Announcements

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 announce that Children (ISSN 2227-9067) has been accepted into Scopus! We would like to extend our sincerest gratitude to you and all those who have contributed to this journal and enabled this achievement.

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. Manuscripts are peer reviewed, and a first decision is provided to authors approximately 18.1 days after submission; acceptance to publication is undertaken in 2.8 days (median values for papers published in this journal in the first half of 2021).

We would like to take this opportunity to invite you to make submissions to Children. You have the option to submit your work to a regular Section or a Special Issue. If you have a paper on any topic within the scope of the journal, please feel free to submit it here.

Children Editorial Office

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)

We are pleased to announce that 26 new scholars were appointed as Editorial Board Members for the journal of Children:

Dr. Adriano Carotti (Bambino Gesù Children's Hospital, Italy)

Prof. Dr. Yitzchak Frank (Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA)

Dr. Rohit S. Loomba (University of California San Diego, USA)

Dr. Stijn Verhulst (Antwerp University Hospital, Belgium)

Dr. Arne Silfverdal Sven (Umeå University, Sweden)

Prof. Dr. Ciro Esposito (Federico II” University of Naples, Italy)

Dr. Sebastiano A. G. Lava (Lausanne University Hospital and University of Lausanne, Switzerland)

Dr. Carlo Dani (Careggi University Hospital and University of Florence, Italy)

Dr. Cornelius Groenewald (Seattle Children's Hospital and University of Washington, USA)

Dr. Elena J. Ladas (Columbia University Medical Center, USA)

Prof. Dr. Nobuo Kanazawa (Hyogo College of Medicine, Japan)

Prof. Dr. Rhodri S. Lloyd (Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK)

Prof. Reinald Brunner (University of Basel Children’s Hospital, Switzerland)

Dr. Michael Stark (University of Adelaide, Australia)

Prof. Dr. Paola Bucci (University of Campania “L. Vanvitelli”, Italy)

Prof. Rita Marie Ryan (UH Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital, USA)

Dr. Luigi Mazzone (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy)

Prof. Dr. Francesca Santamaria (University of Naples “Federico II”, Italy)

Dr. Hülya Özsahin (Clinique des Grangettes, Switzerland)

Prof. Giuseppe Martucciello (University of Genova, Italy)

Dr. Jun Kohyama (Tokyo Bay Urayasu Ichikawa Medical Center, Japan)

Prof. Dr. Ju-Lee Oei (University of New South Wales, Australia)

Dr. Andrea Martinuzzi (IRCCS Eugenio Medea, Italy)

Dr. Jareen K. Meinzen-Derr (Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, USA)

Prof. Dr. Brian Littlechild (University of Hertfordshire, UK)

Dr. Vito Pavone (University of Catania, Italy)

We wish them every success in developing the journal.

Further details about the Editorial Board Members can be found at:

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/children/editors.

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.