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MDPI has calculated predictions for the Impact Factors for 2009 based on data available from Science Citation Index Expanded (Web of Science) as of 10 February 2010. The official Impact Factors for 2009 will be published by Thomson Reuter's Journal Citation Report (JCR) in mid 2010.

Sensors (website)

Cites in 2009 to papers in 2007-2008: 1236 cites
Papers published in 2007-2008: 703 papers
Predicted Impact Factor for Sensors (2009): 1236/703 = 1.758

Molecules (website)

Cites in 2009 to papers in 2007-2008: 741 cites
Papers published in 2007-2008: 459 papers
Predicted Impact Factor for Molecules (2009): 741/459 = 1.614

International Journal of Molecular Sciences (website)

Cites in 2009 to papers in 2007-2008: 379 cites
Papers published in 2007-2008: 274 papers
Predicted Impact Factor for the IJMS (2009): 379/274 = 1.383

Marine Drugs (website)

Cites in 2009 to papers in 2007-2008: 129 cites
Papers published in 2007-2008: 51 papers
Predicted Impact Factor for Marine Drugs (2009): 129/51 = 2.529

Entropy (website)

The calculation for Entropy is based on papers published in 2008 only (the year that SCIE-coverage was started for Entropy). The first official Impact Factor for Entropy will be published by Thomson Reuter's Journal Citation Report (JCR) in mid 2011 only.

Cites in 2009 to papers in 2008: 70 cites
Papers published in 2008: 50 papers
Unofficial Impact Factor for Entropy (2009): 70/50 = 1.400

MDPI is pleased to announce the new Open Access journal Challenges (ISSN 2078-1547). Challenges will be a scientific Open Access journal for presenting research ideas and research proposals as well as to discuss open problems and grand challenges in science. It will be published online quarterly. An opening editorial has been published.

We are pleased to announce that below-listed journals that were previously published quarterly will be published monthly starting with the 2010 volumes (12 issues per year):

• Diversity (ISSN 1424-2818)
• Energies (ISSN 1996-1073)
• Entropy (ISSN 1099-4300)
• Marine Drugs (ISSN 1660-3397)
• Materials (ISSN 1996-1944)
• Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643)
• Pharmaceuticals (ISSN 1424-8247)
• Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292)
• Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050)
• Toxins (ISSN 2072-6651)
• Viruses (ISSN 1999-4915)

MDPI is pleased to announce a new partnership with Molecular Networks to offer 3D structures for the compounds published in the Open Access journal Molbank at http://www.mdpi.com/journal/molbank/. 3D structures are calculated using CORINA.

About Molbank

Molbank is a peer-reviewed, Open Access collection of one-compound-per-paper short notes and communications on synthetic compounds and natural products which is published by Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI) online quarterly.

About CORINA

CORINA is a fast and powerful 3D structure generator for small and medium sized, typically drug-like molecules. Its robustness, comprehensiveness, speed and performance makes CORINA a perfect application to convert large chemical datasets or databases.

CORINA is a product developed by Molecular Networks GmbH, Erlangen, Germany.

The latest Impact Factors for 2008 have been released in the Journal Citations Report (JCR) published by Thomson Reuters. We are pleased to report an increased Impact Factor of 1.870 for Sensors. Sensors outperforms other related journals such as Elsevier's Sensors & Actuators A: Physical, IEEE Sensors Journal, Sensors Letters, or Sensors and Materials.