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About Challenges

Aims

Challenges (ISSN 2078-1547) is an international, peer-reviewed scientific open access journal which provides an advanced forum for presenting research proposals and discussing open problems. It also publishes reviews and communications.

Scope

• research proposals; research plan
• open problems
• grand challenges
• perspectives; ideas; solutions; discoveries protocols
• prototypes; routes; procedure
• research collaboration; partners; complementary support
• models; computation; theory and experiment
• consultants; open consultation
• accelerated research, development and production
• intellectual resources

MDPI Publication Ethics Statement

Challenges is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). MDPI enforces a rigorous peer-review process that adopts strict ethical policies and standards to ensure that we contribute high-quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication. Unfortunately, cases of plagiarism, data falsification, inappropriate authorship credit, etc., occasionally arise. MDPI takes such publishing ethics issues very seriously and our editors are trained to proceed in such cases with a zero tolerance policy.

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Copyright / Open Access

Articles published in Challenges will be Open-Access articles distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License. MDPI will insert following note at the end of the published text:

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