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1. “Silver Nanoparticles as Colorimetric Sensors for Water Pollutants”
by Paolo Prosposito, Luca Burratti and Iole Venditti
Chemosensors 2020, 8(2), 26; https://doi.org/10.3390/chemosensors8020026
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9040/8/2/26
Cited by 77 | Viewed by 9143

2. “Nanomaterials for Diagnosis and Treatment of Brain Cancer: Recent Updates”
by Mahwash Mukhtar, Muhammad Bilal, Abbas Rahdar, Mahmood Barani, Rabia Arshad, Tapan Behl, Ciprian Brisc, Florin Banica and Simona Bungau
Chemosensors 2020, 8(4), 117; https://doi.org/10.3390/chemosensors8040117
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9040/8/4/117
Cited by 62 | Viewed by 6701

3. “Review on Sensing Applications of Perovskite Nanomaterials”
by Muthaiah Shellaiah and Kien Wen Sun
Chemosensors 2020, 8(3), 55; https://doi.org/10.3390/chemosensors8030055
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9040/8/3/55
Cited by 60 | Viewed by 9219

4. “Anti-Biofouling Strategies for Long-Term Continuous Use of Implantable Biosensors”
by Jian Xu and Hyowon Lee
Chemosensors 2020, 8(3), 66; https://doi.org/10.3390/chemosensors8030066
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9040/8/3/66
Cited by 35 | Viewed by 4708

5. “Manganese-Doped Zinc Oxide Nanostructures as Potential Scaffold for Photocatalytic and Fluorescence Sensing Applications”
by Deepika Thakur, Anshu Sharma, Abhishek Awasthi, Dharmender Singh Rana, Dilbag Singh, Sadanand Pandey and Sourbh Thakur
Chemosensors 2020, 8(4), 120; https://doi.org/10.3390/chemosensors8040120
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9040/8/4/120
Cited by 28 | Viewed by 2468

6.“Sputtered SnO₂/ZnO Heterostructures for Improved NO₂ Gas Sensing Properties”
by Bharat Sharma, Ashutosh Sharma, Monika Joshi and Jae-ha Myung
Chemosensors 2020, 8(3), 67; https://doi.org/10.3390/chemosensors8030067
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9040/8/3/67
Cited by 24 | Viewed by 2827

7. “Flexible Carbon Electrodes for Electrochemical Detection of Bisphenol-A, Hydroquinone and Catechol in Water Samples”
by Acelino C. de Sá, Simone C. Barbosa, Paulo A. Raymundo-Pereira, Deivy Wilson, Flávio M. Shimizu, Maria Raposo and Osvaldo N. Oliveira, Jr.
Chemosensors 2020, 8(4), 103; https://doi.org/10.3390/chemosensors8040103
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9040/8/4/103
Cited by 24 | Viewed by 3155

8. “Factors Influencing the Surface Functionalization of Citrate Stabilized Gold Nanoparticles with Cysteamine, 3-Mercaptopropionic Acid or l-Selenocystine for Sensor Applications”
by Georgia I. Sakellari, Nicole Hondow and Philip H.E. Gardiner
Chemosensors 2020, 8(3), 80; https://doi.org/10.3390/chemosensors8030080
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9040/8/3/80
Cited by 22 | Viewed by 4447

9. “Immunomagnetic Separation of Microorganisms with Iron Oxide Nanoparticles”
by Julian A. Thomas, Florian Schnell, Yasmin Kaveh-Baghbaderani, Sonja Berensmeier and Sebastian P. Schwaminger
Chemosensors 2020, 8(1), 17; https://doi.org/10.3390/chemosensors8010017
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9040/8/1/17
Cited by 23 | Viewed by 4176

10. “Voltammetric Sensors Based on Nanomaterials for Detection of Caffeic Acid in Food Supplements”
by Alexandra Virginia Bounegru and Constantin Apetrei
Chemosensors 2020, 8(2), 41; https://doi.org/10.3390/chemosensors8020041
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9040/8/2/41
Cited by 20 | Viewed by 2997

11. “Methods for Early Detection of Microbiological Infestation of Buildings Based on Gas Sensor Technologies”
by Monika Garbacz, Agnieszka Malec, Sylwia Duda-Saternus, Zbigniew Suchorab, Łukasz Guz and Grzegorz Łagód
Chemosensors 2020, 8(1), 7; https://doi.org/10.3390/chemosensors8010007
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9040/8/1/7
Cited by 20 | Viewed by 3528

12. “Opto-Electronic Nose Coupled to a Silicon Micro Pre-Concentrator Device for Selective Sensing of Flavored Waters”
by Sami Slimani, Etienne Bultel, Thomas Cubizolle, Cyril Herrier, Tristan Rousselle and Thierry Livache
Chemosensors 2020, 8(3), 60; https://doi.org/10.3390/chemosensors8030060
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9040/8/3/60
Cited by 19 | Viewed by 2359

13. “A Review: Electrochemical Biosensors for Oral Cancer”
by Yen-Tzu Lin, Sorour Darvishi, Anant Preet, Tzu-Yen Huang, Sheng-Hsuan Lin, Hubert H. Girault, Ligang Wang and Tzu-En Lin
Chemosensors 2020, 8(3), 54; https://doi.org/10.3390/chemosensors8030054
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9040/8/3/54
Cited by 19 | Viewed by 5225

14. “Electrochemical Sensors Coupled with Multivariate Statistical Analysis as Screening Tools for Wine Authentication Issues: A Review”
by Elisabeta-Irina Geană, Corina Teodora Ciucure and Constantin Apetrei
Chemosensors 2020, 8(3), 59; https://doi.org/10.3390/chemosensors8030059
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9040/8/3/59
Cited by 17 | Viewed by 2425

15. “The Use of Aptamers and Molecularly Imprinted Polymers in Biosensors for Environmental Monitoring: A Tale of Two Receptors”
by Maryam Naseri, Mohsen Mohammadniaei, Yi Sun and Jon Ashley
Chemosensors 2020, 8(2), 32; https://doi.org/10.3390/chemosensors8020032
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9040/8/2/32
Cited by 16 | Viewed by 3201

16. “Electrochemical Detection of H₂O₂ Released from Prostate Cancer Cells Using Pt Nanoparticle-Decorated rGO–CNT Nanocomposite-Modified Screen-Printed Carbon Electrodes”
by Seokyung Lee, Young Ju Lee, Jae Hyung Kim and Gi-Ja Lee
Chemosensors 2020, 8(3), 63; https://doi.org/10.3390/chemosensors8030063
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9040/8/3/63
Cited by 16 | Viewed by 2783

17. “RH Sensing by Means of TiO₂ Nanoparticles: A Comparison among Different Sensing Techniques Based on Modeling and Chemical/Physical Interpretation”
by Irene Cappelli, Ada Fort, Anna Lo Grasso, Enza Panzardi, Marco Mugnaini and Valerio Vignoli
Chemosensors 2020, 8(4), 89; https://doi.org/10.3390/chemosensors8040089
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9040/8/4/89
Cited by 16 | Viewed by 1783

18. “Advances in Electrochemical Aptasensors Based on Carbon Nanomaterials”
by Gennady Evtugyn, Anna Porfireva, Rezeda Shamagsumova and Tibor Hianik
Chemosensors 2020, 8(4), 96; https://doi.org/10.3390/chemosensors8040096
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9040/8/4/96
Cited by 16 | Viewed by 2686

19. “Enhanced NO₂-Sensing Properties of Au-Loaded Porous In₂O₃ Gas Sensors at Low Operating Temperatures”
by Taro Ueda, Inci Boehme, Takeo Hyodo, Yasuhiro Shimizu, Udo Weimar and Nicolae Barsan
Chemosensors 2020, 8(3), 72; https://doi.org/10.3390/chemosensors8030072
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9040/8/3/72
Cited by 15 | Viewed by 2301

20. “Design of A Low-Cost and Disposable Paper-Based Immunosensor for the Rapid and Sensitive Detection of Aflatoxin B1”
by Fernanda L. Migliorini, Danilo M. dos Santos, Andrey C. Soares, Luiz H. C. Mattoso, Osvaldo N. Oliveira Jr. and Daniel S. Correa
Chemosensors 2020, 8(3), 87; https://doi.org/10.3390/chemosensors8030087
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9040/8/3/87
Cited by 14 | Viewed by 3195

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.

“Silver Nanoparticles as Colorimetric Sensors for Water Pollutants”
by Paolo Prosposito, Luca Burratti and Iole Venditti
Chemosensors 2020, 8(2), 26; https://doi.org/10.3390/chemosensors8020026
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9040/8/2/26
Cited by 71 | Viewed by 8694

“Carbon Dots Fluorescence-Based Colorimetric Sensor for Sensitive Detection of Aluminum Ions with a Smartphone”
by Wei Wei, Juan Huang, Wenli Gao, Xiangyang Lu and Xingbo Shi
Chemosensors 2021, 9(2), 25; https://doi.org/10.3390/chemosensors9020025
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9040/9/2/25
Cited by 12 | Viewed by 2064

“Label-Free Colorimetric Detection of Urine Glucose Based on Color Fading Using Smartphone Ambient-Light Sensor”
by Tian-Tian Wang, Kun Guo, Xue-Mei Hu, Jian Liang, Xing-De Li, Zhi-Feng Zhang and Jing Xie
Chemosensors 2020, 8(1), 10; https://doi.org/10.3390/chemosensors8010010
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9040/8/1/10
Cited by 10 | Viewed by 3292

“Gold and Silver Nanoparticle-Based Colorimetric Sensors: New Trends and Applications”
by Giancarla Alberti, Camilla Zanoni, Lisa Rita Magnaghi and Raffaela Biesuz
Chemosensors 2021, 9(11), 305; https://doi.org/10.3390/chemosensors9110305
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9040/9/11/305
Cited by 13 | Viewed by 1919

“Advances in Colorimetric Assay Based on AuNPs Modified by Proteins and Nucleic Acid Aptamers”
by Sopio Melikishvili, Ivan Piovarci and Tibor Hianik
Chemosensors 2021, 9(10), 281; https://doi.org/10.3390/chemosensors9100281
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9040/9/10/281
Cited by 10 | Viewed by 1695

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.

MDPI has just become the first open access (OA) publisher to reach the milestone of one million articles published. That is one million articles freely available to all, to circulate and build upon! We are proud to share this special moment with the global scientific community.

This landmark has been reached thanks to the immeasurable support of more than 600,000 expert reviewers, 66,000 editorial board members and 6700 hard-working colleagues across MDPI’s global offices.

Within more than 25 years of publishing, our journals received 2.1 million manuscripts and generated 4.6 million peer review reports to get to one million papers published.

Reaching the milestone of one million articles published reinforces our mission to remove any existing barriers and to make scientific research accessible to all. Since its inception, MDPI’s goal has been to create reliable processes to make science open. This is a path towards facilitating the dissemination of novel insights in scientific communities.

Regular feedback from authors and reviewers shows that our service is greatly appreciated and needed. At the same time, the feedback helps us identify areas for further improvement.

As it stands, a significant share of published research findings remain closed access. More than half of the content published with the most well-known legacy publishers stays behind a paywall, and that is not including articles published in hybrid OA journals, or made available months or years after publication.

A new policy announced by the US administration in August 2022 requires that, as of January 2026, all US federally funded research be made freely and immediately available after publication. While the new policy does not mandate articles be published under an open access license, it is aligned with the open access movement in removing all barriers to research. Similarly, some of the most advanced research institutions in the world intend to have all funded research articles published in open access by 2025.

MDPI is proud to be the leading agent of the transition to open access.

"Thanks a Million" to all the contributors!

We are pleased to announce that the website of the MDPI Sustainability Foundation has been revamped! For the past couple of months, our UX UI team and front-end developers have been working hard to launch the website in time for the opening of the Sustainability Awards nominations.

The website is not the only thing that has had a remodeling. Indeed, the format of the Emerging Sustainability Leader Award (ESLA) has been updated. ESLA is now a competition open to individual researchers or start-ups founded by researchers under the age of 35. Nominee applications will go through 2 rounds of selection until the final 3 are decided. The finalists will then be invited to give pitch presentations during the Award Ceremony to win either first place (10,000 USD) or runner-up (2 x 5000 USD).

The World Sustainability Award, on the other hand, remains the same: a total prize money of 100,000 USD is up for grabs by senior individual researchers or groups of researchers from the international research community.

Nominations for both the World Sustainability Award and the Emerging Sustainability Leader award are now open! Check out our new website for more information on how to nominate.

1. “Classification and Identification of Essential Oils from Herbs and Fruits Based on a MOS Electronic-Nose Technology”
by Mansour Rasekh, Hamed Karami, Alphus Dan Wilson and Marek Gancarz
Chemosensors 2021, 9(6), 142; https://doi.org/10.3390/chemosensors9060142
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9040/9/6/142
Cited by 27 | Viewed by 1559

2. “Performance Analysis of MAU-9 Electronic-Nose MOS Sensor Array Components and ANN Classification Methods for Discrimination of Herb and Fruit Essential Oils”
by Mansour Rasekh, Hamed Karami, Alphus Dan Wilson and Marek Gancarz
Chemosensors 2021, 9(9), 243; https://doi.org/10.3390/chemosensors9090243
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9040/9/9/243
Cited by 18 | Viewed by 1216

3. “Opto-Electronic Nose Coupled to a Silicon Micro Pre-Concentrator Device for Selective Sensing of Flavored Waters”
by Sami Slimani, Etienne Bultel, Thomas Cubizolle, Cyril Herrier, Tristan Rousselle and Thierry Livache
Chemosensors 2020, 8(3), 60; https://doi.org/10.3390/chemosensors8030060
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9040/8/3/60
Cited by 17 | Viewed by 1699

4. “Identification of Mint Scents Using a QCM Based E-Nose”
by Salih Okur, Mohammed Sarheed, Robert Huber, Zejun Zhang, Lars Heinke, Adnan Kanbar, Christof Wöll, Peter Nick and Uli Lemmer
Chemosensors 2021, 9(2), 31; https://doi.org/10.3390/chemosensors9020031
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9040/9/2/31
Cited by 16 | Viewed by 2101

5. “Design of A Low-Cost and Disposable Paper-Based Immunosensor for the Rapid and Sensitive Detection of Aflatoxin B1”
by Fernanda L. Migliorini, Danilo M. dos Santos, Andrey C. Soares, Luiz H. C. Mattoso, Osvaldo N. Oliveira, Jr. and Daniel S. Correa
Chemosensors 2020, 8(3), 87; https://doi.org/10.3390/chemosensors8030087
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9040/8/3/87
Cited by 14 | Viewed by 1925

Recently, Clarivate^TM revealed its 2022 list of Highly Cited Researchers™—individuals at universities, research institutes and commercial organizations.

The scientists who were selected into this year’s list of Highly Cited Researchers have published highly cited papers in the 11-year period from January 2011 to December 2021, with citation frequency in the top 1% of academic subjects and the same year of publication in the Web of Science^TM database. Based on Web of Science Citation data, 6,938 researchers from across the globe who have demonstrated a disproportionate level of significant and broad influence in their chosen field or fields over the last decade have been awarded Highly Cited Researcher 2022 designations. The list is truly global, spanning 69 countries or regions and spread across a diverse range of research sciences and social sciences.

According to statistics, 7 members of the Editorial Board of Chemosensors (ISSN: 2227-9040) have been selected into the list of Highly Cited Researchers of Clarivate in 2022. They are being recognized for their high-quality scientific research achievements and outstanding contributions to professional fields. Chemosensors journal office sincerely congratulates all elected Editorial Board Members and hopes that they continue to have an academically productive relationship with the journal.

Stanford University has recently published an update of the list of the top 2% most widely cited scientists—the World’s Top 2% Scientists.