Announcements

A range of MDPI journals will be attending the 2023 BMES Annual Meeting as exhibitors. This meeting will be held in Seattle, USA, from 11 to 14 October 2023.

The BMES Annual Meeting will gather participants for networking, education, and continued growth in the biomedical engineering field. It is a premiere event centered around topics and discussions specific to our community. The theme of this year’s meeting is focused on the convergence of three pillars essential to our field’s success: science, technology, and social transformation.

The conference's vision is to center the perspective that the future of biomedical engineering requires and the curious evaluation of complex scientific challenges, while candidly considering intersectionality and social factors. Through creative programming, it will ensure that these three pillars are interwoven into all aspects of the meeting.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Bioengineering;
• Biomedicines;
• Biomimetics;
• Cancers;
• CIMB;
• Diseases;
• Micromachines;
• Biosensors.

If you are attending this conference, please feel free to start a conversation with us at our booth at #931. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person and answering any questions that you may have.

For more information about the conference, please visit https://www.bmes.org/annualmeeting.

With the first issue released in June 2023, five new MDPI journals disseminating multi-disciplinary science are due to launch, which will cover the subjects of medicine & pharmacology, biology and physical sciences.

The newly launched journals will be overseen by professional Editorial Board Members and Editors to ensure an accurate and rapid publication, rigorous peer review and broad visibility.

Please feel free to browse and discover more about the new journals below.

Journal	Founding Editor-in-Chief	Journal topics (selected)
	Prof. Dr. Jun Ma, Peking University, China| Editorial | view inaugural issue	growth and development; diet and nutrients; school health promotion policies and practices; child health and care; adolescent health and wellbeing | view journal scope | submit an article
	Prof. Dr. Bernd Rehm, Griffith University, Australia | Editorial | view inaugural issue	DNA and gene synthesis; synthetic transcription factors; protein engineering; viral engineering; metabolic engineering | view journal scope | submit an article
	Prof. Dr. Varsha Gandhi, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA | Editorial | view inaugural issue	lymphatics; cancers associated with lymphocytes and lymphoblasts; lymphatic tissues; lymphoma; lymphoid leukemia | view journal scope | submit an article
	Dr. Bradley Turner, University of Melbourne, Australia | Editorial | view inaugural issue	multiple sclerosis; amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; primary lateral sclerosis; atherosclerosis; systemic sclerosis | view journal scope | submit an article
	Prof. Dr. Clemens Burda, Case Western Reserve University, USA | Editorial | view inaugural issue	Gamma ray, X-ray, and UV–Vis spectroscopies; NIR/mid-infrared/Raman spectroscopy; microwave and THz spectroscopy; high-resolution gas-phase atomic, molecular, and cluster spectroscopy; MS, NMR, and EPR spectroscopy | view journal scope | submit an article

We wish to thank everyone who has supported the development of open access publishing. You are welcome to submit an application to the New Journal Committee (newjournal-committee@mdpi.com) if you would like to create more new journals.

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)

MDPI is attending the 22nd International Conference on Solid-State Sensors, Actuators and Microsystems (Transducers 2023). The event will be held at the Kyoto International Conference Center in Kyoto, Japan, from 25 to 29 June 2023. The conference aims to enhance the collective knowledge of the global transducers technical community by providing an inclusive forum for communication, education, and collaboration.

Representatives of the following MDPI journals will be attending:

• Sensors;
• Electronics;
• Actuators;
• Inventions;
• Biosensors;
• Chemosensors.

If you are also attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth (#B-14). Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person to answer any questions you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit: https://transducers2023.org/.

MDPI will be attending the 33rd CCS Congress, held in Qingdao, China, from 17 to 20 June 2023. The Annual Academic Conference of the Chinese Chemical Society is held every two years. It is the highest level, largest scale and most influential comprehensive academic exchange platform in the field of chemistry in China. During this conference, MDPI will welcome researchers from different backgrounds to visit and share their latest views as well as research with us.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Molecules;
• Materials;
• IJMS;
• Inorganics;
• Polymers;
• Molbank;
• Symmetry;
• Nanomaterials;
• Separations;
• Biosensors;
• Electrochem;
• Analytica.

If you are attending this conference, please stop by our booth. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person to answer any questions that you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit the following link: https://www.chemsoc.org.cn/meeting/33rd/.

1. “Two-Dimensional Material-Based Electrochemical Sensors/Biosensors for Food Safety and Biomolecular Detection”
by Tao Li, Dawei Shang, Shouwu Gao, Bo Wang, Hao Kong, Guozheng Yang, Weidong Shu, Peilong Xu and Gang Wei
Biosensors 2022, 12(5), 314; https://doi.org/10.3390/bios12050314
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-6374/12/5/314

2. “Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) Assisted Biomedical Systems for Intelligent Healthcare”
by Pandiaraj Manickam, Siva Ananth Mariappan, Sindhu Monica Murugesan, Shekhar Hansda, Ajeet Kaushik, Ravikumar Shinde and S. P. Thipperudraswamy
Biosensors 2022, 12(8), 562; https://doi.org/10.3390/bios12080562
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-6374/12/8/562
 
3. “Recent Advances in Surface Plasmon Resonance Sensors for Sensitive Optical Detection of Pathogens”
by Joon-Ha Park,Yeon-Woo Cho and Tae-Hyung Kim
Biosensors 2022, 12(3), 180; https://doi.org/10.3390/bios12030180
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-6374/12/3/180
 
4. “Optical Fiber, Nanomaterial, and THz-Metasurface-Mediated Nano-Biosensors: A Review”
by B. M. Azizur Rahman, Charusluk Viphavakit, Ratchapak Chitaree, Souvik Ghosh, Akhilesh Kumar Pathak, Sneha Verma and Natsima Sakda
Biosensors 2022, 12(1), 42; https://doi.org/10.3390/bios12010042
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-6374/12/1/42
 
5. “Progress of Polyaniline Glucose Sensors for Diabetes Mellitus Management Utilizing Enzymatic and Non-Enzymatic Detection”
by Velia Osuna, Alejandro Vega-Rios, Erasto Armando Zaragoza-Contreras, Iván Alziri Estrada-Moreno and Rocio B. Dominguez
Biosensors 2022, 12(3), 137; https://doi.org/10.3390/bios12030137
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-6374/12/3/137
 
6. “An Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy-Based Aptasensor for the Determination of SARS-CoV-2-RBD Using a Carbon Nanofiber–Gold Nanocomposite Modified Screen-Printed Electrode”
by Mahmoud Amouzadeh Tabrizi and Pablo Acedo
Biosensors 2022, 12(3), 142; https://doi.org/10.3390/bios12030142
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-6374/12/3/142
 
7. “Laser-Induced Graphene Based Flexible Electronic Devices”
by Hao Wang, Zifen Zhao, Panpan Liu and Xiaogang Guo
Biosensors 2022, 12(2), 55; https://doi.org/10.3390/bios12020055
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-6374/12/2/55
 
8. “Advances in Novel Nanomaterial-Based Optical Fiber Biosensors—A Review”
by Muyang Li, Ragini Singh, Yiran Wang, Carlos Marques, Bingyuan Zhang and Santosh Kumar
Biosensors 2022, 12(10), 843; https://doi.org/10.3390/bios12100843
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-6374/12/10/843
 
9. “Recent Advances of Point-of-Care Devices Integrated with Molecularly Imprinted Polymers-Based Biosensors: From Biomolecule Sensing Design to Intraoral Fluid Testing”
by Rowoon Park, Sangheon Jeon, Jeonghwa Jeong, Shin-Young Park, Dong-Wook Han and Suck Won Hong
Biosensors 2022, 12(3), 136; https://doi.org/10.3390/bios12030136
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-6374/12/3/136
 
10. “Properties and Applications of Graphene and Its Derivatives in Biosensors for Cancer Detection: A Comprehensive Review”
by Mehrab Pourmadadi, Homayoon Soleimani Dinani, Fatemeh Saeidi Tabar, Kajal Khassi, Sajjad Janfaza, Nishat Tasnim and Mina Hoorfar
Biosensors 2022, 12(5), 269; https://doi.org/10.3390/bios12050269
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-6374/12/5/269

We would like to take this opportunity to extend our appreciation to all of the researchers who have contributed to nanozyme-based biosensor research. We would like to highlight multiple research projects in this field, not limited to the topics of the papers listed below.

1. “Highly Sensitive Twin Resonance Coupling Refractive Index Sensor Based on Gold- and MgF₂-Coated Nano Metal Films”
by Kawsar Ahmed, Mohammed A. AlZain, Hasan Abdullah, Yanhua Luo, Dhasarathan Vigneswaran, Osama S. Faragallah, Mahmoud M. A. Eid and Ahmed Nabih Zaki Rashed
Biosensors 2021, 11(4), 104; https://doi.org/10.3390/bios11040104
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-6374/11/4/104   

2. “Immunosensing Based on Optical Fiber Technology: Recent Advances”
by Maria Simone Soares, Miguel Vidal, Nuno F. Santos, Florinda M. Costa, Carlos Marques, Sónia O. Pereira and Cátia Leitão
Biosensors 2021, 11(9), 305; https://doi.org/10.3390/bios11090305
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-6374/11/9/305

3. “Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR)- and Localized SPR (LSPR)-Based Virus Sensing Systems: Optical Vibration of Nano- and Micro-Metallic Materials for the Development of Next-Generation Virus Detection Technology”
by Kenshin Takemura
Biosensors 2021, 11(8), 250; https://doi.org/10.3390/bios11080250
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-6374/11/8/250

4. “Comprehensive Review Tapered Optical Fiber Configurations for Sensing Application: Trend and Challenges”
by Bakr Ahmed Taha, Norazida Ali, Nurfarhana Mohamad Sapiee, Mahmoud Muhanad Fadhel, Ros Maria Mat Yeh, Nur Nadia Bachok, Yousif Al Mashhadany and Norhana Arsad
Biosensors 2021, 11(8), 253; https://doi.org/10.3390/bios11080253
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-6374/11/8/253

5. “Recent Advancements in Aptamer-Based Surface Plasmon Resonance Biosensing Strategies”
by Chia-Chen Chang
Biosensors 2021, 11(7), 233; https://doi.org/10.3390/bios11070233
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-6374/11/7/233

6. “Biocompatible and Biodegradable Polymer Optical Fiber for Biomedical Application: A Review”
by Yue Wang, Yu Huang, Hongyi Bai, Guoqing Wang, Xuehao Hu, Santosh Kumar and Rui Min
Biosensors 2021, 11(12), 472; https://doi.org/10.3390/bios11120472
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-6374/11/12/472

7. “Using CNN and HHT to Predict Blood Pressure Level Based on Photoplethysmography and Its Derivatives”
by Xiaoxiao Sun, Liang Zhou, Shendong Chang and Zhaohui Liu
Biosensors 2021, 11(4), 120; https://doi.org/10.3390/bios11040120
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-6374/11/4/120

8. “Novel Micro-Nano Optoelectronic Biosensor for Label-Free Real-Time Biofilm Monitoring”
by Giuseppe Brunetti, Donato Conteduca, Mario Nicola Armenise and Caterina Ciminelli
Biosensors 2021, 11(10), 361; https://doi.org/10.3390/bios11100361
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-6374/11/10/361

9. “Trends in the Design of Intensity-Based Optical Fiber Biosensors (2010–2020)”
by Nerea De Acha, Abián B. Socorro-Leránoz, César Elosúa and Ignacio R. Matías
Biosensors 2021, 11(6), 197; https://doi.org/10.3390/bios11060197
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-6374/11/6/197

10. “High-Sensitivity High-Throughput Detection of Nucleic Acid Targets on Metasurface Fluorescence Biosensors”
by Masanobu Iwanaga
Biosensors 2021, 11(2), 33; https://doi.org/10.3390/bios11020033
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-6374/11/2/33