Announcements

We are now recruiting Guest Editors and Editorial Board Members for the Section “Medical Imaging and Theranostics”. Topics about image-guided treatment or image-guided surgery are welcome. We will be pleased to receive your application and if you have any questions, please feel free to contact diagnostics@mdpi.com.

We are excited to welcome the following recognized researchers who recently joined the Editorial Board of Diagnostics (ISSN: 2075-4418):

Name: Prof. Dr. Antonio Farina
Affiliation: University of Bologna and IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria Sant’ Orsola-Malpighi

Name: Dr. Chiara Martini
Affiliation: Parma University Hospital

Name: Prof. Dr. Geon-Ho Jahng
Affiliation: Kyung Hee University

Name: Dr. Gonzalo Sánchez-Benavides
Affiliation: BarcelonaBeta Brain Research Center

Name: Dr. Jasjit S. Suri
Affiliation: Advanced Knowledge Engineering Centre

Name: Dr. Paolo Ivo Cavoretto
Affiliation: IRCCS San Raffaele Hospital and University

Name: Dr. Salvatore Giovanni Vitale
Affiliation: University of Catania

Name: Dr. Weiyong Liu
Affiliation: Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Name: Dr. Weiyong Liu
Affiliation: Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Name: Dr. Cristiana Lo Nigro
Affiliation: EO Ospedali Galliera

Name: Dr. Gernot Hudelist
Affiliation: Hospital St. John of God

Name: Dr. Hsiangchieh Lee
Affiliation: National Taiwan University

Name: Prof. Dr. Kevin V. Hackshaw
Affiliation: University of Texas at Austin

Name: Prof. Dr. Redha Taiar
Affiliation: University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne

Name: Dr. Tar Choon Aw
Affiliation: Changi General Hospital

Name: Prof. Dr. Zhongheng Zhang
Affiliation: Zhejiang University School of Medicine

We wish them every success in their new positions, and we look forward to their contributions to the journal.

Further details about the Diagnostics Editorial Board can be found at the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/diagnostics/editors.

We are now recruiting Editorial Board Members (EBMs) for the section “Optical Diagnostics” in Diagnostics (IF 3.706, ISSN 2075-4418). If you are an active researcher in optical-related fields and are passionate about publishing cutting-edge research, please do not hesitate to get in touch (diagnostics@mdpi.com). You can find more information on our homepage: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/diagnostics.

Benefits of Diagnostics Editorial Board Members include the following:

• Publish both a review paper and a research paper free of charge per year in Diagnostics, and potential discount for additional papers you invite;
• Diagnostics will offer additional sponsorships for conferences organized by Editorial Board Members;
• Travel grants of 300-500 CHF per year for conferences that you attend or organize.

Editorial Board Members have the following responsibilities:

• Making decisions on whether a manuscript can be accepted or not, based on the reports we collect;
• Reviewing a small number of papers per year;
• Acting as a Guest Editor of a Special Issue on a topic related to your research interests;
• Promoting the journal Diagnostics and increasing its visibility at related academic conferences.

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 we look forward to collaborating with you.

Diagnostics Editorial Office

Applications for editor positions are now open for Diagnostics (ISSN: 2075-4418). The positions and their responsibilities are as follows:

Editorial Board Member:

• Providing occasional feedback on the journal scope and performance;
• Making decisions or advising on regular submissions in your field;
• Editing a Special Issue on a topic related to your research, and making final decisions for submitted papers;
• Publishing one paper per year, free of charge, in the journal.

Guest Editor:

• Shaping the topic and composing a short introduction (rationale) of the Special Issue for website announcements;
• Soliciting contributions or suggesting potential contributors;
• Pre-checking new submissions to ascertain the suitability for the Issue;
• Making decisions regarding whether to accept or reject a paper after peer review and author revision.

If you are interested in these editor positions, please send your full academic CV and a short cover letter that details your interest and enthusiasm for the position to diagnostics@mdpi.com. We look forward to hearing from you soon.

An Early Bird Discount may be provided for work submitted to Diagnostics (ISSN: 2075-4418) before 31 January 2022.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact diagnostics@mdpi.com.

It is our great honor to congratulate the Editorial Board Members and Editors in MDPI's journals who have been distinguished as 2021 Highly Cited Researchers by Clarivate, according to Web of Science data. We herewith express our gratitude for the immense impact the named researchers continue to make on scientific progress and on our journals' development.

Clarivate's annual list of Highly Cited Researchers^TM identifies the most highly cited scientists for the past decade. Their impactful papers are among the top 1 per cent in the citation distribution of one or more of 22 fields analyzed in the "Essential Science Indicators", distinguishing them as hugely influential among their peers.

The full list of 2021 Highly Cited Researchers  can be accessed at the following webpage in the Web of Science^TM https://recognition.webofscience.com/awards/highly-cited/2021/.

--- Highly Cited Researchers (HCR) is a Clarivate product.

Diagnostics (IF 3.706, ISSN 2075-4418) is an international scholarly open access journal on medical diagnostics. It publishes original research articles, reviews, short communications, case reports, and interesting images. There is no restriction on the length of the papers. This “Optical Diagnostics” Section of Diagnostics aims to rapidly publish contributions on novel methods of optical diagnostics and improvements in existing techniques. Topics include, but are not limited to:

• biophotonics;
• optical probes;
• fluorescence imaging;
• bioluminescence;
• optical microscopy;
• 2-photon microscopy;
• 3-photon microscopy;
• diffuse optical imaging
• ballistic optical imaging;
• optical coherence tomography;
• spectroscopy;
• laser Doppler imaging
• optical guided surgery;
• endoscopy;
• optical non-invasive diagnostics;
• photonic point-of-care.

Proposals within the scope of the Section are welcome. For more details, please see:

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/diagnostics/sections/Optical_Diagnostics.

If you would like to propose a Special Issue topic for this section, please click the following link, and complete and submit the form: https://www.mdpi.com/journalproposal/sendproposalspecialissue/diagnostics. Our editors will get back to you shortly.

The duties and benefits of acting as a Guest Editor are as follows:

• Publishing both a review paper and a research paper free of charge in the Special Issue, and potential discount for additional papers you invite;
• Redefining the title and scope of the Special Issue;
• Circulating the call for papers for the Special Issue and inviting submissions;
• Making decisions on whether a manuscript can be accepted or not based on the reports we collect;
• Promoting the Special Issue and increasing its visibility at related academic conferences;
• If ten or more papers are published in this Special Issue, we can make a Special Issue book and send a hard copy to each Guest Editor.

The Editorial Office will take care of setting up the Special Issue website; arrange the promotional materials; assist with invitations to contribute papers; and take care of the rest of the administrative tasks associated with peer review, including inviting reviewers, collating reports, contacting authors, and professional production before publication.

Please do not hesitate to contact the Editorial Office (diagnostics@mdpi.com) for further details and clarifications.

We look forward to receiving your proposals.

Diagnostics Editorial Office

Academic editors play a crucial role in leading our journals and ensuring that each article undergoes a robust and timely peer-review. With the launch of Topics this year and addition of Topic Editors to our family of academic editors, we decided it would be a good time to restructure our academic boards, thus providing more clarity and support for each role. MDPI is pleased to announce the launch of a new position—Topical Advisory Panel Member, that will replace the previous position of Topics Board Member. The Topical Advisory Panel will be comprised of early career researchers eager to gain experience in editorial work.

The main responsibility of the new members of the Topical Advisory Panel is to regularly provide support to Guest Editors, Topic Editors, and Section Board Members. The responsibilities of the Topical Advisory Panel are available here: https://www.mdpi.com/editors.

Each year, the members’ performances are evaluated, and outstanding members are promoted to the Editorial Board by the Editor-in-Chief.

To qualify as a Topical Advisory Panel Member, applicants must:

• Have expertise and experience in the field related to the journal;
• Have received a Ph.D. in the last 10 years, approximately;
• Have at least 6-8 published papers in the last 5 years as first author or corresponding author;
• Currently hold an independent research position in academia or a government institute.

If you are interested in this role, please contact the editorial office by email.

We look forward to hearing from you soon.

Founded in 1996, MDPI was one of the first fully Open Access publisher. Over 25 years MDPI has grown to become the largest Open Access publisher globally, publishing over 160,000 articles across more than 350 journals in 2020. At the core, MDPI was founded in response to a pressing need of fast publication and inclusion. The scholar was set at the centre of the publication process for the first time. Acting as a service provider, rather than a product provider, MDPI exists to help scientists achive their objective to disseminate research results. At MDPI, we believe scientists deserve a better service from the publishing world.

The International Open Access Week (Open Access Week), founded by the SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) Alliance and student partners in 2008, has been successfully running for 13 years. As an advocate and pioneer of open access publishing, MDPI actively responds to the call of International Open Access Week. This year’s theme of “It Matters How We Open Knowledge: Building Structural Equity” highlights the Recommendation’s call for equitable participation from all authors and readers.

For the last 25 years, MDPI has been committed to disseminating open research. Here is a video showing MDPI’s Commitment to Equity, Inclusion and Diversity for More than 25 Years.

International Open Access Week is an important opportunity to catalyze new conversations, create connections across and between communities that can facilitate this co-design, and advance progress in the building of more equitable foundations for opening knowledge—discussions and actions that need to be continued, year in and year out. MDPI has always aimed to provide professional and efficient publishing services to scholars around the world.

Our mission is to make scientific research accessible to everyone; this year, we interview and hold discussions with open science ambassadors on how to build an equal and inclusive environment for open science. Academic editors help us collaborate with more institutions to advocate for open access ideas.

Read our anniversary blog post: "Sharing 'Collective Human Knowledge': The Benefits of Open Access Publication"

Besides this, our scientific community is a key driver of our success and MDPI’s remarkable growth. Despite the pandemic, we have prepared online conferences and workshops to gather scholars from different communities.

The Basel Sustainable Publishing online forum provides an equal opportunity for stakeholders and researchers from multi-cultural environments to exchange ideas and eliminate barriers to participation.

Conference date: 25 October 2021, online
Conference website: https://bspf2021.sciforum.net/
Main topics: MDPI discusses the current dilemma of open access science from various perspectives such as governments, libraries, and publishers, and related measures on how to change the status quo of discrimination from a global perspective.

We aim to support equality, inclusion, diversity, and accessibility in scholarly communications. We collaborate with universities and key laboratories and have scholarly communications with researchers, teachers, and students on open access workshops.

• 25 October 2021
  Energies journal and Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

• 28 October 2021
  Machines journal and State Key Laboratory of Traction Power, Southwest Jiaotong University

• 29 October 2021
  Processes journal and Beijing Institute of Technology

• 29 October 2021
  Coatings journal and Wuhan University of Technology

MDPI is committed to providing open access and high-quality publishing services for scholars and promoting rapid dissemination of academic achievements. We hope to promote the practices and policies of open access publishing and diversify the dissemination of academic achievements.

We wish to extend a warm welcome to 39 new Editorial Board Members to Diagnostics (2075-4418).

Prof. Dr. Fabio Minutoli

Prof. Dr. Alberto Stefano Tagliafico

Prof. Dr. Romaric Loffroy

Prof. Dr. Habib Zaidi

Prof. Dr. Benedetta Nacmias

Prof. Dr. Consolato M. Sergi

Prof. Dr. Ruxandra Jurcut

Prof. Dr. Joseph Geradts

Prof. Dr. Christoph Palm

Prof. Dr. Leo L. Cheng

Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Ricci

Prof. Dr. Vincenzo Arena

Prof. Dr. Chia Yen Dai

Prof. Dr. Yorgos Goletsis

Prof. Dr. Maurizio Marrale

Prof. Dr. Vassilios P. Kozobolis

Prof. Dr. Dah Ching Ding

Prof. Dr. Luca Marciani

Prof. Dr. Alfio    Ferlito

Prof. Dr. Sung Chul Lim

Prof.Dr. Argirios Tsantes

Dr. Cyrus S. H. Ho

Dr. Chenhua Liu

Dr. Chung Lieh Hung

Dr. Ju Dong Yang

Dr. Antonio Ferreras

Dr. Silvia Giovannini

Dr. Rajib Ahmed

Dr. Frank Weber

Dr. Timothy Sweeney

Dr. Ivan Fan Ngai Hung

Dr. Yu-mi Wi

Dr. Poliang Lu

Dr. Paul Summers

Dr. Sang Hwan Nam

Dr. Gerald J. Kost

Dr. Hyung-kwon Byeon

Dr. Edward Bluth

Dr. Jolanta Malyszko