Announcements

The 2022 citation metrics have been released in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR), and we’re pleased to announce the following results for MDPI journals:

We are thrilled to announce that 90% of our ranked MDPI journals, specifically 86 out of 96 (captured in the table below), are performing above average in Q1 or Q2. This year, Clarivate has expanded its Impact Factor (IF) awards to include journals in the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) and the Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI), providing greater transparency for the full set of journals indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection. As a result, 111 of MDPI journals have received their first IF in 2023, with 37 journals surpassing an IF of 3.0. In total, 208 MDPI journals have been honored with an IF.

Clarivate explains that by "expanding the coverage but holding to highly selective standards, the [Impact Factor] is now a reliable indicator of trustworthiness, as well as a measure of scholarly impact, at the journal level."

Please visit our blog post where we discuss the release of the latest citation metrics with our Indexing Manager, Dr. Constanze Schelhorn, to find out what's different this time around and how to make use of different metrics available.

Note: The Journal of Personalized Medicine's Impact Factor was omitted in the original release and will be assigned separately. Please find the data on the journal webpage in due course.

Source: 2022 Journal Impact Factors, Journal Citation Reports ^TM (Clarivate, 2023)

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Axioms 2023 Best Paper Award. All papers published from 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2021 in Axioms (ISSN: 2075-1680) were considered for the award. After a thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, citations, and downloads, two winners were selected.

Winning Articles:

• “Optimal Control Analysis of Cholera Dynamics in the Presence of Asymptotic Transmission”
  by Emmanuel A. Bakare and Sarka Hoskova-Mayerova
  Axioms 2021, 10(2), 60; https://doi.org/10.3390/axioms10020060
• “Quadratic Lyapunov Functions for Stability of the Generalized Proportional Fractional Differential Equations with Applications to Neural Networks”
  by Ricardo Almeida, Ravi P. Agarwal, Snezhana Hristova and Donal O’Regan
  Axioms 2021, 10(4), 322; https://doi.org/10.3390/axioms10040322

Please join us in congratulating the winners of the Axioms 2023 Best Paper Award. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all of our authors for your continued support of Axioms.

For more information about the awards presented by Axioms, please visit the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/axioms/awards.

1. “Brain Tumor Classification Using Dense Efficient-Net”
   by Dillip Ranjan Nayak, Neelamadhab Padhy, Pradeep Kumar Mallick, Mikhail Zymbler and Sachin Kumar
   Axioms 2022, 11(1), 34; https://doi.org/10.3390/axioms11010034
   Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1680/11/1/34

2. “Investigation into the Explicit Solutions of the Integrable (2+1)—Dimensional Maccari System via the Variational Approach”
   by Kang-Jia Wang and Jing Si
   Axioms 2022, 11(5), 234; https://doi.org/10.3390/axioms11050234
   Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1680/11/5/234

3. “Variational Principle and Diverse Wave Structures of the Modified Benjamin-Bona-Mahony Equation Arising in the Optical Illusions Field”
   by Kang-Jia Wang
   Axioms 2022, 11(9), 445; https://doi.org/10.3390/axioms11090445
   Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1680/11/9/445

4. “Statistical Convergence via q-Calculus and a Korovkin’s Type Approximation Theorem”
   by Mohammad Ayman Mursaleen and Stefano Serra-Capizzano
   Axioms 2022, 11(2), 70; https://doi.org/10.3390/axioms11020070
   Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1680/11/2/70

5. “Improved Chen’s Inequalities for Submanifolds of Generalized Sasakian-Space-Forms”
   by Yanlin Li, Mohan Khatri, Jay Prakash Singh and Sudhakar K. Chaubey
   Axioms 2022, 11(7), 324; https://doi.org/10.3390/axioms11070324
   Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1680/11/7/324

6. “A Study of Clairaut Semi-Invariant Riemannian Maps from Cosymplectic Manifolds”
   by Yanlin Li, Rajendra Prasad, Abdul Haseeb, Sushil Kumar and Sumeet Kumar
   Axioms 2022, 11(10), 503; https://doi.org/10.3390/axioms11100503
   Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1680/11/10/503

7. “Approximation Properties of the Generalized Abel-Poisson Integrals on the Weyl-Nagy Classes”
   by Inna Kal’chuk and Yurii Kharkevych
   Axioms 2022, 11(4), 161; https://doi.org/10.3390/axioms11040161
   Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1680/11/4/161

8. “Pattern Formation Induced by Fuzzy Fractional-Order Model of COVID-19”
   by Abeer S. Alnahdi, Ramsha Shafqat, Azmat Ullah Khan Niazi and Mdi Begum Jeelani
   Axioms 2022, 11(7), 313; https://doi.org/10.3390/axioms11070313
   Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1680/11/7/313

9. “A Two-Stage Multi-Criteria Supplier Selection Model for Sustainable Automotive Supply Chain under Uncertainty”
   by Thanh-Tuan Dang, Ngoc-Ai-Thy Nguyen, Van-Thanh-Tien Nguyen and Le-Thanh-Hieu Dang
   Axioms 2022, 11(5), 228; https://doi.org/10.3390/axioms11050228
   Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1680/11/5/228

10. “Interval Fejér-Type Inequalities for Left and Right-λ-Preinvex Functions in Interval-Valued Settings”
    by Tareq Saeed, Muhammad Bilal Khan, Savin Treanțǎ, Hamed H. Alsulami and Mohammed Sh. Alhodaly
    Axioms 2022, 11(8), 368; https://doi.org/10.3390/axioms11080368
    Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1680/11/8/368

MDPI will be attending the 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2023) in Taipei, Taiwan, which will take place from 25 to 30 June 2023.

ISIT is the premier international conference series dedicated to the advancement of information theory and related areas. It brings together an international community of researchers and practitioners each year to present and discuss new research results and perspectives on future developments relevant to all areas of information theory, including big data analytics, source and channel coding, communication theory and systems, cryptography and security, detection and estimation, emerging applications, networks, network coding, signal processing, and statistical/machine learning.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Entropy;
• Mathematics;
• Information;
• Axioms;
• Algorithms;
• Symmetry;
• Data;
• JCP;
• Cryptography.

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: https://isit2023.org/.

Mathematics (ISSN: 2227-7390) be attending the 13th AIMS Conference on Dynamical Systems, Differential Equations and Applications, which will occur from May 31 to June 4 2023 at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, NC, USA. The goals of the meeting include a cross-fertilization of ideas from different application areas and increased communication between the mathematicians who develop dynamical systems techniques and the applied scientists who use them.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Mathematics;
• Axioms;
• Symmetry;
• Fractal Fract;
• Dynamics;
• AppliedMath;
• Computation;
• Systems.

Mathematics plays an indispensable role in shaping the world we inhabit, propelling scientific breakthroughs and technological advancements, and fostering social and economic progress. This year's theme, "Mathematics for Everyone", underscores the universal and all-encompassing nature of mathematics, and its potential to positively impact individuals from all walks of life and diverse backgrounds.

We are confident that the prestigious Mathematics subject journals in MDPI, including AppliedMath, Axioms, Computation, Fractal and Fractional, Games, MCA, Stats and Symmetry, will offer ideal communication platforms to enhance scientific collaboration in line with the International Day of Mathematics theme. Let us harness the full potential of these platforms to propel Mathematics to new heights of development and innovation.

MDPI International Day of Mathematics Webinar 2023 14 Mar 2023, 10:00 (CET) Session 1: 10:00 am–12:00 pm CET Session 2: 14:30 pm–16:30 pm CET Free to register for the two Sessions. Recordings will be available on Sciforum shortly afterwards.

As a leading open access publisher, MDPI provides scholars with a high-quality and rich academic exchange platform by continuously expanding into new and exciting research areas.

In December 2022, MDPI launched five new journals, covering multiple subjects such as life sciences, biology, medicine and pharmacology, social sciences and humanities. These new journals are being edited by established scholars across the world.

If you are interested in creating more open access journals with us to publish cutting-edge research, please send your journal proposal application to newjournal-committee@mdpi.com.

MDPI is pleased to announce that we now display the co-authors’ email addresses in addition to the corresponding author’s email address on the webpage of published papers, protected by Captcha. For more information about this change, please visit the journal’s instructions for authors page. 

We believe this change will facilitate academic discussions and advance our cause of open science and research. The corresponding authors are responsible for communicating with their co-authors and indicating in our system (https://susy.mdpi.com/) if co-authors would prefer for their email addresses not to be displayed.

On 9 February 2023, Clarivate, a global leader in providing trusted insights and analytics, added the Preprint Citation Index to the Web of Science platform, streamlining the research process by allowing researchers to locate and link to preprints alongside other trusted content in the database.

The Preprint Citation Index will act as a bridge to connect cutting-edge preprints with peer-reviewed journal articles published within the Web of Science Core Collection. Alerts can be easily set to monitor new research across several repositories and authors will also be able to include preprints on their Web of Science Research Profile to more accurately display their various research outputs.

As of its launch, the Preprint Citation Index will provide nearly two million preprints from various repositories, including MDPI’s own Preprints.org.

MDPI's Preprints Platform – Preprints.org

To advance Open Science and the fast dissemination of research, MDPI offers researchers a free multidisciplinary preprint platform. Preprints.org accepts submissions from all research areas and offers authors high visibility, permanent archiving, article-level Metrics and immediately citable content by assigning a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) to all preprints.

During submission to any MDPI journal, authors have the option to share their research as a preprint. After an initial screening, the manuscript is available online in 48 hours or less. Once online, preprints can be downloaded, shared, commented on, and cited, providing authors maximum visibility.

We invite you to join the ranks of the over 100k researchers using Preprints.org and share your research.

For more information, please visit Preprints.org.

We are pleased to announce the launch of a new initiative—the MDPI Special Issue Mentor Program.

This program will enable early career researchers (who must hold a Ph.D. in a related field) to experience editing a Special Issue in MDPI journals, under the mentorship of our experienced Editorial Board Members or other experienced scientists. The mentor program will provide an excellent opportunity for early career scientists to gain editorial experience, and to cultivate their ability to edit scientific research.

The mentee’s responsibilities include:

• Proposing a Special Issue title and assisting the mentor in preparing a summary (around 200–400 words) and 3–10 keywords describing the background, importance, and goal of the Issue;
• Writing a brief promotion plan for the Special Issue;
• Preparing a list of scholars who may be interested in the Issue and personally e-mailing invitations on behalf of Guest Editors;
• Writing an editorial for the online Special Issue together with the mentor.

The mentor’s responsibilities include:

• Conducting a final check before the Special Issue is published online;
• Performing editorial control of the Special Issue and quality control of the publications, both of which must be carried out in a timely manner;
• Providing suggestions to younger scholars if they have any doubts or concerns regarding submissions;
• Organizing video calls with young scholars and the Editorial Office regularly to discuss problems and improvement suggestions for the Special Issue;
• Making and submitting decisions regarding submissions with the assistance of mentees.

Certificates and awards:
After the Special Issue closes, the Editorial Office will provide official certificates for all the mentors and early career researchers.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please send your Special Issue proposal to the Editorial Office of a journal you choose, and we will discuss the process (i.e., mentor collaboration, Special Issue topic feasibility analysis, etc.) in further detail. The full list of MDPI journals is as follows: https://www.mdpi.com/about/journals.

In addition to the new Special Issue Mentor Program, we will continue to welcome all Special Issue proposals focusing on hot research topics.