Announcements

In order to specifically develop different research areas and attract more high-quality papers, we are pleased to announce the following twelve Sections in Children:

• Pediatric Neonatology;
• Pediatric Cardiology;
• Pediatric Nephrology;
• Pediatric Dermatology;
• Pediatric Nursing;
• Pediatric Orthopedics;
• Pediatric Dentistry;
• Pediatric Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine;
• Child and Adolescent Psychiatry;
• Pediatric Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine;
• Pediatric Allergy and Immunology;
• Pediatric Infectious Diseases.

If you are interested in submitting a manuscript to any of these new sections, please click here.

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.

We are pleased to announce that 16 new scholars were appointed as Topic Board Members for the journal of Children:

Dr. Kimberly Burkhart (UH Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital, USA)

Prof. Maurizio de Pellegrin (Vita-Salute University San Raffaele, Italy)

Dr. Luca Esposito (University of Milan, Italy)

Dr. Danielle Wadsworth (Auburn University, USA)

Prof. Rachel Culbreth (Georgia State University, USA)

Dr. Rika M.L. Meyer (California State University, USA)

Dr. Sarah Taki (University of Sydney, Australia)

Dr. Mattias Paulsson (Uppsala University, Sweden)

Dr. Donguk Park (Korea National Open University, Korea)

Dr. Rebecca S. Hock (Harvard Medical School, USA)

Prof. Dr. Tonia Vassilakou (University of West Attica, Greece)

Dr. Isabel Martínez Sánchez (Spanish University for Distance Education (UNED), Spain)

Dr. Deborah Moncrieff (University of Memphis, USA)

Dr. Geetha Anand (Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, UK)

Dr. Maayan Gruber (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)

Dr. Tanja Karen (University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland)

We wish them every success in developing the journal.

Further details about the Topics Board can be found at: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/children/topic_editors.

We are pleased to announce that 9 new scholars were appointed as Reviewer Board Members for the journal Children:

Dr. Abdullah Tolaymat (University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria, USA)

Dr. Sarah Warkentin (Universidade do Porto, Portugal)

Dr. Michelle Guerrero (the Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute, Canada)

Dr. Iris Ambrosio Perez (Children's Hospital Los Angeles, USA)

Dr. Sarah Braungart (Alder Hey Children's Hospital, UK)

Dr. Andrea Vescio (University of Catania, Italy)

Dr. Federica Porcaro (Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, Italy)

Dr. Hasan R. Syed (University of Virginia Health System, USA)

Dr. Ross Drake (Starship Children’s Health, New Zealand)

Further details about the Reviewer Board Members can be found at: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/children/submission_reviewers.

We are pleased to announce that 12 new scholars were appointed as Editorial Board Members for the journal of Children:

Prof. Loc Do (University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia)

Dr. Gianluca M. Tartaglia (Università degli Studi di Milano-Fondazione IRCCS, Italy)

Dr. Marco Cattalini (University of Brescia and Spedali Civili di Brescia, Italy)

Dr. Eugene Kim (Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, USA)

Prof. Kerr Graham (The Royal Children’s Hospital, Australia)

Dr. Piero Pavone (University of Catania, Italy)

Dr. Marek Ussowicz (Wroclaw Medical University, Poland)

Dr. Henry C. Lee (Stanford University, USA)

Prof. Dr. Zenon Pogorelić (University Hospital of Split, Croatia)

Prof. Dr. Mikko Hallman (University of Oulu, Finland)

Dr. Kathryn Birnie (University of Calgary, Canada)

Dr. Michaël Hofer (University of Lausanne, Switzerland)

We wish them every success in developing the journal.

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

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

Children is expanding the Reviewer Board to cover areas that are less represented by the current team. As our Reviewer Board, we would like to invite you to help review papers within your research field.

Benefits for Children Reviewer Board include:

- RB members who provide timely, thorough, and rigorous peer-review reports will receive a voucher, which can be applied to their next publications in MDPI journals.

- You will have a chance to be nominated as the candidates of our Outstanding Reviewer Awards winner, which will receive 500 CHF, a certificate and a chance to publish a paper free of charge in Children.

- RB members may be presented with the possibility to join the Editorial Board of the journal (subject to the approval of the Editor-in-Chief).

- The Children Editorial Board will acknowledge all RB members in its annual reviewer list through a publication/announcement in the "Acknowledgement to Reviewers of Children" editorial on the journal website.

If you are interested in this position or know of potential candidates to recommend, please contact us by sending a short CV to the Children Editorial Office.

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)

We are pleased to announce that 21 new scholars were appointed as Topic Board Members for the journal of Children:

Dr. Malgorzata Wojcik（Jagiellonian University Medical College，Poland）

Prof. Katarzyna Wroblewska-Seniuk（Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poznan, Poland）

Prof. Ranjit Philip（University of TennesseeLeBonheur Children's Hospital，USA）

Dr. Sebastian Acosta (Texas Children's Hospital, Houston, USA)

Dr. Ioannis Kyriakidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)

Dr. Anthony Herbert (Queensland Children's Hospital, Australia)

Dr. Jodi D. Stookey (San Francisco Department of Public Health, USA)

Dr. Filippo Fassio (Allergy & Clin Immunol UnitFLORENCE, ITALY)

Dr. Rashmi Bhandari (Stanford University Medical Center, USA)

Dr. Salima Punja (University of Alberta, Canada)

Dr. Guido Stichtenoth (University of Lübeck, Germany)

Dr. Francesca Parisi (University of Milan, Italy)

Dr. Vasu D. Gooty (LeBonheur Children’s Hospital, USA)

Dr. Ann Ming Yeh (Stanford University, USA)

Dr. Katherine S. Salamon (DuPont Hospital for Children, USA)

Dr. Hiroyuki Wakiguchi (Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine,Japan)

Prof. Sue Ann S. Lee (Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, USA)

Dr. Bernhard Schwaberger (Medical University of Graz, Austria)

Dr. Satinder Dahiya (Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, USA)

Dr. Lauren Heathcote (Stanford University School of Medicine, USA)

Dr. Raphael N. Vuille-dit-Bille (University Children’s Hospital of Basel, Switzerland)

We wish them every success in developing the journal.

 Further details about the Topics Board can be found at: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/children/topic_editors.

We are pleased to announce that 6 new scholars were appointed as Reviewer Board Members for the journal Children:

Dr. Sherri Castle (University of Oklahoma, USA)

Dr. Priyamvada Jayaprakash (The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA)

Dr. Alexandra Russell (Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt, USA)

Dr. Bjoern Vogt (University Hospital Muenster, Germany)

Dr. Lukas P. Mileder (Medical University of Graz,  Austria)

Dr. Atika Khalaf (Kristianstad University, Sweden)

We wish them every success in developing the journal.

Further details about the Reviewer Board Members can be found at: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/children/submission_reviewers.