The Future of Commodities

Dear Colleagues,

During the last few years, we have faced some profound and rapid changes in commodities markets that are also believed to persist in the next few decades. The aim is to encourage sustainability, decarbonization, and digitization of the sector, which will cause a rapid increase in the demand for a large number of commodities in the future. These include copper, aluminum, green steel, nickel, tin, cobalt, lithium, metal scrap and rare earths.

Taking into consideration the fact that the commodity supply and demand sector is fundamentally changing as a result of the energy and material transition, academic research in these areas is also rapidly developing. To facilitate dissemination of this research, a Special Issue of Commodities aims to bring together a collection of high-quality papers that offer original contributions to the knowledge on a wide range of topics regarding new insights into commodities markets under transition. The Editors particularly welcome articles that deal with time series and empirical finance applications in any field of commodities.

Dr. Julien Chevallier
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Commodities is an international peer-reviewed open access quarterly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1000 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.