Announcements

MDPI will be attending the 18th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2024) in MiCo Milano, Italy, which will take place from 29 September to 4 October 2024. The European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) is a premier biennial research conference in Computer Vision and Machine Learning, managed by the European Computer Vision Association (ECVA). It is held on even years and gathers the scientific and industrial communities within these areas. The first ECCV was held in 1990 in Antibes, France, and the conference has subsequently been organized all over Europe.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Applied Sciences;
• Electronics;
• AI;
• Future Internet;
• Inventions;
• Journal of Imaging;
• Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction;
• Mathematics;
• Remote Sensing;
• Technologies.

If you are attending the conference, please visit our booth. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person and answering any questions that you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit the following link: https://eccv.ecva.net/.

Conference: 2024 IEEE Information Theory Workshop
Organization: Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School and IEEE Information Theory Society
Date: 24–28 November 2024
Place: Shenzhen, China

We are pleased to announce that MDPI will be attending the 2024 IEEE Information Theory Workshop as an exhibitor. This meeting will be held in Shenzhen, China, from 24 to 28 November 2024.

This conference consists of a daily plenary followed by two parallel technical sessions throughout the day. IEEE-ITW’24 welcomes original contributions on the frontiers of information theory, statistics, coding theory, and their applications, as well as interactions between information theory and other fields such as data science, biology, and signal processing.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Entropy;
• Information;
• Data;
• Future Internet;
• Cryptography;
• Network;
• Digital;
• JCP;
• Mathematics;
• Electronics.

If you are attending this conference, please feel free to engage with us while you are there. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person and answering any questions you may have. For more information about the event, please visit the following website: https://www.ieee-itw2024.org/.

MDPI’s Young Investigator Awards recognize promising early career scientists, acknowledge their contributions, and foster collaboration within the scientific community. We are proud to announce the recipients for 2023, who were carefully selected by the journals’ esteemed Award Evaluation Committee.

We extend our heartfelt congratulations to the 79 winners of MDPI’s 2023 Young Investigator Awards for their excellent contributions in their research field. We look forward to seeing these rising stars continue to contribute to the advancement of science.

MDPI will continue to support and recognize the academic community. To explore details about the awardees by field, please visit the individual pages listed below:

Congratulations to all the winners for their exceptional contributions and dedication to advancing scientific research.

About MDPI Awards:
To support the academic community, particularly young researchers, and to enhance communication among scientists, MDPI journals regularly offer various awards to researchers in specific fields. These awards, serving as a source of inspiration and recognition, help to elevate the profiles of talented individuals who have made outstanding achievements and are making significant contributions to advancements in their respective fields.

To find out more about MDPI awards, please click here.

We are pleased to inform you that the journal Electronics (ISSN: 2079-9292) has been accepted into Ei Compendex in the Engineering Village. We would like to extend our sincerest gratitude to all of the authors, reviewers, and editors who have contributed to this journal and helped us to accomplish this achievement.

Electronics is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal that focuses on the science of electronics and its applications. It publishes reviews, research articles, short communications and letters. We aim to encourage scientists to publish their experimental and theoretical results in as much detail as possible.

To make the most of this opportunity, we would like to invite you to submit your research to the journal. We warmly welcome you to consider Electronics as a platform for publishing your work. If you have a paper concerning any topic within the scope of the journal, please submit it via the journal’s website: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics.

MDPI will be attending the 23rd Annual UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence (UKCI 2024), held in Belfast, UK, from 2 to 4 September 2024.

The UKCI is the premier UK event for presenting leading research on all aspects of Computational Intelligence. The aim of this event is to provide a forum for the academic community and industry to share ideas about developing and using Computational Intelligence (CI) techniques and methods, as well as to help attendees exchange new views and concepts.

The following MDPI journals will be represented at the conference:

• Electronics;
• Robotics;
• AI;
• BDCC;
• Information;
• Signals;
• Computers;
• MAKE;
• Data;
• Network;
• AppliedMath;
• MTI.

Our representatives, Ms. Jaime Anderson and Ms. Rebekah Paget, are eager to answer your questions and address any queries you may have.

If you are planning to attend the above conference, please feel free to start a conversation with us at our booth. For more information about the conference, please visit the following website: https://computing.ulster.ac.uk/ZhengLab/UKCI2024/.

The Section “Semiconductor Devices” of Electronics (ISSN: 2079-9292) publishes original and significant contributions to the theory and performance of semiconductor devices and related materials, including devices, fabrication processes, simulation, quantum devices, hybrid devices, flexible electronic devices, novel semiconductors, semiconductor materials, and device physics. Reviews on these subjects and Special Issues dealing with specific topics are regularly published.

As they are published in the open access format, you have free and unlimited access to all the articles published in our journal. We welcome you to read our most highly cited papers published in 2023 below:

“Recent Research for HZO-Based Ferroelectric Memory towards In-Memory Computing Applications”
by Jaewook Yoo, Hyeonjun Song, Hongseung Lee, Seongbin Lim, Soyeon Kim, Keun Heo and Hagyoul Bae 
Electronics 2023, 12(10), 2297; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12102297
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/12/10/2297

“Temporary Bonding and Debonding in Advanced Packaging: Recent Progress and Applications”
by Zihao Mo, Fangcheng Wang, Jinhui Li, Qiang Liu, Guoping Zhang, Weimin Li, Chunlei Yang and Rong Sun
Electronics 2023, 12(7), 1666; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12071666
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/12/7/1666

“Resistive Switching Characteristic of Cu Electrode-Based RRAM Device”
by Huanmei Yuan, Tianqing Wan and Hao Bai
Electronics 2023, 12(6), 1471; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12061471
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/12/6/1471

“An Improved Structure Enabling Hole Erase Operation When Using an IGZO Channel in a 3D NAND Flash Structure to Which COP (Cell-On-Peri) Structure Is Applied”
by Seonjun Choi, Myounggon Kang and Yun-Heub Song
Electronics 2023, 12(13), 2945; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12132945
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/12/13/2945

“Paralleling of IGBT Power Semiconductor Devices and Reliability Issues”
by Ravi Nath Tripathi and Ichiro Omura
Electronics 2023, 12(18), 3826; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12183826
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/12/18/3826

In May, MDPI Romania held three author training sessions – one endorsing an external event and two stand-alone sessions.

The National Session of Scientific Student Communications took place at Technical University Cluj on 17 and 18 May 2024. MDPI Romania sponsored this event and contributed an author training session on the production of research papers and case study analyses. JRS Norbert Kiss gave a presentation called The World of Open Access to explain different open access publishing models and the benefits of open access publishing. His presentation highlighted the impact of open access publishing on scientific progress and innovation.

On 29 May 2024, MDPI Romania hosted an author training session for Ph.D. students, early career researchers, and professors at the Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy. In collaboration with Prof. Andreea Arsene, JRS Ioana Paunescu prepared two presentations: The Steps of the Publishing Process and Elaboration of a Peer Review Report. In her first presentation, she delved into MDPI’s history and mission, MDPI’s editorial process, and MDPI journals of various scopes that are accepting submissions. Her second presentation outlined the types of peer review, the contents of a peer review report by an MDPI reviewer, and the responsibilities of an MDPI reviewer.

MDPI Romania also hosted an author training session at the Iasi University of Life Sciences on 29 May 2024. JRSs Laurentiu Preda and Cosmin Artan gave four presentations: Efficient Writing of an ISI-Indexed Scientific Article, Benefits of Publishing in the Open Access Model, Various Methods of Open Access Publishing, and MDPI Guide for the Article Review Process. The first three presentations offered guidance on how to improve academic writing, the fourth focused on how to write peer review reports. A highly interactive discussion followed the presentations, during which the JRSs provided extensive answers to attendees’ questions.

MDPI is grateful for all the attendees, speakers, and organizers involved in these events. Through their enthusiasm and dedication, these events were great successes.

MDPI will be attending the 36th EUROSENSORS conference, which will be held from 1 to 4 September 2024 in Debrecen, Hungary.

EUROSENSORS is a series of highly successful conferences that began in Cambridge in 1987 and that has been the only European forum to cover the entire field of sensors, actuators, microsystems and nanosystems. It is the leading European conference devoted to the advancement of high technologies in the aforementioned fields, providing an excellent opportunity to bring together scientists and engineers from academia, research centres, national research institutes and companies to present and discuss the latest results in these fields.

For more than 35 years, the EUROSENSORS Conference was the largest European forum for scientists and engineers from academia, research institutes and companies, and especially for students to present and discuss the latest trends and results in Sensors, actuators, micro- and nanosystems. EUROSENSORS attracts more than 500 participants every year, mainly from Europe but also from abroad.

The following MDPI journals will be represented at the conference:

• Sensors;
• Biosensors;
• Electronics;
• Micromachines;
• Nanoenergy Advances;
• Actuators;
• Analytica;
• Biomimetics;
• Drones;
• Fibers;
• JLPEA;
• Nanomanufacturing;
• Photonics;
• Robotics;
• Technologies;
• Bioengineering;
• Chemosensors;
• JETA;
• Telecom.

If you are planning to attend the conference, please feel free to stop by our booth (#13) and start a conversation with us. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person and answering any questions that you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit the following link: https://eurosensors2024.eu/.

MDPI will be attending The 1st International Conference on AI Sensors & The 10th International Symposium on Sensor Science held in Singapore from 1 to 4 August 2024.

The 1st International Conference on AI Sensors & The 10th International Symposium on Sensor Science is being held by MDPI and will be a premier gathering of innovators, researchers, and experts at the forefront of sensors, sensing technology, artificial intelligence for sensing applications, and AI-enhanced sensing systems.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Sensors;
• Micromachines;
• J. Imaging;
• Photonics;
• Energies;
• Actuators;
• AI;
• Automation;
• Biosensors;
• Chemosensors;
• Drones;
• Electronics;
• Inventions;
• JCP;
• JSAN;
• Machines;
• Materials;
• Metrology;
• Remote Sensing;
• Smart Cities;
• Technologies;
• Signals.

If you plan on attending this conference, feel free to stop by our booth on the second floor. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person to answer any questions you may have.

For more information about the conference, please see the following link:  https://sciforum.net/event/aisi3s2024.

The “Bioelectronics” Section of the journal Electronics (ISSN: 2079-9292) mainly covers topics that seek to exploit electronics knowledge and execution in the field of biology and medicine for health wellness with research efforts that cross disciplines such as chemistry, life science, physics, electrical engineering, and materials science. Bioelectronic research works in a wide context, encompassing, for example, biosensors, bionics and biomaterials, DNA chips, lab-on-a-chip, innovative devices or advanced signal processes for the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of physical and mental diseases, robotic devices for patient rehabilitation, bioelectromagnetics, artificial intelligence for improving health, conductive polymers, organic semiconductors, carbon nanotubes, graphene, wearable electronics, and implantable electronics, just to cite a few.

As all of the articles published in our journal are in an open access format, you have free and unlimited access to the full texts. We welcome you to read our most highly cited papers published in 2022 listed below:

1. “Deep Learning and Cloud-Based Computation for Cervical Spine Fracture Detection System”
by Paweł Chłąd and Marek R. Ogiela
Electronics 2023, 12(9), 2056; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12092056
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/12/9/2056

2. “Lightweight Deep Learning Model for Real-Time Colorectal Polyp Segmentation”
by Seung-Min Jeong, Seung-Gun Lee, Chae-Lin Seok, Eui-Chul Lee and Jun-Young Lee
Electronics 2023, 12(9), 1962; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12091962
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/12/9/1962

3. “IoT System for Gluten Prediction in Flour Samples Using NIRS Technology, Deep and Machine Learning Techniques”
by Oscar Jossa-Bastidas, Ainhoa Osa Sanchez, Leire Bravo-Lamas and Begonya Garcia-Zapirain
Electronics 2023, 12(8), 1916; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12081916
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/12/8/1916

4. “Reviewing Multimodal Machine Learning and Its Use in Cardiovascular Diseases Detection”
by Mohammad Moshawrab, Mehdi Adda, Abdenour Bouzouane, Hussein Ibrahim and Ali Raad
Electronics 2023, 12(7), 1558; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12071558
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/12/7/1558

5. “EMG-Based Dynamic Hand Gesture Recognition Using Edge AI for Human–Robot Interaction”
by EunSu Kim, JaeWook Shin, YongSung Kwon and BumYong Park
Electronics 2023, 12(7), 1541; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12071541
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/12/7/1541

Welcome to the webinar entitled Recent Progress in Semiconductor Devices.

The field of semiconductor devices is at the heart of emergency technologies, driving advancements in everything from computing and telecommunications to healthcare and renewable energy. With rapid innovations and breakthroughs occurring at an unprecedented pace, staying updated on the latest developments is essential for professionals, researchers, and enthusiasts alike.

Today's webinar brings together leading experts and innovators who will share their insights, research, and experiences on the recent progress in semiconductor devices. Our goal is to provide you with a comprehensive overview of the latest trends, challenges, and opportunities in this dynamic field.

Date: 14 August 2024 at 8:00 a.m. CEST | 2:00 a.m. EDT | 2:00 p.m. CST Asia
Webinar ID: 842 6304 1105
Sciforum Announcement: https://sciforum.net/event/Electronics-7

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information on how to join the webinar. Registrations with academic institutional email addresses will be prioritized.

Unable to attend? Register anyway and we will inform you when the recording is available.

Register now for free!

Webinar Chair and Keynote Speakers:

• Prof. Dr. Ray-Hua Horng (Chair), Institute of Electronics, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan;
• Prof. Tian-Li Wu, Institute of Electronics, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan;
• Dr. Pierluigi Casolaro, Department of Physics “Ettore Pancini”, University of Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy.

Relevant Section:
“Semiconductor Devices”—A section of Electronics (ISSN: 2079-9292).

The ASME 2024 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference will take place in August 2024. This year's event, IDETC/CIE 2024, will highlight emergent technologies that impact the critical engineering issues of product design and development, manufacturing, and the management and integration of information systems throughout a product’s life cycle. These events are key international meetings for design and manufacturing engineers in academia, government, and industry.

MDPI will attend the International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference 2024 (IDETC-CIE 2024), which will take place from 25 to 28 August 2024 at the JW Marriott Washington, Washington, DC, USA.

The divisions of the booths constitute the DED and the CIE:

• The Design Engineering Division (DED) fosters understanding and research, covering the art, science, and application of design engineering to the product realization process, including the conception, evolution, and manufacturing of products;
• The Computers and Information in Engineering Division (CIE) is a forum for understanding the application of emerging technologies that impact critical engineering issues of representation, product design, and product development.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Machines;
• Systems;
• Logistics;
• Technologies;
• Inventions;
• Electronics;
• NDT;
• JMMP;
• Vehicles;
• JLPEA;
• Applied Sciences;
• Robotics
• Vibration.

If you plan to attend this conference, we invite you to visit our booth and converse with our delegates at the conference venue (JW Marriott Washington). We are excited to meet you in person and address any questions that you may have. For further details about the conference, please visit the following website: https://event.asme.org/IDETC-CIE.

Conference: The 2024 International Conference on Guidance, Navigation and Control

Date: 9−11 August 2024

Location: Changsha, China

The International Conference on Guidance, Navigation and Control (ICGNC) is a biennial event and is also one of the leading events in the field of Guidance, Navigation and Control (GNC).

MDPI will be attending the conference as an exhibitor. We welcome researchers from various backgrounds to visit and share their latest ideas with us.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Drones;
• Electronics;
• Aerospace;
• Applied Sciences;
• ASI;
• Biomimetics;
• J. Imaging;
• Technologies;
• Telecom;
• Vehicles;
• Automation;
• Robotics;
• WEVJ.

If you plan to attend this conference, please contact us online. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person at our booth and answering any questions you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit the following website: https://icgnc.buaa.edu.cn/enindex.htm.

The “Industrial Electronics” Section of the journal Electronics (ISSN: 2079-9292) is devoted to presenting emerging technologies and trends in the industrial electronics sector, publishing original research and state-of-the-art review articles. The main research area includes industrial electronics applications and their control, computation, and communication to enrich industrial systems and processes. All submissions are subject to a peer-review process. We encourage submitting original contributions from theoretical- and/or application-oriented research studies.

As all of the articles published in our journal are in an open access format, you have free and unlimited access to the full texts. We welcome you to read our most highly cited papers published in 2023 listed below:

1. “Fiber Tensioning Systems in a Robotized Winding Procedure for Composite Materials Building Processes”
by Mădălin Petru Sbanca, Răzvan Gabriel Boboc and Gheorghe Leonte Mogan
Electronics 2023, 12(2), 254; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12020254
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/12/2/254

2. “Multilayer Ceramic Capacitors: An Overview of Failure Mechanisms, Perspectives, and Challenges”
by Khaled Laadjal and Antonio J. Marques Cardoso
Electronics 2023, 12(6), 1297; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12061297
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/12/6/1297

3. “A Study on the Development of ICT Convergence Smart ESP Using Embedded System”
by Joon-Ho Cho
Electronics 2023, 12(6), 1351; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12061351
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/12/6/1351

4. “Detecting Data Anomalies from Their Formal Specifications: A Case Study in IoT Systems”
by Benjamin Aziz
Electronics 2023, 12(3), 630; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12030630
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/12/3/630

5. “A Multi-Objective Approach to Robust Control of Air Handling Units for Optimized Energy Performance”
by Mubashir Wani, Faizal Hafiz, Akshya Swain and Abhisek Ukil
Electronics 2023, 12(3), 661; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12030661
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/12/3/661

6. “System-Level Consideration and Multiphysics Design of Propulsion Motor for Fully Electrified Battery Powered Car Ferry Propulsion System”
by Vu-Khanh Tran, Sarbajit Paul, Jae-Woon Lee, Jae-Hak Choi, Pil-Wan Han and Yon-Do Chun
Electronics 2023, 12(6), 1491; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12061491
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/12/6/1491

7. “GaN and SiC Device Characterization by a Dedicated Embedded Measurement System”
by Alberto Vella, Giuseppe Galioto, Gianpaolo Vitale, Giuseppe Lullo and Giuseppe Costantino Giaconia
Electronics 2023, 12(7), 1555; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12071555
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/12/7/1555

8. “Industrial Informatics: Emerging Trends and Applications in the Era of Big Data and AI”
by Mirjana Pejić Bach, Arian Ivec and Danijela Hrman
Electronics 2023, 12(10), 2238; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12102238
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/12/10/2238

9. “Mapping the Emergent Trends in Industrial Augmented Reality”
by J. De Curtò, I. de Zarzà de Curtò, Gemma Roig, Juan Carlos Cano, Pietro Manzoni and Carlos T. Calafate
Electronics 2023, 12(13), 2814; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12132814
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/12/13/2814

10. “Intelligent Decision Support for Energy Management: A Methodology for Tailored Explainability of Artificial Intelligence Analytics”
by Gheorghe-Daniel Voinea, Florin Gîrbacia, Mihai Duguleană, Răzvan Gabriel Boboc and Carmen Gheorghe
Electronics 2023, 12(7), 1719; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12071719
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/12/7/1719

Five new journals covering multiple subjects have launched their inaugural issue in June 2024. We are excited to be able to share with you the newest research rooted in the value of open access.

We would like to express our deepest appreciation to all the Editorial Board Members and each journal will ensure its high-quality output using excellent editorial and rigorous peer review processes, to ensure that the articles achieve high impact and visibility.

Please feel free to browse and discover more about the new journals below.

Journal	Founding Editor-in-Chief	Journal Topics (Selected)
	Prof. Dr. Marco Ranucci, IRCCS Policlinico San Donato, Italy | Editorial | view inaugural issue	anaesthetic medications; blood and fluid management; pain management; critical care; critical illness | view journal scope | submit an article
	Dr. Giovanni E. Cacciamani, University of Southern California, USA | Editorial | view inaugural issue	surgical/procedural complications; complications; perioperative adverse events; postoperative adverse events | view journal scope | submit an article
	Prof. Dr.  Gassan Hodaifa, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Spain | Editorial | view inaugural issue	laboratory management; laboratory safety; protective equipment; laboratory problems and challenges; laboratory Innovation | view journal scope | submit an article
	Prof. Dr. Jan S. Suchodolski, Texas A&M University, USA | Editorial | view inaugural issue	companion animals health and disease; veterinary care and nutrition; genetics and genomics; behavior and welfare; human-animal relations | view journal scope | submit an article
	Prof. Dr. Pierfrancesco De Paola, University of Naples Federico II, Italy | Editorial | view inaugural issue	real estate appraisal; economic and financial valuation of real estate projects; sustainable real estate; housing and urban economics | view journal scope | submit an article

We wish to thank everyone who has supported the development of open access publishing. You are welcome to send an application here, or contact the New Journal Committee ([email protected]) if you would like to create more new journals.

MDPI will attend the 36th International Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors (ICPS), at the Shaw Convention Centre, Ottawa, Canada, from 28 July to 2 August 2024.

The ICPS is a flagship conference of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics Commission on Semiconductors (C8). ICPS has a long tradition of bringing together scientists from around the globe working in this active and exciting field with great societal impact. The ICPS meeting is the premier forum for reporting all aspects of semiconductor physics, including their electronic, structural, optical, magnetic, and transport properties. The conference will reflect the state of the art in semiconductor physics as the basis for technology that currently permeates all our lives. In addition, recognizing the current drive in and public excitement for quantum, we plan to make quantum technology an important component of the ICPS in 2024.

The following MDPI journals will be represented at the conference:

• Electronics;
• Materials;
• Applied Sciences;
• Chips;
• Electronic Materials;
• Foundations;
• Magnetism;
• Micromachines;
• Quantum Reports;
• Photonics;
• Physics;
• QuBS.

If you are planning on attending this conference, please do not hesitate to stop by our booth #6 and start a conversation with us. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person and answering any questions that you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit the following website: https://uottawacpd.eventsair.com/QuickEventWebsitePortal/icps2024/info.

MDPI is pleased to announce the inclusion of 237 journals in the 2024 release of the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) and share the key results (see above).

This year, journals covered in the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) received category ranks together with journals in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) and Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI). Overall, 139 MDPI journals indexed in ESCI are included in the new unified rankings for the first time.

Enhanced Comparability of Data

According to Clarivate, "the creation of unified category rankings [provides] a simpler and more complete category view for the evaluation of journal performance. [...] The category-first approach simplifies journal performance assessment with a holistic view of all journals in each subject category."

We are thrilled to announce that 72% of our ranked MDPI journals (171 of 237) are above average, in Q1 or Q2. Twenty-nine of our journals received their first Impact Factor this year, accounting for more than 5% of the journals accepted into the Web of Science last year.

MDPI Journals Ranked in JCR

The following data includes all MDPI journals indexed in SCIE, SSCI, ESCI and AHCI.

Source: 2023 Journal Impact Factors, Journal Citation Reports ^TM (Clarivate, 2024)

About MDPI

A pioneer in scholarly, open access publishing, MDPI has supported academic communities since 1996. MDPI is leading the transition to open science by making more research free and accessible to everyone. Over 3.5 million researchers have entrusted MDPI with publishing their scientific discoveries. MDPI’s editorial process is bolstered by a network of dedicated reviewers, a team of 6000 professional, well-trained staff members, and an in-house article submission platform that was designed to ensure efficient processes within its 440 fully open access titles.

The 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.

You have free and unlimited access to the full texts of all the open access articles published in Electronics (ISSN: 2079-9292). We welcome you to read our most highly cited papers published in 2022 below.

1. “Applications of Clustering Methods for Different Aspects of Electric Vehicles”
by Masooma Nazari, Akhtar Hussain and Petr Musilek
Electronics 2023, 12(4), 790; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12040790  
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/12/4/790

2. “Chebyshev Polynomial-Based Fog Computing Scheme Supporting Pseudonym Revocation for 5G-Enabled Vehicular Networks”
by Zeyad Ghaleb Al-Mekhlafi, Zeyad Ghaleb, Mahmood A. Al-Shareeda, Selvakumar Manickam, Badiea Abdulkarem Mohammed, Abdulrahman Alreshidi, Meshari Alazmi, Jalawi Sulaiman Alshudukhi, Mohammad Alsaffar and Abdulrahman Alsewari
Electronics 2023, 12(4), 872. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12040872   
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/12/4/872

3. “Research on Rolling Bearing Fault Diagnosis Based on Variational Modal Decomposition Parameter Optimization and an Improved Support Vector Machine”
by Lin Li, Weilun Meng, Xiaodong Liu and Jiyou Fei
Electronics 2023, 12(6), 1290; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12061290  
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/12/6/1290

4. “Image-Based Pothole Detection Using Multi-Scale Feature Network and Risk Assessment”
by Dong-Hoe Heo, Ji-Yoon Choi, Sang-Baeg Kim, Tae-Oh Tak and Sheng-Peng Zhang
Electronics 2023, 12(4), 826; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12040826  
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/12/4/826

5. “Research Progress of Nature-Inspired Metaheuristic Algorithms in Mobile Robot Path Planning”
by Yiqi Xu, Qiongqiong Li, Xuan Xu, Jiafu Yang and Yong Chen
Electronics 2023, 12(15), 3263; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12153263  
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/12/15/3263

6. “Energy Efficiency of Connected Autonomous Vehicles: A Review”
by Hamed Faghihian and Arman Sargolzaei
Electronics 2023, 12(19), 4086; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12194086  
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/12/19/4086

7. “Performance Improvement of DTC-SVM of PMSM with Compensation for the Dead Time Effect and Power Switch Loss Based on Extended Kalman Filter”
by Doo-Il Son, Jun-Seo Han, Je-Suk Park, Hee-Sun Lim and Geun-Ho Lee
Electronics 2023, 12(4), 966; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12040966  
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/12/4/966

8. “Low-Cost Hardware in the Loop for Intelligent Neural Predictive Control of Hybrid Electric Vehicle”
by Mohamed El-Sayed M. Essa, Joseph Victor W. Lotfy, M. Essam K. Abd-Elwahed, Khaled Rabie, Basem M. ElHalawany and Mahmoud Elsisi
Electronics 2023, 12(4), 971; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12040971  
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/12/4/971

9. “ITSS: An Intelligent Traffic Signaling System Based on an IoT Infrastructure”
by Satyananda Champati Rai, Samaleswari Pr Nayak, Biswaranjan Acharya, Vassilis C. Gerogiannis, Andreas Kanavos and Theodor Panagiotakopoulos
Electronics 2023, 12(5), 1177; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12051177  
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/12/5/1177

10. “Construction of Personalized Bus Travel Time Prediction Intervals Based on Hierarchical Clustering and the Bootstrap Method”
by Zhenzhong Yin and Bin Zhang
Electronics 2023, 12(8), 1917; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12081917  
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/12/8/1917

11. “A Survey on the State-of-the-Art and Future Trends of Multilevel Inverters in BEVs”
by Alenka Hren, Mitja Truntič and Franc Mihalič
Electronics 2023, 12(13), 2993. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12132993  
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/12/13/2993

We are pleased to announce that Electronics (ISSN: 2079-9292) has received an increased CiteScore of 5.3 for 2023, which is a 13% increase from last year, and this marks the fourth consecutive year that the journal’s CiteScore has increased. Electronics ranks Q2 (94/321) in the “Control and Systems Engineering” category, Q2 (244/797) in the “Electrical and Electronic Engineering” category, Q2 (139/395) in the “Computer Networks and Communications” category, Q2 (49/131) in the “Signal Processing” category, and Q2 (64/177) in the “Hardware and Architecture” category. More details can be found here at https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/21100829272.

We would like to extend our sincerest gratitude to all the authors, reviewers and editors who have supported us and contributed their time to the journal.

For more information or to submit to our journal, please visit the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/electronics.

Electronics Editorial Office

The primary focus of the “Computer Science & Engineering” Section is the field of advanced computer science and engineering. It presents high-quality papers that address state-of-the-art technology, including Deep Tech, Edge Computing, Fog Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Emotional Systems, Fintech, Blockchain, IoT, Industry 4.0, Smart Cities, Smart Grids, Intelligent Textiles, and Distributed Computing, as well as other chief technologies in this field.

As they are of open access format, you have free and unlimited access to the full text of all the articles published in our journal. We welcome you to read our most highly cited papers published in 2023 below:

“A Novel Architecture of a Six Degrees of Freedom Parallel Platform”
by Qiuxiang Gu, Jiawei Tian, Bo Yang, Mingzhe Liu, Borui Gu, Zhengtong Yin, Lirong Yin and Wenfeng Zheng
Electronics 2023, 12(8), 1774; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12081774
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/12/8/1774

“Techniques and Challenges of Image Segmentation: A Review”
by Ying Yu, Chunping Wang, Qiang Fu, Renke Kou, Fuyu Huang, Boxiong Yang, Tingting Yang and Mingliang Gao
Electronics 2023, 12(5), 1199; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12051199
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/12/5/1199

“Advancements and Challenges in Machine Learning: A Comprehensive Review of Models, Libraries, Applications, and Algorithms”
by Shahid Tufail, Hugo Riggs, Mohd Tariq and Arif I. Sarwat
Electronics 2023, 12(8), 1789; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12081789
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/12/8/1789

“AI-Assisted CBCT Data Management in Modern Dental Practice: Benefits, Limitations and Innovations”
by Renáta Urban, Sára Haluzová, Martin Strunga, Jana Surovková, Michaela Lifková, Juraj Tomášik and Andrej Thurzo
Electronics 2023, 12(7), 1710; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12071710
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/12/7/1710

“The Impact of 6G-IoT Technologies on the Development of Agriculture 5.0: A Review”
by Sofia Polymeni, Stefanos Plastras, Dimitrios N. Skoutas, Georgios Kormentzas and Charalabos Skianis
Electronics 2023, 12(12), 2651; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12122651
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/12/12/2651

“FCIHMRT: Feature Cross-Layer Interaction Hybrid Method Based on Res2Net and Transformer for Remote Sensing Scene Classification”
by Yan Huo, Shuang Gang, and Chao Guan
Electronics 2023, 12(20), 4362; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12204362
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/12/20/4362

“The Influence of Emerging Technologies on Distance Education”
by Magdalena Garlinska, Magdalena Osial, Klaudia Proniewska and Agnieszka Pregowska
Electronics 2023, 12(7), 1550; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12071550
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/12/7/1550

“Monitoring Tomato Leaf Disease through Convolutional Neural Networks”
by Antonio Guerrero-Ibañez and Angelica Reyes-Muñoz
Electronics 2023, 12(1), 229; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12010229
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/12/1/229

“A Machine Learning-Based Intrusion Detection System for IoT Electric Vehicle Charging Stations (EVCSs)”
by Mohamed ElKashlan, Mahmoud Said Elsayed, Anca Delia Jurcut and Marianne Azer
Electronics 2023, 12(4), 1044; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12041044
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/12/4/1044

“Detection and Classification of Printed Circuit Boards Using YOLO Algorithm”
by Matko Glučina, Nikola Anđelić, Ivan Lorencin and Zlatan Car
Electronics 2023, 12(3), 667; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12030667
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/12/3/667

The primary focus of the “Computer Science & Engineering” Section is the field of advanced computer science and engineering. It presents high-quality papers that address state-of-the-art technology, including Deep Tech, Edge Computing, Fog Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Emotional Systems, Fintech, Blockchain, IoT, Industry 4.0, Smart Cities, Smart Grids, Intelligent Textiles, and Distributed Computing, as well as other chief technologies in this field.

As they are of open access format, you have free and unlimited access to the full text of all the articles published in our journal. We welcome you to read our most highly cited papers published in 2022 below:

“VoRtex Metaverse Platform for Gamified Collaborative Learning”
by Aleksandar Jovanović and Aleksandar Milosavljević
Electronics 2022, 11(3), 317; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11030317
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/3/317

“A Systematic Review of the Applications of Multi-Criteria Decision Aid Methods (1977–2022)”
by Marcio Pereira Basílio, Valdecy Pereira, Helder Gomes Costa, Marcos Santos and Amartya Ghosh
Electronics 2022, 11(11), 1720; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11111720
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/11/1720

“A Survey on Efficient Convolutional Neural Networks and Hardware Acceleration”
by Deepak Ghimire, Dayoung Kil and Seong-heum Kim
Electronics 2022, 11(6), 945; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11060945
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/6/945

“A Deep Learning Model for Network Intrusion Detection with Imbalanced Data”
by Yanfang Fu, Yishuai Du, Zijian Cao, Qiang Li and Wei Xiang
Electronics 2022, 11(6), 898; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11060898
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/6/898

“Recent Advances in Pulse-Coupled Neural Networks with Applications in Image Processing”
by Haoran Liu, Mingzhe Liu, Dongfen Li, Wenfeng Zheng, Lirong Yin and Ruili Wang
Electronics 2022, 11(20), 3264; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11203264
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/20/3264

“Applications of Federated Learning; Taxonomy, Challenges, and Research Trends”
by Momina Shaheen, Muhammad Shoaib Farooq, Tariq Umer and Byung-Seo Kim
Electronics 2022, 11(4), 670; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11040670
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/4/670

“Deep Learning Methods for Accurate Skin Cancer Recognition and Mobile Application”
by Ioannis Kousis, Isidoros Perikos, Ioannis Hatzilygeroudis and Maria Virvou
Electronics 2022, 11(9), 1294; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11091294
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/9/1294

“Lexicon-Based vs. Bert-Based Sentiment Analysis: A Comparative Study in Italian”
by Rosario Catelli, Serena Pelosi and Massimo Esposito
Electronics 2022, 11(3), 374; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11030374
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/3/374

“Machine Learning for DDoS Attack Detection in Industry 4.0 CPPSs”
by Firooz B. Saghezchi, Georgios Mantas, Manuel A. Violas, A. Manuel de Oliveira Duarte and Jonathan Rodriguez
Electronics 2022, 11(4), 602; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11040602
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/4/602

“User Engagement Comparison between Advergames and Traditional Advertising Using EEG: Does the User’s Engagement Influence Purchase Intention?”
by Ivonne Angelica Castiblanco Jimenez, Juan Sebastian Gomez Acevedo, Elena Carlotta Olivetti, Federica Marcolin, Luca Ulrich, Sandro Moos and Enrico Vezzetti
Electronics 2023, 12(1), 122; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12010122
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/12/1/122

On UNESCO’s 2024 Oceans Day, MDPI encourages the scientific community to increase the accessibility of ocean research to accelerate ocean conservation.

Basel, Switzerland, June 7, 2024: MDPI, a leading open access (OA) publisher, is proud to announce its active support for World Oceans Day 2024, celebrated under UNESCO’s Ocean Decade framework. MDPI’s CEO, Stefan Tochev hopes that “the latest ocean research can be made freely accessible to help empower scientists and communities at large to save our oceans,” under UNESCO’s Ocean Decade until 2030.

Open Access: A Catalyst for Ocean Action

MDPI’s presence at the UNESCO Ocean Decade Conference 2024 highlights our unwavering commitment to using OA to advance ocean science, support research communities, and promote sustainable ocean management.

"Our involvement in the UNESCO Ocean Decade Conference underscores MDPI's commitment to the underfunded Ocean SDG. By promoting OA to scientific articles and books on SDGs, we aim to inspire critical actions," said Tochev. "Our initiatives, like the World Sustainability Award and Emerging Sustainability Award, further demonstrate our dedication to advancing sustainability.”

Showcasing MDPI’s Contributions to Ocean Research

Over the past three years, MDPI has published 30,000 papers focused on ocean research and related topics. Key MDPI journals contributing to this body of work include:

• Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (4.9k papers)
• Remote Sensing (2.6k papers)
• Sustainability (2k papers)
• International Journal of Molecular Sciences (IJMS) (1.7k papers)
• Marine Drugs (1.5k papers)
• Water (1.5k papers)

These publications highlight MDPI’s contributions to ocean science, reinforcing our role in the broader sustainability agenda by promoting blue innovation and economy.

Additionally, MDPI has launched Oceans, an international, peer-reviewed forum specifically aimed at publishing studies related to all branches of oceanography with an emphasis on the functioning of the ocean and the sustainable use of its resources and ecosystem services.

Affirming MDPI’s Commitment to Ocean Science

MDPI’s commitment to OA is pivotal in addressing critical global challenges, from climate change to ocean sustainability. Our efforts resonate with Outcome 4 of the UNESCO Ocean Decade action roadmap: an accessible ocean with open and equitable access to data, information, technology, and innovation. By aligning with UNESCO’s goals, MDPI continues to contribute to shaping a sustainable future for our oceans, reinforcing our position as a forward-thinking publisher dedicated to environmental stewardship and scientific excellence.

For more information, contact Rui Duarte at [email protected] or +41764313242.

About MDPI

The “Microelectronics” Section of Electronics (ISSN: 2079-9292) is dedicated to publishing original research articles and cutting-edge reviews on the applications of microelectronics in emerging and challenging technologies. Electronics operating in extreme environments, such as a vacuum, space, harsh radiation, extreme cold and other niche applications, advances microelectronic designs.

You have free and unlimited access to the full texts of all of the open access articles published in our journal. We welcome you to read our most highly cited papers published in 2023 below:

1. “Enhancing Fault Awareness and Reliability of a Fault-Tolerant RISC-V System-on-Chip”
by Douglas A. Santos, André M. P. Mattos, Douglas R. Melo and Luigi Dilillo
Electronics 2023, 12(12), 2557; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12122557
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/12/12/2557

2. “Conversion Electrode and Drive Capacitance for Connecting Microfluidic Devices and Triboelectric Nanogenerator”
by Zhiyuan Zhu, Fan Zeng, Zhihua Pu and Jiyu Fan
Electronics 2023, 12(3), 522; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12030522
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/12/3/522

3. “Phase Diffusion in Low-E_J Josephson Junctions at Milli-Kelvin Temperatures”
by Wen-Sen Lu, Konstantin Kalashnikov, Plamen Kamenov, Thomas J. DiNapoli and Michael E. Gershenson
Electronics 2023, 12(2), 416; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12020416
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/12/2/416

4. “Development of Temperature Sensor Based on AlN/ScAlN SAW Resonators”
by Min Wei, Yan Liu, Yuanhang Qu, Xiyu Gu, Yilin Wang, Wenjuan Liu, Yao Cai, Shishang Guoand and Chengliang Sun
Electronics 2023, 12(18), 3863; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12183863
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/12/18/3863

5. “Compact CMOS Wideband Instrumentation Amplifiers for Multi-Frequency Bioimpedance Measurement: A Design Procedure”
by Israel Corbacho, Juan M. Carrillo, José L. Ausín, Miguel Á. Domínguez, Raquel Pérez-Aloe and Juan Francisco Duque-Carrillo
Electronics 2022, 11(11), 1668; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11111668
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/11/1668

6. “Ultra-Low-Power Compact Neuron Circuit with Tunable Spiking Frequency and High Robustness in 22 nm FDSOI”
by Jiale Quan, Zhen Liu, Bo Li and Jiajun Luo
Electronics 2023, 12(12), 2648; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12122648
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/12/12/2648

7. “Review of Nanoscale Vacuum Devices”
by Xinghui Li and Jinjun Feng
Electronics 2023, 12(4), 802; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12040802
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/12/4/802

8. “Study of Single Event Latch-Up Hardness for CMOS Devices with a Resistor in Front of DC-DC Converter”
by Jindou Xin, Xiang Zhu, Yingqi Ma and Jianwei Han
Electronics 2023, 12(3), 550; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12030550
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/12/3/550

9. “A True Process-Heterogeneous Stacked Embedded DRAM Structure Based on Wafer-Level Hybrid Bonding”
by Song Wang, Xiping Jiang, Fujun Bai, Wenwu Xiao, Xiaodong Long, Qiwei Ren and Yi Kang
Electronics 2023, 12(5), 1077; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12051077
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/12/5/1077

10.“Study of the Within-Batch TID Response Variability on Silicon-Based VDMOS Devices”
by Xiao Li, Jiangwei Cui, Qiwen Zheng, Pengwei Li, Xu Cui, Yudong Li and Qi Guo
Electronics 2023, 12(6), 1403; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12061403
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/12/6/1403

The “Microelectronics” Section of Electronics (ISSN: 2079-9292) is dedicated to publishing original research articles and cutting-edge reviews on the applications of microelectronics in emerging and challenging technologies. Electronics operating in extreme environments, such as a vacuum, space, harsh radiation, extreme cold and other niche applications, advances microelectronic designs.

You have free and unlimited access to the full texts of all of the open access articles published in our journal. We welcome you to read our most highly cited papers published in 2022 below:

1. “Actively MEMS-Based Tunable Metamaterials for Advanced and Emerging Applications”
by Ruijia Xu and Yu-Sheng Lin
Electronics 2022, 11(2), 243; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11020243
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/2/243

2. “Survey on Fatigue Life Prediction of BGA Solder Joints”
by Baojun Qiu, Jingang Xiong, Han Wang, Shuai Zhou, Xiuding Yang, Zhengpei Lin, Maolin Liu and Nian Cai
Electronics 2022, 11(4), 542; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11040542
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/4/542

3. “Reliability of Commercial UVC LEDs: 2022 State-of-the-Art”
by Nicola Trivellin, Davide Fiorimonte, Francesco Piva, Matteo Buffolo, Carlo De Santi, Gaudenzio Meneghesso, Enrico Zanoni and Matteo Meneghini
Electronics 2022, 11(5), 728; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11050728
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/5/728

4. “Bias Temperature Instability of MOSFETs: Physical Processes, Models, and Prediction”
by Jian Fu Zhang, Rui Gao, Meng Duan, Zhigang Ji, Weidong Zhang and John Marsland
Electronics 2022, 11(9), 1420; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11091420
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/9/1420

5. “Compact CMOS Wideband Instrumentation Amplifiers for Multi-Frequency Bioimpedance Measurement: A Design Procedure”
by Israel Corbacho, Juan M. Carrillo, José L. Ausín, Miguel Á. Domínguez, Raquel Pérez-Aloe and Juan Francisco Duque-Carrillo
Electronics 2022, 11(11), 1668; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11111668
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/11/1668

6. “L-Band Wavelength-Selectable Erbium Laser with Stable Single-Frequency Oscillation”
by Shang-En Hsieh, Ching-Hsuan Hsu, Chien-Hung Yeh, Syu-Yang Jiang, Yu-Ting Lai, Chi-Wai Chow, Chi-Wai Chow and Shien-Kuei Liaw
Electronics 2022, 11(19), 2996; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11192996
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/19/2996

7. “Die-Level Thinning for Flip-Chip Integration on Flexible Substrates”
by Muhammad Hassan Malik, Andreas Tsiamis, Hubert Zangl, Alfred Binder, Srinjoy Mitra and Ali Roshanghias
Electronics 2022, 11(6), 849; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11060849
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/6/849

8. “Sensitivity Characterization of Multi-Band THz Metamaterial Sensor for Possible Virus Detection”
by Anja Kovačević, Milka Potrebić and Dejan Tošić
Electronics 2022, 11(5), 699; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11050699
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/5/699

9. “Study of Breakdown Voltage Stability of Gas-Filled Surge Arresters in the Presence of Gamma Radiation”
by Emilija Živanović, Marija Živković and Sandra Veljković
Electronics 2022, 11(15), 2447; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11152447
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/15/2447

10. “Small-Signal Analysis of All-Si Microring Resonator Photodiode”
by Yiwei Peng, Wayne V. Sorin, Stanley Cheung, Yuan Yuan, Zhihong Huang, Marco Fiorentino and Raymond G. Beausoleil
Electronics 2022, 11(2), 183; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11020183
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/2/183

95% of authors rate MDPI’s publication process as excellent or good, setting a new benchmark in scientific publishing – reveals 2023 Annual Report. 

Basel, Switzerland, June 4, 2024: MDPI, the leading open access (OA) publisher, proudly announces the release of its 2023 Annual Report, detailing remarkable achievements and reaffirming its leadership in advancing OA publishing. In 2023, MDPI received 655,065 submissions, of which 285,244 articles were published. The company now commands a 17% market share in gold open access articles, with a median publication time of six weeks.

Stefan Tochev, MDPI's CEO, stated, "As a pioneer in open access publishing, MDPI has long been a game-changer in the scholarly community, serving millions of authors around the world to ensure the latest research is freely available. Reflecting on our incredible journey at MDPI, 2023 has been marked by growth in paper submissions, ambitious projects and initiatives aimed at improving our internal processes and delivering top-notch services to our scientists."

MDPI's 2023 Annual Report highlights several key achievements:

• 17% market share in gold open access articles across all disciplines.
• Record satisfaction rates: 95% of authors, 82% of reviewers, and 85% of guest editors.
• Enhanced editorial standards and feedback processes.
• Increased reach and impact with 54 new MDPI journal inclusions in Scopus, 29 in Web of Science, and 77 in DOAJ.

MDPI’s unwavering commitment to advancing OA has transformed the landscape of scholarly publishing, making high-quality research freely accessible to the global scientific community. The continuous improvement in our editorial standards and feedback processes underscores MDPI’s dedication to ensuring academic integrity and excellence.

Global Reach and Collaboration

MDPI’s global footprint continues to expand, with authors from diverse regions: 37% from Asia/Pacific, 36% from Europe, 15% from the Americas, and 12% from other parts of the world. The company’s fully OA platform attracted nearly 14 million monthly visitors in 2023, reflecting its widespread influence in the scientific community.

Commitment to Partnerships

With over 800 institutional partners, MDPI continues to demonstrate its dedication to providing reliable and collaborative publishing services. The introduction of a transparent flat-fee model highlights MDPI's ongoing efforts to enhance affordability and support to the academic community. For more details read our 2023 Annual Report.

For more information, contact Rui Duarte at [email protected] or +41764313242.

About MDPI

MDPI will be attending the 2024 American Control Conference in Toronto, Canada, which will take place from 8 to 12 July 2024. The American Control Conference (AAC) is the annual conference of the American Automatic Control Council (AACC), the U.S. national member organization of the International Federation for Automatic Control (IFAC). ACC 2024 is committed to being not only the premier venue for the dissemination of work in automatic control and systems theory but also providing an environment that is inclusive of and supportive to all members.

The following MDPI journals will be represented at the conference:

• Applied Sciences;
• Electronics;
• Actuators;
• Applied System Innovation;
• Automation;
• Drones;
• Eng;
• Inventions;
• Machines;
• Modelling;
• Processes;
• Robotics;
• Technologies;
• Telecom.

If you are planning to attend the above conference, please visit our booth. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person and answering any questions that you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit the following website: https://acc2024.a2c2.org/.

MDPI will be attending the 2024 Opto-Electronics and Communications Conference in Melbourne, Australia, which will take place from 30 June to 4 July 2024. OECC 2024 will involve plenaries from eminent experts, invited speakers, contributed presentations, special symposia, and exhibitions to demonstrate breakthroughs and innovations poised to transform the future of the opto-electronics and optical communications industry and sectors that rely on this industry.

The following MDPI journals will be represented at the conference:

• Electronics;
• Sensors;
• Chemosensors;
• Inventions;
• Journal of Imaging;
• Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks;
• Micromachines;
• Optics;
• Photonics;
• Quantum Reports.

If you are planning to attend the above conference, please visit our booth. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person and answering any questions that you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit the following website: https://oecc2024.com/.

We are pleased to announce one of the winners of the Electronics 2023 Best Ph.D. Thesis Award. This award is for a Ph.D. student or recently qualified researcher who has produced a highly anticipated thesis with impressive academic potential.

The award has been granted to “Hardware-friendly Low-bit Quantization for Neural Network Compression” by Dr. Haotong Qin, Beihang University, China.

The winner will receive CHF 800, a certificate, and a chance to publish a paper free of charge after peer review in Electronics (ISSN: 2079-9292) in 2024.

We congratulate Dr. Haotong Qin on his accomplishments. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the applicants for submitting their exceptional theses and the Award Committee for voting for and supporting this award.

Dr. Haotong Qin is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Project-Based Learning (PBL), ETH Zürich, Switzerland, working with PD Dr. Michele Magno. Previously, he received his Ph.D. degree from the School of Computer Science and Engineering (SCSE) and Shen Yuan Honors College, Beihang University in 2024, supervised by Prof. Wei Li and Prof. Xianglong Liu. He was a visiting Ph.D. student at Computer Vision Lab, ETH Zürich. He obtained his B.Sc. degree from SCSE, Beihang University in 2019. He interned at ByteDance, Tencent, and Microsoft Research Asia. He was awarded the 2023 Baidu Scholarship, 2022 ByteDance Scholarship, 2023 KAUST Rising Stars in AI, and 2023 DAAD AInet Fellowship, etc.

His research interests broadly include efficient deep learning, specifically with a focus on deep model compression (e.g., network binarization, quantization, and distillation), efficient generative model (e.g., efficient large language models and diffusion models), neuromorphic computing (e.g., spiking neural network), hardware acceleration (e.g., hardware-aware architecture search), etc. He is/was an Area Chair for BMVC'2024; a Program Committee member for ICML'(2023-2024), NeurIPS'2023, ICLR'2024, CVPR'(2023-2024), ICCV'2023, ECCV'2024, etc.; and an Organizer or Challenge Chair for workshops at CVPR'(2022-2024), AAAI'(2022-2023), and IEEE CAI'2024.

The following is an interview with Dr. Haotong Qin:

1. Could you please give us a brief overview of your research topic and the main objectives of your Ph.D. thesis?
As the thesis title describes, the research focuses on neural network compression, which is a technology that works on compressed bit-width in neural networks. Usually, we use 32-bit parameters for storage and computation. When compressing parameters to a lower bit width such as 8-bit, 2-bit, or even 1-bit, the computation can be very efficient, and the redundant parameter also allows for accuracy retention at a satisfactory level. Thus, my Ph.D. thesis engages in making the quantization technology work in a resource-limited scenario. One aspect is to construct accurate binarized/quantized networks for limited inference resources. For example, when we want to deploy networks on FPGA or mobile devices, the computation units are very limited compared to GPU servers, so they should first be compressed and then deployed on hardware devices for inference. The other aspect refers to the production because the quantization process also costs data and computation resources. For example, we research some post-training quantization, which means that we do not need to retain the whole network or use the whole data set in the quantization process; then, the production of quantization is very efficient. In summary, my Ph.D. research focused on enabling efficient deep learning through low-bit quantization.

2. What motivated you to pursue this research topic, and how did you formulate your research questions?
When I found out that the advanced deep learning models cost more and more with their rapid development, I started considering the topic. For example, the edge CPU is one of the most frequently used devices, but its challenge is much more significant when deploying deep neural networks because of its limited computation resources. If the computation resources requirements become much smaller, others can share the advanced AI fairly. So, I thought we should study how to reduce the computation resources of advanced AI models, such as neural networks. My initial research consisted of an extreme 1-bit compression technique named IR-Net. After the study, I found that advanced neural networks can be deployed and run on edge devices.

3. How did you manage your time and prioritize your tasks during your Ph.D. program, and what strategies did you use to stay focused and motivated?
For my Ph.D. study, my plan was to first conduct extensive surveys of existing works, then propose innovative quantization technologies, and finally to try to make systematic contributions to the field of model quantization study. Therefore, in 2018, around one year before I started my Ph.D. program, I began to organize a survey paper about neural network binarization. From then on, I have had a general understanding of the model compression areas. After that, I published my first paper on the topic of a binarized neural network, which first pointed out the importance of information retention. However, I found that it was too generic. Due to the different tasks and architecture, it struggled to function well on all tasks. In the following research, I began to build accurate quantization operator sets for different architectures and built efficient quantization pipelines for different data and computing resources. These pushed the quantization to be accurate and efficient and, finally, practical in real scenarios. In the last year of my Ph.D., we also built a benchmark for binarization to reflect on existing works that were not practical enough and to point out how to build an accurate and efficient 1-bit quantization method.

4. What were some of the biggest challenges you faced during your Ph.D. journey, and how did you overcome them?
The biggest challenge was to publish my first proposed method, as well as the first paper, at the top AI conference. It may be the biggest challenge for most Ph.D. students at the beginning of their journey, from 0 to 1. In the writing of the paper, the challenge focused on how to present my research or technologies structurally because when I first completed the study, I did not know how to correctly write a paper that was acceptable for the AI conference. Significant efforts and practice have been made for me to achieve this. But looking at it now, it's worth it.

5. When and how did you discover Electronics? What prompted you to apply for this award, and what has your experience been like with Electronics?
In 2019, at the beginning of my Ph.D., I read a review paper about binarized neural networks published in Electronics, which was one of my enlightenment papers. This paper described the status and applications of binarization well at that time, especially in hardware, so I was very impressed. In 2023, when I completed my Ph.D. defense, my advisor sent me an email about the Best Ph.D. Thesis Award. Electronics is a well-known academic journal and what I am researching matches well. I knew this was a great opportunity and I should not waste it. I am grateful to Electronics for providing this opportunity, which is significant to our young researchers.

6. Finally, how do you plan to continue building on your research in the future, and what are your long-term career aspirations?
My Ph.D. research made me realize that efficient deep learning is still very important to the AI community. Especially in this era, we always pursue powerful but computation-intensive generative models (such as large language models and diffusion models). The use of these computationally expensive models makes it difficult not only for individuals but also for universities and other institutions to research, produce, or even use this technology. Therefore, the demand for efficient deep learning has become more urgent and has a wide range of application scenarios. In my future research, I will work on creating resource-saving deep learning models in the era of large models and continuously expand the theoretical and application boundaries of model compression.

We are pleased to announce that Prof. Dr. Stefanos Kollias has been appointed Section Editor-in-Chief of the Section “Electronic Multimedia” in Electronics (ISSN: 2079-9292).

Prof. Dr. Stefanos Kollias is a professor at the School of Electrical & Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Greece, as well as Founding Professor of machine learning in the School of Computer Science in the University of Lincoln, UK. He is an IEEE Fellow with world-leading research experience in machine/deep learning and applications. He has published 300 papers in international journals and conferences, with 14500 citations (h-index: 58) in Google Scholar. He has supervised 50 Ph.D. students, half of which are academics in Europe and the USA. He has been a member of the Executive Committee of the European Neural Network Society and the European Commission Expert Group on AI for Cultural Heritage, as well as Chairman of the Board of the Greek National Infrastructures for Research & Technology. He has led his group in 100 European R&D projects, with EUR 20 million of funding.

His research interests cover machine and deep learning, trustworthy artificial intelligence, large-scale multimodal models, data analysis, search, retrieval and recognition, as well as applications in computer vision, personalized healthcare and medical imaging, human–computer interaction, cultural heritage, agri-food, industrial monitoring and anomaly prediction.

The following is a short Q&A with Prof. Dr. Stefanos Kollias, who shared his vision for the journal as well as his views on the research area and open access publishing:

1. What appealed to you about the journal that made you want to take the role as its Section Editor-in-Chief?
During the last few years, I have served as an Editor of MDPI’s journal Electronics and have appreciated the great interest of researchers, especially young ones in their early careers, as well as those who are more experienced, in submitting and publishing their work in the journal. Submitted papers have been tackling a large variety of significant and state-of-the-art research problems. In this way, Electronics is at the heart of the dynamically evolving research fields related to transferring from Industry 4.0 to Society 5.0. As Section Editor-in-Chief of Electronics, I will do my best to assist the continuous effort of the journal to achieve excellence along this journey.

2. What is your vision for the Section “Electronic Multimedia”?
The Section “Electronic Multimedia” reveals the underlying technological areas of interest, spanning areas from classical electronics to multimedia and multimodal data analysis. My vision is to expand these so as to cover the whole interaction between physical space and cyberspace, with the target of improving people’s well-being.

3. What does the future of this field of research look like?
Multimodal data are collected in the physical space by sensors and devices and are accumulated in cyberspace, where technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning are used to analyze the data, make meaningful decisions, and provide effective services to citizens and businesses. These are implemented by machines and robots, enhanced with VR and AR technologies, and materialized by systems such as 3D printers.

4. What do you think of the development of open access in the publishing field?
The development of open access in publishing can greatly assist the ability of researchers, policy makers, practitioners, clinicians, and the general public to search, find, read and use new knowledge and research outputs. Sharing this knowledge can boost its impact and facilitate the generation of new developments, tools, and products for the good of the people.

5. Do you have any valuable suggestions you would like to share with young students and early-career researchers?
My suggestion to them is to think of new ideas, analyze them in depth, evaluate them and use open access journals such as Electronics to get feedback and reviews in a short time, so as to form the basis for moving ahead in further research and developments.

We wish Prof. Dr. Stefanos Kollias every success in his position as Section Editor-in-Chief, and we look forward to his future contributions to the journal.

We are pleased to announce MDPI’s Transfer Service.

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The “Circuit and Signal Processing” Section of Electronics (ISSN: 2079-9292) provides comprehensive coverage of all topics of interest in the field of circuits. The aim of the Section is to bring together researchers, engineers and students from academia and industry to present novel ideas and solid research on theoretical and practical aspects of circuits and signal processing applications.

As our journals are open access, you have free and unlimited access to the full text of all articles published in them. You are welcome to read the list of highly cited papers published in 2022 below:

1. “New Resistor-Less Electronically Controllable ±C Simulator Employing VCII, DVCC, and a Grounded Capacitor”
by Giuseppe Ferri, Leila Safari, Gianluca Barile, Massimo Scarsella and Vincenzo Stornelli
Electronics 2022, 11(2), 286; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11020286
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/2/286

2. “Lightweight Architecture for Elliptic Curve Scalar Multiplication over Prime Field”
by Yue Hao, Shun’an Zhong, Mingzhi Ma, Rongkun Jiang, Shihan Huang, Jingqi Zhang and Weijiang Wang
Electronics 2022, 11(14), 2234; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11142234
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/14/2234

3. “A New Realization of Electronically Tunable Multiple-Input Single-Voltage Output Second-Order LP/BP Filter Using VCII”
by Leila Safari, Gianluca Barile, Giuseppe Ferri, Mattia Ragnoli and Vincenzo Stornelli
Electronics 2022, 11(4), 646; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11040646
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/4/646

4. “Learnable Wavelet Scattering Networks: Applications to Fault Diagnosis of Analog Circuits and Rotating Machinery”
by Varun Khemani, Michael H. Azarian and Michael G. Pecht
Electronics 2022, 11(3), 451; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11030451
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/3/451

5. “An Overview of Direction-of-Arrival Estimation Methods Using Adaptive Directional Time-Frequency Distributions”
by Pranav Kumar Eranti and Buket D. Barkana
Electronics 2022, 11(9), 1321; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11091321
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/9/1321

6. “Volatile Memristor in Leaky Integrate-and-Fire Neurons: Circuit Simulation and Experimental Study”
by Natasa M. Samardzic, Jovan S. Bajic, Dalibor L. Sekulic and Stanisa Dautovic
Electronics 2022, 11(6), 894; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11060894
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/6/894

7. “FPGA-Based Antipodal Chaotic Shift Keying Communication System”
by Filips Capligins, Anna Litvinenko, Deniss Kolosovs, Maris Terauds, Maris Zeltins and Dmitrijs Pikulins
Electronics 2022, 11(12), 1870; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11121870
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/12/1870

8. “Signals Recognition by CNN Based on Attention Mechanism”
by Feng Tian, Li Wang and Meng Xia
Electronics 2022, 11(13), 2100; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11132100
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/13/2100

As Editor-in-Chief of Electronics (ISSN: 2079-9292), I am pleased to announce the winners of the Electronics 2024 Travel Award. The award has been granted to Dr. Cui Ye and Dr. Luigi Vesce.

Name: Dr. Cui Ye
Affiliation: Postdoctoral researcher in the Division of Engineering and Applied Science, California Institute of Technology, USA
Research interests: flexible and wearable sensing devices; microfluidics; electrochemical biosensors (aptamer/antibody/enzyme-based PEC/ECL sensors); nanomaterials

Name: Dr. Luigi Vesce
Affiliation: Postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Electronic Engineering, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy
Research interests: photovoltaics; nanotechnology; electronics; technology transfer; process engineering

Each winner will receive an honorarium of CHF 800 and an electronic certificate.

With so many high-quality applicants, the evaluation process and final decision were challenging. We would like to thank all of the applicants for submitting their diverse and fascinating range of research topics.

On behalf of the assessment committee—Prof. Dr. George A. Tsihrintzis, Prof. Manuel Arrebola, and Prof. Inhee Lee—I would like to congratulate the winners on their accomplishments.

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

In acknowledgment of the groundbreaking achievements of Professor Tu Youyou, the Nobel laureate credited with the discovery of artemisinin, MDPI is proud to announce the Tu Youyou Award. This award, inaugurated in 2016, seeks to honor scholars who excel in the fields of natural products chemistry and medicinal chemistry.

Prize:

• CHF 100,000 in total (If there is more than one winner, the prize will be divided equally amongst the winners);
• An award medal for each winner.

Who should be nominated?

• Scientists with outstanding achievements and contributions in the fields of natural products chemistry and medicinal chemistry.

Who can submit a nomination?

• Academic research institutes
• Universities
• Academic societies

Any personal nominations are not accepted.

How do I submit a nomination?
Candidates’ institutional affiliations need to submit their nominations for final candidates to the Tu Youyou Award Team directly by email after internal screening, and each institution can only nominate a maximum of two candidates for each edition of the Tu Youyou Award. Please note that the nominations cannot be modified once they are submitted and confirmed by the Tu Youyou Award Team.

Required nomination materials:
Nomination Form (Download)

Schedule:
Nomination deadline: 31 December 2024;
Winner announcement: 30 April 2025.

Contact:
Tu Youyou Award Team ([email protected])

More information can be found on the Tu Youyou Award official website. For any inquiries, do not hesitate to contact the Tu Youyou Award Team.

MDPI Romania sponsored four events over the month of April, contributing author training sessions to each event.

The NutriSciLabs 2024 conference was held at the Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy on 12 April 2024. Organized by the Association of Students from the Faculty of Pharmacy Studies, the conference aimed to enhance students’ academic writing and research skills, and bolster their confidence in participating in the academic world. Ioana Paunescu, journal relations specialist for MDPI Romania, led the training session. Paunescu first outlined MDPI’s history and core values, then explained academic writing techniques, ethics, and similarity percentages. The presentation covered the entire editorial process, highlighting the amount of attention paid to details throughout manuscript processing. Paunescu also discussed common errors that authors make while writing, and how to avoid such errors.

On 13 April 2024, the NextGEN 2.0 Student Conference took place at the Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca. NextGen Healthcare organized this event with the university’s European Students’ Society to discuss European and international current affairs. MDPI Romania contributed an author training session called Steps of the Publication Process. Irina Codruta Zaharia, journal relations specialist, began the session with a general introduction of MDPI before diving into different article types, different layout formats, possible journals to submit to, the MDPI submission checklist, and the MDPI editorial process. By explaining the fundamentals of writing and publishing academic papers, Zaharia imparted valuable industry knowledge to the curious minds present. Participants were eager to engage with Zaharia in the subsequent Q&A session.

Celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, the International Conference “Students for Students” has long been a gathering place for undergraduate and postgraduate students of all nationalities to present their work and exchange ideas with each other. This year’s conference was held on 18 April 2024, with MDPI Romania contributing an author training session called The World of Open Access. Key speakers included Dr. Norbert Kiss from MDPI Romania and Prof. Dragos Horvath from Strasbourg University. Dr. Kiss discussed the history of open access, differences between open access publishing and traditional publishing, and implications for open access in the future. Attendees expressed keen interest in the subject, approaching Dr. Kiss with questions about academic publishing as well as his career trajectory.

Most recently, on 26 April 2024, MDPI Romania sponsored the National Symposium of Students from Geology and Geophysics Faculties. The AAPG Students Chapter at the Babes-Bolyai University organized this event as an opportunity for geology students from all Romanian universities to present their work and confer with other researchers. Dr. Kiss gave his lecture The World of Open Access at this event as well.

MDPI is thankful to all the participants, speakers, and organizers who attended these events. Through their enthusiasm and dedication, these events were great successes.

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

You have free and unlimited access to the full texts of all open access articles published in our journal. We invite you to read our most highly cited papers published in 2022 below.

1. “A Novel Airspace Planning Algorithm for Cooperative Target Localization”
by Yi Mao, Yongwen Zhu, Zhili Tang and Zhijie Chen
Electronics 2022, 11(18), 2950; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11182950  
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/18/2950

2. “Novel Multi-Vehicle Motion-Based Model of Trolleybus Grids towards Smarter Urban Mobility”
by Barbone Riccardo, Riccardo Mandrioli, Mattia Ricco, Rudolf Francesco Paternost, Vincenzo Cirimele and Gabriele Grandi
Electronics 2022, 11(6), 915; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11060915  
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/6/915

3. “Deep-Learning-Based Network for Lane Following in Autonomous Vehicles”
by Khanum Abida, Chao-Yang Lee and Chu-Sing Yang
Electronics 2022, 11(19), 3084; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11193084  
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/19/3084

4. “A Path Planning Method for Underground Intelligent Vehicles Based on an Improved RRT* Algorithm”
by Hao Wang, Guoqing Li, Jie Hou, Lianyun Chen and Nailian Hu
Electronics 2022, 11(3), 294; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11030294  
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/3/294

5. “Electric Mobility: An Overview of the Main Aspects Related to the Smart Grid”
by Barreto Rúben, Pedro Faria and Zita Vale
Electronics 2022, 11(9), 1311; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11091311  
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/9/1311

6. “A Novel ISO 26262-Compliant Test Bench to Assess the Diagnostic Coverage of Software Hardening Techniques against Digital Components Random Hardware Failures”
by Sini Jacopo, Massimo Violante and Fabrizio Tronci
Electronics 2022, 11(6), 901; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11060901  
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/6/901

7. “Autonomous Maneuver Decision Making of Dual-UAV Cooperative Air Combat Based on Deep Reinforcement Learning”
by Jinwen Hu, Luhe Wang, Tianmi Hu, Chubing Guo and Yanxiong Wang
Electronics 2022, 11(3), 467; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11030467  
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/3/467

8. “Intelligent Speed Control and Performance Investigation of a Vector Controlled Electric Vehicle Considering Driving Cycles”
by Adel Oubelaid, Nabil Taib, Srete Nikolovski, Turki E. A. Alharbi, Toufik Rekioua, Aymen Flah and Sherif S. M. Ghoneim
Electronics 2022, 11(13), 1925; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11131925  
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/13/1925

9. “Research on Co-Estimation Algorithm of SOC and SOH for Lithium-Ion Batteries in Electric Vehicles”
by Adel Oubelaid, Nabil Taib, Srete Nikolovski, Turki E. A. Alharbi, Toufik Rekioua, Aymen Flah and Sherif S. M. Ghoneim
Electronics 2022, 11(2), 181; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11020181  
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/2/181 

10. “Efficient Deep Reinforcement Learning for Optimal Path Planning”
by Jing Ren, Xishi Huang and Raymond N. Huang
Electronics 2022, 11(21), 3628; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11213628
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/21/3628

11. “Traffic Landmark Matching Framework for HD-Map Update: Dataset Training Case Study”
by Young-Kook Park, Hyunhee Park, Young-Su Woo, In-Gu Choi and Seung-Soo Han
Electronics 2022, 11(6), 863; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11060863  
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/6/863

12. “Research on Secure Communication on In-Vehicle Ethernet Based on Post-Quantum Algorithm NTRUEncrypt”
by Yuan Zhu, Yipeng Liu, Mingzhi Wu, Jinzhao Li, Shiyang Liu and Jianning Zhao
Electronics 2022, 11(6), 856; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11060856  
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/6/856

13. “The Fast Detection of Abnormal ETC Data Based on an Improved DTW Algorithm”
by Feng Guo, Fumin Zou, Sijie Luo, Lyuchao Liao, Jinshan Wu, Xiang Yu and Cheng Zhang
Electronics 2022, 11(13), 1981; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11131981
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/13/1981

14. “Performance Evaluation of VANET Routing Protocols in Madinah City”
by Mohammad A. R.Abdeen, Abdurrahman Beg, Saud Mohammad Mostafa, AbdulAziz AbdulGhaffar, Tarek R. Sheltami and Ansar Yasar
Electronics 2022, 11(5), 777; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11050777  
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/5/777

15. “Adaptive Fuzzy PID Control Strategy for Vehicle Active Suspension Based on Road Evaluation”
by Shi-Yuan Han, Jia-Feng Dong, Jin Zhou and Yue-Hui Chen
Electronics 2022, 11(6), 921; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11060921  
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/6/921

MDPI will be attending the 35th Irish Signals and Systems Conference in Belfast, UK, which will take place from 13 to 14 June 2024. The conference focuses on digital signal processing, control systems, communications and related fields of ICT, and encompasses algorithms and system modeling, design, and implementation for a broad range of applications.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Applied Sciences;
• Electronics;
• Drones;
• Mathematics;
• Network;
• Signals;
• Smart Cities;
• Systems;
• Telecom.

If you are attending the conference, please visit our booth. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person and answering any questions that you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit the following link: https://issc.ie/index.html.

Conference: 2024 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2024)
Organization: IEEE Information Theory Society
Date: 7–12 July 2024
Place: Athens, Greece

MDPI journals will be attending ISIT 2024 as an exhibitor. This meeting will be held in Athens, Greece, from 7 to 12 July 2024.

ISIT 2024 will feature contributed papers, tutorial sessions, social, mentoring, and outreach events, a simultaneous chess exhibition and chess talks, a data set competition (Bits&Bots), and, for the first time this year, satellite workshops. It will also feature outstanding plenary speakers: Andrew Barron (2024 Shannon Lecturer), Venkatesan Guruswami, Emina Soljanin, Rebecca Willett, and Gregory Wornell.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Entropy;
• BDCC;
• Information;
• Mathematics;
• Electronics;
• Future Internet;
• Computation;
• Cryptography;
• Data;
• Digital;
• JCP;
• Network;
• Symmetry;
• Informatics.

If you are attending this conference, please feel free to start a conversation with us. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person and answering any questions you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit the following website: https://2024.ieee-isit.org/.

The “Networks” Section of Electronics (ISSN: 2079-9292) 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.

As they are of an open access format, you have free and unlimited access to the full text of all the articles published in our journal. We welcome you to read our most highly cited papers published in 2022 listed below:

1. “Deep Learning-Based Object Detection and Scene Perception under Bad Weather Conditions”
by Teena Sharma, Benoit Debaque, Nicolas Duclos, Abdellah Chehri, Bruno Kinder and Paul Fortier
Electronics 2022, 11(4), 563; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11040563
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/4/563

2. “Cooperative SWIPT THz-NOMA/6G Performance Analysis”
by Haider W. Oleiwi and Hamed Al-Raweshidy
Electronics 2022, 11(6), 873; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11060873
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/6/873

3. “A Novel Localization Algorithm Based on RSSI and Multilateration for Indoor Environments”
by Jinze Du, Chao Yuan, Min Yue and Tao Ma
Electronics 2022, 11(2), 289; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11020289
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/2/289

4. “BiGRU-CNN Neural Network Applied to Electric Energy Theft Detection”
by Lucas Duarte Soares, Altamira de Souza Queiroz, Gloria P. López, Edgar M. Carreño-Franco, Jesús M. López-Lezama and Nicolás Muñoz-Galeano
Electronics 2022, 11(5), 693; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11050693
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/5/693

5. “Overview of Prospects for Service-Aware Radio Access towards 6G Networks”
by Zixiao Zhao, Qinghe Du, Dawei Wang, Xiao Tang and Houbing Song
Electronics 2022, 11(8), 1262; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11081262
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/8/1262

6. “Blockchain-Enabled: Multi-Layered Security Federated Learning Platform for Preserving Data Privacy”
by Zeba Mahmood and Vacius Jusas.
Electronics 2022, 11(10), 1624; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11101624
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/10/1624

7. “Machine Learning for Radio Resource Management in Multibeam GEO Satellite Systems”
by Flor G. Ortiz-Gomez, Lei Lei, Eva Lagunas, Ramon Martinez, Daniele Tarchi, Jorge Querol, Miguel A. Salas-Natera and Symeon Chatzinotas
Electronics 2022, 11(7), 992; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11070992
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/7/992

8. “An Approach to Combine the Power of Deep Reinforcement Learning with a Graph Neural Network for Routing Optimization”
by Bo Chen, Di Zhu, Yuwei Wang and Peng Zhang.
Electronics 2022, 11(3), 368; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11030368
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/3/368

9. “A Perceptual Encryption-Based Image Communication System for Deep Learning-Based Tuberculosis Diagnosis Using Healthcare Cloud Services”
by Ijaz Ahmad and Seokjoo Shin
Electronics 2022, 11(16), 2514; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11162514
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/16/2514

10. “Application of Improved Butterfly Optimization Algorithm Combined with Black Widow Optimization in Feature Selection of Network Intrusion Detection”
by Hui Xu, Yanping Lu and Qingqing Guo
Electronics 2022, 11(21), 3531; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11213531
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/21/3531

11. “SAGMAD—A Signature Agnostic Malware Detection System Based on Binary Visualisation and Fuzzy Sets”
by Betty Saridou, Joseph Ryan Rose, Stavros Shiaeles and Basil Papadopoulos
Electronics 2022, 11(7), 1044; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11071044
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/7/1044

12. “Federated AI-Enabled In-Vehicle Network Intrusion Detection for Internet of Vehicles”
by Jianfeng Yang, Jianling Hu and Tianqi Yu
Electronics 2022, 11(22), 3658; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11223658
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/22/3658

13. “LSTM-Based IoT-Enabled CO₂ Steady-State Forecasting for Indoor Air Quality Monitoring”
by Yingbo Zhu, Shahriar Abdullah Al-Ahmed, Muhammad Zeeshan Shakir and Joanna Isabelle Olszewska
Electronics 2023, 12(1), 107; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12010107
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/12/1/107

Conference: European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering and International Symposium on Process Systems Engineering (ESCAPE34-PSE24)
Date: 2–6 June 2024
Location: Florence, Italy

ESCAPE34-PSE24 combines the 34th European Symposium on Computer-Aided Process Engineering and the 15th International Symposium on Process Systems Engineering (PSE). The keynotes, presentations and discussions will be delivered over 4 days and will cover the progress made in the broad range of the methodologies of the PSE toolkit, including AI, data analytics and digitalization, as well as their impactful application in the energy, food, healthcare, materials and sustainability fields.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Processes;
• Electronics;
• Inventions;
• Technologies;
• Journal of Imaging;
• Modelling;
• Foundations;
• Computers.

Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person at the booth at the conference and answering any questions you may have. For more information regarding the conference, please visit the following link: https://www.aidic.it/escape34-pse24/index.php.

Many forms of powered electronics can convert and control electricity: electrical drives and generators; renewable energy systems; energy storage systems; smart cities and grids; power systems; transport (vehicles, aircraft, ships, and others); industrial, medical, military, telecommunications, and consumable devices, and home apparatus.

“Power Electronics” Section is devoted to publishing original research and state-of-the-art review papers on the emerging technologies and trends in this field, including the components, circuits, design, modeling, simulation, control, implementation, testing, and analysis of power electronics and their applications.

As they are of an open access format, you have free and unlimited access to the full text of all of the articles published in our journal. We welcome you to read our most highly cited papers published in 2022 below.

1. “Hardware-in-the-Loop Simulations: A Historical Overview of Engineering Challenges”
by Franc Mihalič, Mitja Truntič and Alenka Hren
Electronics 2022, 11(15), 2462; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11152462
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/15/2462

2. “A Review of Wireless Power Transfer Systems for Electric Vehicle Battery Charging with a Focus on Inductive Coupling”
by Iman Okasili, Ahmad Elkhateb and Timothy Littler
Electronics 2022, 11(9), 1355; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11091355
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/9/1355

3. “A Survey on Capacitor Voltage Control in Neutral-Point-Clamped Multilevel Converters”
by Salvador Alepuz, Sergio Busquets-Monge, Joan Nicolás-Apruzzese, Àlber Filbà-Martínez, Josep Bordonau, Xibo Yuan and Samir Kouro
Electronics 2022, 11(4), 527; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11040527
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/4/527

4. “Overview of Virtual Synchronous Generators: Existing Projects, Challenges, and Future Trends”
by Mohamed Abuagreb, Mohammed F. Allehyani and Brian K. Johnson
Electronics 2022, 11(18), 2843; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11182843
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/18/2843

5. “A Review of the State of the Art of Industrial Microgrids Based on Renewable Energy”
by Daniel Gutiérrez-Oliva, Antonio Colmenar-Santos and Enrique Rosales-Asensio
Electronics 2022, 11(7), 1002; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11071002
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/7/1002

6. “Progress on Second-Generation High-Temperature Superconductor Tape Targeting Resistive Fault Current Limiter Application”
by Jiamin Zhu, Sikan Chen and Zhijian Jin
Electronics 2022, 11(3), 297; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11030297
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/3/297

7. “Multiple-Output DC–DC Converters: Applications and Solutions”
by Salvador P. Litrán, Eladio Durán, Jorge Semião and Cristian Díaz-Martín
Electronics 2022, 11(8), 1258; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11081258
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/8/1258

8. “Stochastic Optimal Strategy for Power Management in Interconnected Multi-Microgrid Systems”
by Mahshid Javidsharifi, Hamoun Pourroshanfekr Arabani, Tamas Kerekes, Dezso Sera and Josep M. Guerrero
Electronics 2022, 11(9), 1424; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11091424
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/9/1424

9. “A Novel Adaptive PID Controller Design for a PEM Fuel Cell Using Stochastic Gradient Descent with Momentum Enhanced by Whale Optimizer”
by Mohammed Yousri Silaa, Oscar Barambones and Aissa Bencherif
Electronics 2022, 11(16), 2610; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11162610
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/11/16/2610

The “Circuits and Signal Processing” Section of Electronics (ISSN: 2079-9292) provides comprehensive coverage of all topics of interest in the field of circuits. The aim of the Section is to bring together researchers, engineers and students from academia and industry to present novel ideas and solid research on theoretical and practical aspects of circuits and signal processing applications.

As our journals are open access, you have free and unlimited access to the full text of all articles published in them. You are welcome to read the list of highly cited papers published in 2023 below:

1. “FPGA Implementation of a Chaotic Map with No Fixed Point”
by Claudio García-Grimaldo, Ciro Fabián Bermudez-Marquez, Esteban Tlelo-Cuautle and Eric Campos-Cantón
Electronics 2023, 12(2), 444; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12020444
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/12/2/444

2. “CMOS-Based Memristor Emulator Circuits for Low-Power Edge-Computing Applications”
by Prosenjit Kumar Ghosh, Shah Zayed Riam, Md Sharif Ahmed and Prabha Sundaravadivel
Electronics 2023, 12(7), 1654; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12071654
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/12/7/1654

3. “PSO-Based Target Localization and Tracking in Wireless Sensor Networks”
by Shu-Hung Lee, Chia-Hsin Cheng, Chien-Chih Lin and Yung-Fa Huang
Electronics 2023, 12(4), 905; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12040905
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/12/4/905

4. “Comparative Performance of UPQC Control System Based on PI-GWO, Fractional Order Controllers, and Reinforcement Learning Agent”
by Marcel Nicola, Claudiu-Ionel Nicola, Dumitru Sacerdoțianu and Adrian Vintilă
Electronics 2023, 12(3), 494; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12030494
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/12/3/494

5. “Distributed Deep Neural-Network-Based Middleware for Cyber-Attacks Detection in Smart IoT Ecosystem: A Novel Framework and Performance Evaluation Approach”
by Guru Bhandari, Andreas Lyth, Andrii Shalaginov and Tor-Morten Grønli
Electronics 2023, 12(2), 298; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12020298
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/12/2/298

6. “Integrated Circuit Design of Fractional-Order Chaotic Systems Optimized by Metaheuristics”
by Martin Alejandro Valencia-Ponce, Astrid Maritza González-Zapata, Luis Gerardo de la Fraga, Carlos Sanchez-Lopez and Esteban Tlelo-Cuautle
Electronics 2023, 12(2), 413; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12020413
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/12/2/413

7. “CMOS Widely Tunable Second-Order Gm-C Bandpass Filter for Multi-Sine Bioimpedance Analysis”
by Israel Corbacho, Juan M. Carrillo, José L. Ausín, Miguel Á. Domínguez, Raquel Pérez-Aloe and J. Francisco Duque-Carrillo
Electronics 2023, 12(6), 1326; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12061326
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/12/6/1326

8. “Rethinking Liquid Crystal Tunable Phase Shifter Design with Inverted Microstrip Lines at 1–67 GHz by Dissipative Loss Analysis”
by Jinfeng Li
Electronics 2023, 12(2), 421; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12020421
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9292/12/2/421