Welcoming Dr. Kun Tang to the Editorial Board of Children

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Kun Tang has been appointed Editorial Board Member in Children (ISSN 2227-9067). He is also the Guest Editor of the Special Issue “Development of Sex Education in China”. He has visited MDPI in person, and during the visit he learned about the Special Issue operation and future plans in-depth.

Name: Dr. Kun Tang

Affiliations: Associate Professor in Tsing Hua University;

Member of the World Health Organization Advisory Group for Adolescent Health Metrics;

Member of the World Health Organization COVID-19 Global Research Roadmap Social Science Group.

The following is a short Q&A with Dr. Kun Tang, who shared his current research focus and his views on the journal Children:

1. What is your current research focus?

We are currently doing comprehensive sexuality education, and what I am focusing on is especially related to sex education or evaluation; that is, no matter what type of sex education, I hope to see how it turns out and how effective it is. I will not discuss which doctrine is better. What I want to look at is the effect. As long as it is conducive to the development of sex education in China, the cognitive improvement of children's physical health and the improvement of practical problems are the most important. Therefore, if we can better promote the development of sex education in China, the implementation of this work is the primary task of my research.

2. Why did you decide to cooperate with Children?

Children has an open access model, which is popular for scholars and readers. The article processing time can therefore be much shorter than for many other publishers. In addition, I have noticed that the updated Impact Factor for Children is 2.863 (+37% compared with the previous year), according to the latest released Journal Citation Reports® (Clarivate Analytics, 2020). Children now ranks 40/129 (Q2) among all titles in the “Pediatrics” category. It attracts many researchers and the dramatic increase in its ranking in the past year was outstanding. Therefore, I have decided not only to be a Guest Editor but also an Editorial Board Member. I support the Open Access policies proposed and hope we can contribute significantly to Children.

More details about the journal’s statistics can be found at the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/children/stats.