Announcements

MDPI will be attending the 27th Congress of the Chinese Pediatric Society, held in Changsha, China, from 15–18 December 2022.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Children (leading journal);
• JPM;
• Medicina;
• Audiology Research;
• JCM;
• Healthcare;
• Diagnostics;
• Metabolites;
• Cancers;
• Nutrients. 

If you plan on attending this conference, feel free to stop by our booth: #B67. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person to answer any questions that you may have. 

For more information about the conference, please see the following link: https://nccps2022.tiemeeting.com/CN.

Peer Review Week began 19 September 2022 under the theme of “Research Integrity: Creating and Supporting Trust in Research”. Through various blog articles, podcast, and webinar, we discussed this crucial subject throughout the week, celebrating the essential role peer review plays in maintaining research quality.

To begin, we held a Webinar on the topic. Professor Peter W. Choate and Dr. Emmanuel Obeng-Gyasi joined Dr. Ioana Craciun, one of MDPI’s scientific officers, for an in-depth discussion.

We invite you to view the event recording:

During the week, the MDPI Blog in a series articles highlighted how good Peer Review safeguards research integrity. The following topics were covered:

• Peer Review Week 2022
• Research Integrity
• What We’ve Learned About Peer Review Reports
• 4 Steps to the Perfect Peer Review Report
• How to Write the Perfect Peer Review Report: An Interview
• Inviting Great Peer Reviewers

In a new edition of Insight Faster, an MDPI podcast, we were delighted to talk to the co-chairs of the Peer Review Week committee, Jayashree Rajagopalan (Senior Manager of Global Community Engagement for CACTUS) and Danielle Padula (Head of Marketing and Community Development at Scholastica) to get their take on this year’s event and its related topics.

You can find the Podcast here.

We hope you enjoy the contents!

We are pleased to announce that the 41st Annual Meeting of the European Society of Paediatric Infectious Diseases (ESPID 2023) has set up a free media partnership with Children (ISSN: 2227-9067).

Conference: 41st Annual Meeting of the European Society of Paediatric Infectious Diseases (ESPID)
Date: 8–12 May 2023
Place: Lisbon, Portugal

This conference will bring together world-renowned researchers and clinicians for a very exciting multifaceted program covering areas that include clinical issues, epidemiology, public health, microbiology, immunology, host–pathogen interactions, genomics, and their interfaces, highlighting more recent progress as well as where advances have been more challenging.

The ESPID is the world’s premier paediatric infectious diseases meeting for professionals who want to stay up to date, apply state-of-the-art science to clinical care, present their research, and reinforce existing as well as develop new collaborations.

There will be ample opportunities for networking professionally and socially.

For more details, please visit the following link: https://espidmeeting.org/welcome-to-espid/.

Children Editorial Office

MDPI will be attending the 34th Annual Conference of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE 2022), held in Athens, Greece, from 18 to 21 September 2022. The main theme of the 2022 conference is “Strengthening the global role of environmental epidemiology”, stressing the need to study and understand local conditions in order to synthesize knowledge and make a difference for our planet. In the 2022 conference we will continue advancing our society’s aims in promoting epidemiological studies that link environmental exposures to human health.

During this conference, MDPI (at booth #22) will welcome researchers from different backgrounds to visit and share their latest inspirations with us.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• IJERPH (leading journal);
• Sustainability;
• Healthcare;
• Children;
• Cancers;
• Climate;
• Environments;
• Earth;
• Societies;
• Epidemiologia.

If you plan on attending this conference, feel free to stop by our booth: #22. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person to answer any questions that you may have.

For more information about the conference, please see the following link: https://isee2022.org/.

Children (ISSN: 2227-9067) is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal of pediatrics, focusing on the dissemination of clinical, epidemiological, and translational science relevant to children’s health, published monthly online by MDPI.

As our journal is of open access format, you have free and unlimited access to the full text of all of the articles published in it. We invite you to read the most highly cited papers published in the first half of 2022 below:

1. “COVID-19 Infection in Children and Infants: Current Status on Therapies and Vaccines”
by Felice Lorusso et al.
Children 2022, 9(2), 249; https://doi.org/10.3390/children9020249
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9067/9/2/249

2. “Fractures in Osteogenesis Imperfecta: Pathogenesis, Treatment, Rehabilitation and Prevention”
by Wouter Nijhuis et al.
Children 2022, 9(2), 268; https://doi.org/10.3390/children9020268
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9067/9/2/268

3. “Association between Coagulation Profile and Clinical Outcome in Children with SARS-CoV-2 Infection or MIS-C: A Multicenter Cross-Sectional Study”
by Andrea Lo Vecchio et al.
Children 2022, 9(2), 279; https://doi.org/10.3390/children9020279
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9067/9/2/279

4. “Socio-Economic and Environmental Determinants of Malnutrition in under Three Children: Evidence from PDHS-2018”
by Yang Cao et al.
Children 2022, 9(3), 361; https://doi.org/10.3390/children9030361
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9067/9/3/361

5. “Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Children and Adolescents: Cognitive and Emotional Representations”
by Alexandra Maftei et al.
Children 2022, 9(3), 359; https://doi.org/10.3390/children9030359
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9067/9/3/359

6. “Malignant Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumors—A Comprehensive Review of Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, and Multidisciplinary Management”
by Abdelhafeez H. Abdelhafeez et al.
Children 2022, 9(1), 38; https://doi.org/10.3390/children9010038
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9067/9/1/38

7. “The Effect of Age, Biological Maturation and Birth Quartile in the Kinanthropometric and Physical Fitness Differences between Male and Female Adolescent Volleyball Players”
by Raquel Vaquero-Cristóbal et al.
Children 2022, 9(1), 58; https://doi.org/10.3390/children9010058
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9067/9/1/58

8. “Pediatric Supracondylar Humerus Fractures: Should We Avoid Surgery during After-Hours?”
by Sietse E. S. Terpstra et al.
Children 2022, 9(2), 189; https://doi.org/10.3390/children9020189
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-9067/9/2/189

If you are an active researcher in this field and are passionate about participating in cutting-edge research publications, please do not hesitate to contact the Children Editorial Office (children@mdpi.com).

To develop different research areas and continue to attract high-quality papers, Children (ISSN 2227-9067) is recruiting Section Editors-in-Chief (more details can be found at https://www.mdpi.com/journal/children/sections). At present, the following Sections have not yet found suitable scholars to lead them:

“Pediatric Neonatology”
(https://www.mdpi.com/journal/children/sections/Pediatric_Neonatology)

“Pediatric Cardiology”
(https://www.mdpi.com/journal/children/sections/Pediatric_Cardiology)

“Pediatric Nephrology”
(https://www.mdpi.com/journal/children/sections/Pediatric_Nephrology)

“Pediatric Orthopedics”
(https://www.mdpi.com/journal/children/sections/Pediatric_Orthopedics)

“Child and Adolescent Psychiatry”
(https://www.mdpi.com/journal/children/sections/Child_Adolescent_Psychiatry)

“Pediatric Allergy and Immunology”
(https://www.mdpi.com/journal/children/sections/Pediatric_Allergy_Immunology)

“Pediatric Infectious Diseases”
(https://www.mdpi.com/journal/children/sections/Pediatric_Infectious_Diseases)

We are now recruiting Section Editors-in-Chief (SEiC) for these Sections. If you are an active researcher in one of the aforementioned fields and are passionate about publishing cutting-edge research, please do not hesitate to contact us at: Children@mdpi.com/vivian.liu@mdpi.com. You can find more information on our homepage: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/children

The Section Editor-in-Chief has the following responsibilities:

• Making decisions on whether a manuscript can be accepted based on the reports we collect;
• Reviewing a small number of papers per year and managing the Section together with other journal editors;
• Promoting Children and increasing its visibility at related academic conferences.

Children is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal of pediatrics, focusing on the dissemination of clinical, epidemiological, and translational science relevant to children’s health, published monthly online by MDPI.

We believe that by combining our rigorous editorial policies with your expertise, we can build a high-quality journal. We thank you in advance for your interest and look forward to collaborating with you in the future.

Children Editorial Office

The Special Issue Mentor Program will enable early career researchers to experience editing a Special Issue in the journal Children (ISSN: 2227-9067), under the mentorship of our experienced Editorial Board Members. 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.

Special Issue Mentor Program application process:

• The journal will send an announcement to recruit early career researchers (ECRs);
• The ECR will apply for the Guest Editor position and write a short plan for the Special Issue;
• The Editorial Office will share the ECR’s plan with a suitable Editorial Board Member and discuss whether they are interested in mentoring them;
• The mentor and ECR will reach an agreement and the ECR will edit the issue under the guidance of their mentor.

The mentees responsibilities include:

• Providing CV, including a list of publications;
• Proposing a Special Issue title and a short introduction;
• Writing a brief promotion plan for the Special Issue;
• Writing an editorial for the online Special Issue;
• Reviewing and making decisions for submissions under the mentorship of our Editorial Board Member.

Mentor’s responsibilities:

• Conducting a final check before the Special Issue is published online;
• Co-editing the Special Issue with younger scholars and performing quality control of the publications in the SI;
• Providing suggestions to younger scholars if they have doubts or concerns regarding submissions;
• Organizing video calls with young scholars and the office regularly to discuss the problems and improvement suggestions for the Special Issue.

Certificates and awards:

When the Special Issue is closed, our office (children@mdpi.com) will provide certificates for all the mentors. Younger scholars will be prioritized as candidates for our journal award.

Children Editorial Office

Conference: 15th China Nutrition Science Congress
Date: 29–31 July 2022
Place: Wuhan, China
Booth: #3

Nutrients (ISSN: 2072-6643) will be attending the 15th China Nutrition Science Congress 2022 as an exhibitor from 29 to 31 July in Wuhan, China.

The 15th China Nutrition Science Congress is a key academic activity of The Chinese Nutrition Society, which is a scientific grand meeting in the nutrition field, and an important platform to display the latest research results on nutrition in China, sharing the latest research progress in the field of nutrition.

The theme of the conference is “Food Nutrition and Health”. The conference will host many well-known experts and outstanding scholars in the field of nutrition and health to discuss basic theoretical research and the application of food nutrition and health, the latest breakthroughs in the field of nutrition, exchange new academic ideas and new methods, and forecast the future development trends of nutrition.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Nutrients;
• Children;
• CIMB;
• Fermentation;
• Foods;
• Healthcare;
• Nutraceuticals;
• Obesities;
• Women.

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you plan on attending this conference. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person and answering any questions that you might have.

For more information about the conference, please visit the following link: https://cnsc2021.sciconf.cn/cn/web/index/11176.

The 2021 citation metrics have been released in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR), and we’re pleased to announce the following results for MDPI journals:

For more information on Impact Factors and what it means to index academic journals, please visit our related blog posts.

* Journals given their first Impact Factor in 2022

Source: 2021 Journal Impact Factors, Journal Citation Reports ^TM (Clarivate, 2022)

We warmly welcome Prof. Dr. Eric C. Beyer, Prof. Dr. Matthias Volkmar Kopp and Prof. Dr. Wenhao Zhou to the Advisory Board of Children (ISSN: 2227-9067), and we look forward to their contributions to the continued success of the journal.

	Name: Prof. Dr. Eric C. Beyer Affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA Interests: cataracts; cell biology; connexins; endothelial cells; exosomes; extracellular vesicles; gap junctions; intercellular junctions; ion channel; lens; eye; sickle cell disease; translational medical research; pediatric cancers; career development
	Name: Prof. Dr. Matthias Volkmar Kopp Affiliations: 1. Department of Paediatrics, Inselspital, Bern University Hospital, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland 2. Airway Research Center North (ARCN), Member of the German Center of Lung Research (DZL), Lübeck, Germany 3. Department of Pediatric Pneumology and Allergology, University of Lübeck, University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein, Lübeck, Germany Interests: pediatric allergy; pediatric pulmonology; general pediatrics
	Name: Prof. Dr. Wenhao Zhou Affiliation: Children's Hospital and Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Division of Neonatology, Children's Hospital of Fudan University, Shanghai, China Interests: diagnosis and prevention of birth defects in the neonatal nervous system; neonatal encephalopathy; neonatal hereditary disease

Children Editorial Office