Instruments

Instruments is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal on scientific instrumentation and its related methods and theory, published quarterly online by MDPI.

• Open Access— free for readers, with article processing charges (APC) paid by authors or their institutions.
• High Visibility: indexed within ESCI (Web of Science), Scopus, Inspec, CAPlus / SciFinder, INSPIRE, and other databases.
• Journal Rank: CiteScore - Q2 (Instrumentation)
• Rapid Publication: manuscripts are peer-reviewed and a first decision is provided to authors approximately 25.8 days after submission; acceptance to publication is undertaken in 3.8 days (median values for papers published in this journal in the first half of 2026).
• Recognition of Reviewers: Reviewers whose reports are timely and of high quality receive an APC discount voucher for a future publication in an MDPI journal. Become a reviewer.
• Journal Cluster of Instruments and Instrumentation: Actuators, AI Sensors, Instruments, Metrology, Micromachines and Sensors.