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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 that 16 new scholars have recently been appointed Editorial Board Members for the journal Chemosensors (ISSN 2227-9040). They include:

Prof. Dr. Yuan-di Zhao (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China);

Prof. Dr. Andreas Richter (Institute of Semiconductors and Microsystems, Germany);

Prof. Dr. María Ramos-Payan (Universidad de Sevilla, Spain);

Prof. Dr. Vamsi K Yadavalli (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA);

Prof. Dr. Li Niu (Guangzhou University, China);

Prof. Dr. Ching-Ting Lee (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan);

Prof. Dr. Young-Tae Chang (Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea);

Dr. Francesco Dell’Olio (Polytechnic University of Bari, Italy);

Dr. Ambra Giannetti (Institute of Applied Physics “Nello Carrara”, Italy);

Prof. Dr. Eric Ziemons (University of Liège, Belgium);

Prof. Dr. Guo-Hui Pan (Changchun Institute of Optics, China);

Prof. Dr. Lin Yuan (Hunan University, China);

Prof. Dr. Andrew Mills (Queen's University Belfast, UK);

Prof. Dr. Torsten Frosch (Technical University Darmstadt, Germany);

Dr. Ľubomír Švorc (Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia);

Prof. Dr. Mateusz Smietana (Warsaw University of Technology, Poland).

We wish them every success in developing the journal. 

Further details about the Editorial Board can be found at https://www.mdpi.com/journal/chemosensors/editors.

Chemosensors (ISSN 2227-9040) is an international, scientific, peer-reviewed, open access journal on the science and technology of chemical sensors and the related analytical methods and systems, published monthly online by MDPI. The journal received the latest Impact Factor of 3.398, JCR category rank: 30/83 (Q2) in the “Chemistry, Analytical” category; and 18/64 (Q2) in the “Instruments & Instrumentation” category in 2020. The aims and scope of the journal can be found at https://www.mdpi.com/journal/chemosensors/about.

The Chemosensors editorial team is pleased to announce this open call for Special Issue proposals, which offers a group of authors the opportunity to work on an interconnected set of papers on an innovative topic. We are soliciting high-quality proposals that will be evaluated in a continuous selection process throughout the year.

Proposals for a Special Issue should have a well-articulated unifying topic and reflect on an international level, the best work in a particular research area (either an established or an important emerging area), in which future investigations may be propelled by the publication of a set of novel research papers. Hence, an international group of Guest Editors and a few high-quality planned papers are always encouraged when it comes to proposals.

Proposals for Special Issues must be sent to the Editorial Office (chemosensors@mdpi.com) or be sent via the website: https://www.mdpi.com/journalproposal/sendproposalspecialissue/chemosensors.

Information to be provided in a proposal:

• A 200–400-word summary that clearly states the significance, novelty, technical advancement, and adherence to the scope of the journal of the proposed topic;
• 6–10 keywords on the topic;
• A brief resume of the proposed Guest Editors, together with their information (title, name, email, affiliation, personal website, keywords of interests);
• A proposed submission deadline (a Special Issue will usually be open for submissions for 6–8 months);
• A list of at least 20 potential contributors or a list of 8 planned papers.

As a Guest Editor, you would be responsible for:

• Inviting papers from your peers to be published in this Special Issue and taking advantage of the high publicity of the open access, rapid, high-quality peer-review process, and immediate publication after acceptance;
• Checking the suitability of abstracts/manuscripts submitted to the Special Issue;
• Making pre-check decisions regarding whether to send a new submission to peer review;
• Making final decisions regarding whether to accept or reject a paper based on peer-review outcomes.

As a Guest Editor, you would have the following privileges:

• A recognition certificate as a Guest Editor of Chemosensors;
• Publishing one paper free of charge in your Special Issue;
• Inviting high-quality papers to be published in your Special Issue free of charge or with certain discounts;
• If the Special Issue is successful, with at least 10 accepted manuscripts after full peer review, we can make it into a printed book.

Editorial Office’s role:

The Editorial Office will set up the Special Issue website, arrange promotional material, assist with invitations to contribute papers, and take care of the administrative tasks associated with peer review, including inviting reviewers, collating reports, contacting authors, and arranging professional production before publication.

Please do not hesitate to contact the Editorial Office (Chemosensors@mdpi.com) if you are interested and would like further details and clarifications.

We look forward to receiving your proposals.

Chemosensors 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

We are pleased to inform you that Chemosensors has received an updated Journal Impact Factor of 3.398 in the June 2021 release of the Journal Citation Reports®. The journal's 5-Year Impact Factor is 3.82.

We would like to extend our sincerest gratitude to all of the authors, reviewers, and editors who have contributed to Chemosensors!

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)

MDPI Books recently released Book Builder, a new online tool to conveniently arrange, design and produce an eBook from any content published in MDPI journals. Book Builder offers two functions: on the one hand (1) Selections, available to every registered user of MDPI; on the other hand (2) Special Issue Reprints, which can be used exclusively by Guest Editors of Special Issues.

Selections

In just a matter of a few clicks, all users are now able to assemble books from MDPI articles and receive instantaneous feedback in the form of a fully produced and compiled book (PDF), which can be downloaded or ordered as print copy. Selections can include any paper published with MDPI, picking and combining content from different journals and special issues.

This way, the user may for example choose to compile an ebook focusing around a particular topic, or assemble articles from a group of others.

We invite you to make yourself familiar with the new tool! The Book Builder can be found here: https://www.mdpi.com/books/book_builder.

Special Issue Reprints

The Book Builder allows Guest Editors of MDPI journals to create a reprint from a successfully completed Special Issue or Topical Collection in book format. If you are a Guest Editor for an MDPI journal, you can use the new tool  to create an PDF document which includes all articles published in the Special Issue as well as a book cover and table of contents.

For Special Issues containing a minimum of 5 articles, the Guest Editor can request its publication on the MDPI Book platform. Published reprints are assigned an ISBN and DOI.

In addition to the PDF copy of the Reprint Book, as a token of our gratitude, MDPI offers every Guest Editor one (1) complimentary print copy (via print-on-demand). All contributors benefit from a discount on orders of any additional print copies, to share with colleagues or libraries or others.

Why choose MDPI Books?

In line with our organization's values, MDPI Books publishes all content in open access, promoting the exchange of ideas and knowledge in a globalized world. MDPI Books encompasses all the benefits of open access—high availability and visibility, as well as wide and rapid dissemination. MDPI Books are distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License, meaning as an author you retain the copyright for your work. In addition, with MDPI Books you can complement the digital version of your work with a high-quality printed counterpart.

If you are interested in editing a book volume or series, or have a monograph manuscript to be considered for publication, please submit your proposal online and look at our Information for Authors.

Contact: Laura Wagner, MDPI Books Manager (email)

In June of this year, MDPI will celebrate the 25th anniversary of its foundation. To mark this significant milestone, we have created a 25th Anniversary page on our website that evokes the development of our company over the past quarter-century.

MDPI has been a pioneer of Open Access publishing ever since the concept was first created.

In a wide-ranging interview, our CEO Delia Mihaila reflects on the company’s 25th anniversary and its contribution to the world of scientific publishing.

Delia considers how MDPI has evolved since starting life in 1996 as a visionary ‘project’ run out of an apartment in Basel, Switzerland, by Dr. Shu-Kun Lin. A chemist who was passionate about the long-term preservation of rare chemical sample, Dr. Lin was determined to help scholars publish their findings as quickly as possible and make their research results available to as wide a readership as possible worldwide. That determination remains unchanged 25 years later.

Today, MDPI is an international organization with over 4,000 employees based on three continents and in ten countries, and ranks among the world's top four academic publishers.

MDPI's mission is to accelerate access to new scientific research, delivering insight faster for researchers worldwide. Read more here about the company's remarkable success story and what the Open Access publishing model can offer the global scientific community.

At MDPI, we strive to make your online publication process seamless and efficient. To achieve this, our team is continuously developing tools and features to make the user experience useful and convenient.

As the number of academic papers continues to grow, so does the need to analyze and work with them on a large scale. This prompted us to design a new feature aimed at helping researchers find journals that are relevant to their publication by matching their abstract topic. In this regard, we designed a similarity model that automatically identifies the most suitable academic journals for your paper.

We are pleased to introduce Journal Selector, a new feature that measures similarity in academic contexts. By simply entering the title and/or abstract into our Journal Selector, the author will see a list of the most related scientific journals published by MDPI. This method helps authors select the correct journals for their papers, highlighting the time of publication and citability.

The methodology is known as representation learning, where words are represented as vectors in hyperspace. Representation helps us differentiate between different concepts within articles, and in turn, helps us identify similarities between them.

We used an advanced machine learning model to better capture the semantic meanings of words. This helps the algorithm make better predictions by leveraging scientific text representation. In turn, this ensures high precision, helping authors decide which journal they should submit their paper to.

The goal is to support authors to publish their work in the most suitable journal for their research, as fast as possible, accelerating their career progress.

Contact: Andrea Perlato, Head of Data Analytics, MDPI (email)

Chemosensors is recruiting Reviewer Board members with expertise in chemical sensing and related analytical methods. The aims and scope are detailed below.

Chemical sensing theory and mechanisms and detection principles, including but not limited to:

• Electrochemical devices and sensors
• Optical chemical sensors
• Mass-sensitive sensors
• Field-effect transistor sensors
• Catalytic sensors
• Acoustic and thermal sensors

Development, fabrication technology, including but not limited to:

• Materials for chemical sensing
• Nano- and microtechnologies
• Chemical assays and validation

The use of the analytical method and applications in food, environmental monitoring, medicine, pharmacy, industry, agriculture, etc., including but not limited to:

• Analytical apparatus
• Spectroscopy
• Biochemical analysis
• Imaging
• Bioanalytical chemistry
• Quantitative analysis

Classic chemical sensing topics, including but not limited to:

• Gas sensors, electronic noses, and electronic tongues
• pH sensors, humidity sensors
• Microfluidic devices, lab-on-a-chip, single molecule sensing, nanosensors, medical analyzers, enzymes sensors
• Drug and medico-diagnostic testing

The main responsibilities of Reviewer Board members are to evaluate the quality of manuscripts and to provide timely high-quality review reports. As a reviewer for Chemosensors you:

1) Receive a discount voucher code entitling you to a reduction in the article processing charge (APC) for your submission to MDPI.

2) Receive a personalized reviewer certificate.

3) Are included in the journal’s annual acknowledgment of reviewers.

4) Are considered for the journal’s outstanding reviewer award.

5) Can build your profile on Publons and have your reviewing activity automatically added for participating journals.

More details can be found at

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/chemosensors/submission_reviewers.

Chemosensors (ISSN 2227-9040; CODEN: CHEMO9) is an international, scientific, peer-reviewed, open access journal on the science and technology of chemical sensors and the related analytical methods published online by MDPI. Chemosensors received its first Impact Factor of 3.108 with JCR category rankings of 27/86 (Q2) in ‘Chemistry, Analytical’; 13/27 (Q2) in ‘Electrochemistry’; and 16/64 (Q1) in ‘Instruments & Instrumentation’. The website of Chemosensors can be accessed here.

To apply or request further information, please contact the Chemosensors Editorial Office (chemosensors@mdpi.com). We look forward to hearing from you soon.