Conference name: The 4th International Conference on Information Technologies and Electrical Engineering (ICITEE2021)

Date: 29–31 October 2021

Place: Changsha, Hunan, China

Website: http://www.iciteeconference.com/2021/menu/home

The 4th International Conference on Information Technologies and Electrical Engineering (ICITEE2021) will be held from 29 to 31 October, 2021, in Changsha, Hunan, China. A key aspect of this conference is the strong mixture of academia and industry.

The ICITEE2021 aims to bring together innovative academics and industrial experts in the field of information technology and electrical engineering in a common forum. The primary goal of the conference is to promote research and developmental activities in this field, while another goal is to promote scientific information interchange between researchers, developers, engineers, students, and practitioners working all around the world.

The conference will be held every year to make it an ideal platform for people to share their views on and experiences in information technology and electrical engineering and related areas.

Research papers related to all areas of engineering, technology, applied sciences, computer science, electrical and mechanical engineering, information technology, telecommunication, etc., are invited to this international conference, which is expected to be attended by authors from various countries. People without published papers can also participate in this conference.

Scope:

Topic 1: Software Engineering

• Software Agent Technology;
• Middleware Design Techniques;
• Reliability and Modeling Analysis;
• E-Government Engineering;
• Modeling with UML;
• Cost Modeling and Analysis;
• Component-Based Software Engineering;
• Mobile/Wireless Computing;
• Computer and Software Engineering;
• Communication Systems and Networks;
• Parallel and Distributed Computing;
• Technology Transfer;
• Data Mining and Knowledge Recovery;
• Safety and Security Critical Software;
• Business Process Reengineering and Science;
• Artificial Intelligence Reengineering, Reverse Engineering;
• Design and Process Engineering and Science;
• Design Patterns and Frameworks;
• Software Process Models Process Management and Improvement;
• Software Architecture;
• Software Testing Techniques;
• Telecommunications;
• Economic and Financial Systems;
• Software Reuse and Metrics;
• Healthcare Engineering;
• Requirements Engineering;
• Object-Oriented Technology;
• Distributed Intelligence Systems.

Topic 2: Information Science

• Information systems;
• Management Information Systems;
• Information systems planning and management;
• Adoption of information technology in organizations;
• Human factors in information systems;
• Knowledge acquisition, expert systems;
• Systems analysis and design methods;
• Object-oriented enterprise modeling;
• Knowledge based systems to support database design;
• Automated mediation in group support systems;
• Distributed information systems, electronic commerce;
• Software copyright infringements;
• Accounting and Financial Information System;
• Internet Technology;
• Auditing and IT Governance;
• Information Quality and Strategy;
• Decision Support System;
• Information Systems;
• E-Commerce;
• IT Education and Society;
• Knowledge Management;
• Enterprise Information Systems—ERP;
• Public Policy Management;
• Engineering and Software Development;
• Free software;
• IT and IS Security;
• Information and Communication Technology;
• Communication;
• IT and IS Innovation;
• Digital business and digital marketing;
• Software agents;
• Social media.

Topic 3: Electrical Engineering

• Biomedical Engineering;
• Computer and AI Applications in Power Industry;
• Control Science and Control Engineering;
• Distributed Generation, Fuel Cells and Renewable Energy Systems;
• Electric vehicle technologies;
• Electrotechnologies;
• High Voltage and Insulation Technology;
• Intelligent control systems;
• Power Quality and Electromagnetic Compatibility;
• Automation and Instrument and Meter;
• Signal and Communication Processing;
• Advanced Power Semiconductors;
• Analogue and Digital Signal Processing;
• Electrical Machinery and Electrical Apparatus;
• Electromagnetic compatibility;
• Materials for Electrotechnics;
• Measuring Technology and Instruments;
• Mechatronics and Robotics;
• Nuclear Energy;
• Power Electronics and Power Drives;
• Power Engineering Education;
• Power Market;
• Power Optimization;
• Power Quality and Electromagnetic Compatibility;
• Power System and its Automation;
• Power System Reliability and Security;
• Power Systems Communication;
• Power Systems Deregulation;
• Predictive control;
• Process control;
• Real-time control;
• Renewable Energy;
• Computation Intelligence in Electrical Engineering.

Topic 4: Automation Control

• Modeling of Complex Systems;
• Optimal Control;
• Linear Systems;
• Discrete Event Systems;
• Adaptive Control;
• Nonlinear Systems and Control;
• Learning Systems;
• Fuzzy and Neural Systems;
• Intelligent and AI Based Control;
• Estimation and Identification;
• Real-time Systems;
• Fault Detection;
• Sensor/data fusion;
• Process Control and Instrumentation;
• Robotics;
• Motion Control;
• Automated Guided Vehicles;
• Flexible Manufacturing Systems;
• Control Education;
• Integrated Manufacturing;
• Control Applications;
• Factory Modeling and Automation;
• Process Automation;
• Petri-Nets and Applications;
• Man-machine Interactions;
• Micro and Nano Systems;
• Smart Structures;
• Sensor networks, networked control;
• Multi-agent systems.

Important Dates:

Conference: 29–31 October 2021
Full Paper Submission Deadline: 30 September 2021

Notification of Acceptance: 15 October 2021

Camera Ready Delivery Deadline: 25 October 2021

Contact:

Name: Dr. Yang

Tel: 027-87153536

QQ: 2318143869

Email: [email protected]

It is our great pleasure to invite you to participate in the 11th International Conference & Exhibition on Green Flexible & Printed Electronics Industry (www.ltfn.gr/conference) that will take place from 11 to 12 October 2021 at the Divani Caravel Hotel in Athens, Greece.

The international conference is organized by the Hellenic Organic & Printed Electronics Association (HOPE-A, www.hope-a.com) and the Nanotechnology Lab LTFN (www.ltfn.gr).

This international conference will bring together key industrial players, end-users, entrepreneurs, investors, top-class scientists, engineers, policy makers, politicians and representatives from the national, European and international authorities to discuss, network, do business and establish the strategy and policy for boosting the rapidly evolving hundred-billion euro green flexible and printed electronics industry in green energy, renewable technologies, fuel cells, green hydrogen, energy autonomous systems, lighting, electronics and communications, automotive industry, electrical vehicles, buildings, smart cities, agriculture, intelligent packaging and security, healthcare, wearables, IoT, etc., with the aim of contributing to a green, digital, decarbonized and circular economy society and planet.

The topics to be discussed include:

• Flexible organic and printed electronics and photonics;
• Green and renewable energy;
• 3rd generation photovoltaics;
• Bioenergy, fuel cells and green hydrogen generation;
• Energy storage and batteries;
• Flexible lighting and displays;
• Energy and lighting for smart buildings, smart cities, automotive, greenhouses, healthcare, IoT;
• Energy autonomous systems in consumer electronics, smart packaging, tourism, defense, etc.;
• Energy production and energy autonomy in agriculture and food production;
• 3D printing electronics in system integration of functional products and solutions;
• Advanced materials, semiconductors, electrodes, high-barrier materials, inks and bioinks;
• Sensors, biosensors in wearables, IoT, health, agriculture, etc.;
• Manufacturing, nano-manufacturing and processes of FPEs, bioelectronics, etc.;
• Smart textiles, fashion and wearables;
• Intelligent and smart packaging, safety and security;
• Machines, tools, lasers, automation systems, robotics, analytics and AI for zero-defect manufacturing;
• Machines and tools for digital transformation of the industry;
• FPEs in green deal and decarbonization global activities and policies;
• Clusters and associations in flexible and printed electronics worldwide;
• Flexible and printed electronics entrepreneurial activities;
• Markets, funding and commercialization opportunities.

MDPI will be attending the 6th Optoelectronics Global Conference (OGC 2021), hosted by the IEEE Photonics Society, Guangzhou Photonics Chapter, and Southern University of Science and Technology, which will be held from Wednesday, 15 September, until Saturday, 18 September, 2021, at the Shenzhen World Exhibition & Convention Center, China.

OGC aims to promote the interaction and exchange of various disciplines among professionals in academia and industry at home and abroad. In addition, it also serves to turn technologies into industrial applications. OGC will be an ideal platform for scholars, researchers and professionals to exchange insights and discuss the development of the optoelectronics industry. It will be a perfect gathering to learn about new perspectives, technologies and trends which might push the boundaries of technology and eventually create a broader future for optoelectronics applications.

The topics covered will include precision optics, optical communications, lasers, infrared applications, and fiber sensors.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Photonics
• Nanomaterials
• Electronics
• Remote Sensing

If you are also attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person to answer any questions you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit http://www.ipsogc.org/index.html.

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

MDPI will be attending the 12th International Conference on Information Optics and Photonics (CIOP 2021), Xi’an, China, 23–26 July 2021.

CIOP, an annual conference with comprehensive topics on optics and photonics, was initiated in 2007 by Chinese Laser Press, Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. The 12th International Conference on Information Optics and Photonics (CIOP2021) will be held on 23–26 July 2021 in Xi'an, China.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Applied Sciences (leading journal);
• Electronics;
• Photonics;
• Fibers;
• Optics.

If you are also attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person to answer any questions you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit: https://www.researching.cn/EN/EventMain/CIOP2021.

MDPI will be attending the 2021 CCF Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CCFAI 2021), which is to be held in Yantai, China, on 22–25 July 2021. As one of the most important academic conferences in the field of artificial intelligence in China, CCFAI aims to provide an interactive communication platform for practitioners in artificial intelligence, accelerating the exchange of latest research results and knowledge, as well as improving the research level in artificial intelligence.

The following MDPI journals will be represented at the meeting:

• Electronics;
• BDCC;
• Information;
• ASI;
• Future Internet.

If you are attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth. Our delegates are looking forward to meeting you in person and answering any questions you may have.

For more information about the conference, please visit: https://ccfai2021.ytu.edu.cn/.

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

MDPI will be attending the China Instrument and Control Society Annual Meeting, which is to be held in Shanghai, China, on 27–29 August 2021. The conference invites experts and students who are engaged in the study of instrumentation to participate in an in-depth discussion on the basic research direction, technological innovation, and industrial path of the instrumentation discipline.

The following MDPI journals will be represented at the meeting:

• Sensors;
• Machines;
• ASI;
• Electronics;
• Photonics.

If you are attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth: C-01. Our delegates are looking forward to meeting you in person and answering any questions you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit: http://meeting.cis.org.cn/.

We are pleased to report that the CiteScore of Electronics has increased to 2.7 (from 1.9). For full details of the current CiteScore release, please refer to the journal’s Source profile (https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/21100829272).

This Special Issue is edited by Dr. Teo Tee Hui and Prof. Dr. I-Chyn Wey. This Special Issue focuses on novel methodological developments in the field of advanced microelectronics and the design of the related integrated circuits.

Potential topics in computationally intelligent devices areas include, but are not limited to, the following:

• artificial intelligence technologies in direct memory;
• deep-learning-driven procession unit;
• display/motor driver;
• sensor interface;
• parallel computing;
• cryptography in quantum computing devices and circuits;
• novel design directions and improve devices, circuits, system performance, as well as processes;
• limitations of applying artificial intelligence to certain problems and specific domains.

Moreover, this SI is cooperated by the IEEE 14th International Symposium on Embedded Multicore/Manycore Systems-on-Chip: MCSoC 2021, it will be held in Singapore, 20–23 December 2021. ( https://www.mcsoc-forum.org/ )

Selected papers from MCSoC 2021 and all the external contributions in this field are welcome in this Special Issue.

Important Dates for Conference:

Abstract submission: 25 June 2021
Full paper submission: 25 June 2021 (extended)
Acceptance notification: 30 July 2021
Camera-ready paper: 10 August 2021
Conference: 20–23 December 2021

Important Dates for Special Issue:

Submission deadline: 31 May 2022

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For more information, please refer to the Special Issue:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/special_issues/microelectron_devices_integr_circuits

Conference website .https://www.mcsoc-forum.org/

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Electronics has just launched two new Sections: “Electronic Materials” and “Electronic Multimedia”. If you are an active researcher in the field and are passionate about participating in cutting-edge research publications, please do not hesitate to contact us about joining the board and contributing to the Sections.

The Section “Electronic Materials” (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/sections/Electronic_Materials) reports on the science, technology, and applications of electronic materials that are used in electrical industries, electronics and microelectronics, as well as the substances used in the construction of integrated circuits, circuit boards, packaging materials, communication cables, optical fibers, displays, and various controlling and monitoring devices.

The main topics of this Section include but are not limited to the following:

• Electronic materials science and technology;
• Energy storage and conversion materials;
• Nanoscale science and technology;
• Organic materials and thin-film technology;
• Oxide semiconductors and dielectrics;
• Wide bandgap semiconductors.

The Section “Electronic Multimedia” (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/sections/Electronic_Multimedia) reports on electronic multimedia technology, tools, and applications of electronic multimedia, including but not limited to circuits, networking, signal processing, systems, software, and system integration.

The main topics of this Section include but are not limited to the following:

• Electronic multimedia systems;
• Electronic multimedia communications;
• Electronic multimedia processing;
• Electronic multimedia applications.

If you have any questions, please contact [email protected].

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Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce that the winner of the Electronics 2021 Young Investigator Award is Dr. Amir H. Gandomi.

Dr. Amir H. Gandomi is a Professor of Data Science at the Faculty of Engineering & Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney, Australia. Dr. Gandomi’s research interests are in artificial intelligence, big data analytics, machine learning, genetic programming, evolutionary computation, and their applications in smarts cities and systems. Dr. Gandomi received his PhD in 2015 and has an outstanding publication record, comprising more than 200 publications in peer-reviewed international journals, which have been collectively cited more than 20,000 times (Hirsch index of 66). He is clearly a rising star in the field of Computational Intelligence and Data Analytics. Despite his young age, Dr. Gandomi has been the recipient of several academic prizes, including the Discovery Early Career Researcher Award for AUD 400,000, the BEACON distinguished research fellowship for USD 120,000, and the Highly Cited Researcher Award for four consecutive years, 2017 to 2020. This is an outstanding achievement in today’s competitive environment. Please join us in congratulating Dr. Gandomi for his outstanding achievements.

As the awardee, Dr. Amir H. Gandomi will receive an honorarium of CHF 1800, a certificate and an offer to publish a paper free of charge without a fixed deadline in Electronics after peer review.

We would like to thank all the nominators from various fields of study for their participation and all the Award Committee Members for their evaluation of the abundant excellent nominations.

Electronics 2021 Young Investigator Award Evaluation Committee

ICET is the premier conference held yearly in Chengdu, China. Its primary aim is to offer senior and young scientists, from academic communities, electronic industries and from all over the world, the opportunity to exchange research ideas and share new knowledge, development and experiences on topics related to their experimental and theoretical work in the very widespread field of electronics and micro/nanoelectronics technology and electronic packaging in a convenient and multicultural atmosphere.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Electronics;
• Energies;
• International Journal of Turbomachinery, Propulsion and Power;
• Technologies.

If you are attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person to answer any questions you may have.

This webinar will address issues related to the latest achievements in Low Dimensional Materials for Optoelectronic Applications attributed to our invited speakers. Audience members will have the opportunity to expand their knowledge and engage in a Q&A with the speakers.

Date: 26 April 2021

Time: 10 a.m. (CEST)

Webinar ID: 856 9742 8566

Register for free here: https://electronics-3.sciforum.net/#webinar_registration

Chair:

Prof. Dr. Elias Stathatos

Section Editor-in-Chief of “Microelectronics and Optoelectronics” in Electronics

Interests: nanostructured semiconductors; third-generation photovoltaics, including perovskite and dye-sensitized solar cells; organic electronics

Speakers:

Dr. Sanshui Xiao

EBM of Section “Microelectronics and Optoelectronics” of Electronics

Presentation Title: Integrated 2D-Material-Based Optoelectronic Devices

Sanshui Xiao obtained his PhD degree at Zhejiang University in 2004, and he is now an Associate Professor at the Technical University of Denmark. His current research interests mainly focus on the exploration of fundamental physics of light–matter interactions and the development of 2D-material-based optoelectronic devices. He has published more than 120 journal papers with a total citation of 4000 and an h-index of 33 (Google scholar). He has co-organized several sessions at SPIE, PIERS, AME, and EMN conferences and obtained the European Optics Prize from the European Optical Society in 2008. He is a senior member of OSA and SPIE, and also serves as the Topical Editor for Applied Optics.

Prof. Dr. Yahya M. Meziani

EBM of Section “Microelectronics and Optoelectronics” of Electronics

Presentation Title: 2D-Material-Based Devices for Terahertz Technology

Dr. Yahya Meziani is currently working as an Associate Professor at the Department of Applied Physics, Salamanca University. He has previously worked as a researcher for Tohoku University, Japan, and for Montpellier 2 University, France. Dr. Meziani has been conducting research on the Quantum Hall effect phenomenon and its application for the conservation of the Ohm unit. His research focuses on the development of new electronic devices that can emit and/or detect terahertz radiation at room temperature. He is author and co-author of more than 90 scientific publications. He has a h-index of 19 according to Web of Science.

For any questions about the webinar, please send an email to [email protected].

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.

As Editor-in-Chief of Electronics, I am pleased to announce the winners of the Electronics Travel Awards for 2021. The awards have been granted to: Dr. Peng Hang and Dr. Alfonso González Briones. 

• Peng Hang
  
  Research Fellow at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
  Research interest: vehicle dynamics and control; decision making; motion planning and control of automated and connected vehicles (CAVs) 

• Alfonso González Briones
  
  Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Salamanca, Spain
  Research interest: energy optimization in households and intelligent buildings 

With so many high-quality applicants, the evaluation process and final decision were challenging. We would like to thank all the applicants for submitting their diverse and fascinating range of research topics. On behalf of the Assessment Committee, I congratulate the winners on their accomplishments. 

Prof. Dr. Flavio Canavero
Editor-in-Chief, Electronics

The alliance of computers and telecommunications, defining the high-tech revolution of our time, is characterized by the convergence of the basic concepts of digital, analog, and mixed circuits (and systems), which enable the present devices to perform their intended function having major direct and indirect impacts on our lives. In this age of digital electronics, the importance of analog circuitry and signal processing concepts is essential for the progress of the field and for new developments.

The aim of the “Circuits and Signal Processing” Section is to host significant and original contributions and state-of-the-art review articles in this field of research. The scope of this section is broad, ranging from mathematical foundations to practical engineering applications, measurement techniques, compliance verification, and reliability studies.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• Circuits and systems for the Internet of things (IoT);
• Circuits and systems for 5G networks;
• Circuits and systems of Radio Frequency (RF) applications;
• Analog, digital, and mixed signal processing building blocks;
• Non-linear circuits and systems;
• Amplifiers, filters, oscillators;
• Circuits and systems for biomedical applications;
• Power and energy circuits and systems;
• Multimedia systems and signal processing.

If you are an active researcher in the field and are passionate about participating in cutting-edge research publications, please do not hesitate to contact us about joining the board and contributing to this section.

For more information, please visit: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/sections/Circuit_Signal_Processing.

If you have any questions, please contact [email protected].

Electronics is holding the Travel Awards to sponsor two Postdocs to attend a relevant conference of their choice in 2021, as well as the Young Investigator Award, which will be awarded to one young investigator in recognition of their excellence in the research field of electronics and its applications.

We are pleased to announce that Professor Costas Psychalinos has been appointed as Section Editor-in-Chief of "Circuit and Signal Processing" in Electronics.

Costas Psychalinos received his B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Physics and Electronics from the University of Patras, Greece, in 1986 and 1991, respectively. From 1993 to 1995, he worked as Post-Doctoral Researcher in the VLSI Design Laboratory, University of Patras. From 1996 to 2000, he was an Adjunct Lecturer at the Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics, University of Patras. From 2000 to 2004, he served as Assistant Professor at the Electronics Laboratory, Department of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. From 2004, he serves as Faculty Member at the Electronics Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Patras, Greece, and, currently, he is a full Professor.

His research area is in the development of CMOS analog integrated circuits, including fractional-order circuits and systems, continuous and discrete-time analog filters, amplifiers, and low voltage/low power building blocks for analog signal processing.

He serves as Area Editor of the International Journal of Electronics and Communications (AEUE), and Editor of the International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications.

He is Associate Editor of the Circuits Systems and Signal Processing journal, and the Journal of Advanced Research. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Microelectronics journal, Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing journal, MDPI’s Fractal & Fractional journal, and Journal of Low Power Electronics.

He is an IEEE Senior Member and, also, Member of the Nonlinear Circuits and Systems Technical Committee of the IEEE CAS Society.

We would like to warmly welcome Professor Psychalinos as Section Editor-in-Chief and look forward to developing the Section "Circuit and Signal Processing" under his leadership.

The transportation sector is of the utmost importance for both today’s society and future societies, with great impacts on the economy and people’s life comfort. A profound transformation of the sector is underway in technological terms, namely with a consistently increasing trend towards transportation electrification and to autonomous vehicles.

Section “Electrical and Autonomous Vehicles” addresses the different perspectives of design, development, and usage of electric and autonomous vehicles, as well as their impact on people’s lives, on cities, and on power and energy systems.

The Section welcomes papers on innovative scientific and technical developments, sound case studies, and reviews that are relevant and/or related to “Electrical and Autonomous Vehicles”.

If you are an active researcher in the field and are passionate about participating in cutting-edge research publications, please do not hesitate to contact us about joining the board and contributing to this section.

For more information, please visit: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/sections/Electrical_Vehicles.

If you have any questions, please contact [email protected].

Our journal Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292) is now recruiting new Editorial Board Members for the section “Microwave and Wireless Communications” (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/sections/microwave_and_wireless_communications). For this section, we are inviting advanced theories and technologies across a wide spectrum. These can be related to microwave and millimeter wave communication, including radar sensors, etc., which may be fundament or application, element or system, hardware or software, methodology theory or measurement. We hope to present state-of-the-art technologies in this section.

Subject areas of interest include, without being limited to, the following:

• General wireless communication technology;
• General microwave theory and technology, including antennae;
• General radar technology;
• Communication and radar signal processing;
• Micro/millimeter wave imaging technology;
• Micro/millimeter wave sensing technology;
• Micro/millimeter wave network technology;
• Micro/millimeter wave medical application;
• Electromagnetic scattering and propagation;
• Micro/millimeter wave measurement technology.

You are welcome to join our section Editorial Board Members and contribute to this section!

For more information, please visit: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/sections/microwave_and_wireless_communications.

If you have any questions, please contact [email protected].

We are pleased to announce that Professor Lucas Lamata has been appointed as Section Editor-in-Chief of "Quantum Electronics" in Electronics. His term started at the beginning of March 2021.

Lucas Lamata graduated in Theoretical Physics in 2003 from Universidad Complutense de Madrid and received his PhD with Honors in Quantum Information Theory in 2007 from Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, having carried out his PhD research at the Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) in Madrid, Spain. Latterly, he was a Humboldt Research Fellow and a Max-Planck Postdoctoral Fellow from 2007 to 2011 at the Max-Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Garching, Germany. From 2011 to 2019, he worked at the University of the Basque Country in Bilbao, Spain, first with a Marie Curie IEF Fellowship, and subsequently with a Ramón y Cajal tenure track position and a permanent staff scientist position. Since 2019, he has been an Associate Professor of Theoretical Physics at Departamento de Física Atómica, Molecular y Nuclear, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain.

His research interests are focused on quantum optics, quantum information, and quantum technologies, with many developments in the fields of quantum simulations, quantum computation, and quantum machine learning. As a theoretician, he has worked in proposals and their experimental realizations with several experimental groups worldwide, among other quantum platforms in trapped ions and superconducting circuits.

He is the author of more than 100 papers in indexed journals (a list of his publications can be found here). He has been an invited speaker in many international conferences in countries including the USA, Germany, the UK, China, Japan, and Australia. Regarding his refereeing and editorial experience, he is a frequent reviewer of more than 60 indexed journals, including Nature, Nature Materials, Nature Communications, Physical Review X, and Physical Review Letters, and an Editorial Board Member for six prestigious scientific journals: Machine Learning: Science and Technology (IOP), Quantum Machine Intelligence (Springer), Electronics (MDPI), Quantum Reports (MDPI), PLOS ONE, and Quantum Measurements and Quantum Metrology (De Gruyter).

He has also organized several Special Issues for journals from MDPI, Wiley (Advanced Quantum Technologies), Springer, and ACTA Press.

We would like to warmly welcome Professor Lamata as Section Editor-in-Chief and look forward to developing the Section "Quantum Electronics" under his leadership.

We are pleased to announce that Professor Flavio Canavero has been appointed Editor-in-Chief for Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292).

Flavio Canavero is Full Professor at the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications of Politecnico di Torino. He received his diploma in Electronics Engineering in 1977 from Politecnico di Torino, and his PhD in 1986 from Georgia Institute of Technology. He works in the area of circuits and systems theory, with special interest in signal integrity and EMC design issues. To date, he has authored or coauthored more than 300 papers published in international journals and conference proceedings.

During his scientific career, he has been involved in various service activities both at the level of his institution and for many international organizations. At Politecnico di Torino, he has been Director of the Electronics Department (1993–1999), Vice Rector for Organization (2001–2005), and Head of the Doctoral School (2012–2018). At the international level, he has been a member of the Steering Committee of the Council for doctoral Education (CDE) of the European University Association (EUA), a member of the Board of Directors of the IEEE EMC Society (2012–2015), and VP of Communication Services for the same Society. He has been the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility (2004–2006) and the Technical Editor of the IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility Newsletter. Between 2005 and 2008, he was the Chair of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI) Commission E (Noise and Interference). He has been also a Member of the IEEE Fellow Committee and of the IEEE Press Editorial Board. He has been the Organizer of the Workshop on Signal Propagation on Interconnects (SPI) during 2001–2003 and 2007. He is currently a Member of the Editorial Boards for several scientific journals and a Member of the Scientific Steering Committees of several International Conferences in the field of EMC and electrical performance of interconnects and packages.

He has been Invited Visiting Professor at Okayama University (Japan), ESIGELEC (Engineering School in Rouen, France), University of Rennes and INSA (Rennes, France), University of Ghent (Belgium), University of Science and Technology of Lille (France), and University of Clermont-Ferrand (France).

For over a decade, he has been serving as Principal Investigator or Local Coordinator of several research projects supported by EU. In addition, he has been responsible for many research contracts with industrial companies globally.

Flavio Canavero is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and a Fellow of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI). He has been the recipient of the prestigious Richard R. Stoddard Award for Outstanding Performance (the highest recognition of scientific merit bestowed by IEEE EMCS), and of the Honored Member Award of EMC Society (highest recognitions of service merit). He has been the recipient of IBM and Intel Research Awards; he was presented the award for the best paper contributed to the journal IEEE Transactions on Advanced Packaging for the year 2007, and has received several best paper awards for work presented at the following conferences: EMC Roma 1996, EMC-Zurich in Singapore 2006, EPEPS in Austin 2010 and San Jose 2013, EMC Europe in Angers (F) 2017, CEM in Paris (F) 2018, and SPI in Chambéry (F) 2019.

Some of his selected publications may be accessed at
https://iris.polito.it/browse?type=author&authority=rp19434&authority_lang=en&sort_by=2&order=DESC#.XlSGy_wRXIU

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.

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Prof. Dr. Luis M. Fernández-Ramírez received his M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Seville, Seville, Spain, in 1997, and his Ph.D. degree in Industrial Engineering from the University of Cadiz, Cadiz, in 2004.

From 1997 to 2000, he worked in a company dedicated to the design, manufacture, installation, maintenance, and operation of wind turbines and wind farms. In 2000, he joined the University of Cadiz, Spain, where he is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering.

He has been Academic Secretary of the Higher Polytechnic School of Algeciras, Academic Director of the Chair of Generation Endesa/Spain E.ON, and is currently Coordinator of the Ph.D. Program in Sustainable and Energy Engineering and Head of the Research Group in Sustainable and Renewable Electrical Technologies (SURET) at the University of Cadiz.

He has more than 20 years of research experience in the development of electrical, electronic, and control technologies in the field of smart grids, renewable energies (wind and photovoltaic energy), energy storage systems, hydrogen (fuel cell and electrolyzer), battery and fuel cell electric vehicles and charging stations, power converters, and intelligent energy control/management systems.

He has published more than 130 scientific papers in peer-reviewed international journals and conferences, and 5 book chapters in prestigious publishers. He has been involved in national and international research projects.

He serves as an Editorial Board Member and Guest Editor of several international journals, a Scientific Committee Member of several international conferences, a reviewer for international journals and conferences, and an evaluator of national and international research projects.

He is a Senior Member of several societies of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Education Society, IEEE Power & Energy Society, and IEEE Industrial Electronics Society), where he serves as a member of several IEEE Committees.

“Microelectronics and Optoelectronics” is focused on the fabrication of electronic, photonic, bioelectronic, electromechanics, and fluidic devices and systems, and their applications in the broad areas of electronics, photonics, energy, and the environment. This section will also cover the expanding interdisciplinary field of integrated nanoelectronics and photonics and micro- and nano-biosystems. The purpose of this section is to bring together researchers and engineers, from both researchers in academia and professionals in industry, to present the novel ideas and new research.

Subject areas of interest include, without being limited to the following:

• Microelectronics processing and materials;
• Micro- and nanoengineering, fabrication, technology, and manufacturing;
• Nanoelectronic and photonic devices and their fabrication;
• Microsystems, microdevices (e.g., sensors and nanoenergy devices) and their fabrication;
• Microfluidics, sensors, as well as integrated chip and their fabrication.

You are welcome to join our section Editorial Board Members and contribute to this section.

For more information, please visit
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/sections/microelectronics_and_optoelectronics.

If you have any questions, please contact [email protected].

The “Networks” section provides full coverage of all topics of interest involved in the networking area. The purpose of this section is to bring together researchers, engineers, and students from academia and industry to present novel ideas and solid research about the theoretical and practical aspects in the application domains of computer communications and networks.

The primary focus of the section is on the analysis, modeling, design, simulation, and implementation of computer networks, from wired systems to wireless systems. The section will also serve to attract research concerning the application of networking architectures and scenarios to emerging research topics, such as IoT, smart cities, edge computing, ITS, and unmanned aerial vehicles, among others.

If you are an active researcher in the field and are passionate about participating in cutting-edge research publications, please do not hesitate to contact us about joining the Board and contributing to this section.

For more information, please visit https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/sections/networks.

If you have any questions, please contact [email protected].

“Organic Electronics” has been receiving increasing attention on both an academic and industrial level as a new branch of electronics that enables various innovative fields of application. The aim of this section is to provide researchers with a highly multidisciplinary platform in which they can report and read about:

(i) The chemical and physical properties of materials, from small molecules to solution-processable polymers;

(ii) The design and fabrication of novel devices based on organic materials, such as organic field effect transistors, organic solar cells or light emitting diodes, memory elements, thermoelectric generators, and others;

(iii) The development and optimization of novel fabrication procedures, from the vapor or liquid phase, with particular attention being paid to high-throughput and cost-effective approaches;

(iv) Employment of the aforementioned devices in the realization of novel applications, from flexible circuits and displays to smart tags, flexible lab-on-a-chip, artificial skin, etc.

If you are an active researcher in the field and are passionate about participating in cutting-edge research publications, please do not hesitate to contact us about joining the Editorial Board and contribute to this section.

For more information, please visit https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/sections/organic_electronics.

If you have any questions, please contact [email protected].

Industrial electronics play a vital role in improving the efficiency and productivity of industries like energy, transportation, petroleum, chemical, semiconductor, mining, agriculture, and others. As a branch of electronics dealing with power electronic switches, sensors, actuators, meters, intelligent electronic devices (IEDs), automation equipment, semiconductors, nanotechnology, etc., emphasis is currently placed on power conditioning using power semiconductor devices in modernizing industry technology.

This section is devoted to presenting the emerging technologies and trends in the industrial electronics sector and includes original research and state-of-the-art review articles. The main research area includes applications of industrial electronics and its control, computation, and communication to enrich industrial systems and processes. All submissions are subject to a peer-review process. We encourage the submission of original contributions derived from theoretical- and/or application-oriented research studies.

The subject areas of interest include but are not limited to:

• Industrial electronics and controls;
• Industrial drives;
• Industrial electronics for renewable energy grid interfacing;
• Automotive industry electronics and associated controls.

You are welcome to join our section Editorial Board Members and contribute to this section.

For more information, please visit https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/sections/Industrial_Electronics

If you have any questions, please contact [email protected].

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Electronics 2020 Outstanding Reviewer Awards. The Electronics Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to gratefully acknowledge the time and energy dedicated by reviewers in checking the manuscripts submitted to Electronics. It is due to their efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick turnaround are maintained.

Prof. Dr. Byeong Yong Kong
Affiliation: Division of Electrical, Electronic, and Control Engineering, Kongju National University, Cheonan, Korea
Research Interests: VLSI signal processing; digital systems; system on chip (SoC); wireless communications

Prof. Emilio Matricciani
Affiliation: Department of Electronics, Information, and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
Research Interests: satellite communication; deep-space communication; orbits; propagation; fade countermeasures; mobile and fixed users

Prof. Dr. Paolo Mercorelli
Affiliation: Institute of Product and Process Innovation, Leuphana University of Lueneburg, Lueneburg, Germany
Research Interests: control systems; mechatronics; actuators; engine control; signal processing; wavelets; Kalman filter; energy control

For more information about Electronics awards, please see the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/awards.

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Electronics 2020 Best Paper Awards. All papers published in 2019 in Electronics were considered for the award. After a thorough evaluation of the originality and significance of the papers, citations, and downloads, the two winning papers, which were nominated by the journal’s Award Committee, have been selected and they are the following:

Article

Assessment of Dual Frequency GNSS Observations from a Xiaomi Mi 8 Android Smartphone and Positioning Performance Analysis
By Umberto Robustelli, Valerio Baiocchi, and Giovanni Pugliano
Electronics 2019, 8(1), 91.

Review

A State-of-the-Art Survey on Deep Learning Theory and Architectures
By Md Zahangir Alom, Tarek M. Taha, Chris Yakopcic, Stefan Westberg, Paheding Sidike, Mst Shamima Nasrin, Mahmudul Hasan, Brian C. Van Essen, Abdul A. S. Awwal, and Vijayan K. Asari
Electronics 2019, 8(3), 292.

The authors will receive an award of 400 CHF, a certificate, and an opportunity to publish one paper free of charge before 31 December 2021, after the normal peer review procedure.

We believe the above papers represent valuable contributions to Electronics and the scientific literature. Please join us in congratulating the winners of Electronics 2020 Best Paper Awards. We would also like to take this opportunity to thank all our authors for their continued support.

Dear Colleagues,

In 2021, Electronics is celebrating its 10th anniversary. Since its first paper published in 2011, Electronics has received important support and excellent contributions from female scientists. They have served as our Editorial Board Members, Guest Editors, Topic Editors, authors, and reviewers.

To celebrate and highlight the achievements of women in the research area of electronics, Electronics is pleased to announce that the “Electronics 2021 Best Paper Award for Women” will be launched and granted to one best paper published in the “Women in Electronics” Special Issue. The paper will be selected after thorough evaluation by the Journal Award Committee.

Eligibility for the Award:

– Open to all career levels;

– ONLY submissions in “Women in Electronics” will be considered.

Selection Criteria:

The papers will be selected by the journal Award Committee according to the following criteria (data source: Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics)):

– Scientific merit and broad impact;

– Relevance to the journal’s field;

– Originality of the research objectives and/or the ideas presented;

– Creativity of the study design or uniqueness of the approaches and concepts;

– Clarity of presentation;

– Citation and download rates by 28 February 2022.

The award will consist of the following:

– 500 Swiss Francs;

– A certificate;

– An opportunity for the winner to publish her next submission in Electronics free of charge in 2022.

The winners will be announced on the journal website in March 2022.

If you want to know more about the Special Issue and submit your paper, please follow this link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/special_issues/women_electronics

Kind regards,
Electronics Editorial Office

We are pleased to announce that Electronics became a semimonthly publication on 1 January, 2021. A semimonthly publication allows papers to be indexed in Web of Science and other indexing databases on a semimonthly basis rather than every month, and they become searchable and are cited earlier. We also acknowledge the many valuable publications from our authors and the important contribution of our dedicated reviewers.

It has been almost ten years since the first paper was published in Electronics back in 2011. We are very proud to have reached this very important milestone of the 10th anniversary of the journal. To celebrate this momentous occasion, we launched a series of special content and events. Scholars, academic scientists, researchers, and professional groups are welcome to join us, whether by submiting original contributions and/or review papers, applying to join our Editorial board, and participating in the celebration events.

Anniversary Special Issues

10th Anniversary of Electronics: Advances in Microwave and Wireless Communications
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/special_issues/10th_microwave

10th Anniversary of Electronics: Advances in Networks
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/special_issues/10th_anniversary_advances_networks

10th Anniversary of Electronics: New Advances in Systems and Control Engineering
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/special_issues/10th_Anniversary_System_Control

10th Anniversary of Electronics: Recent Advances in Microelectronics and Optoelectronics
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/special_issues/10th_microelectronics_optoelectronics

10th Anniversary of Electronics: Advances in Circuit and Signal Processing
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/special_issues/10th_circuit_signal

10th Anniversary of Electronics: Hot topics in Bioelectronics
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/special_issues/anniversary_bioelectronics

10th Anniversary of Electronics: Recent Advances in Power Electronics
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/special_issues/10_power_electronics

10th Anniversary of Electronics—Hot Topic in Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/special_issues/HTIAICAS_electronics

10th Anniversary of Electronics: Recent Advances in Computer Science & Engineering
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/special_issues/10th_Anniver_Computer_Engineering

10th Anniversary of Electronics: Related Researches in Electrical and Autonomous Vehicles
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/special_issues/EAV

10th Anniversary of Electronics: Recent Advances in Semiconductor Devices
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/special_issues/Semiconductor_Devices

Best Paper Awards for Anniversary Special Issues

Eligibility for the awards:

– Two papers published in the 10th Anniversary Special Issues;
– Both research articles and review articles will be considered.

Selection criteria:

The papers will be selected by the journal award committee according to the originality, novelty and scientific contributions in the field.

Prizes:

The award will consist of a certificate and 500 Swiss Francs. Each winner has the option to publish a paper free of charge in Electronics, after the normal peer-review procedure.

The winners will be announced 3 months after the submission deadline.

Dear colleagues,

We are accepting applications for the Electronics 2021 Travel Award, to be presented to two postdoctoral fellows to attend a conference in 2021. The award will be amount of CHF 800 (Swiss francs), to partially cover the transportation costs to a conference of the applicant’s choice.

All nominations and applications will be assessed by an Evaluation Committee composed of senior scholars in the field.

Candidate Requirements:

– Must be a postdoctoral fellow within the research field of electronics.
– Will participate in an international conference in 2021 (poster or oral presentation).
– Will be asked to acknowledge the support of the journal Electronics during their presentation.

Required Documents:

– An abstract and conference details (no more than one page).
– A CV (no more than three pages), including a one-page statement from the candidate describing their research interests and a list of publications.
– A letter of recommendation from their supervisor or principal investigator (PI). The supervisor or PI should sign and confirm that the applicant fulfills all of the above requirements.

Please submit your application at the following link (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/awards/submit/966) by 28 February 2021.

The winner of this award will be announced on the journal website on 31 March 2021.

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to launch the 2021 Electronics Young Investigator Award. This prize will be given to a young investigator in recognition of their excellence in the research field of electronics and its applications.

All nominations and applications will be assessed by an Evaluation Committee consisting of senior scholars in the field.

Candidate Eligibility and Requirements:

– Must have received a Ph.D. degree within the past 10 years within the scope of Electronics (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/about).
– Must be 40 years of age or under (as of 31 December 2020).

List of Documents Needed for Application:

– A detailed curriculum vitae, including an updated publication list and a list of the researcher’s own research grants.
– A detailed publication list from 2020, including authors, titles, and journals.
– A list of conferences that the candidate attended in 2020 as well as the research results presented.
– A scanned copy of the candidate’s doctorate certificate.
– Signed nomination letters from two established senior scientists.

The Award:

– CHF 1800 (Swiss francs).
– An offer to publish a paper free of charge without a fixed deadline in Electronics.
– A certificate.

The candidates should be nominated by a senior expert in the field rather than send applications themselves. The letter should highlight their achievements and contributions to the field. Additional references will be requested by the committee if necessary.

Candidate nomination application materials should be submitted via the link (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/awards/submit/967).

We welcome nominations for this award until 28 February 2021.

The winner will be announced on the Electronics website by the end of March 2021.

MDPI is proud to adopt the principles of the Coalition for Diversity & Inclusion in Scholarly Communications (C4DISC) to support building equity, inclusion, diversity, and accessibility in scholarly communications.

The C4DISC represents organizations and individuals working in scholarly communications and is focused on addressing issues of diversity and inclusion within the publishing industry.

MDPI’s Managing Editors encourage the Editors-in-Chief and Associate Editors to appoint diverse expert Editorial Boards. This is also reflective in our multi-national and inclusive workplace. We are proud to create equal opportunities without regard to gender, ethnicity, geographic location, sexual orientation, age, disability, political beliefs, religion, or socio-economic status. There is no place for discrimination in our workplace and editors of MDPI journals are to uphold these principles in high regard.

Representatives from C4DISC meet monthly, and have started to implement initiatives to shed light and improve on the lack of diversity in scholarly communications. Some of the initiatives include developing a joint statement of principles; conducting market research; providing training resources, best practices, toolkits, and documentation for our collective memberships; and establishing outreach programs, curricula, events, and publications.

The Coalition is committed to:

• eliminating barriers to participation, extending equitable opportunities across all stakeholders, and ensuring that our practices and policies promote equitable treatment and do not allow, condone, or result in discrimination;
• creating and maintaining an environment that respects diverse traditions, heritages, and experiences;
• promoting diversity in all staff, volunteers, and audiences, including full participation in programs, policy formulation, and decision-making;
• raising awareness about career opportunities in our industries to groups who are currently underrepresented in the workforce;
• supporting our members in achieving diversity and inclusion within their organizations.

At MDPI we have slightly revised the layout for articles to be published in the 2021 Volume, starting at the end of December 2020. As of today, the article templates available for download on ‘Instructions for Authors’ pages have been updated.

The most noticeable change can be found on the first page of the article, where a left-hand column has been created to include the following front matter elements: (i) the recommended citation style for the article, (ii) the publishing history, (iii) as well as the Creative Commons Attribution license used (iv) a standard note regarding affiliations. At the same time, the extra spacing on the left means the authors’ affiliations are now more clearly set apart than before. Other front matter key elements such as journal logo, article type, article title, authors, abstract and keywords remain unchanged.

The blank column on the left runs through all pages in an article; as a result, the main text is slightly more condensed, which improve reader friendliness for smaller screens. Small figures/tables are aligned on the left with standard indenture, while large figures/tables are centered and covering the full width of the page. The revised layout was applied in the article pictured below, to serve as an example:

1) Information is displayed in the left information bar.

2) In the main text, there is a blank column on the left.

3) Small tables/figures are aligned on the left, large tables/figures are centered.

We are pleased to acknowledge that many academic editors who have made an impact on MDPI journals as editorial board members, editors-in-chief, or section editors, are recognized as 2020 Highly Cited Researchers by Clarivate.

Highly Cited Researchers highlights the top 1% of researchers, by citations, in one or more of the 22 fields used in Clarivate Analytics Essential Science Indicators. We offer our congratulations to 279 academic editors of MDPI journals who were recognized as the most influential scholars in their fields in 2020.

The full list of 2020 Highly Cited Researchers  can be accessed on https://recognition.webofsciencegroup.com/awards/highly-cited/2020/

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This webinar will address issues related to 5G and beyond, allow our incredible Principal Investigators to share their personal scientific stories, and provide our audience with the opportunity to ask questions and directly connect with scientists involved in 5G.

Date: 19 November 2020

Time: 3:00 pm (CET)

Webinar ID: 984 1509 5815

Register for free here: https://sciforum.net/conference/electronics-2

Chair:

Prof. Dr. Carlos Jesús Bernardos Cano

EBM of Section “Networks” of Electronics

Interests: network virtualization; IP mobility management; wireless experimentation; cloud computing and vehicular communications

Speaker 1

Dr. Ömer Bulakci (Nokia Bell Labs)

Topic: Role of 5GPPP Architecture WG toward B5G/6G System

Dr. Ömer Bulakci is currently a Senior Research Engineer at Nokia Bell Labs, Munich, Germany, and Vice-Chairman of the 5GPPP Architecture Working Group (WG). He has received B.Sc. (METU, Turkey, 2006), M.Sc. (TUM, Germany, 2008), and doctorate (Aalto University, Finland, 2013) degrees. He worked at Nokia Siemens Networks, Germany, on LTE-A relaying (2009–2012) in support of his doctorate studies. From 2012 to February 2020, he conducted research toward the 5G system, contributed to EU flagship projects METIS, METIS-II (leading a work package on RAN synchronous control plane design), and 5G-MoNArch (leading a work package on overall architecture and E2E network slicing), and contributed to 5G standardization (3GPP Releases 15, 16, and 17) at Huawei GRC, Germany. He is an author or co-author of 75+ technical publications (including 5G book chapters and editorship) and an inventor of 50+ patents/patent applications. His research interests comprise network slicing, industrial IoT, RRM, dynamic network topology, and system design and performance analysis of mobile networks.

Speaker 2

Dr. Alain Mourad (InterDigital Labs)

Topic: On the Path to 6G: Target Capabilities and Technology Trends

Alain Mourad has 18+ years of experience in wireless communications industrial R&D. He is currently a Director Engineering R&D at InterDigital Labs in London (UK), leading research and innovation for 5G and beyond radio access networks. Prior to joining InterDigital, from 2007 to 2014, Alain was a Principal Engineer at Samsung Electronics R&D (London, UK), where he led research and standardization efforts with a focus on ATSC 3.0, DVB-T2 and DVB-NGH, and WiMAX IEEE 802.16m. From 2002 to 2007, he was a Senior Engineer at Mitsubishi Electric R&D Centre Europe (Rennes, France), where he contributed technology development toward HSPA+ and 3GPP LTE/LTE-Advanced (4G). Alain is a prolific inventor with over 50 issued patents and several additional pending applications. He is a thought leader who has participated in numerous talks, panels, and publications. Alain has received several awards, notably the Inventor of the Year Award from Samsung Electronics R&D in 2012 and 2013, InterDigital Innovation Awards in 2016 and 2018, and the 2018 Global Telecoms Awards “Highly Commended” in the category “Advancing the Road to 5G”.

Speaker 3

Dr. Josep Mangues-Bafalluy (CTTC)

Topic: Network Architectures for 5G and Beyond

Josep Mangues-Bafalluy has been a Senior Researcher and Head of the Communication Networks Division of the Telecommunications Technological Center of Catalunya (CTTC) since 2013, a division that is currently composed of 30 researchers. He has a degree (1996) and a PhD (2003) in Telecommunications Engineering from the Technical University of Catalunya (UPC) and over 20 years of experience in the networks field (including mobile networks, application of machine learning to network optimization, testbed design and deployment, and network function virtualization). Josep has held various roles (including leadership) in several publicly funded and industrial research projects (e.g., 5GPPP 5Growth, 5G-Transformer, and Spanish 5G-REFINE), with a recent emphasis on adapting network infrastructures to the needs of vertical industries (e.g., automotive/transportation, industry 4.0, media, eHealth) and automated network management. He has published 120+ international journal articles and conference papers. He was Vice-Chair of IEEE WCNC 2018 (Barcelona). He was also a Researcher and Assistant Professor at UPC from 1996 to 2003.

For any questions about the webinar, please send an email to [email protected]

Dear Scientists, Researchers, and Authors,

We are delighted to announce that IEC 2020 is now open for discussions at:
https://iec2020.sciforum.net

Discussions will be open from 1 to 30 November.

As some of you have already learned, you will now be able to interact with other conference participants via the several functions on Sciforum, which can be accessed and used once you log in. Leave your comments on articles directly at the conference website, select your favorite papers and collect them on your user profile, rate papers you have read, and most of all, SHARE your thoughts and comments among your peers on the conference page! Please find a short overview of all the means of interaction and functions at
http://sciforum.net/file/download/UserInterfaceAndFunctions.pdf.

Extended and expanded versions of conference proceedings papers can be submitted to Special Issue “Selected Papers from the 1st International Electronic Conference – Futuristic Applications on Electronics” in the journal Electronics, with a 10% discount on the Article Processing Charges.

Please note that we will present awards for the best paper (2 winners), best poster (2 winners), and best presentation (1 winner), as selected by the organizers. The Best Paper Awards will consist of 400 Swiss francs. The Best Poster Awards will consist of 300 Swiss francs. The Best Presentation Award will consist of 200 Swiss francs.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you for your input, and hope you enjoy the conference and make the most of it!

We look forward to your contributions and discussions.

This Special Issue is edited by Prof. Dr. Juan Monzó-Cabrera, Prof. Dr. Alejandro Díaz-Morcillo, and Prof. Dr. Lozano-Guerrero Antonio. The aim of this Special Issue was to collect the latest advances on microwave and RF applicator design in different areas.

Potential topics in microwave and RF applicator design areas include but are not limited to the following:

• New design techniques for monomode and multimode cavities;
• Design of applicators and components for specific applications in food, waste management, medical, biological or chemical/biochemical fields, etc.;
• Emerging technologies such as solid-state applicators;
• New EM modeling and numerical techniques;
• Microwave plasma applicators and processing (CVD, cleaning, nanoparticles, etc.);
• Microwave component design and optimization: filters, stirrers, circulators, matching devices, etc.;
• Frequency sources and power supply design
• Electronics and microwave devices for microwave-heating and drying monitoring;
• Design and optimization of multimode feeding: leaky-wave antennas, slotted waveguides, multiport optimization, etc;
• Design of new radiofrequency applicators and components.

Moreover, this SI is cooperated by the 18^th International Conference on Microwave and High-Frequency Applications: AMPERE 2021, it will be held in Gothenburg, Sweden, 13–16 September 2021. Selected papers from AMPERE 2021 and all the external contributions in this filed are welcome in this Special Issue.

Submission deadline: 15 October 2021

For more information, please refer to the Special Issue and conference website.
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/special_issues/RF_Applicator

https://www.ampere2021.com/

Submission guidelines:

Submission: link: https://susy.mdpi.com/user/manuscripts/upload/09be35b81f092405c365adeecdae7795?form%5Bjournal_id%5D=127&form%5Bspecial_issue_id%5D=63806

Instructions for authors:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/instructions

A template /Word/ file:
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Dear authors and readers of Electronics,

Electronics would like to introduce a new feature, called "Editor's Choice Articles", which highlight outstanding papers published in the journal. These are selected by the editors, and include original articles which make important and impactful findings, as well as review articles that are excellently written. With this feature, readers can expect timely and useful highlights of recent articles in the journal, and deserving authors would receive more attention on their excellent contributions. We hope that this feature will enhance your reading pleasure and experience with Electronics.

This webinar will address matters related to Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems, allowing our incredible principal investigators to share their personal stories of science, and provide our audience with the opportunity to ask questions and connect with AI scientists directly.

Date: 28 October 2020

Time: 11:00 a.m. (CEST)丨5:00 a.m. (EDT)丨17:00 p.m. (CST ASIA)

Webinar ID: 861 1225 4623

Register for Free Here: https://sciforum.net/conference/Electronics-1

Chair: Prof. D.Sc. Valeri Mladenov

Editorial Board Member of “Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems (AICAS)”

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/sectioneditors/AICAS

Interests: artificial intelligence; circuits and systems; electronics; power systems; smart grids; mathematical modeling; control theory and applications

Speaker 1. Prof. Huai Wang

Huai Wang is currently a Professor with the Center of Reliable Power Electronics (CORPE), and the Vice Leader of the Efficient and Reliable Power Electronics Research Program at Aalborg University. He has contributed more than 100 journal papers and co-edited a book on the Reliability of Power Electronic Converter Systems in 2015. He has given 25 tutorials at leading power electronics conferences (e.g., PCIM Europe, APEC, ECCE, etc.), and more than 80 invited talks. 

Presentation: The Application of AI for Condition and Health Monitoring of Power Electronic Converters

Speaker 2. Prof. Georgi Radulov

Editorial Board Member of “Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems (AICAS)”

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/sectioneditors/AICAS

Interests: RF and mm-wave transmitters and receivers; phased arrays; Nyquist and sigma–delta data converters; built-in-self-testing

Presentation: Artificial Intelligence in Modern Redundant Systems

For any questions about the webinar, please send an email to [email protected]

Electronics is calling for Special Issue proposals for the eight new sections:

• Microelectronics and Optoelectronics
• Power Electronics
• Bioelectronics
• Microwave and Wireless Communications
• Circuit and Signal Processing
• Electrical and Autonomous Vehicles
• Organic Electronics
• Industrial Electronics

The following topics may be covered in forthcoming Special Issues in the journal:

Any other proposals within the scope of the journal are welcome: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/about.

The following information is required upon submission: Special Issue title, introduction, and planned paper list.

The duties of Guest Editors are as follows:

• Re-defining the title and scope of the Special Issue;
• Making decisions on whether a manuscript can be accepted based on the reports we collect;
• Promoting the Special Issue and increasing its visibility at related academic conferences.

The benefits granted to Guest Editors include full/partial waivers of publishing fees for their first submission in the Special Issue.

Guest Editorship: Once your proposal is approved, your first task is to organize a team of 2–3 Editors. This is intended to balance the workload and enable internal discussions if any controversial issues arise. Moreover, as Guest Editors have different research networks, cooperation broadens the coverage of potential authors, thereby increasing the influence of the Special Issue. The Publisher and EiC will review these Co-Editors to ensure that they meet the journal’s editorial requirements. We encourage teams to include Editors from multiple institutions and locations. This diversity reduces potential conflicts of interest and helps the issue to reach a wider audience.

If you are interested in editing a Special Issue, please contact us before 31 December 2020. To propose or request further information, please contact the Electronics Editorial Office ([email protected]). We look forward to hearing from you soon.

Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292; CODEN: ELECGJ) is an international peer-reviewed open access journal on the science of electronics and its applications. It is published monthly online by MDPI. The journal has been indexed by Science Citation Index Expanded (Web of Science) since Vol. 4 (2015), Inspec (IET) and Scopus (2019 CiteScore: 1.9). The manuscripts are peer-reviewed, and a first decision is provided to authors approximately 13.4 days after submission; acceptance for publication is undertaken within 3.4 days (median value for papers published in this journal in the first half of 2020). The website of Electronics can be accessed here.

Section Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr. Yoichi Hayashi

The Artificial Intelligence section mainly covers topics of interest within hardware-based deep learning AI and algorithmic deep learning AI using machine learning. The purpose of this section is to bring together researchers and engineers, from both academia and industry, to present novel ideas and solid research on the hardware and algorithmic aspects of the industrial applications of deep learning-based AI.

The primary focus of this section is hardware-based deep learning AI. This section also focuses on the black-box nature of deep neural networks and shallow NNs, transparency, interpretability, and explainability of deep neural networks (DNNs) and algorithms and/or methods for the conversion of CNN into decision trees (DTs) and random forest.

Subject areas of interest include, without being limited to the following:

1. Subsection for hardware-based deep learning AI
2. Subsection for algorithmic deep learning AI using machine learning

• Algorithms and/or methods for conversion of CNN into DTs and random forest
• Explainable AI (XAI)
• Rule extraction algorithms/methods for shallow NNs
• Black box nature of DNNs versus the transparency of DNNs

You are welcome to join our section Editorial Board Members and contribute to this section.

For more information, please visit https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/sections/Artificial_Intell

If you have any questions, please contact [email protected].

We are pleased to announce the establishment of “Industrial Electronics”, “Organic Electronics”, and “Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems” as new sections of Electronics to cover the innovative technologies and applications in those electronic fields.

Industrial Electronics play a vital role in improving the efficiency and productivity of industries such as energy, transportation, petroleum, chemical, semiconductor, mining, agriculture, and others.

Organic Electronics have been receiving increased attention at both an academic and industrial level. The section welcomes papers on novel organic devices of materials, fabrication procedures, and applications.

Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems is focused on publications that are related to circuits and systems for artificial intelligence. The section covers topics of interest within hardware-based deep learning AI and algorithmic deep learning AI using machine learning.

Electronics, an international open access journal published by MDPI, is looking for new Editorial Board Members (EBM) with the passion to drive the journal forward in this exciting period of development. Electronics is dedicated to the publication of high-quality reviews, research papers, and communications in all areas of Electronic Science and applications derived from both novel and established technologies. Please see the Electronics homepage for more information and details of the journal’s Aims & Scope.

This opportunity will allow you to keep up with research in our field and position yourself as one of the leaders in the evolving and exciting field of Electronics. Appointments to the Editorial Board are for a two-year period and may be renewable. Your name and affiliation will be displayed on the journal website.

The main responsibilities of Editorial Board Members are as follows:

• Working closely with Editors to develop the journal’s vision, policy, and practices;
• Pre-screening submissions and making decisions on whether a manuscript can be accepted or rejected for processing, and suggesting reviewers if necessary;
• Acting as the Guest Editor of a Special Issue in your particular field of expertise, or recommending potential topics and Guest Editors;
• Promoting Electronics and increasing its visibility at related academic conferences;
• Helping to solicit high quality papers for Electronics;
• Advising on the journal’s development.

The following are the criteria for the selection of board members:

• A PhD degree and relevant expertise;
• Having a strong interest in the scholarly journal;
• Holding an appointment at a university, or an academic or research institution;
• Prior experience in publishing and reviewing for peer-review publications.

To apply or request further information, please send your curriculum vitae and a short statement of interest to the Electronics Editorial Office ([email protected]). We look forward to hearing from you.

Kind regards,

Electronics Editorial Office

In order to better categorize papers published within the journal, the section “Industrial Electronics” has recently been established. We are now recruiting Editorial Board members for this new section (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/sections/Industrial_Electronics).

If you are an active researcher in the field and are passionate about participating in cutting-edge research publications, please do not hesitate to get in touch ([email protected]). As an Editorial Board member, you will have the following responsibilities:

• To make decisions on whether a manuscript can be accepted or not based on the reports we collect;
• To serve as the Editor of a Special Issue on a topic related to your research interests when it is convenient for you;
• To review some manuscripts in your area of interest when you are available;
• To recommend timely topics or appropriate conferences;
• To promote Electronics and increase its visibility at related academic conferences.

In order to better categorize papers published within the journal, the section “Organic Electronics” has recently been established. We are now recruiting Editorial Board members for this new section (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/sections/organic_electronics).

If you are an active researcher in the field and are passionate about participating in cutting-edge research publications, please do not hesitate to get in touch ([email protected]). As an Editorial Board member, you will have the following responsibilities:

• To make decisions on whether a manuscript can be accepted or not based on the reports we collect;
• To serve as the Editor of a Special Issue on a topic related to your research interests when it is convenient for you;
• To review some manuscripts in your area of interest when you are available;
• To recommend timely topics or appropriate conferences;
• To promote Electronics and increase its visibility at related academic conferences.

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We are pleased to announce that Dr. S. M. Muyeen has been appointed Section Editor-in-Chief for the Section “Industrial Electronics” of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). His term started in July 2020.

Dr. S. M. Muyeen is presently working as an Associate Professor with the School of Electrical Engineering Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Curtin University, Australia. He received his Ph.D. from the Kitami Institute of Technology, Japan, in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and worked in Japan under the versatile banner of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS). He has visiting professor position at Shanghai Maritime University, China.

His research interests are industry-oriented, focusing on power electronics, electrical machines, FACTS, energy storage systems (ESSs), renewable energy, HVDC systems, power system stability and control, and smart grids. He has published more than 225 articles in different journals and international conferences. He has published seven books as an author or editor. He has been a keynote speaker and invited speaker at many international conferences, workshops, and universities. Dr. Muyeen has been the recipient of many research awards, including The Petroleum Institute ‘Research/Scholarship Award 2012’ and best paper awards from IEEE conferences many times. He has been awarded the IEEE WA Outstanding Engineering Award 2017, jointly from IEEE PES and PELS societies, for his leadership role, research, and service-related activities.

During his scientific career, he has been involved in various professional service activities, both nationally and internationally. He serves on the editorial panel for many prestigious journals from IEEE, IET, and other publishers including IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy (editor), IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion (editor), IEEE Power Engineering Letters (editor), IET Renewable Power Generation (associate editor), and IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution (subject editor), etc. He has organized many international conferences for IEEE and other organizations in various capacities, including as General Chair, Advisory Chair, Technical Committee Chair, Special Session/Tutorial/Workshop Chair, Steering Committee member, etc. He is deeply involved with the IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES) University Education Sub-Committee under the Power and Energy Education Committee (PEEC).

Dr. Muyeen has secured many national and international research and infrastructure development grants as a leading investigator. He has established strong collaborations with renowned international universities and research centers worldwide. He has an intense connection with the R&D wings of leading industries like ABB, Siemens, Hitachi, Toshiba, Oztronenergy, Western Power, Horizon, ADNOC, and others. Dr. Muyeen is the senior member of the IEEE and Fellow of Engineers Australia (FIEAust).

His university profile link: - https://staffportal.curtin.edu.au/staff/profile/view/Sm.Muyeen/

We are pleased to announce that Professor Valeri Mladenov has been appointed Section Editor-in-Chief for the section “Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems (AICAS)” of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). His term started in May 2020.

Professor Valeri Mladenov received his Ph.D. from Technical University of Sofia (TU Sofia), Bulgaria, in 1993. Here, in 2019, he defended his thesis of his “Doctor of Science”. In 2004, he became Head of the Department of Theory of Electrical Engineering., He has served as Dean of Faculty of Automation since his appointment in June 2011, Vice-Rector of TU Sofia since Dec. 2011, and Director of the Directorate of Information and Public Relations since Dec. 2015. Currently, he is Head of the Neurocomputing Laboratory of TU Sofia and Head of the Artificial Intelligence and CAD Systems Laboratory at Sofia Tech Park. He is Guest Lecturer at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, in the Netherlands, and numerous other institutions. In 2014, he served as the Deputy Minister of Education and Science of the Caretaker Government in Bulgaria.

Prof. Mladenov’s research interests are in the field of nonlinear circuits and systems, neural networks, artificial intelligence, applied mathematics, and signal processing. He has been awarded numerous international research fellowships. He has published more than 300 scientific papers in professional journals and conferences. He is a co-author of ten books and manuals for students. He had received many research grants including from the Technical University of Sofia, Bulgarian Ministry of Education and Science, DAAD (Germany), NWO (Netherlands), Royal Society (UK), NATO, TEMPUS, and Erasmus, and together with his team, has and is participating in numerous national and international projects, e.g., H2020, FP7, DFG, Erasmus+, and others. Prof. Mladenov serves as a member of numerous editorial boards, in addition to positions as Editor-in-Chief, Associate Editor, and as a reviewer for a number of professional journals and conferences. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and member of the IEEE Circuit and Systems Technical Committee on Cellular Nanoscale Networks and Array Computing and Educational Activities Officer of the Bulgarian IEEE section. He is also a member of the International Neural Networks Society (INNS) and International Council of Large Electric Systems, (SIGRE), Steering Committee Member of the International Symposium on Theoretical Electrical Engineering (ISTET), and Management Board Member of the Scientific and Technical Union of the Power Engineers as well as the Union of Automation and Informatics in Bulgaria.

We are pleased to announce that the 1st International Electronic Conference—Futuristic Applications on Electronics, chaired by Prof. Dr. Flavio Canavero, will be held at https://sciforum.net/conference/IEC2020 from 1 to 30 November 2020.

This conference aims to provide leading scientists working in the broad field of electronics with a robust common platform on which to share and discuss the latest research and to promote the advancement of this exciting and rapidly changing field. We would like to encourage submissions about current and emerging technologies, focused on the theoretical, simulation and experimental aspects of electronics.

Topics are organized into ten sessions. These sessions include, but are not limited to:

• The Electronic Circuits and Systems for Futuristic Applications Session
• The Communications and Signal Processing Session
• The Bioelectronics Session
• The Power Electronics Session
• The Optoelectronics Session
• The Microelectronics Session
• The Artificial Intelligence Session
• The Networks Session
• The Computer Science and Engineering Session
• The Systems and Control Engineering Session

IEC 2020 is a virtual conference sponsored by Electronics. Participation is free of charge for authors and attendees. Accepted papers will be gathered in the proceedings of the conference. Selected extended versions of the papers will be published in the Electronics conference Special Issue with a discount of 10% on the Article Processing Charge (ISSN 2079-9292; Impact Factor: 1.764 (2018) https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/special_issues/ECFAE2020).

This conference will establish the Best Paper Award, Best Poster Award and Best Presentation Award.

The Best Paper Award will have two winners, and each winner will receive 400 CHF and a certificate.

The Best Poster Award will have two winners, and each winner will receive 300 CHF and a certificate.

The Best Presentation Award will have one winner, and the winner will receive 200 CHF and a certificate.

IEC 2020 offers you the opportunity to participate in this international, scholarly conference without having to consider travel expenses—all you need is your computer and access to the Internet. We would like to invite you to attend this conference; please present your latest work to be considered.

Important Dates

• Abstract Submission Deadline: 31 August 2020
• Notification of Acceptance: 15 September 2020
• Proceedings Paper Submission Deadline: 25 September 2020
• Conference: 1–30 November 2020

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.

We look forward to welcoming you to this exciting online meeting.

https://sciforum.net/conference/IEC2020

Conference Secretariat

IEC Secretary
E-Mail: [email protected]

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We are pleased to announce that Professor Flavio Canavero has been appointed Section Editor-in-Chief for the section "Circuit and Signal Processing" of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292).

Flavio Canavero is Full Professor at the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications of Politecnico di Torino. He received his diploma in Electronics Engineering in 1977 from Politecnico di Torino, and his PhD in 1986 from Georgia Institute of Technology. He works in the area of circuits and systems theory, with special interest in signal integrity and EMC design issues. To date, he has authored or coauthored more than 300 papers published in international journals and conference proceedings.

During his scientific career, he has been involved in various service activities both at the level of his institution and for many international organizations. At Politecnico di Torino, he has been Director of the Electronics Department (1993–1999), Vice Rector for Organization (2001–2005), and Head of the Doctoral School (2012–2018). At the international level, he has been a member of the Steering Committee of the Council for doctoral Education (CDE) of the European University Association (EUA), a member of the Board of Directors of the IEEE EMC Society (2012–2015), and VP of Communication Services for the same Society. He has been the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Electromagnetic Compatibility (2004–2006) and the Technical Editor of the IEEE Electromagnetic Compatibility Newsletter. Between 2005 and 2008, he was the Chair of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI) Commission E (Noise and Interference). He has been also a Member of the IEEE Fellow Committee and of the IEEE Press Editorial Board. He has been the Organizer of the Workshop on Signal Propagation on Interconnects (SPI) during 2001–2003 and 2007. He is currently a Member of the Editorial Boards for several scientific journals and a Member of the Scientific Steering Committees of several International Conferences in the field of EMC and electrical performance of interconnects and packages.

He has been Invited Visiting Professor at Okayama University (Japan), ESIGELEC (Engineering School in Rouen, France), University of Rennes and INSA (Rennes, France), University of Ghent (Belgium), University of Science and Technology of Lille (France), and University of Clermont-Ferrand (France).

For over a decade, he has been serving as Principal Investigator or Local Coordinator of several research projects supported by EU. In addition, he has been responsible for many research contracts with industrial companies globally.

Flavio Canavero is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and a Fellow of the International Union of Radio Science (URSI). He has been the recipient of the prestigious Richard R. Stoddard Award for Outstanding Performance (the highest recognition of scientific merit bestowed by IEEE EMCS), and of the Honored Member Award of EMC Society (highest recognitions of service merit). He has been the recipient of IBM and Intel Research Awards; he was presented the award for the best paper contributed to the journal IEEE Transactions on Advanced Packaging for the year 2007, and has received several best paper awards for work presented at the following conferences: EMC Roma 1996, EMC-Zurich in Singapore 2006, EPEPS in Austin 2010 and San Jose 2013, EMC Europe in Angers (F) 2017, CEM in Paris (F) 2018, and SPI in Chambéry (F) 2019.

Some of his selected publications may be accessed at
https://iris.polito.it/browse?type=author&authority=rp19434&authority_lang=en&sort_by=2&order=DESC#.XlSGy_wRXIU.

Electronics, an MDPI open access journal on the science of electronics and its applications, has published more than 3000 papers since its inception in 2012. Electronics is now covered in the Science Citation Index Expanded in Web of Science and received an impact factor of 1.764 for 2018, which corresponds to a ranking of 154/265 (Q3) in the JCR category “Engineering, Electrical and Electronic”.

The current Scopus CiteScore of Electronics is 2.49, ranking Q1 in the category of “Hardware and Architecture” and Q2 in the category of “Electrical and Electronics Engineering”, “Control and Systems Engineering”, “Signal Processing”, and “Computer Networks and Communications” based on the data from SCImago.

Electronics 2020 Young Investigator Award

Prof. Shahar Kvatinsky is an Associate Professor at the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Technion–Israel Institute of Technology. Shahar received a B.S. in computer engineering and applied physics and an MBA degree in 2009 and 2010, respectively, both from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology in 2014. From 2006 to 2009, he worked as a circuit designer at Intel. From 2014 and 2015, he was a post-doctoral research fellow at Stanford University. Kvatinsky is an editor of Microelectronics Journal and has been the recipient of numerous awards: the 2019 Krill Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research, 2015 IEEE Guillemin-Cauer Best Paper Award, 2015 Best Paper of Computer Architecture Letters, Viterbi Fellowship, Jacobs Fellowship, ERC starting grant, the 2017 Pazy Memorial Award, the 2014 and 2017 Hershel Rich Technion Innovation Awards, 2013 Sanford Kaplan Prize for Creative Management in High Tech, 2010 Benin prize, and seven Technion excellence teaching awards. His current research is focused on circuits and architectures with emerging memory technologies and design of energy efficient architectures.

It was a difficult decision given the number of high quality applications for the award, and we would like to thank all the applicants from various fields of study for their participation, and all the Award Committee members for their efforts in evaluating the many applications. We congratulate the winner, Prof. Shahar Kvatinsky, on his accomplishments. We wish him further success in his career.

For more information about Electronics awards, please check: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/awards

We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2020 Travel Award sponsored by MDPI and Electronics. The award was granted to two outstanding young researchers working in thematic areas:

Electronics 2020 Travel Award

Dr. David Valiente is a postdoctoral fellow in the communications engineering department of Miguel Hernández University (UMH), within the area of electronics. He received degrees in telecommunications (Eng.), industrial and telecommunications (M.S.Eng.), teacher training (M.S.), and a Ph.D. in robotics, all of them with honours. He conducted research at Imperial College, Polytechnic University of Madrid, and Polytechnic Institute of Engineering of Coimbra. His research work has laid the groundwork for the innovative creation of a realistic, robust, and feasible mapping and localization mobile robotic system, which can be exploited through a wide range of real applications in autonomous robots. Additionally, he is currently setting the foundations of a new and promising research line on advanced organic photovoltaic materials, focusing on obtaining high power conversion efficiency in solar cells.

Electronics 2020 Travel Award

Dr. Jaroslav Frnda graduated from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science of the VSB-Technical University of Ostrava (Czech Republic) in 2013. He received his Ph.D. in 2018 with the thesis topic “New Method for Video Quality Evaluation” at the same university. Since 2019, he has been working at the University of Zilina (Slovakia). His research includes multimedia services, QoS/QoE (video quality assessement methods), computer networks and next generation networks, and artificial intelligence.

This was certainly a difficult decision given the collection of high quality applications submitted for the awards. We would like to thank all the applicants for submitting such a range of diverse and fascinating research topics and congratulate the winners for their accomplishment.

For more information about Electronics awards, please check: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics/awards

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We are pleased to announce that Professor Piero Cosseddu has been appointed Section Editor-in-Chief for the section “Organic Electronics” of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). His term started in April 2020.

Piero Cosseddu is Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering of the University of Cagliari, Italy, where he currently teaches “Analog Electronics” and “Wearable and Flexible Electronics”. He also graduated in Electronic Engineering in 2003 from the University of Cagliari, where he obtained his Ph.D. in Electronic and Computer Science Engineering in 2007 before continuing as Postdoctoral Fellow at the DIEE from May 2007 to March 2010.

In 2008, he founded the company TechOnYou SRL, focused on the development of innovative systems for medical monitoring and healthcare, robotics, and biotechnologies, where he has been employed from 2012 to 2014 as Project Manager.

His research activity has mainly been focused on the field of Organic Electronics with particular attention towards the design, fabrication, and characterization of organic semiconductor-based devices on flexible plastic substrates as organic field effect transistors (OFETs), organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs), and nonvolatile memory elements. He has been particularly involved in the development of innovative sensing systems for different applications, including as biochemical sensors, wearable electronics, and artificial skin.

Piero Cosseddu is author of more than 100 papers and book chapters of peer-reviewed international journals and conference proceedings.

He has given more than 20 invited talks at various international conferences, schools, and other institutions.

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We hope that a solution to the current situation will emerge soon. In the meantime, we will do our best to continue communicating vital research in all fields.

The advantages of the open access model of scientific publishing are being increasingly recognized in the scientific community. It allows new scientific evidence to be accessed from the moment of publication for free by anyone around the globe, boosting the impact of new research. In response, many funders, libraries and universities have been adopting new principles to accelerate the transition to open access.

Recently, “transformative agreements” have been negotiated between traditional publishers and various institutions. While increasing the number of open access papers, these agreements lack binding commitments to a full transition to open access, their conditions vary across different regions, and access is still limited for many users.

MDPI is a co-signatory of the recent position statement raising concerns about potential downsides of transformative agreements and how they may delay a full transition to open access. The statement highlights that these models “risk perpetuating current limitations on access, transparency and market competitiveness, while simultaneously facilitating excessive charges on the public purse”.

As a pioneering open access journal publisher, MDPI is the first to promote the importance of science being made available to everyone. Our peer-reviewed journals, covering diverse academic disciplines, are fully accessible to the public free of charge under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). This is why, along with other open access publishers, MDPI is a proud signatory of the position paper and is committed to contributing to the replacement of weak transitional agreements with “agreements with publishers that are already fully committed to open science and who offer full, immediate and transparent Open Access”.

Read the position paper here

We are pleased to announce that Encyclopedia will be awarding five Outstanding Contributor Awards for researchers in 2020. The nominations and applications will be assessed by an Evaluation Committee consisting of senior scholars from the Encyclopedia Editorial Board.

Prize for Winners

1. An official certificate;
2. A cash award of 500 CHF or an MDPI discount voucher of 800 CHF.

Application Deadline

31 December, 2020 (Please send your application email with a list of all entries you contributed to our office before the deadline: [email protected])

Candidate Requirements

1. Have a Ph.D. degree;
2. Have more than three qualified entries published in Encyclopedia in 2020.

Evaluation Standards

1. Number of entries published in Encyclopedia in 2020;
2. Quality of entries online (including length, figure quality, and novelty);
3. Impact of entries (including the number of likes, discussion contents, views, and downloads).

If you are a researcher and have not yet contribute entries to Encyclopedia, please do not miss this chance to highlight your research results.

MDPI will be attending the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), Seville, Spain, October 12–14, 2020.

The IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) is the flagship conference of the IEEE Circuits and Systems (CAS) Society and the world’s premiere networking forum for researchers in the highly active fields of theory, design and implementation of circuits and systems. This is accomplished through technical conference sessions, poster sessions, live demonstration sessions, and publication of conference papers. ISCAS 2020 will be driven by the theme Deploying CASS Knowledge towards Society Grand Challenges aiming to emphasize the potential of the CAS Society to find multidisciplinary solutions for the societal and engineering challenges of our times.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Electronics (leading journal)
• Games
• Jounal of Sensor and Acuator Networks
• Jounal of Low Power Electronics and Applications

If you are also attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person to answer any questions you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit: https://iscas2020.org/.

MDPI will be attending the CLEO Laser Science to Photonic Applictions, San Jose, California, USA, May 12-14, 2020

Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics to generate quality face-time with world renowned industry leaders and help achieve your annual sales and marketing goals. Special industry offerings make this event a magnet for executives and scientific equipment users throughout the buying channel. Exhibitors will have extensive, targeted opportunities for exposure and in-depth interaction with key prospects and customers. These high-level buyers are looking to you—the leading product experts, manufacturers and service providers—for the most innovative, cost-effective solutions to support their missions.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Applied Sciences (leading journal)
• Photonics (co-leading)
• Electronics
• Fibers
• Materials

If you are also attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth (Booth #2607). Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person to answer any questions you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit: https://www.cleoconference.org/home/.

We are pleased to announce that Professor Elias Stathatos has been appointed as Section Editor-in-Chief of “Microelectronics and Optoelectronics” in Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292; CODEN: ELECGJ). His term started at the beginning of January 2020.

Elias Stathatos graduated from the Physics Department in 1991 and received his PhD in Materials Science/School of Engineering in 1999, both from the University of Patras, Greece. He was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, in 2004. From 2005 to 2019, he was a faculty member of Technological Educational Institute of Patras and is currently Professor at the University of Peloponnese. In the period 2008–2010, he was Department Head of the Electrical Engineering Department at Technological Educational Institute of Patras.

His research interests encompass different themes, such as conversion of solar into electrical energy using dye-sensitized, quantum dot, and perovskite solar cells employing nanostructured materials. Furthermore, Prof. Stathatos is also interested in the application of electrochromic nanocomposite materials in smart windows as well as OLED and OFET devices and nanosensors in environmental applications. He is the author of more than 130 papers published in ISI journals, six book chapters (a list of publications can be found here), and five international patents related to solar cells and electrochromic devices. He has been an invited speaker or reviewer in numerus international journals. He is also Associate Editor of International Journal of Photoenergy (Hindawi Publishing Corporation) and Elsevier’s Heliyon (Elsevier) in addition to being on the advisory board of their publication Materials Science in Semiconductor Processing. In 2020, he was appointed as Section Editor-in-Chief for the Section “Microelectronics and Optoelectronics” of Electronics. He has also organized several Special Issues in international journals.

We would like to warmly welcome Professor Elias Stathatos as Section Editor-in-Chief and look forward to developing the Section “Microelectronics and Optoelectronics” under his leadership.

We are pleased to announce that Professor Alessandro Gabrielli has been appointed as Associate Section Editor-in-Chief of “Microelectronics and Optoelectronics” in Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). His term started at the beginning of February 2020.

Alessandro Gabrielli, of the Physics and Astronomy Department of the University of Bologna, received a degree in Physics (110/110) in 1993, and later his PhD in Physics, from the University of Bologna, Italy.

He was a Project Associate at CERN of Geneva in the years 2008-2010 (6 months cumulative), joining international projects on electro-optical radiation-hardened microelectronic devices for applications in LHC experiments at CERN.

He was a Visiting Professor at the Center for Human Space Robotics (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia) in Turin, Italy, December 2012–May 2013. The research dealt with the design of wireless sensor read-out systems for space applications and radiation-resistant microchips. He also collaborated with the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Italy; Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), USA; CERN of Geneva, Switzerland; and the Ratherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL), UK.

His research interests include electronics, microelectronics and, in particular, his recent work for the ATLAS Experiment at CERN of Geneva. He is in charge of the firmware design for high-speed digital off-detector acquisition systems.

He is the co-author of hundreds of scientific papers, visible in http://www.bo.infn.it/~gabriell/private/papers.html. The papers cover nuclear physics and electronic digital applications for high-energy physics experiments. Dr. Gabrielli has personally presented tens of talks at international scientific conferences.

He teaches General Physics for the School of Engineering and Architecture and Applied Electronics for the School of Science at the University of Bologna, Italy.

He advised for many MA theses in physics and electronics, as well as a telecommunications PhD thesis for the ATLAS Experiment at CERN of Geneva.

He is member of the PhD board for Physics at the University of Bologna.

We are pleased to announce that Professor Tae-Yeon Seong has been appointed Section Editor-in-Chief for the section “Semiconductor Devices” of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292).

Dr. Tae-Yeon Seong received his Ph.D. degree in materials science and engineering from the University of Oxford in 1992. After two years of research at the University of Oxford, he joined the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology (GIST) in 1994. He carried out research at GIST for ~10 years, after which he was invited to be Chair of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE), Korea University in September 2005, as a Professor of Materials Science; He served as Chair of the MSE Department and Director for the BK21 Center for Advanced Device Materials from 2011 to 2016. His research interests and activities include LEDs, transparent conducting oxides, nanomaterials and device applications, characterization of semiconductor and electronic materials, integration of TFT and μ-LEDs, IR sensors and filters, and memristors. Dr. Seong has published over 450 peer-reviewed journal papers and holds over 230 patents issued or pending. Dr. Seong was awarded the EPD award from ECS (2018). He is a fellow of the Institute of Physics (UK) (2008), SPIE (2013), the Electrochemical Society (ECS) (2017), and the Materials Research Society (MRS) (2018). He has served as an associate editor of Semiconductor Science and Technology (IOP) and an editorial board member (EBM) for over 10 years. He also served as an EBM or guest editor of several international journals, including the Journal of Solid-State Lighting, ECS journal of Solid-State Science and Technology, ECS Solid-State Letters, Electronic Materials Letters, and Physica Status Solidi.

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Ajeet Kaushik has been appointed Associate Section Editor-in-Chief for the section "Bioelectronics" of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). His term started in January 2020.

Ajeet Kaushik, M.Sc., Ph.D., Fellow-Indian Chemical Society I, as an assistant professor of chemistry at Flrida Polytechnic University, is exploring nanotechnology, material science, thin films, miniaturized sensors, electrochemistry, electrochemical biosensors, nanomedicine, drug delivery to CNS, and biomedical engineering for health wellness. 

Dr. Kaushik received his Ph.D. on chemistry and nano-enabled biosensors in collaboration with National Physical Laboratory and Jamia Milia Islamia, New Delhi, India. Prior to moving to Polytech, he worked as an Assistant Professor to explore “magnetic nanomedicine along with drug delivery to the brain for CND disease management and miniaturized electrochemical sensing systems for personalized health wellness” at the Center of Personalized Nanomedicine, Institute of NeuroImmune Pharmacology, Department of Immunology and Nano-Medicine, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University (FIU), Miami USA. He is the recipient of various reputed awards for his service in the area of nano-biotechnology in healthcare. His excellent research credentials are reflected in his four edited books, over 100 international research peer-reviewed publications, and three patents in the area of nanomedicine and smart biosensors for personalized healthcare.

In the course of his research, Dr. Kaushik has been engaged in the design and development of various electro-active nanostructures for electrochemical biosensor and nanomedicine for healthcare. His research interests include nano-biotechnology, analytical systems, design and development of nanostructures, nanocarriers for drug delivery, nanotherapeutics for CNS diseases, on-demand site-specific release of therapeutic agents, exploring personalized nanomedicines, biosensors, point-of-care sensing devices, and related areas of health care monitoring.

We would like to warmly welcome Dr. Ajeet Kaushik as Associate Section Editor-in-Chief and look forward to developing the Section "Bioelectronics" under his leadership.

We are pleased to announce that Professor Enzo Pasquale Scilingo has been appointed Section Editor-in-Chief for the section “Bioelectronics” of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). His term started in January 2020.

Enzo Pasquale Scilingo is a full Professor in Electronic and Information Bioengineering at the University of Pisa. He received his Laurea Degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Pisa, Italy and his Ph.D. degree in Bioengineering from the University of Milan, in 1995 and 1998, respectively. For two years, he was a postdoctoral fellow with the Italian National Research Council and for two another years a post-doctoral fellow at Information Engineering Department of the University of Pisa.

Currently, he is pursuing his research work mainly at the Research Center “E. Piaggio”. He has several teaching activities, he is the supervisor of several PhD students, and he is leading the laboratory Biolab at the Information Engineering Department. He coordinated European project EC-FP7-ICT-247777 “PSYCHE-Personalized monitoring Systems for Care in mental Health”, and he is currently coordinating two other European projects: H2020-PHC-2015-689691 NEVERMIND—Neurobehavioral Predictive and Personalized Modeling of Depressive Symptoms during Primary Somatic Diseases with ICT-Enabled Self-Management Procedures and H2020-FETPROACT-2018-01- 824153 POTION—Promoting Social Interaction through Emotional Body Odors. His main research interests are in wearable monitoring systems, human–computer interfaces, biomedical and biomechanical signal processing, modeling, control, and instrumentation.

He is the author of more than 200 papers on peer-review journals, contributions to international conferences, and chapters in international books. He is also the co-author of three books edited by Springer. He is currently serving as a reviewer for many international journals and as a member of Program and Scientific Committees of yearly international conferences. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the following journals: Plos One, Scientific Reports – Nature, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, Frontiers in Robotics and AI section Bionics and Biomimetics, Frontiers in Neuroscience section Neural technology, Electronics, Complexity, and the ETRI Journal.

We would like to warmly welcome Professor Enzo Pasquale Scilingo as Section Editor-in-Chief and look forward to developing the Section "Bioelectronics" under his leadership.

Zita Vale is Full Professor at the Engineering School of the Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Portugal. She received her diploma in Electrical Engineering in 1986 and her PhD in 1993, both from University of Porto. She works in the area of power and energy systems, with special interest in the application of artificial intelligence techniques.

She has been involved in more than 60 funded projects related to the development and use of knowledge-based systems, multiagent systems, machine learning, metaheuristics, optimization, and data mining. The main application fields of these projects comprise:

• Smart grids, accommodating an intensive use of renewable energy sources, distributed energy resources (DER), namely distributed generation (DG), storage, electric vehicles including the ones with griddable capability (V2G), and demand flexibility. Real-time management and simulation of energy resources, considering electrical networks, buildings, and diverse Internet of Things (IoT) and machine to machine (M2M) approaches are relevant aspects of her work in this field;
• Electricity markets, addressing decision support for market participants, prices and tariffs, ancillary services, energy transactions, service provision, and market simulation in the scope of wholesale and emergent local markets. The integration of DER, demand response, and EVs in electricity markets and transactive energy (TE) approaches are important aspects of her work. Her work also focuses on the conception, development, and testing of new business models for market participants and aggregation models for energy resources and the respective management and operation methods.

She published over 800 works, including more than 100 papers in international scientific journals and more than 500 papers in international scientific conferences.

See some of her selected publications at http://www.gecad.isep.ipp.pt/GECAD/Pages/Pubs/Publications.aspx.

MDPI is pleased to announce the release of SciProfiles, its social network platform for researchers and scholars.

The purpose of SciProfiles is aligned with MDPI’s broad mission to accelerate discovery and innovation by facilitating immediate access to research results and to serve scholars and communities by providing opportunities for academic networking.

SciProfiles also ambitions to serve as a sustainable, transparent and community-driven research evaluation system aligned with the DORA principles (https://sfdora.org/). Through their scientific profiles, academics can highlight their contribution to research communities, and measure their impact on their field, beyond publication numbers and impact factors. SciProfiles is currently a beta version and will enrich to give researchers the possibility to highlight all of their contributions to science and their scientific communities as authors, reviewers, editors, conference organizers, conference panelists, conference keynote speakers, or even as lecturers or student mentors at their University.

The classic components of popular community social networks, including follower/following, classical metrics, endorsements and recommendations (https://www.mdpi.com/about/announcements/1690), comments (https://www.mdpi.com/about/announcements/1397) are or will be very soon highlighted in SciProfiles as open science contributions.

To help increase the impact and visibility of articles and their authors to an appropriate audience, the platform offers a NewsFeed that includes recommendations of relevant content based on interests, publication history, saved searches or colleagues’ recommendations.

SciProfiles’ avatars are now being integrated on several MDPI platforms, meaning that you will directly access researchers’ profiles from any of the MDPI platforms:

MDPI's journal publishing website: www.mdpi.com
MDPI's conference hosting and management website: www.sciforum.net
MDPI's pre-print website : www.preprints.org
MDPI's knowledge sharing website : www.encyclopedia.pub
MDPI's books store: www.mdpi.com/books
MDPI's literature database : www.scilit.net

SciProfiles aims to serve scientific communities at large. It can be embedded into third-party websites and also welcomes integration of data from third-parties.

Dr. Shu-Kun Lin: https://sciprofiles.com/profile/2
Dr. Franck Vazquez: https://sciprofiles.com/profile/FranckVazquez
Dr. Martyn Rittman: https://sciprofiles.com/profile/martynrittman

We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2019 MDPI Writing Prize. Entrants were asked to write on the theme "Judging research: How should research and researchers be evaluated and rewarded?" We received a large number of excellent essays from PhD students and postdocs, and the process of shortlisting and choosing winners was not an easy one. The winners demonstrated excellent writing skills alongside interesting and thought-provoking ideas.

As last year, we will begin the process of collating all entries into a book that will be available in open access format. Alongside promoting good writing skills, we see the prize as a way to promote the voices of early career researchers within broader debates and policy discussions.

Congratulations to all of the participants and especially the winners. The winners are:

1st Prize (500 CHF):
Albin Nilsson (National Centre for Nuclear Research, Warsaw, Poland)
[Read here]

2nd Prize (250 CHF):
Qi Zhang (Shandong University, Jinan, China)
[Read here]
Igor Ogashawara (Indiana University, Indianapolis, US)
[Read here]

3rd Prize (100 CHF):
Margaret Sivapragasam (Universiti Teknologi Petronas, Perak, Malaysia)
[Read here]
Arvind Sharma (The University of Queensland, Gatton, Australia)
[Read here]
Jose Flores-Guerrero (University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands)
[Read here]

The MDPI Writing Prize is an annual award supported by MDPI Author Services, which provides services including language editing, reformatting, plagiarism checks, and image editing.

MDPI is pleased to announce the release of a new functionality giving the possibility for researchers and scholars to endorse, and formally recommend articles to their colleagues.

MDPI was an early signatory of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (https://sfdora.org/read/) which calls for improvement in how quality and impact of scholarly research outputs are evaluated, especially in moving beyond journal-based citation metrics (journal Impact Factor, Scopus Citescore, etc.).

MDPI supports the establishment of article-level impact metrics, including citations, views, downloads, and Altmetric scores. These measures serve as an impact indicator for research articles on a case–by-case basis, assessing paper on its own merit. However, these metrics are also subjective and can give a biased picture of the article impact: they do not directly reflect the quality or the intrinsic scientific value of the article.

In our view, community engagement with publications based on community-driven metrics can help to overcome this limitation. We have therefore launched an option for scholars to endorse articles, indicating their own assessment of its content and making a recommendation to their community. This follows our implementation of the open source Hypothesis commenting tool, which has been available for all articles published by MDPI for over a year (https://www.mdpi.com/about/announcements/1397). Both endorsement and commenting are available for all previously published and forthcoming MDPI articles.

In addition to potentially serving as a sustainable solution to article assessment, endorsements will help scientific communities to identify the most relevant articles, independently of the journal in which it was published.

The code for the endorsing functionality, which relies on DOIs and ORCIDs, will be made available on GitHub with an open source license.

Dr. Shu-Kun Lin, President and Founder
Dr. Franck Vazquez, Chief Scientific Officer
Dr. Martyn Rittman, Publishing Director

MDPI will be attending the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) in San Francisco, USA, 7–11 December 2019

IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) is the world’s preeminent forum for reporting technological breakthroughs in the areas of semiconductor and electronic device technology, design, manufacturing, physics, and modeling. IEDM is the flagship conference for nanometer-scale CMOS transistor technology, advanced memory, displays, sensors, MEMS devices, novel quantum and nano-scale devices and phenomenology, optoelectronics, devices for power and energy harvesting, high-speed devices, as well as process technology and device modeling and simulation.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Electronics
• JSAN
• Energies
• Micromachines
• Sensors
• Biosensors

If you are also attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person to answer any questions you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit: https://ieee-iedm.org/.

Encyclopedia is a free online reference created and curated by active scholars. It aims to highlight the latest research results as well as provide a comprehensive record of scientific development. If you have any suggestions or questions, please feel free to contact us via [email protected].

The 15th International Conference on Space, Aeronautical and Navigational Electronics 2019 (ICSANE2019) will be held in Korea for the fourth time, at Jeju University, Jeju, Korea, from 31st October to 1st November 2019. In addition, ICSANE2019 will be jointly held with the KAGIS (Korean Association of Geographic Information Studies) fall meeting.

This conference will offer numerous opportunities for oral presentations, posters, and publications. The system engineers and researchers are invited to present their works covering the full range of practice, development, and research experiences that advance the practice and theory of new and viable technical topics of electronics system in spacecraft, aircraft, ships, and ground facilities for citizens, government, and industry.

Topic areas include but are not limited to:

(1)    Satellite and Space Station Systems
(2)    Remote Sensing and Scientific Observation Technology
(3)    Radar Systems and Applications
(4)    Navigational and Communication Systems
(5)    Spatial Information Technology
(6)    Inverse Scattering Problem

The authors of the papers which will be presented at ICSANE2019 are invited to submit the related article to the co-operative Special Issue “Recent Advances in Space & Sensor Technologies and Remote Sensing Applications” in Electronics. There are no page limitations for this journal, and the submitted manuscript and its contents should not have been previously published and should be significantly independent in comparison with the ICSANE conference paper.

We are pleased to announce that Preprints has passed the milestone of 10,000 posted preprints. We are delighted to have reached this after just over three years of operation. Our congratulations and thanks go to our authors and advisory board who have supported growth of the platform and been crucial to its operation.

You can find further details at https://www.preprints.org/announcement/show/37.

Last week, the DeepGreen initiative in Germany started into an advanced test phase with the publishing partners S. Karger AG, SAGE Publishing, MDPI, Frontiers and De Gruyter, as well as 27 universities from all over Germany, from Hamburg University of Applied Sciences to University of Konstanz.

DeepGreen aims at lowering the barriers for open access publishing by automatically delivering metadata and full text publications from participating publishers to authorized repositories at German universities.

In preparation for a later live operation, the advanced test phase serves to gain experience with extensive data deliveries from publishers and also handling different repository software (including OPUS4, DSpace, EPrints, MyCoRe). DeepGreen thereby acts as a sophisticated platform, receiving articles published by authors affiliated with German universities and depositing these articles to respective university repositories, based on the affiliation metadata. For more information about DeepGreen: https://deepgreen.kobv.de

Karger AG has been a close cooperation partner of the DeepGreen consortium since 2016. S. Karger has more than 80 subscription-based and around 20 open access journals covering a wide spectrum in health science. DeepGreen will assign S. Karger articles to authorized institutions on the legal basis of German alliance and national licenses.

SAGE Publishing  was founded by Sara Miller McCune in 1965 to support the dissemination of usable knowledge and educate a global community. SAGE publishes more than 1,000 journals and over 600 new books each year, spanning a wide range of subject areas. Our growing selection of library products includes archives, data, case studies and video. SAGE remains majority owned by our founder and after her lifetime will become owned by a charitable trust that secures the company’s continued independence. Principal offices are located in Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore, Washington DC and Melbourne. SAGE Publishing has been a close cooperation partner of DeepGreen since 2016.

MDPI  is a scientific open access publisher and has been a partner of DeepGreen since 2017. MDPI comprises 205 peer-reviewed journals of various disciplines. All articles are published under a CC-BY license and are freely available without embargo period.

Frontiers  is a scientific open access publisher with 61 journals of over 600 academic disciplines. All articles are peer-reviewed and published freely available under CC-BY license.

De Gruyter  is an academic publisher with more than 700 subscription-based and open access journals of 29 disciplines. Articles provided by De Gruyter will be assigned to institutions with German alliance and national licenses.

There is promising communication with other publishers.

DeepGreen is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the consortium comprises six institutions: the Cooperative Library Network Berlin-Brandenburg, Bavarian State Library, Bavarian Library Network, University Library of the Technische Universität Berlin, University Library of Erlangen-Nuremberg and the Helmholtz Open Science Coordination Office at the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences.

We are pleased to announce Dr. Hirokazu Kobayashi was appointed Section Editor-in-Chief for the section "Microwave and Wireless Communications" in Electronics.

Hirokazu Kobayashi graduated with a Master’s degree of Electrical Engineering from Shizuoka University, Hamamatsu, Japan, in 1980 and received his Doctorate in Engineering from the University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan, in 2000.

He joined Fujitsu Ltd., Kawasaki, Japan, and worked with the Fujitsu System Integration Laboratories as a researcher on Space and Defense Division, where he developed micro/millimeter wave wide band antennas, active phased array radar systems, antennas, and theoretical investigation of electromagnetic scattering. From 1999 to 2010, he was a General Manager at Fujitsu Ltd. In 2010, he joined the Faculty of Engineering as a Professor with Niigata University, Niigata, Japan. Since 2013, he has been a professor in the Department of Electronics and Information Systems Engineering, Osaka Institute of Technology, Osaka, Japan.

Dr. Kobayashi's current research interests include high-frequency electromagnetics scattering theory, computing of radar cross-section (RCS) using physical optics, physical theory of diffraction and geometrical theory of diffraction (PO/PTD/GTD), RCS near-field to far-field transformation technology for electrical large object such as airplanes based on microwave radar imaging theory, radar SAR and ISAR imaging, radiation analysis such as conformal array, and target recognizing analysis by micro-Doppler information.

Dr. Kobayashi has published around two hundred papers, including conference papers, and three books. He was a Senior Member of IEEE, a Chair of Technical Committee on Space, Aeronautical and Navigational Electronics (SANE) of the Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers (IEICE) in 2015-2016. He also served as a member or chair of the steering committee/TPC of many international and local conferences.

The University of Basel and the MDPI Sustainability Foundation are organizing the First Basel Sustainable Publishing Forum on 9th September 2019.

The aim of this event is to provide background and perspectives on Plan S to Learned Societies, which have to make well-informed decisions to transition their journals to Open Access (OA).

The BSPF will bring together several representatives of Learned societies, Plan S architects as well as representatives from various publishers and publishing platforms. After getting the big picture from cOAlition S, panel discussions will allow to better understand the diverse challenges that Learned societies are facing to transition their journals to OA as well as to identify sustainable, implementable and scalable solutions for successful Open Access transition.

For program details and registration, please follow the link below:
https://sciforum.net/conference/SustainableSolutionsToOpenAccess

We are pleased to announce that Professor Dr. Hamid Reza Karimi has been appointed Section Editor-in-Chief for the section "Systems & Control Engineering" of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). His term started in July 2019.

Hamid Reza Karimi (M’06–SM’09), born in 1976, received his B.Sc. (First Hons.) degree in power systems from the Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 1998 and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. (First Hons.) degrees in control systems engineering from the University of Tehran, Tehran, in 2001 and 2005, respectively. From 2009 to 2016, he was full professor of Mechatronics and Control Systems at the University of Agder in Norway. Since 2016, he has been a professor of Applied Mechanics at the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy. His current research interests include control systems and mechatronics with applications to automotive control systems and wind energy.

Prof. Karimi is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Cyber-Physical Systems, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Machines, Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Aerospace System Science and Engineering, Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Designs, and Editorial Board Member of various international  journals, such as IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems-I: Regular Papers, IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems, Information  Sciences, IFAC-Mechatronics, International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, Electronics, Neurocomputing, Asian  Journal of Control, Journal of The Franklin  Institute. He is a member of Agder Academy of Science and Letters and also a member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Systems with Uncertainty, the Committee on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems, the IFAC Technical Committee on Mechatronic Systems, the Committee on Robust Control, and the Committee on Automotive Control. Prof. Karimi was awarded as the 2016, 2017, and 2018 Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher in Engineering.

We would like to warmly welcome Professor Dr. Hamid Reza Karimi as Section Editor-in-Chief and look forward to developing the Section "Systems & Control Engineering" under his leadership.

The European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference series are international, technical and scientific conferences, focused on ocean renewable energy. EWTEC series are widely respected for their commitment to maintaining high standards in the quality of academic and industrial contributions to their proceedings.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

Journal of Marine Science and Engineering

Sustainability

Water

Energies

Applied Sciences

Electronics

If you are also attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth (Booth #13). Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person to answer any questions you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit: http://www.ewtec.org/conferences/ewtec-2019/.

We are pleased to announce that Professor Dr. Juan Manuel Corchado Rodríguez has been appointed Section Editor-in-Chief for the section "Computer Science & Engineering" in Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). His term started in June 2019.

Juan Manuel Corchado (born May 15, 1971, Salamanca, Spain). He is a Full Professor with Chair at the University of Salamanca. He was the Vice President for Research from December 2013 to December 2017 and the Director of the Science Park of the University of Salamanca. Chosen twice as the Dean of the Faculty of Science, he holds a PhD in Computer Sciences from the University of Salamanca and a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of the West of Scotland. He is the Director of BISITE (Bioinformatics, Intelligent Systems and Educational Technology), which was founded in 2000, and also the director of the Digital Innovation Hub and President of the AIR Institute.

J.M. Corchado has been a Visiting Professor at the Osaka Institute of Technology since January 2015 and Visiting Professor at the Universiti Malaysia Kelantan. He has served as a Member of the Advisory group on Online Terrorist Propaganda of the European Counter Terrorism Centre (EUROPOL).

He has also been President of the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Spanish Chapter and the academic coordinator of the Institute of Digital Art and Animation of the University of Salamanca. Juan M. Corchado has also been a researcher at the Universities of Paisley (UK), Vigo (Spain), and at the Plymouth Marine Laboratory (UK). He also oversees Master´s Degrees in: Security, Digital Animation, Mobile Telephony, Information Systems Management, Internet of Things, Social Media, 3D Design and Printing, Blockchain, Z Systems, Industry 4.0, Agile Project Management and Smart Cities and Intelligent Buildings, at the University of Salamanca.

M. Corchado is the author of more than 160 peer-reviewed journal papers and 200 conference papers. He is also the co-author of numerous book chapters and several books. He has been the president of science and organization committees at over 30 international conferences, such as IEEE GlobeCom, Fusion, ACM SAC, PAAMS, DCAI, KMO, and ICUWB.

He has led over 120 research projects (both national and international) in the fields of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Blockchain, IoT, Fog Computing, Edge Computing, Smart Cities, Smart Grids, Sentiment Analysis, etc.

We would like to warmly welcome Professor Dr. Juan Manuel Corchado Rodríguez as Section Editor-in-Chief and look forward to developing the Section “Computer Science & Engineering” under his leadership.

We are pleased to inform that Electronics received an updated Journal Impact Factor of 1.764 in the recent release of the Journal Citation Reports®. Electronics now ranks 154/265 (Q3) in the category 'Engineering, Electrical & Electronic'.

Source: data according to Journal Citation Reports®, 2018 release, a Clarivate Analytics product.

MDPI will be attending the 45th International Conference on Micro & Nano Engineering (MNE 2019), to be held in Rhodes Island, Greece, 23 - 26 September 2019.

MNE is the core international conference focusing on: micro/ nanofabrication and manufacturing techniques, and application of the fabricated micro/nanostructures, devices and microsystems into electronics, photonics, energy, environment, chemistry and life sciences.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

Nanomaterials

Micromachines

Safety

Coatings

Biosensors

Applied Sciences

Chemosensors

Electronics

Energies

Materials

Journal of Manufacturing and Materials Processing

If you are also attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth (Booth #3). Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person to answer any questions you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit: http://www.cleoeurope.org/.

We are pleased to announce that Professor Dr. Yoichi Hayashi has been appointed Section Editor-in-Chief of "Artificial Intelligence" in Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). His term starts in June 2019.

Yoichi Hayashi received the Dr. Eng. degree in systems engineering from Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, in 1984. In 1986, he joined the Computer Science Department of Ibaraki University, Japan, as an Assistant Professor. Since 1996, he has been a Full Professor at the Computer Science Department, Meiji University, Tokyo. He has also been a Visiting Professor at the University of Alabama in Birmingham, USA, and the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and has authored over 230 published computer science papers.

Professor Hayashi's research interests include deep learning (DBN, CNN), especially the black box nature of deep neural networks and shallow neural networks, transparency, interpretability and explainability of deep neural networks, rule extraction, high-performance classifiers, advanced data mining, big data analytics, and medical informatics. He has been the Action Editor of Neural Networks and the Associate Editor of IEEE Trans. Fuzzy Systems and Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. Overall, he has served as an associate editor, guest editor, or reviewer for 50 academic journals. He has been a senior member of the IEEE since 2000.

We would like to warmly welcome Professor Dr. Yoichi Hayashi as Section Editor-in-Chief and look forward to research forthcoming to be highlighted in the "Artificial Intelligence" section under his leadership.

As the signature event in the burgeoning solar power technology and market sector, the PVSCs have a rich tradition of bringing together students, innovators, researchers and PV leaders in a vibrant and highly integrative forum to share information, gain knowledge, strengthen collaborations and move forward photovoltaic science and technology from basic and applied research into large scale manufacturing and deployments.

Our representatives will be exhibiting our open access journals Energies, Coatings, Sustainability, Catalysts, Nanomaterials, Materials, Electronics, and Applied System Innovation (ASI).

If you will also be in attendance, please stop by our booth (# 110). Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person to answer any questions you may have regarding open access publishing or our journals. For more information about this conference, please visit https://www.ieee-pvsc.org/PVSC46/index.php.

MDPI will be attending the ELECTRIMACS 2019, to be held in Salerno, Italy, 21 23 May 2019.

ELECTRIMACS 2019 - The 13th international conference of the IMACS TC1 Committee - is an international conference on theory and application of modelling, simulation, analysis, design optimization, identification and diagnostics in electrical power engineering.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Electronics
• Energies
• Mathematics
• ASI
• Machines
• Processes

We are pleased to welcome more universities from Poland, Italy, Germany, Brazil and other parts of the world to MDPI's Institutional Open Access Program (IOAP). A warm welcome to the institutions listed below, who have joined the Program in February and March this year.

Authors affiliated with these institutions can now enjoy a discount on the APC for papers accepted for publication in any MDPI journal. If you would like to learn more about our program, please visit: https://www.mdpi.com/about/ioap or email us at [email protected].

We are delighted to announce our participation in Jisc’s Publication Router project, as of March 2019.

Publications Router is a Jisc service that automatically sends notifications about research articles to institutions' systems such as their repositories or CRISs, since May 2015. Through this agreement, MDPI will provide Jisc with daily feeds and information regarding published articles, which will be gathered by their system and delivered to institutions also registered to this service. Nearly all of our articles are published within 15 days of acceptance, so institutions will receive them quite promptly.

The feed will include the full text of the published version of record, with no embargo, so the articles can be exposed immediately for public view. They are accompanied by rich metadata, including confirmation of the immediate CC BY licence, minimising the need for any manual intervention or checking.

For more information about Publications Router, you may contact Jisc’s central helpdesk at [email protected]. For any queries about MDPI’s institutional agreements and collaborations, you may get in touch with MDPI’s Institutional Engagement team at [email protected], which would be very happy to hear from further UK institutions.

We are pleased to announce that Professor Dr. Juan-Carlos Cano has been appointed as Section Editor-in-Chief of “Networks” in Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). His appointment starts from February 2019.

Juan-Carlos Cano received his M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in computer science from the Technical University of Valencia (UPV) in 1994 and 2002, respectively. From 1995 to 1997, he worked as a programming analyst at IBM’s manufacturing division in Valencia. He has been a full professor in computer engineering since 2011 and the Head of the Department of Computer Engineering at the Universitat Politècnica de València in Spain since 2012.

Professor Cano's current research interests include: wireless networks intelligent transport systems (ITS) computer networks design modeling and implementation power-aware routing protocols quality of service for mobile ad hoc networks pervasive computing and protocols for unmanned aerial vehicles. He is the author of over 100 scientific journal publications and 200 conference proceedings. A complete list of publications and research activities can be found here. You can contact Professor Cano at [email protected].

He has served as Co-Chair of the for IEEE ITS Society Technical Committee on Mobile Communication Networks (from January 2011 to December 2018), and currently is a member of the IFIP working Group 6.8, Mobile and Wireless Communications (since October 2015).

Professor Cano organized many Special Issues dealing with computer networks in reputable journals such as Mobile Information Systems, IEEE Transaction in Intelligent Transport Systems, Wireless Personal Communication, and Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing among others. He has chaired many international conferences including serving as General Chair at the Wireless Days 2013 Conference, and at the 28th International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (ICCCN 2019).

We would like to warmly welcome Professor Dr. Juan-Carlos Cano as Section Editor-in-Chief and look forward to developing the Section “Networks” under his leadership.

Electronics, MDPI’s open access journal on the science of electronics and its applications, has published more than 1000 articles and reviews since its inception in 2012. Electronics is now covered in the Science Citation Index Expanded in Web of Science and received its first Impact Factor of 2.110 for 2017, which corresponds to rank 113/260 (Q2) in the JCR category ‘Engineering, Electrical & Electronic’.

Electronics’s current CiteScore in Scopus is 3.01. The CiteScore is a ratio between the number of citations in 2017 to papers published 2014–2016 in the numerator and the number of papers published 2014–2016 in the denominator, drawn from Scopus data.

Our sincerest thanks go to the Editor-in-Chief of Electronics, Prof. Dr. Mostafa Bassiouni, Section Editor-in-Chief  Prof. Dr. Kyo-Beum Lee, as well as the Guest Editors of our Special Issues, who have ensured, with their hard work and diligence, the continued significance of the journal.

Rigorous peer-review is the cornerstone of high quality academic publishing. Over 97,000 scholars served as reviewers for MDPI journals in 2018. We are extremely appreciative of all those who made a contribution to the editorial process in this capacity. At the beginning of every year, journal editorial offices publish a list all reviewers’ names to express our gratitude. In addition, this year the “MDPI Top Reviewer Awards” are announced, to recognize the very best reviewers for their expertise, dedication, high quality, and timely review reports. We are pleased to announce the following winners of the 2018 MDPI Top Reviewer Awards:

• Ali Behnood
• Andrea Pezzuolo
• Angela Gorgoglione
• Anna D'Auria
• Antonio D'Andrea
• Azhar Abbas
• Bogdan Zagajewski
• Chunhui Chen
• Dominika Głąbska
• Dominika Guzek
• Dragan Pamucar
• Francisco J. G. Silva
• Frank Li
• Gianluca Serafini
• Gyorgy Szekely
• Haozhi Pan
• Helvi Heinonen-Tanski
• José Manuel Gómez-Soberón
• Kathy Lewis
• Klara Kosova
• Luis N. López De Lacalle
• M. Z. Naser
• Malwina Tytła
• Masoume Amirkhani
• Matteo Ghidelli
• Moretti Laura
• Petra Schneider
• Roberto Cerchione
• Spyros Papaefthymiou
• Ştefan Cristian Gherghina

Since 2010, MDPI has run its own online submission system. More recently, we have made the software, with accompanying publishing services, available to other publishers as JAMS (Journal and Article Management System). We are now delighted to announce the launch of JAMS Journals, a standardized platform for operating open access journals at low cost.

JAMS Journals provides a comprehensive service, including a shared submission website, journal websites hosted at a URL provided by the publisher, and a full production service. There is a small setup fee and the cost for each published paper is just a few hundred Swiss francs.

The platform demonstrates that running an open access journal can be straightforward and affordable. The JAMS Journals platform is suitable for

• small publishers or groups of scholars looking to launch their own journal;
• existing publishers or societies seeking to explore open access options;
• publishers looking to convert an existing subscription journal to open access.

JAMS journals launches with two journals from Canadian-based publisher Etcetera Publications:

• Canadian Journal of Pesticides & Pest Management (http://www.cjppm.ca)
• Nanotechnology in Agriculture, Food & Environment (http://www.nanoafe.ca)

Dr AJ Al-Rajab (President of Etcetera Publications) comments:

“In the past few months, we were working on our project to launch new open access scientific journals in the field of agricultural and environmental sciences. We decided to go with JAMS for this venture because of the high quality of their services, reasonable prices, professionalism and easy communication. Our portfolio is expected to grow rapidly during 2019 to include more titles covering different areas in agriculture and environment. MDPI earned already our complete satisfaction and we are looking for a long term cooperation.”

Alongside the new platform, we continue to provide flexible, tailored journal management solutions for existing publishers. For any questions or to request a quotation, contact Dr. Constanze Schelhorn ([email protected]).

2018 was a great year for preprints, with increasing numbers of authors looking to make their papers available online before peer review. Along with other preprint servers, our platform Preprints.org  saw an increase in the uptake from authors, and more than double the number of announced papers compared to 2017. In fact, we recently passed two important milestones: 8000 preprints online and 30,000 authors. 

We believe that the whole research community has the opportunity to benefit from work being available online as early as possible. We thank and congratulate our authors for supporting us to make this goal a reality.

In 2019, we will be looking carefully at how to provide better value for authors, maintain efficiency while growing in size, and make sure we remain well-connected with the research community. 

If you want to participate, you can consider screening preprints or joining our advisory board. And, of course, posting your own work.

We are delighted to announce the establishment of our national Open Access agreement with the Austrian Academic Library Consortium (KEMÖ) and the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). Through this national agreement, the Austrian institutions listed below as well as FWF will cover the Article Processing Charges (APC) of manuscripts published by eligible corresponding or funded authors in MDPI journals as long as central funds are available.

All participating institutions have gained access to the MDPI online submission system where they can find full article metadata and pricing information as well as Funder and Grant ID details for easy identification and additional transparency. At the same time eligible authors are benefited from an APC discount which comes at no cost for the institutions.

Eligible corresponding authors affiliated with the participating institutions are prompted to choose the corresponding Institutional Open Access Program (IOAP) when they submit an article via our online submission system. The program will be selected automatically if authors submit their papers using their institutional email address. To claim their discount, FWF funded authors should choose the particular funder and add their Grant ID upon online submission of their manuscript. The institutions will then crosscheck the information and confirm the APC funding.

Eligible authors that have their APC covered by their institution or funder are advised to include the following sentence in their acknowledgments: "Open Access Funding by the [name of the institution/funder]".

The full text of the agreement is openly available online at: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2536007

For any questions about the agreement, please contact the KEMÖ Consortium at [email protected], FWF at [email protected], or the MDPI IOAP team at [email protected]

The Austrian institutions participating in this agreement are:

• Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
• University for Continuing Education Krems
• University of Applied Sciences BFI Vienna
• University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria
• University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien
• Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences
• International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
• Institute of Science and Technology Austria
• MCI Management Center Innsbruck
• University of Graz
• University of Linz
• University of Salzburg
• Graz University of Technology
• TU Wien
• University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
• University of Vienna

This is our first collective agreement with a national library consortium, while the individual institutions around the world participating in our IOAP are now more than 500 - see details here: https://www.mdpi.com/about/ioap. We would be mostly interested in discussing about possible collaborations with other consortia, funders, and institutions in our mutual efforts to accelerate Open Access.

We are pleased to announce that Professor Dr. Kyo-Beum Lee has been appointed Section Editor-in-Chief of “Power Electronics” in Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). His term started in January 2019.

Kyo-Beum Lee received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical and electronic engineering from Ajou University, Suwon, South Korea, in 1997 and 1999, respectively. He received a Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from Korea University, Seoul, South Korea, in 2003.

From 2003 to 2006, he was with the Institute of Energy Technology at Aalborg University, Denmark. From 2006 to 2007, he was with the Division of Electronics and Information Engineering, Chonbuk National University, Jeonju, South Korea. In 2007, he joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Ajou University.

Professor Lee's research interests include electric machine drives, renewable power generation, and electric vehicle applications. He is an Associated Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics, the IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, the Journal of Power Electronics, and the Journal of Electrical Engineering and Technology.

We would like to warmly welcome Professor Dr. Kyo-Beum Lee as Section Editor-in-Chief and look forward to strengthening the Section “Power Electronics” under his leadership.

We are pleased to announce the new platform Encyclopedia, which is an online reference created and curated by active scholars. It aims to highlight the latest research results as well as providing benchmark information for researchers and the general public interested in accurate and advanced knowledge on specific topics.

We encourage authors of review articles to quote and adapt the content of their published papers to create Encyclopedia entries. You can create completely new entries on topics in which you have knowledge and expertise. There is no limit on the topics or research fields. All of science and the humanities are included. Each entry will be published directly after submission.

We also have prepared a DOI application function in Encyclopedia. Once a DOI application is approved, the entry website will announce the DOI number and a pdf version with DOI information will be automatically created.

We look forward to your contributions and hope you will make use of this service. Find more about the service at: https://encyclopedia.pub/

We are delighted to announce that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) is now a participant of our Institutional Open Access Program (IOAP). Authors funded by the BMGF can enjoy discounts on the APC, while the funder covers the costs of eligible articles centrally. BMGF also has access to the MDPI online submission system where they can find full article metadata and pricing information as well as Grant ID details for easy identification and additional transparency.

We hope that funded authors find the programme beneficial and we are happy to offer our IOAP to other funders that need a streamlined workflow of compliance checking and APC coverage. 

To claim their discount, BMGF funded authors should choose the particular funder and add their Grant ID upon online submission of their manuscript.

For any questions about the BMGF agreement, please contact the funder at [email protected] or the MDPI IOAP team at [email protected].

Recently, it was announced that a group of European funders supported 10 principles that will help to expand open access, known as Plan S. MDPI warmly welcomes this move as a step towards achieving more open and accessible communication of research across all disciplines. Some aspects remain to be clarified, however the details given so far match the aims and values that MDPI has held over the past two decades.

We believe that open access publishers should be active participants in discussions around Plan S, particularly regarding potential new business models and practical aspects of implementation. MDPI supports APCs as a transparent unit of payment for article publishing, however we are committed to exploring other measures and recently signed the Jussieu Call. Sustainability is a key value for MDPI, and future funding models should have at their heart the sustainability of knowledge and research dissemination. Plan S provides an opportunity for funders and publishers to directly discuss funding of open access journals in ways that are beneficial to all parties involved.

This Special Issue welcomes submissions from young researchers. When enough high-quality submissions are received, one of the published papers will be selected by an evaluation committee to receive an SI Best Paper Award.

If you want to participate in this competition, please include a short CV when submitting your paper.

Criteria:

From papers submitted to this Special Issue, the award nominees will be assessed based on their originality, quality, and contribution to the field.

Award:

The winner of the SI Best Paper Award will receive 300 CHF, a certificate, and the opportunity to publish another paper in Electronics free of charge.

We are happy to announce the establishment of an Open Access (OA) agreement with Qatar National Library (QNL). QNL is committed to supporting and helping Qatar authors publish OA at no cost. Through this national agreement, QNL will cover the Article Processing Charges (APC) of manuscripts published by Qatar-based corresponding authors in MDPI journals.

Eligible corresponding authors affiliated with Qatar research centers and universities are prompted to choose QNL as part of our Institutional Open Access Program (IOAP) when they submit an article via our online submission system. The program will be selected automatically if authors submit their papers using their institutional email and/or a computer registered with the institution’s IP range. QNL will then crosscheck the information and confirm the APC funding.

Qatar authors that have their APC covered by QNL are advised to include the following sentence in their acknowledgments: "The publication of this article was funded by Qatar National Library".

For more information, please visit Open Access at QNL or email the QNL Open Access team at [email protected].

We are pleased to announce that Electronics has received a first Impact Factor in the latest edition of the Journal Citation Reports®, published by Clarivate Analytics in June 2018.

Electronics is covered in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) in Web of Science and received a first Impact Factor of 2.110. The journal ranks 113/260 (Q2) in the category 'Engineering, Electrical & Electronic.'

The Journal Citation Reports®, 2018 release, is a Clarivate Analytics product.

We are pleased to report Electronics received a CiteScore of 2.97 for 2017. The metric reflects citation activity in 2017 in Scopus for papers published in the period 2014‒2016.

For the full details in the current CiteScore release, please see the journal's Source profile. To check the full list of MDPI journals receiving CiteScores, please see here.

The 2017 CiteScore™ data is available now, based on citation data in the Scopus® database. The current CiteScore reflects citation activity in 2017 for articles published in 2014‒2016. Please note that the list below includes journals assigned a CiteScore in this year’s release. For a full list of journals indexed in Scopus, please see our journal list.

Thirteen of our journals received a CiteScore which is in the top 10% of the distribution in at least one of the categories (marked with * in the table below), while a further 32 journals exhibit scores that are in the first quartile of the respective categories.

To access the full data for MDPI journals, please see here. More data can also be found in SJR Scimago Journal & Country Rank.

Unlike CiteScores and the widely used Journal Impact Factors, the Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) metrics are normalized in order to correct for differences in citation practices between scientific fields. Therefore, the SNIP allows direct comparison between journals specialized in different fields.

According to 2017 data, MDPI publishes six journals with an average citation impact, or SNIP, in excess of 1.500. These journals are Biomolecules, Cancers, Journal of Clinical Medicine (JCM), Marine Drugs, Remote Sensing and Sensors (see the last column in the table below).

CiteScore Data for MDPI Journals