Announcements

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.

Thank you for your continued support for the open access journal Batteries (ISSN: 2313-0105). We are very pleased to announce that Batteries has been accepted into the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) in Web of Science, in the categories of “Electrochemistry”, “Materials Science”, “Multidisciplinary”, and “Energy and Fuels”, as well as in “Current Contents—Engineering, Computing & Technology” and “Physical”, “Chemical”, and “Earth Sciences” databases. The journal is identified as a high performer, ranking in Q2, and is due to receive an impact factor in the June 2022 release of the Journal Citation Reports.

We would like to extend our gratitude to the authors, editors, and reviewers for their contributions. We are grateful for the excellent work that has helped us to achieve this milestone for Batteries!

For more journal statistics, please visit https://www.mdpi.com/journal/batteries/stats.

Batteries Editorial Office

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.

We welcome Prof. Dr. Seung-Wan Song (Chungnam National University, Korea), Prof. Dr. Pascal Venet (Université Claude, Bernard Lyon 1, France), and Prof. Dr. Karim Zaghib (McGill University, Canada) as new Associate Editors-in-Chief of Batteries (ISSN: 2313-0105).

Name: Prof. Dr. Seung-Wan Song
Affiliation: Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry, Chungnam National University, Daejeon, Korea
Interests: lithium-ion batteries; post-lithium (magnesium-ion, lithium-sulfur, aqueous) batteries; control and mechanistic studies of SEI stabilization and electrode-electrolyte interface processes; electrochemistry; solid-state chemistry; surface chemistry

Name: Prof. Dr. Pascal Venet
Affiliation: Department of the Ampère laboratory, Univ Lyon, Université Claude, Bernard Lyon 1, Ecole Centrale, de Lyon, INSA Lyon, CNRS, Ampère UMR5005, 69100 Lyon, France
Interests: characterization; modeling; aging; determination of state of charge and health of electric energy storage system (batteries, supercapacitors); battery management system

Name: Prof. Dr. Karim Zaghib
Affiliation: Department of Mining and Materials Engineering, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada
Interests: li-ion batteries and beyond, solid state batteries; energy storage; photos batteries; electrochemical generator; smart windows and electronic materials; hydrogen storage; carbon-supporting catalysts

We look forward to their contributions to the journal. To view the full Editorial Board, please click here.

Batteries Editorial Office

We are pleased to announce that three Editorial Board Members have recently joined Batteries (ISSN: 2313-0105): Dr. Cristina Tealdi (University of Pavia and INSTM – UdR Pavia, Italy), Dr. Chaoji Chen (University of Maryland College Park, USA), and Prof. Dr. Eliana Quartarone (University of Pavia, Italy). For a full list, please click here.

Name: Dr. Cristina Tealdi

Affiliation: Department of Chemistry-Physical Chemistry Division, University of Pavia and INSTM – UdR Pavia, 27100 Pavia, Italy
Interests: clean energy applications; fuel cells and batteries; electrochemical techniques

Name: Dr. Chaoji Chen

Affiliation: Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD 20742, USA

Interests: lithium-ion battery; sodium-ion batteries; potassium-ion batteries; supercapacitors; flexible batteries; thick electrodes; solid-state batteries; biomass; 3D printing

Name: Prof. Dr. Eliana Quartarone

Affiliation: Department of Chemistry, Division of Physical Chemistry, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

Interests: Li batteries; Na batteries; polymer electrolytes; ionic liquids; materials for energetics

We look forward to their contributions to the journal.

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

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

We are pleased to announce that we have three new Editors-in-Chief of Batteries:

Prof. Dr. Seung-Wan Song (Chungnam National University, Korea);
Prof. Dr. Pascal Venet (Université Claude, Bernard Lyon 1, France);
Prof. Dr. Karim Zaghib (McGill University, Canada).

We wish them every success in developing the journal.

Further details about the Editorial Board Members can be found at:

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/batteries/editors.

We are pleased to announce that 3 new scholars were appointed Editorial Board Members for the Batteries journal:

Dr. Cristina Tealdi (University of Pavia and INSTM – UdR Pavia, Italy);
Dr. Chaoji Chen (University of Maryland College Park, USA);
Prof. Dr. Eliana Quartarone (University of Pavia, Italy).

We wish them every success in developing the journal.

Further details about the Editorial Board Members can be found at:

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/batteries/editors.