Announcements

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

We are honored to announce that Prof. Dr. Olaf Gefeller has been appointed Section Editor-in-Chief for the Section “Pediatric Dermatology” in Children (ISSN: 2227-9067).

Name: Prof. Dr. Olaf Gefeller
Affiliation: Department of Medical Informatics, Biometry and Epidemiology, Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Interests: biometry and epidemiology; dermatology; pediatric dermatology

The following is a short Q&A with Prof. Dr. Olaf Gefeller, who shared his vision for the journal with us, as well as his views of the research area and open access publishing: 

1. What appealed to you about the journal that made you want to take the role as its Section Editor-in-Chief?
The journal Children has established itself in a short time as an important publication venue for pediatric research. My own focus is on epidemiologic research on dermatooncologic and allergologic topics, especially on prevention issues during childhood. This represents a subset of pediatric dermatology. I have always enjoyed editorial work, especially the organization of a fair and constructive review process—also with other journals—so I wanted to contribute my experience to the establishment of the new Section.

2. What is your vision for the journal? What does the future of this field of research look like?
In the short time since its launch, the journal has managed to be included in the group of journals listed by the Web of Science, where it already appears in the top two quartiles of all pediatric journals. By selecting high-quality manuscripts, I would like to contribute to the continuation of this successful development and Children's rise to the top quartile. Pediatric dermatology is one of those medical specialties that work at the intersection of two medical specialty groups, addressing both pediatricians and dermatologists. My impression is that there are currently considerably more dermatologists dedicated to this specialty. This does not make the work easy for the new Section, as the journal is perceived as a pediatric journal. Therefore, I will mainly try to increase the awareness of the journal among dermatologists dedicated to pediatric dermatology and to position the journal as a publication organ for high-quality dermatologic research on clinical, experimental and epidemiologic topics related to pediatric dermatology.

3. What do you think of the development of open access in the publishing field?
Open access is on its way to successfully change the scientific publishing landscape. The traditional subscription model of scholarly publishers is in decline. In my home country, Germany, transformation agreements have already been concluded with major scientific publishers such as Wiley and Springer, so that all academic libraries no longer enter into subscription agreements with these publishers to obtain access to journals, but instead pay the article processing charges of publications by the scientists associated with them and do not have to pay subscription fees. I am firmly convinced that sooner or later, the entire scientific publishing landscape will transfer to open access.

We wish Prof. Dr. Olaf Gefeller every success in his new position, and we look forward to his contributions to the journal.

Children Editorial Office

We are pleased to announce the launch of a new initiative—the Special Issue Mentor Program.

This program intends to provide an opportunity for early career scientists to enhance their editing, networking, and organizational skills and to work closely with our journal to gain more editorial experience. Early career scientists who have novel ideas for new Special Issues of Children (ISSN: 2227-9067) will act as Guest Editors under the mentorship of an experienced scientist; this mentor could be a member of the Children Editorial Board or may be from other well-established research institutes or laboratories, etc.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please send your Special Issue proposal to the Children Editorial Office (children@mdpi.com), and we will discuss the process (i.e., mentor collaboration, Special Issue topic feasibility analysis, etc.) in further detail. When the Special Issue is closed, our office will provide certificates to all the mentors and to those who complete the program. Younger scholars will be prioritized as candidates for our journal award.

In addition to the new Special Issue Mentor Program, Children continues to welcome all Special Issue proposals based on hot research topics in the field as usual.

Children Editorial Office

We are pleased to share that we have recently received our first CiteScore 2021 (Scopus). The CiteScore of Children (ISSN: 2227-9067) is 2.0; according to the latest statistics of Scimago Journal & Country Rank, the average number of weighted citations of Children is 0.645, and the journal ranks 99 /318 (Q2) among all titles in the “Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health” category. More details can be found at the following links:

• https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/21101055706;
• https://www.scimagojr.com/journalrank.php?category=2735&area=2700&page=2&total_size=320.

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

Children Editorial Office

The 2021 citation metrics have been officially released in Scopus!

We are pleased to announce that 182 MDPI journals are included, of which:

● 21 journals received their first CiteScore.
● 85% of journals increased their CiteScore from 2020.
● 155 journals (85%) ranked above average, in at least one category.

The following 65 MDPI journals (36%) ranked among the top 25% of journals, in at least one category:

Source: 2021 CiteScores™ (Elsevier)

In order to acknowledge our reviewers, who so generously dedicate their time to reviewing papers and demonstrate diligence, professionalism, and timeliness when reviewing manuscripts, MDPI journals regularly offer outstanding reviewer awards to scholars who participate in the peer-review process.

We are proud to recognize winners for the year 2021 in the “Biology & Life Sciences” category for their outstanding contributions among extensive competition by presenting them with an Outstanding Reviewer Award.

We would like to take this opportunity to congratulate all the winners on their achievement.

MDPI will continue to provide support and recognition to the academic community.

Biology:

• Enrico Vito Perrino, CIHEAM, Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Bari, Italy
• Dhirendra Kumar, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, USA
• Carlos A. Viegas, Univesity of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal
• Yuri Shavrukov, Flinders University, Australia
• Bipin Gaihre, Mayo Clinic, USA

Brain Sciences:

• Craig D. Workman, University of Iowa, USA
• Vivian Ciaramitaro, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA
• Yang Zhang, University of Minnesota, USA

Cells:

• Bonam Srinivasa Reddy, Université de Paris, France
• Homma Takujiro, Yamagata University, Japan
• Hwang, In Koo, Seoul National University, South Korea
• Kobeissy Firas, University of Florida, USA
• Rebelo, Sandra, University of Aveiro, Portugal

Diversity:

• Günter Gollmann, University of Vienna, Austria
• Stephan Koblmüller, University of Graz, Austria
• Emiliano Mori, Istituto di Ricerca sugli Ecosistemi Terrestri, Italy

Horticulturae:

• Joshua D. Klein, Agricultural Research Organization—The Volcani Center, Israel
• Ana Cristina S Figueiredo, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

Insects:

• Carmelo Peter Bonsignore, Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Italy
• Klaus H. Hoffmann, University of Bayreuth, Germany
• Ivan Milosavljević, University of California, USA

Metabolites:

• Remigiusz Bachor, University of Wrocław, Poland
• Nguyen Phuoc Long, Inje University College of Medicine, South Korea
• Chi Chen, University of Minnesota, USA

Nutrients:

• Jadwiga Hamułka, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Poland
• Grace Campbell, University of Sydney, Australia
• Nicholas Norwitz, Harvard Medical School, USA
• Stefan Kabisch, Charité University Hospital Berlin, Germany
• Luis Rodrigo, University of Oviedo, Spain

Veterinary Sciences:

• Carlos Viegas, Univesity of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal
• Arvind Sharma, The University of Queensland, Australia