Announcements

The 2021 citation metrics have been released in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR), and we’re pleased to announce the following results for MDPI journals:

For more information on Impact Factors and what it means to index academic journals, please visit our related blog posts.

* Journals given their first Impact Factor in 2022

Source: 2021 Journal Impact Factors, Journal Citation Reports ^TM (Clarivate, 2022)

The 2021 citation metrics have been officially released in Scopus!

We are pleased to announce that 182 MDPI journals are included, of which:

● 21 journals received their first CiteScore.
● 85% of journals increased their CiteScore from 2020.
● 155 journals (85%) ranked above average, in at least one category.

The following 65 MDPI journals (36%) ranked among the top 25% of journals, in at least one category:

Source: 2021 CiteScores™ (Elsevier)

We are pleased to announce that the following three Editorial Board Members have recently joined Aerospace (ISSN 2226-4310).   

Name: Prof. Dr. Angel Velazquez
Affiliation: Department of Fluid Mechanics and Aerospace Propulsion, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
Interests: mixing and heat transfer; droplet dynamics modelling; reduced order models in fluid mechanics 

Name: Prof. Dr. John F. Shortle
Affiliation: Systems Engineering and Operations Research, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA
Interests: simulation; queueing theory; air transportation 

Name: Prof. Dr. Eri Itoh
Affiliations: Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan; Air Traffic Management Department, Electronic Navigation Research Institute, Tokyo 182-0012, Japan
Interests: air traffic management; air transport; modeling and simulation; data science; flight control

We are pleased to announce that the following five Editorial Board Members have recently joined Aerospace (ISSN 2226-4310).  

Name: Prof. Dr. Ernesto Benini
Affiliation: Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Padova, Via Venezia 1, 35131 Padova, Italy
Interests: CFD of flows in industrial and energy systems: optimal design methods; performance analysis in design and off-design conditions; full-annulus uRANS methods; aerothermodynamics of propulsion machines; CFD of supersonic and hypersonic flows 

Name: Dr. Banavar Sridhar
Affiliation: NASA Ames Research Center, University Space Research Association (USRA), Moffett Field, CA, USA
Interests: air traffic management; environment; optimization; complex systems 

Name: Dr. Joost Ellerbroek
Affiliation: Control and Simulation, Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Kluyverweg 1, 2629 HS Delft, the Netherlands
Interests: air traffic management; UAS; complex systems; big data; machine learning 

Name: Dr. Sebastian Karl
Affiliation: Institute of Aerodynamics and Flow Technology, German Aerospace Center, Bunsenstrasse 10, 32073 Göttingen, Germany
Interests: CFD; hypersonics; aerothermodynamics; scramjets 

Name: Prof. Dr. Stanislav Gordeyev
Affiliation: Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Notre Dame, 110 Hessert Laboratory, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA
Interests: aero-optics; flow control; experimental techniques 

We wish them every success in their new positions and we look forward to their contributions to the journal. 

Further details about the Aerospace Editorial Board can be found at the following website: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/aerospace/editors.

Aerospace (ISSN 2226-4310) is a peer-reviewed, open access journal that is published monthly online by MDPI; this journal covers the research areas of aeronautics and astronautics.

The Aerospace editorial team is pleased to announce this open call for Special Issue proposals, which will give a group of authors the opportunity to work on an interconnected set of papers on an innovative topic. We would like to solicit high-quality proposals that will be evaluated in a competitive procedure on a rolling basis throughout the year.

Proposals within the scope of the journal are welcome. For more details, please visit the following website: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/aerospace/about.

If you are interested in editing a Special Issue, please contact us before 31 March 2022. To make a proposal or request further information, please contact the Aerospace Editorial Office (aerospace@mdpi.com).

The following information should be provided in a proposal:

• A 150-word introduction rationally explaining the significance, novelty, technical advancement, and adherence to the scope of the journal of the proposed topic;
• A few keywords on the topic;
• A plan for obtaining quality papers, or a list of at least three planned papers;
• A brief resume of the proposed Guest Editors, together with their information (title, name, email, affiliation, personal website, and keywords of interests);
• A proposed submission deadline (we normally run a Special Issue for 6–8 months).

The duties and benefits of acting as a Guest Editor are as follows:

• Re-defining the title and scope of the Special Issue;
• Circulating the call for papers for the Special Issue and inviting submissions;
• Making decisions on whether a manuscript can be accepted or not based on the reports we collect;
• Promoting the Special Issue and increasing its visibility at related academic conferences;
• If 10 or more papers are published in the Special Issue, we can make a Special Issue book and send a hard copy to each Guest Editor.

The Editorial Office will take care of setting up the Special Issue website, arrange the promotional materials, and assist with the paper contribution invitations, as well as take care of the rest of the administrative tasks associated with the peer-review process, including inviting reviewers, collating reviews, contacting authors, and professional production before publication.

Please do not hesitate to contact the Editorial Office for further details and clarifications.

We look forward to receiving your proposals.

Aerospace Editorial Office

It is our great honor to congratulate the Editorial Board Members and Editors in MDPI's journals who have been distinguished as 2021 Highly Cited Researchers by Clarivate, according to Web of Science data. We herewith express our gratitude for the immense impact the named researchers continue to make on scientific progress and on our journals' development.

Clarivate's annual list of Highly Cited Researchers^TM identifies the most highly cited scientists for the past decade. Their impactful papers are among the top 1 per cent in the citation distribution of one or more of 22 fields analyzed in the "Essential Science Indicators", distinguishing them as hugely influential among their peers.

The full list of 2021 Highly Cited Researchers  can be accessed at the following webpage in the Web of Science^TM https://recognition.webofscience.com/awards/highly-cited/2021/.

--- Highly Cited Researchers (HCR) is a Clarivate product.

Academic editors play a crucial role in leading our journals and ensuring that each article undergoes a robust and timely peer-review. With the launch of Topics this year and addition of Topic Editors to our family of academic editors, we decided it would be a good time to restructure our academic boards, thus providing more clarity and support for each role. MDPI is pleased to announce the launch of a new position—Topical Advisory Panel Member, that will replace the previous position of Topics Board Member. The Topical Advisory Panel will be comprised of early career researchers eager to gain experience in editorial work.

The main responsibility of the new members of the Topical Advisory Panel is to regularly provide support to Guest Editors, Topic Editors, and Section Board Members. The responsibilities of the Topical Advisory Panel are available here: https://www.mdpi.com/editors.

Each year, the members’ performances are evaluated, and outstanding members are promoted to the Editorial Board by the Editor-in-Chief.

To qualify as a Topical Advisory Panel Member, applicants must:

• Have expertise and experience in the field related to the journal;
• Have received a Ph.D. in the last 10 years, approximately;
• Have at least 6-8 published papers in the last 5 years as first author or corresponding author;
• Currently hold an independent research position in academia or a government institute.

If you are interested in this role, please contact the editorial office by email.

We look forward to hearing from you soon.

Founded in 1996, MDPI was one of the first fully Open Access publisher. Over 25 years MDPI has grown to become the largest Open Access publisher globally, publishing over 160,000 articles across more than 350 journals in 2020. At the core, MDPI was founded in response to a pressing need of fast publication and inclusion. The scholar was set at the centre of the publication process for the first time. Acting as a service provider, rather than a product provider, MDPI exists to help scientists achive their objective to disseminate research results. At MDPI, we believe scientists deserve a better service from the publishing world.

The International Open Access Week (Open Access Week), founded by the SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) Alliance and student partners in 2008, has been successfully running for 13 years. As an advocate and pioneer of open access publishing, MDPI actively responds to the call of International Open Access Week. This year’s theme of “It Matters How We Open Knowledge: Building Structural Equity” highlights the Recommendation’s call for equitable participation from all authors and readers.

For the last 25 years, MDPI has been committed to disseminating open research. Here is a video showing MDPI’s Commitment to Equity, Inclusion and Diversity for More than 25 Years.

International Open Access Week is an important opportunity to catalyze new conversations, create connections across and between communities that can facilitate this co-design, and advance progress in the building of more equitable foundations for opening knowledge—discussions and actions that need to be continued, year in and year out. MDPI has always aimed to provide professional and efficient publishing services to scholars around the world.

Our mission is to make scientific research accessible to everyone; this year, we interview and hold discussions with open science ambassadors on how to build an equal and inclusive environment for open science. Academic editors help us collaborate with more institutions to advocate for open access ideas.

Read our anniversary blog post: "Sharing 'Collective Human Knowledge': The Benefits of Open Access Publication"

Besides this, our scientific community is a key driver of our success and MDPI’s remarkable growth. Despite the pandemic, we have prepared online conferences and workshops to gather scholars from different communities.

The Basel Sustainable Publishing online forum provides an equal opportunity for stakeholders and researchers from multi-cultural environments to exchange ideas and eliminate barriers to participation.

Conference date: 25 October 2021, online
Conference website: https://bspf2021.sciforum.net/
Main topics: MDPI discusses the current dilemma of open access science from various perspectives such as governments, libraries, and publishers, and related measures on how to change the status quo of discrimination from a global perspective.

We aim to support equality, inclusion, diversity, and accessibility in scholarly communications. We collaborate with universities and key laboratories and have scholarly communications with researchers, teachers, and students on open access workshops.

• 25 October 2021
  Energies journal and Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

• 28 October 2021
  Machines journal and State Key Laboratory of Traction Power, Southwest Jiaotong University

• 29 October 2021
  Processes journal and Beijing Institute of Technology

• 29 October 2021
  Coatings journal and Wuhan University of Technology

MDPI is committed to providing open access and high-quality publishing services for scholars and promoting rapid dissemination of academic achievements. We hope to promote the practices and policies of open access publishing and diversify the dissemination of academic achievements.

Conference name: 21st IACM Computational Fluids Conference (CFC 2021)
Location: Hangzhou, China
Date: 17–21 October 2021
Website: http://www.cfc2021.org

The 21st IACM Computational Fluids Conference (CFC 2021), hosted by Zhejiang University, will be held from 17 to 21 October, 2021, at the Sheraton Grand Hangzhou Wetland Park Resort, in Hangzhou, China. This grand international academic exchange conference is a collaborative endeavor, under the joint organization of International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM), Chinese Association of Computational Mechanics (CACM), and International Chinese Association for Computational Mechanics (ICACM). 

The conference aims at covering all aspects of computational fluid dynamics (CFD), from most fundamental aspects to recent applications. It will provide a world-wide forum for both academic researchers and industrial engineers to meet each other, to exchange information from all areas of fluid mechanics, and to discuss current and future advanced topics. It will be an important event in the field of computational mechanics.

Aerospace (ISSN: 2226-4310) is the leading journal sponsoring this conference. We welcome you to attend and visit our booth.

We are pleased to announce that the following experts have been appointed Section Editors-in-Chief of Aerospace (ISSN 2226-4310). 

Prof. Dr. Sergey Leonov has been appointed Editor-in-Chief of the Section “Aeronautics”.

Prof. Dr. Paolo Tortora has been appointed Editor-in-Chief of the Section “Astronautics & Space Science”.

Dr. Michael Schultz has been appointed Editor-in-Chief of the Section “Air Traffic and Transportation”.

Aerospace Editorial Office