Information for Authors

mdpi.com provides a platform for peer-reviewed, fully open access scholarly journals. It is run by the international organization Molecular Diversity Preservation International (MDPI, established 1996), headquartered in Basel, Switzerland.

For our authors and readers, MDPI aims to:

  • publish peer-reviewed journals - all articles are thoroughly peer-reviewed
  • maintain a quick publication procedure - manuscripts are usually published within 4-8 weeks from submission, provided that no major revisions are required
  • publish fully open access - readers can access all articles published on this platform for free
  • publish citation-tracked journals - we aim to have most of our journals citation-tracked by the Science Citation Index Expanded (see a list of covered journals) and Scopus (see a list of covered journals)
  • publish highly visible journals - indexed by leading indexing and abstracting databases

For the authors and readers, open access means:

  • free availability of the literature on the Internet without any subscription or price barriers
  • immediate open access once an article is released (no embargo period)
  • authors retain all copyrights - authors will not be forced to sign any copyright transfer agreement
  • permission of re-use of the published material, given proper accreditation (Creative Commons Attribution Licensewww-link)

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Manuscript Submission & Instructions for Authors

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General information for authors:

Peer-Review Policy

All manuscripts sent for publication in our journals are strictly and thoroughly peer-reviewed (research and review articles, spontaneous submissions as well as invited papers). The Editorial Offices will organize peer-review and collect at least two review reports per manuscript, ask the authors for adequate revision (peer-review again whenever necessary), before requesting the decision of an external editor (usually the Editor-in-Chief of a journal or the Guest Editor of a special issue).

Long-Term Archiving

  • MDPI aims to have all articles published in life-science related MDPI journals to be deposited into PubMed Centralwww-link. This has been realized for Marine Drugs since the beginning of 2008. More journals will follow soon (IJMS, IJERPH and Molecules during 2008/beginning 2009).
  • MDPI started to deposit a full copy of all publications in electronic format into the Swiss National Librarywww-link.
  • Recently MDPI undersigned an agreement with Informatics India Ldt. to have all its journals included in Open J-Gatewww-link, a full-text repository for open access journal literature.
  • Finally, authors are encouraged to submit their published articles to institutional repositories (such as those listed in the Directory of Open Access Repositorieswww-link).