Stresses

Stresses is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal on abiotic and biotic stresses research published quarterly online by MDPI. The Italian Society of Environmental Medicine (SIMA) is affiliated with Stresses and its members receive a discount on the article processing charges.

• Open Access— free for readers, with article processing charges (APC) paid by authors or their institutions. 
• High Visibility: indexed within Scopus and other databases.
• Rapid Publication: manuscripts are peer-reviewed and a first decision is provided to authors approximately 16.5 days after submission; acceptance to publication is undertaken in 2.9 days (median values for papers published in this journal in the first half of 2026).
• Journal Rank: CiteScore - Q1 (Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous))
• 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.
• Stresses is a companion journal of IJMS.
• Journal Cluster of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology: Current Issues in Molecular Biology, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Genes, Biomolecules, Biology, Cells, Proteomes, Non-Coding RNA, Epigenomes, Methods and Protocols, Journal of Molecular Pathology, BioChem, DNA, Stresses, Receptors and Kinases and Phosphatases.