editorial by Prof. Dr. Paul B. Tchounwou, Editor-in-Chief of the IJERPH.

Congratulations to Sanna Kaasalainen, Anssi Krooks, Antero Kukko and Harri Kaartinen (Department of Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry), who have been awarded the Remote Sensing Best Paper Award 2013. Their paper, “Radiometric Calibration of Terrestrial Laser Scanners with External Reference Targets” received the 1st prize in the category “Terristrial Laser Scanning”.

The awarded article describes a case study of radiometric calibration for two phase-shift continuous wave (CW) terrestrial scanners and discusses some major issues in correcting and applying the intensity data, and a practical calibration scheme based on external reference targets.

On an annual basis the Remote Sensing Best Paper Award recognizes outstanding papers that are related to remote sensing and meet the aims, scope and high standards of Remote Sensing.

MDPI will continue to carefully expand its small collection of journals during 2013. The below listed titles will publish their inaugural issues this year. You are invited to subscribe to the e-mail alerts of these individual journals in order to be notified once the first issues are published. Information specialists: If you have interest to cover any of these titles in your indexing database, please contact Dietrich Rordorf (E-mail: rordorf@mdpi.com).

Atoms (ISSN 2218-2004)
http://www.mdpi.com/journal/atoms

Biomedicines (ISSN 2227-9059)
http://www.mdpi.com/journal/biomedicines

Chemosensors (ISSN 2227-9040)
http://www.mdpi.com/journal/chemosensors

Climate (ISSN 2225-1154)
http://www.mdpi.com/journal/climate

Dentistry Journal (ISSN 2304-6767)
http://www.mdpi.com/journal/dentistry

Diseases (ISSN 2079-9721)
http://www.mdpi.com/journal/diseases

Econometrics (ISSN 2225-1146)
http://www.mdpi.com/journal/econometrics

Economies (ISSN 2227-7099)
http://www.mdpi.com/journal/economies

Fibers (ISSN 2079-6439)
http://www.mdpi.com/journal/fibers

Galaxies (ISSN 2075-4434)
http://www.mdpi.com/journal/galaxies

Informatics (ISSN 2227-9709)
http://www.mdpi.com/journal/informatics

Inorganics (ISSN 2304-6740)
http://www.mdpi.com/journal/inorganics

Journal of Intelligence (ISSN 2079-3200)
http://www.mdpi.com/journal/jintelligence

International Journal of Financial Studies (ISSN 2227-7072)
http://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijfs

Journal of Developmental Biology (ISSN 2221-3759)
http://www.mdpi.com/journal/jdb

Journal of Marine Science & Engineering (ISSN 2077-1312)
http://www.mdpi.com/journal/jmse

Lubricants (ISSN 2075-4442)
http://www.mdpi.com/journal/lubricants

Machines (ISSN 2075-1702)
http://www.mdpi.com/journal/machines

Mathematics ((SSN 2227-7390)
http://www.mdpi.com/journal/mathematics

Medical Sciences(ISSN 2076-3271)
http://www.mdpi.com/journal/medsci

Microorganisms (ISSN 2076-2607)
http://www.mdpi.com/journal/microorganisms

Optics (ISSN 2304-6732)
http://www.mdpi.com/journal/optics

Pharmacy (ISSN 2226-4787)
http://www.mdpi.com/journal/pharmacy

Processes (ISSN 2227-9717)
http://www.mdpi.com/journal/processes

Proteomes (ISSN 2227-7382)
http://www.mdpi.com/journal/proteomes

Publications (ISSN 2304-6775)
http://www.mdpi.com/journal/publications

Risks (ISSN 2227-9091)
http://www.mdpi.com/journal/risks

Sports (ISSN 2075-4663)
http://www.mdpi.com/journal/sports

Systems (ISSN 2079-8954)
http://www.mdpi.com/journal/systems

Technologies (ISSN 2227-7080)
http://www.mdpi.com/journal/technologies

Vaccines (ISSN 2076-393X)
http://www.mdpi.com/journal/vaccines

We are pleased to announce that MDPI has become an official sponsor of the DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) database.

DOAJ contains more than 8000 Open Access journals, offering access to more than 940,000 articles.

We are pleased to announce that Remote Sensing has been accepted for indexing in Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) / Web of Science, the leading database in natural science.

This means that the research you publish with Remote Sensing is now more visible than ever. Remote Sensing, which was launched in 2009, publishes theoretical and research papers on remote sensing.

Dr. Prasad S. Thenkabail, Editor-in-Chief of Remote Sensing, said "Congratulations to all those involved with Remote Sensing. This achievement was made possible through the publication of high quality papers which in turn was made possible through a committed high quality editorial team, a significant number of quality reviewers, and insights and advice of many editorial board members. Within the next three to four years, me and the editorial office will strive to make the journal one of the very best in the area of Remote Sensing".

Remote Sensing is also included in Compendex and Scopus.