Future Internet | 2021 Review

2021 was a year of growth for Future Internet (ISSN: 1999-5903). In 2021, we received 797 submissions, published 313 articles from 1134 international authors, and 681 experts were involved in reviewing articles for Future Internet. Moreover, a total of 15 new Editorial Board Members joined us, and the number of Editorial Board Members increased to 134. So far, there are also 61 Topical Advisory Panel Members and 183 Reviewer Board Members. Future Internet’s articles were cited 2188 times in 2021. Thanks to the commitment and dedication of the editorial staff, the median time between submission and publication was around 34 days.

We believe Future Internet will continue to attract more and more authors from all over the world who appreciate its very efficient peer review and publishing processes.

Most Cited Papers

• “IoT for Smart Cities: Machine Learning Approaches in Smart Healthcare—A Review”
  by Taher M. Ghazal et al.

• “Survey of Localization for Internet of Things Nodes: Approaches, Challenges and Open Issues”
  by Sheetal Ghorpade et al.

• “User Acceptance of Smart Watch for Medical Purposes: An Empirical Study”
  by Rana Saeed Al-Maroof et al.

• “Protection from ‘Fake News’: The Need for Descriptive Factual Labeling for Online Content”
  by Matthew Spradling et al.

• “Networked Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Surveillance and Monitoring: A Survey”
  by Xiaohui Li and Andrey V. Savkin

Collections/Special Issues

Future Internet runs Special Issues to create collections of papers on specific topics. The aim is to build a community of authors and readers to discuss the latest research and develop new ideas and research directions. Special Issues are led by Guest Editors who are experts in the subject and oversee the editorial process for papers. Papers published in a Special Issue will be collected together on a dedicated page of the journal website.

Hot Special Issues

• “Data Science and Knowledge Discovery”;
• “Education 4.0 in the Transformation of Universities: Educational and Research Applications”;
• “Wireless Internet, Multimedia, and Artificial Intelligence: New Applications and Infrastructures”;
• “Digital and Social Media in the Disinformation Age”.

Open Calls

• Topical Collection “Innovative People-Centered Solutions Applied to Industries, Cities and Societies”
  edited by Dino Giuli and Carlos Filipe Da Silva Portela

• Topical Collection “Featured Reviews of Future Internet Research”
  edited by Dino Giuli

• Topical Collection “Machine Learning Approaches for User Identity”
  edited by Kaushik Roy, Mustafa Atay and Ajita Rattani

• Topical Collection “Information Systems Security”
  edited by Luis Javier Garcia Villalba

You can see the full list of call for papers at the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/futureinternet/special_issues.

On behalf of the editorial team, we would like to express our gratitude to the Editor-in-Chief of Future Internet, Editorial Board Members, Guest Editors, Topical Advisory Panel Members, and Reviewer Board Members, all of whom have ensured the continued success of the journal through their hard work and diligence.

We believe that Future Internet will continue to contribute to academic exchange and the sharing of knowledge in 2022.