Announcements

Rigorous peer-review is the cornerstone of high-quality academic publishing. Over 369,916 scholars served as reviewers for MDPI journals in 2020. We are extremely appreciative of all those who made a contribution to the editorial process in this capacity. At the beginning of every year, journal editorial offices publish a list of all reviewers’ names to express our gratitude. In addition, this year, the MDPI Top Reviewer Award was announced, to recognize the very best reviewers for their expertise and dedication, and their high-quality, and timely review reports. We are pleased to announce the following winners of the 2020 MDPI Top Reviewer Award:

• Adriana Burlea-Schiopoiu;
• Alban Kuriqi;
• Álvaro González-Vila;
• Alessandro Alaimo;
• Alexey Beskopylny;
• Alexander Yu Churyumov;
• Alberto Fernández-Isabel;
• Andrea Mastinu;
• Antonios N. Papadopoulos;
• Anton Rassõlkin;
• Antonio Humberto Hamad Minervino;
• Arkadiusz Matwijczuk;
• Artur Słomka;
• Baojie He;
• Bartłomiej Potaniec;
• Bojan Đurin;
• Camilo Arturo Rodriguez Diaz;
• Carmelo Maria Musarella;
• Chiachung Chen;
• Chiman Kwan;
• Cristian Busu;
• Danil Pimenov;
• Dan-Cristian Dabija;
• Delfín Ortega-Sánchez;
• Demetrio Antonio Zema;
• Denis Butusov;
• Elena Lucchi;
• Gaurab Dutta;
• Livia Anastasiu;
• M. R. Safaei.

For more information about how to become a reviewer of MDPI journals, please see: www.mdpi.com/reviewers.

UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all. In 2020 the SDG Publishers Compact was launched, aimed to inspire publishers and accelerate progress to achieve the 17 goals by 2030. Members of the programme are committed to support the publication of materials that will promote and inspire actions towards SDGs.

MDPI is an eager advocate of SDGs and has already been supporting the programme by creating Special Issues and publishing a series of books on SDGs prior to joining the Compact in 2021. MDPI's Sustainability Foundation initiated the World Sustainability Awards in 2016. We fully support UN's goals to promote sustainable actions that make the world a better place for all and, as part of its commitment, we will focus our actions on SDG10: Reduced Inequalities whilst promoting all 17 SDGs. For more details, please visit the programme’s website: https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sdg-publishers-compact/.

Joining this initiative was a unanimous decision. MDPI has in its core values the dissemination of science for all, breaking the wall between research access and under-represented members of the scientific community and the general population. To support this initiative further and continue to support under-represented scientists, MDPI will take a series of actions that will be announced once ready.

The first action MDPI takes is to nominate Dr. Liliane Auwerter as the coordinator of the programme. Dr. Auwerter studied Environmental Process Technology (UTFPR, Brazil), obtained her MSc degree in Water and Environmental Engineering (University of Surrey, UK) and in 2020 completed her PhD in self-healing low-friction materials for water transport (Imperial College London, UK), always focusing on diverse scientific projects that would potentially bring sustainability to industrial processes. As a student in Brazil, she engaged in volunteering activities focused on environmental education and took part in the Millennial Development Goals meetings held at the university.

For more information, please contact:
Dr. Liliane Auwerter
Scientific Officer
liliane.auwerter@mdpi.com

We are pleased to announce the launch of a new Section, “Air Pollution Control”, to provide a specific venue for this field of research in Atmosphere (ISSN: 2073-4433). It covers topics including, but not limited to:

• Cyclones;
• Scrubbers;
• Electrostatic precipitators;
• Baghouse filters;
• Absorption;
• Electrostatic precipitation;
• Wet/dry scrubbing and packed scrubbers;
• Flue gas desulfurization;
• Gas catalysis reaction/catalysts;
• Catalytic converters for VOC emission control;
• Regenerative thermal oxidizers and thermal recuperative oxidizers for VOC abatement;
• Rotary concentrators for high air volume low VOC concentration processes;
• Particulate filters;
• Evaporative emission controls;
• Crankcase emission controls;
• Thermal management strategies;
• Engine and fuel management;
• Enhanced combustion technologies;
• Sensor technologies;
• GHG emissions reduction technologies;
• Alternative fuel sources;
• Urban motor vehicle pollution control.

We are now recruiting Editorial Board Members (EBMs) and Guest Editors (GEs) for this Section (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/atmosphere/sections/air_pollution_control). If you are an active researcher in one of the aforementioned fields and are passionate about publishing cutting-edge research, please do not hesitate to get in touch (atmosphere@mdpi.com).

Alternatively, you may submit your work directly via the following link: https://susy.mdpi.com/user/manuscripts/upload?journal=atmosphere. Submissions before 30 November 2021 may enjoy a CHF 400 discount on the article processing charge.

Please feel free to contact us with any questions.

We look forward to collaborating with you.

Atmosphere Editorial Office

We are pleased to inform you that the open access journal Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433; IF 2.686) has been indexed in the Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes (ANVUR): Area 08 / Class A - Sector 08/C1. The journal will be officially included in the next list, which should be published by October 2021.

Atmosphere is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal of scientific studies related to the atmosphere, published monthly online by MDPI. The Italian Aerosol Society (IAS) and the Working Group of Air Quality in European Citizen Science Association (ECSA) are affiliated with Atmosphere and their members receive a discount on the article processing charges. More details can be found at: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/atmosphere.

We warmly welcome you to consider Atmosphere as the platform for publishing your work.

Atmosphere Editorial Office

This serves to announce to our valued authors based in Japan that value-added tax, or consumption tax will now be imposed on article processing fees and other service fees for all papers submitted, or resubmitted (assigned new paper IDs), effective from 15 August 2021. The change is in accordance with the Japanese "Act for Partial Revision of the Income Tax Act and Other Acts" (Act No. 9 of 2015), which includes a revision of consumption taxation on cross-border supplies of services such as digital content distribution.

For additional information from the National Tax Agency please see here ("Cross-border supplies of electronic services").

Contact: Setsuko Nishihara, MDPI Tokyo

MDPI will be attending the 2nd International Conference for Global Chinese Academia on Energy and Built Environment (CEBE 2021) in Chengdu, China, on 16–19 July 2021. The conference aims at establishing a worldwide platform for promoting global cooperation and innovative communications for ethnic Chinese around the globe, sharing cutting-edge achievements in the utilization of clean energy, the enhancement of energy efficiency via the built environment, and the improvement in environmental quality.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Energies
• Nanomaterials
• Buildings
• Atmosphere
• Clean Technologies
• Processes
• Materials
• Sustainability

If you are attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person to answer any questions you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit the following link: http://www.cebe2021.com.

The 2020 citation metrics have been officially released in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR)!

We are pleased to announce that 85 MDPI journals are included, of which:

• 10 journals received their first impact factor
• 96% of journals increased their impact factor from 2019
• 32 journals (38%) ranked among the top 25% of journals, in at least one category

* Journals given their first Impact Factor in 2021

Source: 2020 Journal Impact Factors, Journal Citation Reports ® (Clarivate, 2021)

We are pleased to announce that Prof. Dr. Xuejun Liu has been appointed Associate Editor of Atmosphere.

Prof. Dr. Xuejun Liu is from the College of Resources and Environmental Sciences at China Agricultural University, Beijing, China. He has been involved in teaching and research work on plant nutrition and environmental sciences, and carried out fruitful studies in the fields of the farmland nitrogen cycle and atmospheric settling. He has undertaken research on many major topics for the National Natural Science Foundation in China and Sino-German international cooperation projects and published over 50 papers, including 24 SCI papers and 6 monographs.

We warmly welcome Prof. Dr. Xuejun Liu as the Associate Editor in Atmosphere and look forward to his contribution to the continued success of Atmosphere.

It is our pleasure to welcome the following 51 recognized researchers who have recently joined the Editorial Board of Atmosphere:

We look forward to their contributions to the journal.

MDPI will be attending IGARSS 2021, to be held in virtual form from 12th to 16th of July 2021.

IGARSS 2021, which will take place from 12 to 16 July 2021, is a joint effort of the Low Countries, the Netherlands and Belgium, and they have chosen Crossing Borders as the overall theme of the conference:

• Between countries and research institutes;
• Between types of platforms (from satellites to drones);
• Between data sources;
• Between disciplines.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Remote Sensing
• Atmosphere
• Water
• Sustainability
• Data
• Soil Systems
• IJGI
• Drones

If you are attending this conference, please feel free to start an online conversation with us. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person and answering any questions you may have. For more information about the conference and our virtual booth, please visit: https://igarss2021.com/default.asp.