It is our honor to congratulate the authors of the articles below, which have been marked as “Hot Papers” according to the Web of Science data. You are all welcome to read the articles and forward this news to your colleagues.

1. “Revisiting the Role of Fiscal Policy, Financial Development, and Foreign Direct Investment in Reducing Environmental Pollution during Globalization Mode: Evidence from Linear and Nonlinear Panel Data Approaches”
by Kamal, M.; Usman, M.; Jahanger, A.; Balsalobre-Lorente, D.
Energies 2021, 14, 6968. https://doi.org/10.3390/en14216968.

2. “The Impact of Globalization, Energy Use, and Trade on Ecological Footprint in Pakistan: Does Environmental Sustainability Exist?”
by Rehman, A.; Radulescu, M.; Ma, H.; Dagar, V.; Hussain, I.; Khan, M.K.
Energies 2021, 14, 5234. https://doi.org/10.3390/en14175234.

3. “Performance Comparison and Current Challenges of Using Machine Learning Techniques in Cybersecurity”
by Shaukat, K.; Luo, S.; Varadharajan, V.; Hameed, I.A.; Chen, S.; Liu, D.; Li, J.
Energies 2020, 13, 2509. https://doi.org/10.3390/en13102509.

4. “Do Perceived Risk, Perception of Self-Efficacy, and Openness to Technology Matter for Solar PV Adoption? An Application of the Extended Theory of Planned Behavior”
by Tanveer, A.; Zeng, S.; Irfan, M.; Peng, R.
Energies 2021, 14, 5008. https://doi.org/10.3390/en14165008.

5. “Techno-Economic Planning and Operation of the Microgrid Considering Real-Time Pricing Demand Response Program”
by Yu, Z.-X.; Li, M.-S.; Xu, Y.-P.; Aslam, S.; Li, Y.-K.
Energies 2021, 14, 4597. https://doi.org/10.3390/en14154597.

Energies Editorial Office

We are pleased to announce the launch of a new initiative, the Energies Special Issue Mentor Program.

This program intends to provide an opportunity for early career scientists to enhance their editing, networking, and organizational skills and to work closely with our journal to gain more editorial experience. Early career scientists who have novel ideas for new Energies Special Issues will act as Guest Editors under the mentorship of an experienced scientist; this mentor could be a member of the Editorial Board of Energies (ISSN: 1996-1073), from other well-established research institutes or laboratories, etc.

Early career scientist’s responsibilities:

• Providing a CV, including a list of publications;
• Proposing a Special Issue title and a short introduction;
• Writing a brief promotion plan for the Special Issue;
• Writing an editorial for the online Special Issue;
• Reviewing and making decisions for submissions under the mentorship of our Editorial Board Members.

Mentor’s responsibilities:

• Conducting a final check before the Special Issue is published online;
• Co-editing the Special Issue with younger scholars and performing quality control of the publications in the Special Issue;
• Providing suggestions to younger scholars if they have doubts or concerns regarding submissions;
• Organizing video calls with young scholars and the office regularly to discuss problems and improvement suggestions for the Special Issue.

Certificates and awards:

When the Special Issue is closed, the Editorial Office will provide official certificates for all the mentors. The younger scholars will be prioritized as candidates for Energies Young Investigator Awards in future editions.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please send your Special Issue proposal to the Energies Editorial Office ([email protected]), and we will discuss the process (mentor collaboration, Special Issue topic feasibility analysis, etc.) in further detail.

In addition to the new Special Issue Mentor Program, Energies will continually welcome all Special Issue proposals based on hot research topics as usual.

Energies Editorial Office

In 2021, we received 15,603 new submissions, with an annual growth of 10.3%, and published 8626 papers, an increase of 28.23%. The median processing time (from submission to publication online) was 40 days in 2021. A total of 412 new Editorial Board Members have joined us, and the number of Editorial Board Members increased to 1829. A total of 928 Topical Advisory Panels and 506 Reviewer Board Members also newly joined. We now have 18,542 subscribers in total. In 2021, we received a new Impact Factor of 3.004 (2020) and Scopus CiteScore of 4.7.

Energies has been expanding its scope with eleven new Sections: “Electrical Power System”; “Distributed Energy System”; “Power Electronics”; “High Voltage”; “Carbon Emission and Utilization”; “Heat and Mass Transfer”; “Thermodynamics”; “Phase Change Materials for Energy Storage”; “Petroleum Engineering”; “Geothermal” and “Fossil”, and has now published in twenty-seven topical sections. The journal will continue to attract more authors from all over the world who appreciate its very efficient peer-review and publishing processes.

High Altimetric Papers

• Section “I: Energy Economics and Policy”:

An Economically Viable 100% Renewable Energy System for All Energy Sectors of Germany in 2030

Dr. Thure Traber et al.

• Section “A8: Artificial Intelligence and Smart Energy”:

It Is Still Possible to Achieve the Paris Climate Agreement: Regional, Sectoral, and Land-Use Pathways

Dr. Sven Teske et al.

• Section “B: Sustainable Energy”:

Technology for the Recovery of Lithium from Geothermal Brines

Dr. William T. Stringfellow et al.

• Section “I: Energy Economics and Policy”:

Confronting Energy Poverty in Europe: A Research and Policy Agenda

Prof. Dr. Stefan Bouzarovski et al.

Collections/Special Issues

Energies runs Special Issues to create collections of papers on specific topics. The aim is to build a community of authors and readers to discuss the latest research and develop new ideas and research directions. Special Issues are led by Guest Editors who are experts in the subject and oversee the editorial process for papers. Papers published in a Special Issue will be collected on a dedicated page of the journal website.

Hot Special Issues

• “Management and Technology for Energy Efficiency Development”;
• “Assessment of Photovoltaic-Battery Systems”;
• “Energy Supply within Sustainable Agricultural Production: Challenges, Policies and Mechanisms”;
• “Energy Policy for a Sustainable Economic Growth”.

Open Calls

• Topical Collection “Feature Papers in Smart Grids and Microgrids”
  edited by Prof. Dr. José Matas, Prof. Dr. Saeed Golestan and Prof. Dr. Helena Martin
• Topical Collection “Featured Papers in Electrical Power and Energy System”
  edited by Prof. Dr. Nicu Bizon, Dr. Mihai Oproescu, Prof. Dr. Philippe Poure, Prof. Dr. Rocío Pérez de Prado, and Dr. Abdessattar Abdelkefi
• Topical Collection “Feature Papers in Bio-Energy”
  edited by Prof. Dr. Fernando Rubiera González and Dr. Covadonga Pevida García

Read the full list of open calls here: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/energies/special_issues.

Recruiting

• Topical Advisory Panel Member;
• Editorial Board Members;
• Reviewer Board Members.

On behalf of the editorial team, we would like to express our gratitude to the Editor-in-Chief of Energies, all Associate Editor-in-Chief, all Section Editors-in-Chief and Editorial Board Members, as well as to the Guest Editors of Special Issues, Topical Advisory Panel Members, and Reviewer Board Members, all of whom have ensured the continued success of the journal through their hard work and diligence. In 2022, Energies will continue to contribute to academic exchange and the sharing of knowledge.

1. “Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles—A Brief Review of Current Topologies and Energy Management Strategies”
Ioan-Sorin Sorlei et al.
Energies 2021, 14(1), 252; 10.3390/en14010252
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/14/1/252

2. “Critical Review of Flywheel Energy Storage System”
Abdul Ghani Olabi et al.
Energies 2021, 14(8), 2159; 10.3390/en14082159
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/14/8/2159

3. “Methane Cracking for Hydrogen Production: A Review of Catalytic and Molten Media Pyrolysis”
Malek Msheik et al.
Energies 2021, 14(11), 3107; 10.3390/en14113107
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/14/11/3107

4. “Impact of COVID19 on Operational Activities of Manufacturing Organizations—A Case Study and Industry 4.0-Based Survive-Stabilise-Sustainability (3S) Framework”
Mutahhar A. Dar et al.
Energies 2021, 14(7), 1900; 10.3390/en14071900
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/14/7/1900

5. “Energy Sector Risk and Cost of Capital Assessment—Companies and Investors Perspective”
Justyna Franc-Dąbrowska et al.
Energies 2021, 14(6), 1613; 10.3390/en14061613
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/14/6/1613

6. “Refrigeration of COVID-19 Vaccines: Ideal Storage Characteristics, Energy Efficiency and Environmental Impacts of Various Vaccine Options”
Alexandre F. Santos et al.
Energies 2021, 14(7), 1849; 10.3390/en14071849
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/14/7/1849

7. “Cryptocurrency Mining from an Economic and Environmental Perspective. Analysis of the Most and Least Sustainable Countries”
Sergio Luis Náñez Alonso et al.
Energies 2021, 14(14), 4254; 10.3390/en14144254
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/14/14/4254

8. “End of Electric Vehicle Batteries: Reuse vs. Recycle”
Yash Kotak et al.
Energies 2021, 14(8), 2217; 10.3390/en14082217
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/14/8/2217

9. “Tourism in the Era of Covid-19 and Its Impact on the Environment”
Rafał Nagaj et al.
Energies 2021, 14(7), 2000; 10.3390/en14072000
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/14/7/2000

10. “A Theoretical Framework for Industry 4.0 and Its Implementation with Selected Practical Schedules”
Bożena Gajdzik et al.
Energies 2021, 14(4), 940; 10.3390/en14040940
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/14/4/940

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We look forward to hearing from you soon.

Energies (ISSN 1996-1073) is recruiting Editorial Board Members for the following eleven new sections:

• Electrical Power System;
• Distributed Energy System;
• Power Electronics;
• High Voltage;
• Carbon Emission and Utilization;
• Heat and Mass Transfer;
• Thermodynamics;
• Phase Change Materials for Energy Storage;
• Petroleum Engineering;
• Geothermal;
• Fossil.

We are currently recruiting Editorial Board Members (EBMs) for the above mentioned sections. If you are interested in this position or if you could recommend potential candidates, please contact Ms. Estelle Chen ([email protected]).

Energies is an open access journal of scientific research, technology development, engineering policy, and management studies related to the general field of energy supply, conversion, dispatch, and final use. It achieved a 2020 Journal Impact Factor of 3.004 and the CiteScore is 4.7. The website of Energies can be accessed here. Alternatively, you may wish to submit your work directly via the entrance here.

As an Editorial Board Member, you would have the following responsibilities:

• Making decisions on whether a manuscript can be accepted or not, based on the reports we collect;
• Editing a Special Issue on a topic related to your research interests when it is convenient for you;
• Promoting Energies and increasing its visibility at related academic conferences.

To apply or request further information, please contact Ms. Estelle Chen ([email protected]). We look forward to hearing from you soon.

We are now recruiting Reviewer Board Members (RBMs) for the journal Energies (ISSN: 1996-1073). If you are an active researcher in the field and are passionate about publishing cutting-edge research, do not hesitate to contact the Energies Editorial Office ([email protected]).

Energies is an international, peer-reviewed, and open access journal on the topic of energy engineering and research. Energies was launched in 2008 and the journal is indexed by Science Citation Index Expanded, Scopus, Ei Compendex, and other relevant databases. The 2020 Impact Factor of Energies is 3.004 and CiteScore is 4.7.

The benefits of joining our Reviewer Board are as follows:

• For each review, you will receive a discount voucher that can be used for reducing the article processing charge (APC) of a future submission to any MDPI journal;
• You may publish one paper per year with a 20% discount after standard peer-review in Energies;
• You will be considered for the journal’s outstanding reviewer award;
• You will receive a personalized reviewer certificate;
• You will have the ability to adjust your review frequency based on your schedule in our system;
• You can verify and showcase your peer review and editorial contributions for our journal.

We are now recruiting Special Issue Guest Editors (GEs) for the "Nuclear Energy" Section (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/energies/sections/Nuclear_Energy) of the journal Energies (ISSN: 1996-1073). If you are an active researcher in the field and are passionate about publishing cutting-edge research, please do not hesitate to contact Section Managing Editor Mr. Stephen Wang (email: [email protected]).

Today, nuclear energy accounts for over 10% of global energy generation and the number of nuclear reactors deployed continues to grow steadily. However, if nuclear energy is to remain a sustainable energy source, innovations must be made. Therefore, this section covers the design and operation of present and future nuclear power plants, as well as related technologies. It provides a forum to discuss and present recent R&D results, technologies, and best practices relating to nuclear power plants for both fission and fusion technologies. Accepted papers can include small modular reactors designs, technologies, and operation. Research results on advanced and innovative nuclear fuel cycles are also welcome.

Reactor core analysis methods/codes/tools, sensitivity analysis, uncertainty quantification, artificial intelligence technique applications, and multiphysics analysis through linkage with other research areas are also included in the section topics. The crucial and decisive factors enabling the sustained long-term operation, safety, and profitability of nuclear systems are addressed; this can be achieved through applying optimum management strategies and understanding the ways in which safety-relevant systems, structures, and components perform and their impact on plant availability, reliability, and performance. Additionally, experimental and numerical analyses of nuclear systems are a key topic of the section.

The “Nuclear Energy” Section addresses the role of nuclear energy in future electricity markets, which may feature a high presence of renewables and other variable sources as well as inexpensive peaking capacity. The technologies considered in this section will enable nuclear power systems to realize optimal performances in a sustainable manner. In fact, one additional purpose of this section is to review and debate the sustainability dimensions of nuclear power based on the latest understanding of nuclear plant technologies, economic costs, climate change, and other externalities. The central goal of this section is to show that nuclear energy can contribute to mankind’s development in a clean and green way. 

Scope

• Advanced nuclear systems (including space nuclear reactors);
• Nuclear fuel cycles;
• Nuclear fusion and fission technologies;
• Nuclear power plants (including SMR) design and operation;
• Nuclear power plants economics;
• Nuclear power plants integration with the grid;
• Nuclear reactor engineering;
• Nuclear reactor physics;
• Nuclear safety and security;
• Nuclear batteries;
• Radiation detection and protection systems;
• Sustainability of nuclear energy systems.

Energies is an international, peer-reviewed, and open access journal on the study of energy engineering and research. Energies was launched in 2008 and has published more than 12,000 articles in various formats (including articles, reviews, communications, etc.). The journal is indexed by Science Citation Index Expanded, Scopus, Compendex, and other relevant databases. The 2020 Impact Factor of Energies is 3.004.

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

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

Guest Editorship: 2–3 editors in a team. This should balance the workload for the editors and enable an internal discussion in case any controversial issues arise. Moreover, as the Guest Editors have different research networks, their cooperation would broaden the coverage of potential authors, thereby increasing the influence of the Special Issue. Once your proposal has been approved, you can start organizing a team. The Publisher and the Editor-in-Chief will review these co-editors to ensure that they meet the journal’s editorial requirements. We encourage teams to include editors from multiple institutions and locations. This diversity reduces potential conflicts of interest and helps the Special Issue reach a wider audience.

If you are interested in editing a Special Issue, please contact us before 31 December 2021. To propose or request further information, please contact the Energies Editorial Office ([email protected]). We look forward to hearing from you soon.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• 29 October 2021
  Processes journal and Beijing Institute of Technology

• 29 October 2021
  Coatings journal and Wuhan University of Technology

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

We are now recruiting Special Issue Guest Editors (GEs) for the "Energy Economics and Policy" Section (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/energies/sections/energy_economics_policy) of the journal Energies (ISSN: 1996-1073). If you are an active researcher in the field and are passionate about publishing cutting-edge research, please do not hesitate to contact the Section Managing Editor Mr. Stephen Wang (email: [email protected]).

Energy policy is the manner in which a given entity (governments, industry groups, businesses) addresses issues of energy development, production, distribution, and consumption. This section also provides a forum for communicating recent advances in energy policy; the economic and innovation aspects of the economics and policy of energy supply, trading, delivery, and consumption; combining expertise in innovation theory; energy system organizations and institutions; and the wider policy and regulatory context of energy. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Energy finance and energy markets
  • Economic models;
  • Costs and pricing of renewable resources (oil, natural gas, etc.);
  • Power transmission;
  • Business models;
  • Carbon/electricity markets.
• Energy demand and supply
  • Energy demand management;
  • Energy supply chain management;
  • Energy supply security and reliability;
  • Analysis and forecasting of electric power/natural gas/coal/fuels/petroleum products.
• Sustainable energy transition
  • Decarbonization;
  • Innovation challenges in the energy sector and its industries;
  • Transition in energy systems, electricity, and energy infrastructure;
  • Renewable energy sources;
  • Energy justice and wellbeing.
• Energy and environmental economics/policy
  • Emissions trading (SO₂, CO₂);
  • Carbon sequestration and storage;
  • Lifecycle carbon assessment;
  • Renewable resource assessment;
  • Climate change mitigation and adaptation;
  • Regulatory changes and innovations.
• Energy policy
  • Energy policy-making (bioenergy, climate, etc.);
  • Emerging policy issues;
  • Energy law and regulation.
• Energy generation, storage, distribution and use
  • Energy cost and affordability;
  • Energy efficiency;
  • Energy use in critical industries;
  • New and emerging technologies influencing energy production or consumption.
• Relationships between energy and economic development
  • Energy and national development;
  • Energy and urban development;
  • Economic growth and sustainable energy production (electricity/coal/household, etc.).

Energies is an international, peer-reviewed, and open access journal on the study of energy engineering and research. Energies was launched in 2008 and has published more than 12,000 articles in various formats (including articles, reviews, communications, etc.). The journal is indexed by Science Citation Index Expanded, Scopus, Compendex, and other relevant databases. The 2020 Impact Factor of Energies is 3.004.

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

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

Guest Editorship: 2–3 editors in a team. This should balance the workload for the editors and enable an internal discussion in case any controversial issues arise. Moreover, as the Guest Editors have different research networks, their cooperation will broaden the coverage of potential authors, thereby increasing the influence of the Special Issue. Once your proposal has been approved, you can start organizing a team. The Publisher and the Editor-in-Chief will review these co-editors to ensure that they meet the journal’s editorial requirements. We encourage teams to include editors from multiple institutions and locations. This diversity reduces potential conflicts of interest and helps the Special Issue reach a wider audience.

If you are interested in editing a Special Issue, please contact us before 31 December 2021. To propose or request further information, please contact the Energies Editorial Office ([email protected]). We look forward to hearing from you soon.

We are now recruiting Editorial Board Members (EBMs) for the “Thermal Management” Section (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/energies/sections/thermal_management) of the journal Energies (ISSN: 1996-1073). If you are an active researcher in the field and are passionate about publishing cutting-edge research, please do not hesitate to contact Section Managing Editor Ms. Gillian Yang (email: [email protected]). 

Energies is an international, peer-reviewed, and open access journal on the study of energy engineering and research. Energies was launched in 2008 and has published more than 12,000 articles in various formats (including articles, reviews, communications, etc.). The journal is indexed by Science Citation Index Expanded, Scopus, Compendex, and other relevant databases. The 2020 Impact Factor of Energies is 3.004. 

Energies Editorial Board Members will receive a number of benefits, including the following: 

• Publishing one paper free of charge per year in Energies, and a potential discount for additional papers you invite;
• A recognition certificate as an Editorial Board Member of Energies;
• Energies will offer additional sponsorships for conferences organized by Editorial Board Members;
• Travel grants of CHF 500 per year for conferences that you attend or organize. 

The responsibilities of Editorial Board Members include the following: 

• Supervising the editorial process, including prescreening submissions and making final decisions on whether to accept or reject papers;
• Contributing your work and inviting three papers to Energies (the Editorial Office will prepare the list of potential authors and the invitation template);
• Choosing to edit a Special Issue on a topic related to your research, or recommending potential topics and Guest Editors;
• Promoting Energies and published papers among your peers or at conferences that you attend or organize (through materials such as flyers or business cards, which can be designed and shipped to your office). 

If you have any questions, suggestions, or recommendations, please do not hesitate to let us know. We look forward to working with you on this promising journal.

We are now recruiting Editorial Board Members (EBMs) for the Section “Geo-Energy” (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/energies/sections/geo_energy) of Energies (ISSN: 1996-1073). If you are an active researcher in the field and are passionate about publishing cutting-edge research, please do not hesitate to contact Section Managing Editor Ms. Gillian Yang (email: [email protected]). 

Energies is an international, peer-reviewed, and open access journal on the study of energy engineering and research. Energies was launched in 2008 and has published more than 12,000 articles in various formats (including articles, reviews, communications, etc.). The journal is indexed by Science Citation Index Expanded, Scopus, Compendex, and other relevant databases. The 2020 Impact Factor of Energies is 3.004. 

Energies Editorial Board Members will receive a number of benefits, including the following: 

• Publishing one paper free of charge per year in Energies, and a potential discount for additional papers you invite;
• A recognition certificate as an Editorial Board Member of Energies;
• Energies will offer additional sponsorships for conferences organized by Editorial Board Members;
• Travel grants of CHF 500 per year for conferences that you attend or organize. 

The responsibilities of Editorial Board Members include the following: 

• Supervising the editorial process, including prescreening submissions and making final decisions on whether to accept or reject papers;
• Contributing your work and inviting three papers to Energies (the Editorial Office will prepare the list of potential authors and the invitation template);
• Choosing to edit a Special Issue on a topic related to your research, or recommending potential topics and Guest Editors;
• Promoting Energies and published papers among your peers or at conferences that you attend or organize (through materials such as flyers or business cards, which can be designed and shipped to your office). 

If you have any questions, suggestions, or recommendations, please do not hesitate to let us know. We look forward to working with you.

MDPI will be attending the 21st Chinese Zeolite Conference (21 CZC), hosted by the Chinese Zeolite Association and China University of Petroleum, which will be held from 27 to 30 September 2021 in Qingdao, China. The conference will be held at the International Conference Center of China Railway Qingdao World Expo City. More than 1500 delegates are expected to attend.

The theme of this conference is “Porous Materials and Future Energy”. The conference aims to show the latest progress in the field of zeolite and porous material in China and discuss the responsibilities, opportunities, and challenges in zeolite and related porous functional material chemistry in the new era of energy reform and sustainable development. We also aim to further promote the development and achievements of zeolite science and technology.

The main topics of the conference include: the synthesis, modification, and characterization of porous zeolite materials; host-guest chemistry and functional materials; adsorption, separation, and diffusion performances; porous material catalysis and chemical processes; theoretical calculations and simulations of porous material properties, structures, and applications.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Molecules;
• Separations;
• Energies;
• Crystals;
• Materials;
• Membranes;
• Inorganics;
• Sustainability;
• Sustainable Chemistry;
• Symmetry;
• Reactions.

If you are also attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth (#B20). Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person to answer any questions you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit https://www.chemsoc.org.cn/meeting/21czc/.

We are now recruiting Editorial Board Members (EBMs) for the Section “Energy and Climate Change” (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/energies/sections/Energy_Climate_Change) of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). If you are an active researcher in the field and passionate about publishing cutting-edge research, please do not hesitate to contact the Section Managing Editor Mr. Charles Huang (email: [email protected]). 

Energies is an international, peer-reviewed, and open access journal on the study of energy engineering and research. Energies was launched in 2008 and has published more than 12,000 articles in various formats (including articles, reviews, communications, etc.). The journal is indexed by Science Citation Index Expanded, Scopus, Compendex, and other relevant databases. The 2020 Impact Factor of Energies is 3.004. 

Benefits of Energies Editorial Board Members include the following: 

• Publishing one paper free of charge per year in Energies, and potential discount for additional papers you invite;
• A recognition certificate as an Editorial Board Member of Energies;
• Energies will offer additional sponsorships for conferences organized by Editorial Board Members;
• Travel grants of CHF 500 per year for conferences that you attend or organize. 

Responsibilities of Editorial Board Members include the following: 

• Supervising the editorial process, including prescreening submissions and making final decisions on whether to accept or reject papers;
• Contributing your work and inviting three papers to Energies (the Editorial Office will prepare the list of potential authors and the invitation template);
• Choosing to edit a Special Issue on a topic related to your research, or recommending potential topics and Guest Editors;
• Promoting Energies and published papers among your peers or at conferences that you attend or organize (through materials like flyers or business cards, which can be designed and shipped to your office). 

If you have any questions, suggestions, or recommendations, please do not hesitate to let us know. We look forward to working with you.

Rigorous peer-review is the cornerstone of high-quality academic publishing. Over 369,916 scholars served as reviewers for MDPI journals in 2020. We are extremely appreciative of all those who made a contribution to the editorial process in this capacity. At the beginning of every year, journal editorial offices publish a list of all reviewers’ names to express our gratitude. In addition, this year, the MDPI Top Reviewer Award was announced, to recognize the very best reviewers for their expertise and dedication, and their high-quality, and timely review reports. We are pleased to announce the following winners of the 2020 MDPI Top Reviewer Award:

• Adriana Burlea-Schiopoiu;
• Alban Kuriqi;
• Álvaro González-Vila;
• Alessandro Alaimo;
• Alexey Beskopylny;
• Alexander Yu Churyumov;
• Alberto Fernández-Isabel;
• Andrea Mastinu;
• Antonios N. Papadopoulos;
• Anton Rassõlkin;
• Antonio Humberto Hamad Minervino;
• Arkadiusz Matwijczuk;
• Artur Słomka;
• Baojie He;
• Bartłomiej Potaniec;
• Bojan Đurin;
• Camilo Arturo Rodriguez Diaz;
• Carmelo Maria Musarella;
• Chiachung Chen;
• Chiman Kwan;
• Cristian Busu;
• Danil Pimenov;
• Dan-Cristian Dabija;
• Delfín Ortega-Sánchez;
• Demetrio Antonio Zema;
• Denis Butusov;
• Elena Lucchi;
• Gaurab Dutta;
• Livia Anastasiu;
• M. R. Safaei.

For more information about how to become a reviewer of MDPI journals, please see: www.mdpi.com/reviewers.

UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all. In 2020 the SDG Publishers Compact was launched, aimed to inspire publishers and accelerate progress to achieve the 17 goals by 2030. Members of the programme are committed to support the publication of materials that will promote and inspire actions towards SDGs.

MDPI is an eager advocate of SDGs and has already been supporting the programme by creating Special Issues and publishing a series of books on SDGs prior to joining the Compact in 2021. MDPI's Sustainability Foundation initiated the World Sustainability Awards in 2016. We fully support UN's goals to promote sustainable actions that make the world a better place for all and, as part of its commitment, we will focus our actions on SDG10: Reduced Inequalities whilst promoting all 17 SDGs. For more details, please visit the programme’s website: https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sdg-publishers-compact/.

Joining this initiative was a unanimous decision. MDPI has in its core values the dissemination of science for all, breaking the wall between research access and under-represented members of the scientific community and the general population. To support this initiative further and continue to support under-represented scientists, MDPI will take a series of actions that will be announced once ready.

The first action MDPI takes is to nominate Dr. Liliane Auwerter as the coordinator of the programme. Dr. Auwerter studied Environmental Process Technology (UTFPR, Brazil), obtained her MSc degree in Water and Environmental Engineering (University of Surrey, UK) and in 2020 completed her PhD in self-healing low-friction materials for water transport (Imperial College London, UK), always focusing on diverse scientific projects that would potentially bring sustainability to industrial processes. As a student in Brazil, she engaged in volunteering activities focused on environmental education and took part in the Millennial Development Goals meetings held at the university.

For more information, please contact:
Dr. Liliane Auwerter
Scientific Officer
[email protected]

Energies (ISSN: 1996-1073) is calling for Special Issue proposals for the following 32 Sections:

• Electrical Power and Energy System
• Energy Fundamentals and Conversion
• Energy Sources
• Energy Storage and Application
• Sustainable Energy
• Thermal Management
• Energy Economics and Policy
• Hydrogen Energy
• Energy and Buildings
• Geo-Energy
• Energy and Environment
• Bio-Energy
• Solar Energy and Photovoltaic Systems
• Wind, Wave and Tidal Energy
• Smart Grids and Microgrids
• Advanced Energy Materials
• Electric Vehicles
• State-of-the-Art Energy Related Technologies
• Fuel
• Electrochem: Batteries, Fuel Cells, Capacitors
• Nanoenergy
• Carbon Energy
• Nuclear Energy
• Clean Energy
• Energy Chemistry
• Energy and Climate Change
• Energy and Combustion Science
• Critical Energy Infrastructure
• Artificial Intelligence and Smart Energy
• Exergy
• Energetics
• Smart Cities and Urban Management

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

Any other proposals within the scope of the journal are also welcome; for further information please see: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/energies/about.

The following information is required to be submitted: Special Issue title, introduction, and planned paper list.

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

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

Guest Editorship: 2–3 editors in a team. This should balance the workload for the editors and enable an internal discussion in case any controversial issues arise. Moreover, as the Guest Editors have different research networks, the cooperation would broaden the coverage of potential authors, thereby increasing the influence of the Special Issue. Once your proposal has been approved, you can start organizing a team. The Publisher and Editor-in-Chief will review these co-editors to ensure that they meet the journal’s editorial requirements. We encourage teams to include editors from multiple institutions and locations. This diversity reduces potential conflicts of interest and helps the Special Issue reach a wider audience.

If you are interested in editing a Special Issue, please contact us before 31 December 2021. To propose or request further information, please contact the Energies Editorial Office ([email protected]). We look forward to hearing from you soon.

Energies (ISSN 1996-1073; IF 3.004, CiteScore: 4.7) is a peer-reviewed open access journal in energy engineering and research. It has been indexed by the Science Citation Index Expanded (Web of Science), Scopus, Ei Compendex, and other databases. Energies is committed to rapid publication. A first decision is provided to authors approximately 16 days after submission, and once accepted, an article is published in less than four days. The website of Energies can be accessed here.

We are now recruiting Editorial Board Members (EBMs) for the Section “Energy and Environment” (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/energies/sections/energy_environment) of Energies. If you are an active researcher in the field and passionate about publishing cutting-edge research, please do not hesitate to contact the Section Managing Editor Mr. Charles Huang (email: [email protected]). 

Energies is an international, peer-reviewed, and open access journal on the study of energy engineering and research. Energies was launched in 2008 and has published more than 12,000 articles in various formats (including articles, reviews, communications, etc.). The journal is indexed by Science Citation Index Expanded, Scopus, Compendex, and other relevant databases. The 2020 Impact Factor of Energies is 3.004. 

Benefits of Energies Editorial Board Members include the following: 

• Publishing one paper free of charge per year in Energies, and potential discount for additional papers you invite;
• A recognition certificate as an Editorial Board Member of Energies;
• Additional sponsorships for conferences organized by Editorial Board Members;
• Travel grants of CHF 500 per year for conferences that you attend or organize. 

Responsibilities of Editorial Board Members include the following: 

• Supervising the editorial process, including prescreening submissions and making final decisions on whether to accept or reject papers;
• Contributing your work and inviting three papers to Energies (the Editorial Office will prepare the list of potential authors and the invitation template);
• Choosing to edit a Special Issue on a topic related to your research, or recommending potential topics and Guest Editors;
• Promoting Energies and published papers among your peers or at conferences that you attend or organize (through materials such as flyers or business cards, which can be designed and shipped to your office). 

If you have any questions, suggestions, or recommendations, please do not hesitate to let us know. We look forward to working with you in the future.

We are now recruiting Editorial Board Members (EBMs) for the Section “Nuclear Energy” (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/energies/sections/Nuclear_Energy) of Energies. If you are an active researcher in the field and passionate about publishing cutting-edge research, please do not hesitate to contact the Section Managing Editor Mr. Stephen Wang (email: [email protected]). 

Energies is an international, peer-reviewed, and open access journal on the study of energy engineering and research. Energies was launched in 2008 and has published more than 12,000 articles in various formats (including articles, reviews, communications, etc.). The journal is indexed by Science Citation Index Expanded, Scopus, Compendex, and other relevant databases. The 2020 Impact Factor of Energies is 3.004. 

Benefits for Energies Editorial Board Members include the following: 

• Publishing one paper free of charge per year in Energies, and a potential discount for additional papers you invite;
• A recognition certificate as an Editorial Board Member of Energies;
• Energies will offer additional sponsorships for conferences organized by Editorial Board Members;
• Travel grants of 500 CHF per year for conferences that you attend or organize. 

Responsibilities of Editorial Board Members include the following: 

• Supervising the editorial process, including prescreening submissions and making final decisions on whether to accept or reject papers;
• Contributing your work and inviting three papers to Energies (the Editorial Office will prepare the list of potential authors and the invitation template);
• Choosing to edit a Special Issue on a topic related to your research, or recommending potential topics and Guest Editors;
• Promoting Energies and published papers among your peers or at conferences that you attend or organize (through materials like flyers or business cards, which can be designed and shipped to your office). 

If you have any questions, suggestions, or recommendations, please do not hesitate to let us know. We look forward to working with you on this promising journal.

We are now recruiting Editorial Board Members (EBMs) for the Section “Energy Economics and Policy” (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/energies/sections/energy_economics_policy) of Energies. If you are an active researcher in the field and passionate about publishing cutting-edge research, please do not hesitate to contact the Section Managing Editor Mr. Stephen Wang (email: [email protected]). 

Energies is an international, peer-reviewed, and open access journal on the study of energy engineering and research. Energies was launched in 2008 and has published more than 12,000 articles in various formats (including articles, reviews, communications, etc.). The journal is indexed by Science Citation Index Expanded, Scopus, Compendex, and other relevant databases. The 2020 Impact Factor of Energies is 3.004. 

Benefits of Energies Editorial Board Members include the following: 

• Publishing one paper free of charge per year in Energies, and potential discount for additional papers you invite;
• A recognition certificate as an Editorial Board Member of Energies;
• Energies will offer additional sponsorships for conferences organized by Editorial Board Members;
• Travel grants of CHF 500 per year for conferences that you attend or organize. 

Responsibilities of Editorial Board Members include the following: 

• Supervising the editorial process, including prescreening submissions and making final decisions on whether to accept or reject papers;
• Contributing your work and inviting three papers to Energies (the Editorial Office will prepare the list of potential authors and the invitation template);
• Choosing to edit a Special Issue on a topic related to your research, or recommending potential topics and Guest Editors;
• Promoting Energies and published papers among your peers or at conferences that you attend or organize (through materials like flyers or business cards, which can be designed and shipped to your office). 

If you have any questions, suggestions, or recommendations, please do not hesitate to let us know. We look forward to working with you on this promising journal.

The cooling of electronic components is of utmost importance for the thermal management of data centers, fuel cells, insulated-gate bipolar transistors, and lithium-ion batteries, as well as a variety of other technological applications. Two-phase heat transfer is a great solution for most cases, due to the ability to cope with high heat fluxes and decrease the size of the systems. However, there is still a lack of deep understanding of the complex flow and transport processes and a corresponding lack of reliable and easy-to-use thermal design tools for small-scale components. This webinar intends to show some of the advancements in flow boiling, pool boiling, and recent results for both experimental and numerical research.

Date: 16 September 2021

Time: 2:00 pm CEST | 8:00 pm CST Asia

Webinar ID: 884 9116 7075

Webinar website: https://energies-4.sciforum.net/

Register for free here:

Program

The webinar will last a maximum of 2 and a half hours.

Chair

Speakers

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

This serves to announce to our valued authors based in Japan that value-added tax, or consumption tax will now be imposed on article processing fees and other service fees for all papers submitted, or resubmitted (assigned new paper IDs), effective from 15 August 2021. The change is in accordance with the Japanese "Act for Partial Revision of the Income Tax Act and Other Acts" (Act No. 9 of 2015), which includes a revision of consumption taxation on cross-border supplies of services such as digital content distribution.

For additional information from the National Tax Agency please see here ("Cross-border supplies of electronic services").

Contact: Setsuko Nishihara, MDPI Tokyo

We are now recruiting Editorial Board Members (EBMs) for the Section “Electrical Power and Energy System” (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/energies/sections/electrical_power) of Energies. If you are an active researcher in the field and passionate about publishing cutting-edge research, please do not hesitate to contact the Section Managing Editor Mr. Hanson Sun (email: [email protected]). 

Energies is an international, peer-reviewed, and open access journal on the study of energy engineering and research. Energies was launched in 2008 and has published more than 12,000 articles in various formats (including articles, reviews, communications, etc.). The journal is indexed by Science Citation Index Expanded, Scopus, Compendex, and other relevant databases. The 2020 Impact Factor of Energies is 3.004. 

Benefits of Energies Editorial Board Members include the following: 

• Publishing one paper free of charge per year in Energies, and potential discount for additional papers you invite;
• A recognition certificate as an Editorial Board Member of Energies;
• Energies will offer additional sponsorships for conferences organized by Editorial Board Members;
• Travel grants of 500 CHF per year for conferences that you attend or organize. 

Responsibilities of Editorial Board Members include the following: 

• Supervising the editorial process, including prescreening submissions and making final decisions on whether to accept or reject papers;
• Contributing your work and inviting three papers to Energies (the Editorial Office will prepare the list of potential authors and the invitation template);
• Choosing to edit a Special Issue on a topic related to your research, or recommending potential topics and Guest Editors;
• Promoting Energies and published papers among your peers or at conferences that you attend or organize (through materials like flyers or business cards, which can be designed and shipped to your office). 

If you have any questions, suggestions, or recommendations, please do not hesitate to let us know. We look forward to working with you on this promising journal.

The transition from centralized to decentralized electricity networks has been accelerated in recent years. This was facilitated by the fast deployment of distributed energy resources (DERs), in line with grid modernization, thanks to recent advances in information and communication technology. As a part of this transition, customers are becoming prosumers, proactive players who can manage their flexible resources in response to market signals. Existing market paradigms do not facilitate the active participation of prosumers in the energy market. Hence, new liberalized market structures are needed to pave the way for prosumers’ participation in energy markets. Within this context, new market structures have been proposed in recent studies to incorporate prosumers into energy trading through local transactive markets, and peer-to-peer (P2P) energy trading. 

Date: 15 July 2021
Time: 10:00 am CEST | 4:00 pm CST Asia
Webinar ID: 826 9047 3506
Webinar website: https://energies-3.sciforum.net/
Register for free here:

Program

The webinar will last maximum 2 hours and a half. 

 Chair 

 Speaker 

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

Energies is recruiting Editorial Board Members for the following new Section:

• “Smart Cities and Urban Management” (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/energies/sections/Smart_Cities_Urban_Management)

We are now recruiting Editorial Board Members (EBMs) for this Section. If you are interested in this position or know of potential candidates to recommend, please contact us by 30 September 2021.

Energies (ISSN 1996-1073) is an open access journal of scientific research, technology development, engineering policy, and management studies related to the general field of energy supply, conversion, dispatch, and final use. It was awarded a 2020 Journal Impact Factor of 3.004. The website of Energies can be accessed here (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/energies). Alternatively, you may wish to submit your work directly via the entrance here.

As an Editorial Board Member, you will have the following responsibilities:

• To make decisions on whether a manuscript can be accepted or not based on the reports we collect;
• To edit a Special Issue on a topic related to your research interests when it is convenient for you;
• To promote Energies and increase its visibility at related academic conferences.

To apply or request further information, please contact the Energies Editorial Office ([email protected]). We look forward to hearing from you soon.

We are now recruiting Topic Board Members (TBMs) for the “Electrical Power and Energy System” Section (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/energies/sections/electrical_power) in Energies. If you are an active researcher in the field and passionate about publishing cutting-edge research, please do not hesitate to contact the Section Managing Editor Mr. Hanson Sun (Email: [email protected]).

Energies is an international, peer-reviewed, and open-access journal on the study of energy engineering and research. Energies was launched in 2008 and has published more than 12,000 articles in various formats (including articles, reviews, communications, etc). The journal is indexed by Science Citation Index Expanded, Scopus, Compendex, and other relevant databases. The 2019 impact factor of Energies is 2.702.

Benefits for Energies Topic Editors include the following:

• A recognition certificate as a Topic Editor of Energies;
• Additional sponsorships are offered by Energies for conferences that you organize;
• Travel grants of 500 CHF per year for conferences that you attend or organize.

Responsibilities of Energies Topic Editors include the following:

• Suggesting at least five current topics/relevant scholars/news/events within your research field per year;
• Promoting Energies and published papers among your peers via social media or other venues periodically;
• Promoting Energies and published papers at conferences that you attend or organize (through materials such as flyers or business cards, which can be designed and shipped to your office);
• Peer-reviewing a couple of manuscripts per year or recommending related reviewers;
• Contributing your work and inviting three papers to Energies (the editorial office will prepare the list of potential authors and the invitation template).

If you have any questions, suggestions, or recommendations, please do not hesitate to let us know. We look forward to working with you on this promising journal.

Energies (ISSN 1996-1073, IF 3.004, CiteScore 4.7) is an international, open access journal of energy engineering and research. It enjoys high visibility, being covered by the Science Citation Index Expanded (Web of Science), Ei Compendex, Scopus, and other databases. For more information about Energies, please visit: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/energies.

Responsibilities of Energies Topic Editors include the following:

• Promoting Energies and published papers among your peers via social media or other venues periodically;
• Suggesting the latest topics within your research field;
• Promoting Energies and published papers at conferences that you attend or organize (through materials like flyers or business cards, which can be designed and shipped to your office).

Benefits for Energies Topic Editors include the following:

• Certain discounts for the papers you publish;
• Travel grants of 500 CHF per year for conferences that you attend or organize;
• A recognition certificate as a Topic Editor of Energies;
• Additional sponsorships are offered by Energies for conferences that you organize.

To apply or request further information, please contact the Energies Editorial Office ([email protected]).

We are pleased to announce that Prof. Dr. Umberto Berardi has been appointed as Section Editor-in-Chief of the “Smart Cities and Urban Management” in Energies (ISSN 1996-1073).

Dr. Berardi is the Canada Research Chair of Building Science and is a Full Professor and Director of the BeTOP center at Ryerson University in Toronto (Canada); alongside these roles, he also works for the Politecnico di Bari (Italy). His main research interests are related to the study of innovative solutions and new materials for improving the performance within the built environment. He has been focusing on integrating nanotechnologies into buildings, as well as on thermal energy storage with paraffin and bio-PCMs. He is also interested in exploring innovative solutions for more climate-change resilient communities and continues to study the impact of climate change concerning the sustainability of buildings and cities. He is a Principal Investigator at the Center of Urban Energy in Toronto. Dr. Berardi has an extensive publication record, including 130 peer-reviewed journals, 130 international conference papers, and five books. His publications have received over 10,000 citations (Google Scholar). His awards include (among others): the 10th Canada's Clean16 Award 2021 and the 2020 European Thermophysical Properties ECTP Award. Dr. Berardi has a body of funded research comprising over USD 2 M in government- and private-sector-sponsored research, and he also supervises a group of 15 researchers on average.

We warmly welcome Prof. Dr. Umberto Berardi in taking up his role as Section Editor-in-Chief and look forward to his leading Energies to achieve many more milestones.

Name: Prof. Dr. Umberto Berardi

Email: [email protected]

Affiliation: Canada Research Chair, Faculty of Engineering and Architectural Science, Ryerson University, Toronto, ON M5B 2K3, Canada

Interests: energy efficiency; new materials; lighting

Homepage: https://www.ryerson.ca/architectural-science/people/faculty/umberto-berardi/

MDPI will be attending the 2nd International Conference for Global Chinese Academia on Energy and Built Environment (CEBE 2021) in Chengdu, China, on 16–19 July 2021. The conference aims at establishing a worldwide platform for promoting global cooperation and innovative communications for ethnic Chinese around the globe, sharing cutting-edge achievements in the utilization of clean energy, the enhancement of energy efficiency via the built environment, and the improvement in environmental quality.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Energies
• Nanomaterials
• Buildings
• Atmosphere
• Clean Technologies
• Processes
• Materials
• Sustainability

If you are attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person to answer any questions you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit the following link: http://www.cebe2021.com.

The 2020 citation metrics have been officially released in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR)!

We are pleased to announce that 85 MDPI journals are included, of which:

• 10 journals received their first impact factor
• 96% of journals increased their impact factor from 2019
• 32 journals (38%) ranked among the top 25% of journals, in at least one category

* Journals given their first Impact Factor in 2021

Source: 2020 Journal Impact Factors, Journal Citation Reports ® (Clarivate, 2021)

We are pleased to report that the CiteScore of Energies has increased to 4.7 (from 3.8). For full details of the current CiteScore release, please refer to the journal’s Source profile (https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/62932).

Energies has witnessed significant growth over the past few years, both in terms of overall influence and the quality and quantity of topics that the journal covers. To manage this expansion, we have decided to set up the following fourteen topical sections, allowing more specific avenues toward which experts all over the world can submit their works.

• Fuel;
• Electrochem: Batteries, Fuel Cells, Capacitors;
• Nanoenergy;
• Carbon Energy;
• Nuclear Energy;
• Clean Energy;
• Energy Chemistry;
• Energy and Climate Change;
• Energy and Combustion Science;
• Artificial Intelligence and Smart Energy;
• Smart Cities and Urban Management;
• Exergy;
• Energetics;
• Critical Energy Infrastructure.

Given the prospect of open access repositories and especially the vigorous development of Energies, we are now recruiting Guest Editors (GEs) for these Sections. As Guest Editor, you will have the following responsibilities and opportunities:

– To serve as Editor of Special Issues on topics related to your critical research interests, at your convenience;

– To decide whether a manuscript qualifies for acceptance in the Special Issue, according to MDPI criteria;

– To promote Energies at academic events, and to increase its visibility within related academic fields;

– To invite paper submissions and enjoy our premium editorial service at any time.

It is our pleasure to receive applications from leading experts in the aforementioned academic fields. We welcome and encourage you to apply.

You can submit your application directly via the link here.

If you have any questions that you would like to clarify before or after applying, please do not hesitate to contact us ([email protected]).

MDPI will be attending the 16^th International Conference on Waste Management and Technology (ICWMT16) in Beijing, China, on 25–28 June 2021. The theme for this year’s ICWMT16 is “Building Zero-waste Cities Progressively”.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Sustainability;
• Clean Technologies;
• Energies;
• Toxics;
• Recycling;
• Resources.

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

1. “Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) Spectroscopy Analysis of Transformer Paper in Mineral Oil-Paper Composite Insulation under Accelerated Thermal Aging”
   Abi Munajad et al.
   Energies 2018, 11(2), 364; 10.3390/en11020364
   Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/11/2/364 

2. “Biodiesel Production from Palm Oil, Its By-Products, and Mill Effluent: A Review”
   Khairul Azly Zahan et al.
   Energies 2018, 11(8), 2132; 10.3390/en11082132
   Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/11/8/2132 

3. “A General Mathematical Formulation for Winding Layout Arrangement of Electrical Machines”
   Massimo Caruso et al.
   Energies 2018, 11(2), 446; 10.3390/en11020446
   Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/11/2/446 

4. “Li-Ion Battery Fire Hazards and Safety Strategies”
   Lingxi Kong et al.
   Energies 2018, 11(9), 2191; 10.3390/en11092191
   Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/11/9/2191 

5. “Performance Analysis of Permanent Magnet Motors for Electric Vehicles (EV) Traction Considering Driving Cycles”
   Thanh Anh Huynh et al.
   Energies 2018, 11(6), 1385; 10.3390/en11061385
   Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/11/6/1385 

6. “The Electric Bicycle: Worldwide Research Trends”
   Esther Salmeron-Manzano et al.
   Energies 2018, 11(7), 1894; 10.3390/en11071894
   Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/11/7/1894 

7. “Impeller Optimized Design of the Centrifugal Pump: A Numerical and Experimental Investigation”
   Xiangdong Han et al.
   Energies 2018, 11(6), 1444; 10.3390/en11061444
   Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/11/6/1444 

8. “A Study on the Open Circuit Voltage and State of Charge Characterization of High Capacity Lithium-Ion Battery Under Different Temperature”
   Ruifeng Zhang et al.
   Energies 2018, 11(9), 2408; 10.3390/en11092408
   Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/11/9/2408 

9. “The Determination of Load Profiles and Power Consumptions of Home Appliances”
   Fatih Issi et al.
   Energies 2018, 11(3), 607; 10.3390/en11030607
   Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/11/3/607 
   
   
10. “Review of Wearable Device Technology and Its Applications to the Mining Industry”
    Mokhinabonu Mardonova et la.
    Energies 2018, 11(3), 547; 10.3390/en11030547
    Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/11/3/547

We are pleased to announce that Prof. Dr. Maria Founti has been appointed as Section Editor-in-Chief of the “Energy and Combustion Science” Section in Energies (ISSN 1996-1073).

Maria Founti is Professor at the School of Mechanical Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, and director of the Laboratory of Heterogeneous Mixtures and Combustion Systems. Her research fields include heterogeneous mixtures, powder technology, spray and combustion systems, sustainability and energy efficiency. She has been working in the gypsum field since 1992 on processing techniques, grinding and pulverization, added value product development and energy efficiency solutions in processing plants and buildings. She has 200 publications in International Journals and Conferences and has supervised more than 50 M.Sc. and Ph.D. theses. She has organized and managed more than 40 E.C. and national funded projects. She has acted as external expert for project and Framework Programme monitoring (DG RTD and TREN). She has been a member of the External Advisory Group (1998-2002) of FP5 – KA1 “Innovative products, processes and organization” and chairperson of the Advisory Group of Priority 3 – NMP for FP6 (2002 -2006). She is member of the organizing committee of the “Greek Construction Technology Platform”, member of the European Construction Technology platform and of the Public Private Partnership in Energy Efficiency in Buildings. In last five years, she has co-authored more than 40 publications, and has more than 3000 citations (h = 30) in total according to the GS database.

We warmly welcome Prof. Dr. Maria Founti in taking up her role as Section Editor-in-Chief and look forward to her leading Energies to achieve many more milestones.

Name: Prof. Dr. Maria Founti
Email: [email protected]
Affiliation: School of Mechanical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Heroon Polytechniou 9, 15780 Athens, Greece
Interests: combustion and heterogeneous systems and processes; compartment fires; energy efficiency; savings and storage in buildings combined with advanced energy systems and materials; multicriteria assessment and life cycle analysis for techno-economic, social and environmental impact analysis of energy systems
Homepage:
http://www.mech.ntua.gr/en/founti
http://hmcs.mech.ntua.gr/?tshowcase=maria-founti-2

We are pleased to announce that Prof. Dr. Giovanni Esposito has been appointed as Section Editor-in-Chief of the “Hydrogen Energy” Section in Energies (ISSN 1996-1073).

Giovanni Esposito is Professor of Sanitary and Environmental Engineering at the University of Napoli “Federico II”. In 2004, he was awarded a PhD in Hydraulic and Environmental Engineering from the same university, working for 1 year at the University of Wageningen in the Netherlands with an EU awarded “Marie Curie” fellowship. From 2004 to 2018, he worked at the University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, where he built his own lab and research group with several PhD and post-doc fellows. From 2014 to 2019, he has been Coordinator of the “Marie Curie” European Joint Doctorate in Advanced Biological Waste to Energy Technologies (ABWET), and from 2009 to 2018, he has been Coordinator of the “Erasmus Mundus” International Joint Doctorate Program in Environmental Technologies for Contaminated Solids, Soils and Sediments, both funded by the European Commission. He has coordinated several research projects at national and international levels and is currently interested in developing, modeling and engineering innovative biotechnologies for energy and resources recovery from waste and wastewater. He has supervised more than 30 PhD and 70 MSc students and is (co)author of about 250 peer-reviewed publications in the environmental technology field, with more than 7000 citations and h-index 44 (Scopus source). 

We warmly welcome Prof. Dr. Giovanni Esposito in taking up his role as Section Editor-in-Chief and look forward to him leading Energies to achieve many more milestones.

Name: Prof. Dr. Giovanni Esposito

Email: [email protected]

Affiliation: Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering, University of Napoli “Federico II”, 80125 Napoli, Italy

Interests: anaerobic bioprocesses; bioreactors; waste-to-bioenergy; bio-hydrogen; nutrient removal; sulfur cycle; heavy metals; mathematical modeling 

Homepage: https://www.docenti.unina.it/#!/professor/47494f56414e4e494553504f5349544f535053474e4e37334132304638333955/riferimenti

We are pleased to announce that Prof. Dr. Juan Ramón Morante has been appointed as Section Editor-in-Chief of the “Advanced Energy Materials” section in Energies (ISSN 1996-1073).

Since 1985, Professor J.R. Morante has served as full professor at the Faculty of Physics of the University of Barcelona. Since 2009, he has been the director of the advanced materials for energy area of the Energy Research Institute of Catalonia, IREC, and has served as director of this public research institute since his appointment at the end of 2015.

Currently, he is focused on the introduction of renewable energy and the environmental impact of energy. Likewise, he is specialized in energy conversion processes at the nano scale and focused on the use of these processes for energy storage as well as the production of solar, synthetic fuels and added value chemicals for the replacement of fossil sources. In addition, he is involved in the deployment of sustainable mobility based on batteries and/or hydrogen as well as in smart energy networks for sustainable cities and societies.

He has co-authored more than 600 publications, without including his proceedings and books, and has more than 32,500 citations (h = 95) according to the GS database. Along with holding 24 patents, he has been advisor of 53 doctoral theses and participated in/or coordinated numerous projects in various international and industrial programs (>55).

We warmly welcome Prof. Dr. Juan Ramón Morante in taking up his role as Section Editor-in-Chief and look forward to his leading Energies toward achieving many more milestones. 

Name: Prof. Dr. Juan Ramón Morante

Email: [email protected]

Affiliation: IREC, Catalonia Institute for Energy Research, Jardins de les Dones de Negre 1, 08930 Sant Adrià de Besós, Spain

Interests: renewable energy; energy storage and conversion; solar and synthetic fuels; added value chemicals

Homepage: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=YveIO48AAAAJ&hl=es

• “Current Li-Ion Battery Technologies in Electric Vehicles and Opportunities for Advancements”
  Yu Miao et al.
  Energies 2019, 12(6), 1074; https://doi.org/10.3390/en12061074
  Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/12/6/1074

• “The Potential and Status of Renewable Energy Development in Malaysia”
  Wan Syakirah Wan Abdullah et al.
  Energies 2019, 12(12), 2437; https://doi.org/10.3390/en12122437
  Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/12/12/2437 

• “DC-DC Converter Topologies for Electric Vehicles, Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles and Fast Charging Stations: State of the Art and Future Trends”
  Sajib Chakraborty et al.
  Energies 2019, 12(8), 1569; https://doi.org/10.3390/en12081569
  Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/12/8/1569 

• “Electricity Generation in India: Present State, Future Outlook and Policy Implications”
  Lari Shanlang Tiewsoh et al.
  Energies 2019, 12(7), 1361; https://doi.org/10.3390/en12071361
  Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/12/7/1361 

• “Advanced Electric Vehicle Fast-Charging Technologies”
  Ryan Collin et al.
  Energies 2019, 12(10), 1839; https://doi.org/10.3390/en12101839
  Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/12/10/1839 

• “A Survey on Power System Blackout and Cascading Events: Research Motivations and Challenges”
  Hassan Haes Alhelou et al.
  Energies 2019, 12(4), 682; https://doi.org/10.3390/en12040682
  Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/12/4/682 

• “State of the Art of Machine Learning Models in Energy Systems, a Systematic Review”
  Amir Mosavi et al.
  Energies 2019, 12(7), 1301; https://doi.org/10.3390/en12071301
  Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/12/7/1301 

• “Specific Energy Consumption/Use (SEC) in Energy Management for Improving Energy Efficiency in Industry: Meaning, Usage and Differences”
  Akvile Lawrence et al.
  Energies 2019, 12(2), 247; https://doi.org/10.3390/en12020247
  Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/12/2/247 

• “Applying the Smart Grid Architecture Model for Designing and Validating System-of-Systems in the Power and Energy Domain: A European Perspective”
  Mathias Uslar et al.
  Energies 2019, 12(2), 258; https://doi.org/10.3390/en12020258
  Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/12/2/258 

• “Hydrogen Fuel Cell Technology for the Sustainable Future of Stationary Applications”
  Raluca-Andreea Felseghi et al.
  Energies 2019, 12(23), 4593; https://doi.org/10.3390/en12234593
  Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/12/23/4593

• “Considerations on Potentials, Greenhouse Gas, and Energy Performance of Biofuels Based on Forest Residues for Heavy-Duty Road Transport in Sweden”
  Shveta Soam et al.
  Energies 2020, 13(24), 6701; 10.3390/en13246701
  Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/13/24/6701 

• “Internet of Things (IoT) and the Energy Sector”
  Naser Hossein Motlagh et al.
  Energies 2020, 13(2), 494; 10.3390/en13020494
  Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/13/2/494 

• “Energy and Climate Policy—An Evaluation of Global Climate Change Expenditure 2011–2018”
  Coilín ÓhAiseadha et al.
  Energies 2020, 13(18), 4839; 10.3390/en13184839
  Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/13/18/4839 

• “Electricity Portfolio Optimization for Large Consumers: Iberian Electricity Market Case Study”
  Emanuel Canelas et al.
  Energies 2020, 13(9), 2249; 10.3390/en13092249
  Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/13/9/2249 

• “A Review of the Cascade Refrigeration System”
  Mingzhang Pan et al.
  Energies 2020, 13(9), 2254; 10.3390/en13092254
  Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/13/9/2254 

• “Operational Parameters of Biogas Plants: A Review and Evaluation Study”
  Abdullah Nsair et al.
  Energies 2020, 13(15), 3761; 10.3390/en13153761
  Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/13/15/3761 

• “Classical Failure Modes and Effects Analysis in the Context of Smart Grid Cyber-Physical Systems”
  Andrés A. Zúñiga et al.
  Energies 2020, 13(5), 1215; https://doi.org/10.3390/en13051215
  Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/13/5/1215 

• “A Hybrid PV-Battery System for ON-Grid and OFF-Grid Applications—Controller-In-Loop Simulation Validation”
  Umashankar Subramaniam et al.
  Energies 2020, 13(3), 755; https://doi.org/10.3390/en13030755 

• “Overview on Grid-Forming Inverter Control Methods”
  Peter Unruh et al.
  Energies 2020, 13(10), 2589; 10.3390/en13102589
  Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/13/10/2589 

• “A Review on Thermoelectric Generators: Progress and Applications”
  Mohamed Amine Zoui et al.
  Energies 2020, 13(14), 3606; 10.3390/en13143606
  Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/13/14/3606

We are pleased to announce that the following Editorial Board Members have been selected as 2020 Highly Cited Chinese Researchers (released by Elsevier). We would like to extend our sincerest congratulations to them. In addition, we would like to acknowledge the professional support and valuable publications from all of our academic editors. 

Prof. Dr. Jianchao Cai, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan)
Prof. Dr. Qun Chen, Tsinghua University
Prof. Dr. Dameng Liu, China University of Geosciences (Beijing)
Prof. Dr. Feng Dai, Sichuan University
Prof. Dr. Guanghui Su, Xi'an Jiaotong University
Prof. Dr. Cheng Zhai, China University of Mining and Technology
Prof. Dr. Haifeng Liu, Tianjin University
Prof. Dr. Hongwen He, Beijing Institute of Technology
Prof. Dr. Moran Wang, Tsinghua University
Prof. Dr. Heng Nian, Zhejiang University
Prof. Dr. Rui Xiong, Beijing Institute of Technology
Prof. Dr. Fengchun Sun, Beijing Institute of Technology
Prof. Dr. Wei Li, Fudan University
Prof. Dr. Xiaosong Hu, Chongqing University
Prof. Dr. Zheng Xu, Zhejiang University
Prof. Dr. Sheng-Qi Yang, China University of Mining and Technology
Prof. Dr. Yong Geng, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Prof. Dr. Yu Liu, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Dr. Xuebing Zhao, Tsinghua University
Prof. Dr.  Ronghou Liu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

MDPI Books recently released Book Builder, a new online tool to conveniently arrange, design and produce an eBook from any content published in MDPI journals. Book Builder offers two functions: on the one hand (1) Selections, available to every registered user of MDPI; on the other hand (2) Special Issue Reprints, which can be used exclusively by Guest Editors of Special Issues.

Selections

In just a matter of a few clicks, all users are now able to assemble books from MDPI articles and receive instantaneous feedback in the form of a fully produced and compiled book (PDF), which can be downloaded or ordered as print copy. Selections can include any paper published with MDPI, picking and combining content from different journals and special issues.

This way, the user may for example choose to compile an ebook focusing around a particular topic, or assemble articles from a group of others.

We invite you to make yourself familiar with the new tool! The Book Builder can be found here: https://www.mdpi.com/books/book_builder.

Special Issue Reprints

The Book Builder allows Guest Editors of MDPI journals to create a reprint from a successfully completed Special Issue or Topical Collection in book format. If you are a Guest Editor for an MDPI journal, you can use the new tool  to create an PDF document which includes all articles published in the Special Issue as well as a book cover and table of contents.

For Special Issues containing a minimum of 5 articles, the Guest Editor can request its publication on the MDPI Book platform. Published reprints are assigned an ISBN and DOI.

In addition to the PDF copy of the Reprint Book, as a token of our gratitude, MDPI offers every Guest Editor one (1) complimentary print copy (via print-on-demand). All contributors benefit from a discount on orders of any additional print copies, to share with colleagues or libraries or others.

Why choose MDPI Books?

In line with our organization's values, MDPI Books publishes all content in open access, promoting the exchange of ideas and knowledge in a globalized world. MDPI Books encompasses all the benefits of open access—high availability and visibility, as well as wide and rapid dissemination. MDPI Books are distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License, meaning as an author you retain the copyright for your work. In addition, with MDPI Books you can complement the digital version of your work with a high-quality printed counterpart.

If you are interested in editing a book volume or series, or have a monograph manuscript to be considered for publication, please submit your proposal online and look at our Information for Authors.

Contact: Laura Wagner, MDPI Books Manager (email)

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

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

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

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

We are pleased to announce that Prof. Dr. Wei-Hsin Chen has been appointed as Section Editor-in-Chief of the “Artificial Intelligence and Smart Energy” section in Energies (ISSN 1996-1073).

Professor Wei-Hsin Chen is a Distinguished Professor at the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan. He was the visiting professor of Princeton University, University of New South Wales, University of Edinburg, University of British Columbia, and University of Lorraine. His main research areas are green energy and fuel for sustainability. He has published 670 papers with an H-index of 57 (Web of Science) and over 10,000 citations. His research has a huge impact on biomass torrefaction. In this field, his number of papers, citations, and highly cited papers globally account for 4.2%, 10.5%, and 25%, respectively. He is the associate editor and editorial board member of several prestigious international journals, and the guest editor of over 10 international journals. He has published 10 books and chapters concerning energy science and air pollution. He received the 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020 Highly Cited Researcher (Web of Science), 2015 and 2018 Outstanding Research Award (Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan), 2015 and 2020 Highly Cited Paper Award (Applied Energy, Elsevier), 2017 Outstanding Engineering Professor Award (Chinese Institute of Engineers), 2019 Highly Cited Review Article Award (Bioresource Technology, Elsevier), 2020 Top Download Paper Award (International Journal of Energy Research, Wiley), etc. 

We warmly welcome Prof. Dr. Wei-Hsin Chen in taking up his role as Section Editor-in-Chief, and look forward to his leading in Energies to achieve many more milestones.

Name: Prof. Dr. Wei-Hsin Chen

Email: [email protected]

Affiliation: Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 701, Taiwan

Interests: hydrogen energy; bioenergy; clean energy; energy system analysis

Homepage: https://researchoutput.ncku.edu.tw/en/persons/wei-hsin-chen

MDPI will be attending the OceanTech Asia Pacific, Zhoushan Campus, Zhejiang University, China, May 19 - 21, 2021.

OceanTech Asia Pacific (OAP) provides strategic venues for marine engineers, technologists, industrialists and scientists to facilitate the development, strengthening and exchange of new solutions – technologies and methodologies. The objectives of OAP are to facilitate sustainable utilization of oceanic resources to address contemporary economic and societal challenges: Augmenting and maintaining environmentally sound human habitats, food supplies, energy resources and transportation; Upgrading, development and transfer of new instruments, tools and methodologies for further marine research and discovery.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (leading journal)
• Sustainability
• Energies

In June of this year, MDPI will celebrate the 25th anniversary of its foundation. To mark this significant milestone, we have created a 25th Anniversary page on our website that evokes the development of our company over the past quarter-century.

MDPI has been a pioneer of Open Access publishing ever since the concept was first created.

In a wide-ranging interview, our CEO Delia Mihaila reflects on the company’s 25th anniversary and its contribution to the world of scientific publishing.

Delia considers how MDPI has evolved since starting life in 1996 as a visionary ‘project’ run out of an apartment in Basel, Switzerland, by Dr. Shu-Kun Lin. A chemist who was passionate about the long-term preservation of rare chemical sample, Dr. Lin was determined to help scholars publish their findings as quickly as possible and make their research results available to as wide a readership as possible worldwide. That determination remains unchanged 25 years later.

Today, MDPI is an international organization with over 4,000 employees based on three continents and in ten countries, and ranks among the world's top four academic publishers.

MDPI's mission is to accelerate access to new scientific research, delivering insight faster for researchers worldwide. Read more here about the company's remarkable success story and what the Open Access publishing model can offer the global scientific community.

Dr. Philippe Leclère received a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Liège (Belgium) in 1994. He is currently Research Director of the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research (FRS–FNRS). He has also been a visiting scientist at the Institute of Complex Molecular Systems at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) since 2003. His research interests mostly deal with characterization by means of the scanning probe microscopy techniques of morphology and the nanoscale mechanical and electrical properties of materials (i.e., polymers, nanocomposites, organic and hybrid supramolecular (nano)structures, constructed by self-assembly of functional (macro)molecules). He is (co)author of over 200 papers and many chapter books in international peer-reviewed journals. 

We warmly welcome Dr. Philippe Leclère in taking up his role as Section Editor-in-Chief, and we look forward to him leading Energies to achieve many more milestones.

Energies is recruiting Editorial Board members for the following nine new sections:

• Critical Energy Infrastructure
• Artificial Intelligence and Smart Energy
• Exergy
• Energetics

We are now recruiting Editorial Board Members (EBMs) for these Sections. If you are interested in this position or know of potential candidates to recommend, please contact us by 30 June 2021.

Energies (ISSN 1996-1073) is an open access journal of scientific research, technology development, engineering policy and management studies related to the general field of energy supply, conversion, dispatch and final use. It was awarded a 2019 Journal Impact Factor of 2.702. The website of Energies can be accessed here. Alternatively, you may wish to submit your work directly via the entrance here.

As an Editorial Board member, you have the following responsibilities:

– To make decisions on whether a manuscript can be accepted or not based on the reports we collect;
– To edit a Special Issue on a topic related to your research interests when it is convenient for you;
– To promote Energies and increase its visibility at related academic conferences.

To apply or request further information, please contact the Energies Editorial Office ([email protected]). We look forward to hearing from you soon.

Energies is recruiting Editorial Board members for the following nine new sections:

• Fuel
• Electrochem: Batteries, Fuel Cells, Capacitors
• Nanoenergy
• Carbon Energy
• Nuclear Energy
• Clean Energy
• Energy Chemistry
• Energy and Climate Change
• Energy and Combustion Science

We are now recruiting Editorial Board Members (EBMs) for these Sections. If you are interested in this position or know of potential candidates to recommend, please contact us by 30 June 2021.

Energies (ISSN 1996-1073) is an open access journal of scientific research, technology development, engineering policy and management studies related to the general field of energy supply, conversion, dispatch and final use. It was awarded a 2019 Journal Impact Factor of 2.702. The website of Energies can be accessed here. Alternatively, you may wish to submit your work directly via the entrance here.

As an Editorial Board member, you have the following responsibilities:

– To make decisions on whether a manuscript can be accepted or not based on the reports we collect;
– To edit a Special Issue on a topic related to your research interests when it is convenient for you;
– To promote Energies and increase its visibility at related academic conferences.

To apply or request further information, please contact the Energies Editorial Office ([email protected]). We look forward to hearing from you soon.

At MDPI, we strive to make your online publication process seamless and efficient. To achieve this, our team is continuously developing tools and features to make the user experience useful and convenient.

As the number of academic papers continues to grow, so does the need to analyze and work with them on a large scale. This prompted us to design a new feature aimed at helping researchers find journals that are relevant to their publication by matching their abstract topic. In this regard, we designed a similarity model that automatically identifies the most suitable academic journals for your paper.

We are pleased to introduce Journal Selector, a new feature that measures similarity in academic contexts. By simply entering the title and/or abstract into our Journal Selector, the author will see a list of the most related scientific journals published by MDPI. This method helps authors select the correct journals for their papers, highlighting the time of publication and citability.

The methodology is known as representation learning, where words are represented as vectors in hyperspace. Representation helps us differentiate between different concepts within articles, and in turn, helps us identify similarities between them.

We used an advanced machine learning model to better capture the semantic meanings of words. This helps the algorithm make better predictions by leveraging scientific text representation. In turn, this ensures high precision, helping authors decide which journal they should submit their paper to.

The goal is to support authors to publish their work in the most suitable journal for their research, as fast as possible, accelerating their career progress.

Contact: Andrea Perlato, Head of Data Analytics, MDPI (email)

Energies is recruiting Topic Editors for the journal:

Energies (ISSN 1996-1073, IF 2.702, CiteScore 3.8) is an international, open access journal of energy engineering and research. It enjoys high visibility, being covered by the Science Citation Index Expanded (Web of Science), Ei Compendex, Scopus, and other databases. For more information about Energies, please visit: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/energies

Responsibilities of Energies Topic Editors include the following:

1. Promoting Energies and published papers among your peers via social media or other venues periodically;
2. Suggesting latest topics within your research field;
3. Promoting Energies and published papers at conferences that you attend or organize (through materials like flyers or business cards, which can be designed and shipped to your office).

Benefits for Energies Topic Editors include the following:

1. Certain discounts for the papers you publish;
2. Travel grants of 500 CHF per year for conferences that you attend or organize;
3. A recognition certificate as a Topic Editor of Energies;
4. Additional sponsorships are offered by Energies for conferences that you organize.

To apply or request further information, please contact the Energies Editorial Office ([email protected]).

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

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

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

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

The Coalition is committed to:

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

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

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

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

1) Information is displayed in the left information bar.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Energies, MDPI's open access journal on energy research, has published more than 20,000 papers since its inception in 2008. The journal has been indexed by Science Citation Index Expanded, Scopus, COMPENDEX, and other relevant databases. The latest Impact Factor of Energies is 2.702 for 2019, and the journal’s 5-Year Impact Factor is 2.822. Energies' current CiteScore in Scopus is 3.8.

Our sincerest thanks go to the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Enrico Sciubba, and all the Editorial Board members, as well as to Guest Editors of Special Issues, and Topics Editors who have ensured the continued success of the journal through their hard work and diligence.

MDPI will be attending 2020 MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit, to be held in virtual form from 27 November to 4 December 2020.

This conference is the key forum to present research to an interdisciplinary and international audience. It represents a window to the future of materials science and offers an opportunity for researchers—from students and postdoctoral fellows, to Nobel and Kavli Prize Laureates—to exchange technical information and connect with colleagues.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Materials
• Energies
• Metals
• Gels
• Technologies

If you are attending this conference, please feel free to start an online conversation with us. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person and answer any questions you may have. For more information about the conference and our virtual booth, please visit: http://ii070.cn/Qi9MrG

MDPI will be attending the China Materials Conference and Exhibition 2020, Qingdao, Shandong, China, November 19–21, 2020.

CMC's 19th annual meeting is the premier venue for the presentation in the field of materials sciences, where one can learn from experts, forge collaborations with peers, explore new tools and technologies, and advance their career.

The purpose of the conference is to build an exchange platform for experts, scholars, professors, scientific and technological workers, relevant government management departments and leaders, entrepreneurs, and related personnel, engaged in the scientific research, development, and industrialization of new materials in China to exchange and share the latest materials research achievements, in order to achieve the purpose of mutual promotion and common improvement.

There are many outstanding people in the committee of the meeting, such as Professor Boyun Huang and Academician Lian Zhou of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Professor Bingbo Wei of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, etc. The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Coatings (leading journal);
• Materials;
• Crystals;
• Energies;
• Molecules;
• Metals;
• Nanomaterials;
• Polymers.
• Actuators
• Sustainability
• Membranes
• Technologies
• Gels
• ASI

If you are also attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth (Booth C13). Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person to answer any questions you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit: http://cmc2020.medcon.net.cn/cn/web/index/

MDPI will be attending the 4th Micro-Nano Optics Technology and Application Exchange Conference (MOTA2020), Chengdu, September 26–28, 2020.

MOTA2020 is organized by the Chinese Society for Optical Engineering, which combines the national defense and industrial applications to build a large platform for the industrial chain. The aim is to build a seamless docking platform for scientific and technical personnel engaged in related research in China and industrial application teams to form a joint force to promote the rapid technological development of micro-nano optics itself and its industrial development.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Energies (leading journal)
• Photonics
• Nanomaterials
• Coatings
• Sensors
• Clean Technologies
• Safety
• Micromachines

If you are also attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth (Booth "Journal Energies"). Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person and answering any questions you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit: https://b2b.csoe.org.cn/meeting/MOTA2020.html.

Energies is calling for Special Issue proposals for the following 14 sections:

• Electrical Power and Energy System
• Sustainable Energy
• Thermal Management
• Energy Economics and Policy
• Hydrogen Energy
• Energy and Buildings
• Geo-Energy
• Energy and Environment
• Bio-Energy
• Solar Energy and Photovoltaic Systems
• Wind, Wave and Tidal Energy
• Smart Grids and Microgrids
• Advanced Energy Materials
• Electric Vehicles

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

Any other proposals within the scope of the journal are welcome; please see:  https://www.mdpi.com/journal/energies/about.

The following information is required to be submitted: Special Issue Title, Introduction, Planned Paper list.

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

– To re-define the title and scope of this Special Issue;

– To make decisions on whether a manuscript can be accepted or not based on the reports we collect;

– To promote the Special Issue and increase its visibility at related academic conferences.

Guest Editorship: 2–3 Editors for a team. This should balance the workload for the Editors and should also enable an internal discussion in case any controversial issues arise. Moreover, as the Guest Editors have different research networks, the cooperation would broaden the coverage of potential authors, thereby increasing the influence of the Special Issue. Once your proposal has been approved, you have priority to organize a team. The publisher and EiC will review these co-editors to ensure they meet the journal’s editorial requirements. We encourage teams to include Editors from multiple institutions and locations. This diversity reduces potential conflicts of interest and helps the Issue to reach a wider audience.

If you are interested in editing a Special Issue, please contact us before 31 December 2020. To propose or request further information, please contact the Energies Editorial Office (energies@mdpi.com). We look forward to hearing from you soon.

Energies (ISSN 1996-1073; IF 2.702, CiteScore: 3.8) is a peer-reviewed open access journal in energy engineering and research. It has been indexed by the Science Citation Index Expanded (Web of Science), Scopus, Ei Compendex and other databases. Energies is committed to rapid publication. A first decision is provided to authors approximately 17 days after submission and, once accepted, an article is published in less than four days. The website of Energies can be accessed here.

Energies is recruiting Editorial Board members for the following nine sections:

• Energy and Buildings
• Geo-Energy
• Energy and Environment
• Bio-Energy
• Solar Energy and Photovoltaic Systems
• Wind, Wave and Tidal Energy
• Smart Grids and Microgrids
• Advanced Energy Materials
• Electric Vehicles

These sections will expand the Editorial Board and cover areas that are less represented by the current team. If you are interested in this position or would like to recommend potential candidates, please contact us by 31 December 2020.

Energies (ISSN 1996-1073, IF 2.702, CiteScore 3.8) is an international, open access journal of energy engineering and research. It enjoys high visibility, being covered by the Science Citation Index Expanded (Web of Science), Ei Compendex, Scopus and other databases. The website of Energies can be accessed here.

As an Editorial Board member, you have the following responsibilities:

– Make decisions on whether a manuscript can be accepted or not based on the reports we collect;

– Edit a Special Issue on a topic related to your research interests when it is convenient for you;

– Promote Energies and increase its visibility at related academic conferences.

To apply or request further information, please contact the Energies Editorial Office ([email protected]). We look forward to hearing from you.

In July 2020, the Association of European Renewable Energy Research Centres (EUREC) became affiliated to Energies. As part of this collaboration, all members of EUREC enjoy a discount on the article processing charges (APC) when submitting articles to Energies.

EUREC is the voice of renewable energy research in Europe, representing European research centers active in renewable energy. The purpose of EUREC is to promote and support the development of innovative technologies and human resources to enable a prompt transition to a sustainable energy system. Their members are prominent research and development (R&D) groups spread across Europe, operating in all renewable energy technologies.

EUREC is a professional organization whose functions are highly relevant to the scope of Energies. We look forward to collaborating with EUREC and publishing state-of-the-art research from its members in this field.

We are delighted to announce the establishment of our Open Access agreement with Jisc Collections, which will allow UK institutions to benefit from access to article processing charge (APC) discounts and streamlined payment workflows.

All institutions participating in the agreement will also gain access to the MDPI online submission system where they can find full article metadata and pricing information for easy identification and additional transparency.

Eligible authors affiliated with the participating institutions are prompted to choose the corresponding Institutional Open Access Program (IOAP) when they submit an article via our online submission system.

About Jisc

Jisc's vision is for the UK to be the most digitally advanced education and research nation in the world. At its heart is the super-fast national research and education network, Janet, with built-in cyber security protection.  Jisc also provides technology solutions for its members (colleges, universities and research centres) and customers (public sector bodies), helps members save time and money by negotiating sector-wide deals and provides advice and practical assistance on digital technology. Jisc is funded by the UK higher and further education and research funding bodies and member institutions.

For more information, contact [email protected]

About MDPI

MDPI is a publisher of fully peer-reviewed, Open Access journals with a focus on thorough and rapid editorial processing. Its aim is to ensure that high-quality research is verified and made available to the research community as quickly as possible. MDPI stands at the forefront of the Open Access movement, having launched its first online journal Molecules in 1996. Today, MDPI is a leader in Open Access publishing with over 250 journals across all research disciplines, and all content published under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY).

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

Since 1996, MDPI has been committed to supporting the research community by providing the latest research freely available and making relevant and useful research available as quickly as possible. The world is current experiencing a pandemic of COVID-19, and researchers are working extremely hard to understand it and find a cure.

The values MDPI holds strongly are particularly important at the moment, and we will continue to publish relevant, peer-reviewed research as quickly as possible in open access format. This means that it will immediately be available for researchers, health professionals, and the general public to read, distribute, and reuse. We believe that scientific advancements will be crucial to overcoming this pandemic, and will do everything we can to support researchers working looking for solutions.

COVID-19 Academic Resources Center contains a variety of information related to COVID-19 available from MDPI, including journal articles, special issues, and preprints, among others.

For more information, please visit: https://www.mdpi.com/covid-19

Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce the following referees (in alphabetical order by surname) have been selected as winners of the Energies 2020 Outstanding Reviewer Award in appreciation of the high number, timeliness, and quality of their reviews in 2019. Each will receive 500 CHF, an offer to publish for free in Energies within one year, and a certificate of appreciation.

Raffaele Carli, Polytechnic University of Bari
Michael D. Murphy, Cork Institute of Technology
Michel Noussan, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei
Giedre Streckiene, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University
Pavel Tcvetkov, Saint Petersburg Mining University

Congratulations to all of them for their excellent reviews and well-earned award! The Energies Editorial Board and Editorial Team would like to acknowledge all reviewers who have generously dedicated their time and efforts toward reviewing manuscripts submitted to Energies. It is because of their outstanding contributions that the high scientific quality of the journal and quick turnaround are maintained.

Energies Editorial Office
St. Alban-Anlage 66
CH-4052, Basel, Switzerland
[email protected]
www.mdpi.com/journal/energies

As a leading Open Access publisher, MDPI is committed to fostering open scientific exchange in all forms across all disciplines. Due to the outbreak of COVID-19, many researchers have to stay at home and many academic conferences have been cancelled or postponed. In light of these changes, MDPI has adopted numerous initiatives that may help accelerate scientific exchange and provide support to the academics during this period.

Scholarly Community—Encyclopedia

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

Comprehensive and Free Literature Database—Scilit

Scilit is a comprehensive, free database for scientists that uses a new method to collate data and index scientific material. Our crawlers extract the latest data from CrossRef and PubMed on a daily basis. This means that newly published articles are immediately added to Scilit.

Display Academic Achievements—SciProfiles

SciProfiles is an innovative social network for researchers and scholars that is developed by MDPI. In line with our broad mission, the purpose of SciProfiles is to accelerate discovery and innovation by facilitating immediate access to research results and providing opportunities for academic networking.

Organize and Participate in Conferences Online—Sciforum

Sciforum is an event planning platform that supports open science by offering the opportunity to host and participate in academic conferences. It provides an environment for scholarly exchange, discussion of topics of current interest, building of networks, and establishing collaborations.

Post Early Versions of Research Outputs—Preprints

Preprints is a platform dedicated to making early versions of research outputs permanently available and citable. We post original research articles and comprehensive reviews, and papers can be updated by authors at any time. Content on Preprints is not peer-reviewed, and feedback can be received from readers.

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MDPI remains committed to open science and open data and has signed a statement, along with more than thirty scholarly publishers, showing our intention to facilitate sharing of new research findings as early on as possible. The initiative sees publishers collectively removing barriers to new research, in the face of a global healthcare crisis.

The world is currently suffering from a global pandemic of the corona virus COVID-19. MDPI expresses its sympathies for all of those affected by the virus and stands in solidarity with medical staff and researchers treating patients and searching for scientific solutions.

MDPI has previously published papers covering corona viruses in addition to new papers on the current outbreak, see all papers here. In particular, Viruses has published a number of Special Issues and papers on the topic (see here, here, and here) as well as a forthcoming Special Issue.

Alongside journal articles, MDPI has been a strong supporter of preprints, which are increasingly being used to rapidly disseminate the latest research, and we run the preprint server Preprints.org. Our database of research articles, Scilit, is free to use and covers all publishers including preprint servers. New papers are often in search results within hours of publication and users can set up alerts for new papers.

Our main priority during this period has been the health and safety of staff, and we continue to allow staff to work at home and closely monitor the situation in all locations in which we work. Despite the restrictions, we continue to provide a full publication service and, by close collaboration with our editorial boards and making use our in-house teams, ensure that there are no unnecessary delays in publishing vital research. Fast and open publication has always been at the core of MDPI values and is now more important than ever.

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

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

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

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

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

Read the position paper here

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

Prize for Winners

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

Application Deadline

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

Candidate Requirements

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

Evaluation Standards

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

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

In light of the ongoing global Coronavirus (Covid-19) situation, and more specifically the outbreak in Italy, we are closely monitoring the situation, as well as any announcements or directives from the government. At the moment, WEF-1 is planned to go ahead, but abstract deadline has been extended to 31 March 2020. In case of changes affecting the running of WEF-1, we will announce them here and inform all registered participants timely. We hope for a speedy recovery for those affected by the present situation and look forward to seeing you in Roma.

WEF-1 Committee

MDPI will be attending the 17th International Congress on Catalysis, San Diego, California, USA, June 14-19, 2020.

This congress is the premier technical gathering of our communities of practice in surface and organometallic catalysis, industrial homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis, electrocatalysis, photocatalysis, and catalysis in condensed media. This meeting brings together participants from academia, industry, and national laboratories, with a tradition and expressed goal of nurturing and mentoring students and young researchers as part of its mission.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Catalysts
• Molecules
• Materials
• Coatings
• Clean Technologies
• Energies
• Inorganics
• Processes

If you are also attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth (Booth #408). Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person to answer any questions you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit: https://2020icc.com/

MDPI will be attending the 149th TMS 2020 on minerals, metals, and materials in San Diego, CA, USA, 23–27 February 2020. An Editorial Board Member meeting of Metals will take place during this event. We warmly welcome you join and share your publishing experience with us.

TMS2020 will present more than 85 symposia planned by all five TMS technical divisions and covering a broad range of topics related to minerals, metals, and materials science and engineering. The event will draw more than 4000 attendees and feature four full days of technical programming.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

Metals

Coatings

Materials

Applied Sciences

Nanomaterials

Energies

Journal of Manufacturing and Materials Processing

Entropy

If you are also attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth (Booth #726). Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person to answer any questions you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit: https://www.tms.org/TMS2020.

Energies is recruiting Editorial Board members for the following thirteen sections:

• Electrical Power and Energy System
• Thermal Management
• Energy Economics and Policy
• Hydrogen Energy
• Energy and Buildings
• Geo-Energy
• Energy and Environment
• Bio-Energy
• Solar Energy and Photovoltaic Systems
• Wind, Wave and Tidal Energy
• Smart Grids and Microgrids
• Advanced Energy Materials
• Electric Vehicles

These sections will expand the Editorial Board and cover areas that are less represented by the current team. If you are interested in this position or would like to recommend potential candidates, please contact us by 31 December 2020.

Energies (ISSN 1996-1073, IF 2.707) is an international, open access journal of energy engineering and research. It enjoys high visibility, being covered by the Science Citation Index Expanded (Web of Science), Ei Compendex, Scopus and other databases. The website of Energies can be accessed here.

As an Editorial Board member, you have the following responsibilities:

– Make decisions on whether a manuscript can be accepted or not based on the reports we collect;

– Edit a Special Issue on a topic related to your research interests when it is convenient for you;

– Promote Energies and increase its visibility at related academic conferences.

To apply or request further information, please contact the Energies Editorial Office ([email protected]). We look forward to hearing from you.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

MDPI will attend PSCO-2019 in Lausanne, Switzerland, from 30 September to 2 October 2019.

As the 5th International Conference on Perovskite Solar Cells and Optoelectronics, this event will bring a broad spectrum of the community together to discuss and share knowledge on the latest advances in perovskite materials, devices, and photophysical and optoelectronic properties and phenomena.

It will also host a special session dedicated to speakers working in industry. Additionally, two sessions will be sponsored by two European Projects on perovskites, Espresso and PerTPV.

Representatives from MDPI will be present to exhibit our open access journals

Energies, Batteries, Photonics, and Nanomaterials.

If you plan to attend this event, please visit us at the SwissTech Convention Center. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person to answer any questions you may have regarding open access publishing or our journals. For more information about this conference, please visit https://www.psco-conference.org/index.php

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

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

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

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

MDPI will be attending the 35th Annual International Conference on Soils, Sediments, Water, and Energy in Amherst, Massachusetts, USA, 21-24 October 2019.

The Annual Conference on Soils, Sediments, Water and Energy at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst has become the preeminent national conference in this important environmental area. The conference attracts 600-800 attendees annually which includes a wide variety of representation from state and federal agencies, military, industry (including railroad, petroleum, transportation, and utilities), environmental engineering, environmental consulting, and academia.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Applied Sciences
• Climate
• Energies
• Toxics
• Sustainability
• Water

If you are also attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth (Booth #B34). Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person to answer any questions you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit: https://www.aehsfoundation.org/Ecc-Exhibitor-Info.aspx

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

There is promising communication with other publishers.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

Journal of Marine Science and Engineering

Sustainability

Water

Energies

Applied Sciences

Electronics

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

MDPI will be attending the 14th European Congress on Catalysis in Aachen, Germany, 18–23 August 2019

14th European Congress on Catalysis and the location will provide a splendid opportunity to discuss scientific progress, to explore novel technologies and to enjoy hospitality in the Euregio under the motto “Catalysis without Borders”.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Catalysts
• Energies
• Processes
• Polymers
• Symmetry

If you are also attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth (Booth #G2). Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person to answer any questions you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit: http://europacat2019.eu/.

We are pleased to inform that Energies received an updated Journal Impact Factor of 2.707 in the recent release of the Journal Citation Reports®. The journal's 5-Year Impact Factor is 3.484. Energies now ranks 56/103 (Q3) in the category 'Energy & Fuels.'

Evolution of Impact Factor, Citations and Publications for Energies:

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

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

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

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

Nanomaterials

Micromachines

Safety

Coatings

Biosensors

Applied Sciences

Chemosensors

Electronics

Energies

Materials

Journal of Manufacturing and Materials Processing

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

MDPI will attend WHTC 2019 in Tokyo, Japan from 2–7 June 2019.

The World Hydrogen Technologies Convention, consisting of an exhibition and various sessions, is one of the most authoritative international conferences related to hydrogen technologies. WHTC 2019 aims to provide a forum for scientific, industrial, governmental, and general audiences from all over the world to gather together and present their most recent research findings, and to offer a stimulating atmosphere to discuss and exchange ideas on frontier research topics and future possibilities in hydrogen energy technologies through oral / poster presentations and technology exhibitions. This conference will be a place for the sharing and exchange of information on hydrogen-related technologies and policies and also for deepening international cooperation while discussing the future of a low carbon society.

Our representatives will be exhibiting the open access journals Energies, Catalysts, Processes, Safety, Metals, Applied Sciences, and ChemEngineering.

If you will also be in attendance, please stop by our booth. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person and to answering any questions you may have regarding open access publishing or our journals. For more information about this conference, please visit http://whtc2019.jp/index.html.

MDPI's team of editors is going to attend EUBCE 2019 in Lisbon, Portugal, from 27-30 May, 2019.

As the largest gathering of biomass experts, the EUBCE combines one of the largest science and technology conferences with a high industry exhibition, attracting biomass professionals from around the globe. Key topics include biomass resources, biomass conversion technologies for heating, cooling and electricity, biomass conversion technologies for energy carriers, chemicals and materials, biomass sustainability, impacts and policies, and bioenergy integration in energy systems.

MDPI representatives will be exhibiting our open access journals Energies, Sustainability, Catalysts, Resources and Processes.

If you will also be in attendance, please stop by our booth. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person to answer any questions you may have regarding open access publishing or our journals. For more information about this conference, please visit http://www.eubce.com/.

MDPI will be attending the 24th Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE 2019), to be held in Manchester, UK, 26–29 June 2019.

EAERE (The European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists) is one of the largest and most prominent scientific associations worldwide in the field of environmental and resource economics. Its annual conference attracts up to 750 participants from academic institutions, the public sector, and private industry. There are participants from 80 countries in Europe and beyond, who conduct research, design policy and operate in the field of environmental and resource economics.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

Sustainability

Energies

Climate

Water

Urban Science

Resources

Economies

If you are also attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth (Booth # 5). Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person to answer any questions you may have regarding our journals and open access publishing. For more information about the conference, please visit http://www.eaere-conferences.org/index.php?p=124

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

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

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

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

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

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

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

MDPI will be attending the 26th meeting of the North American Catalysis Society (NAM 26), to be held in Chicago, USA, 23-28 June 2019.

The 26th meeting of the North American Catalysis Society, NAM26, is the premier scientific event in the field of catalysis research and development in 2019. It will feature technological challenges, breakthrough discoveries, and state-of-the art academic and industrial research.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Catalysts
• Materials
• Energies
• Processes
• Molecules
• Inorganics
• Nanomaterials

If you are also attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth (Booth #108). Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person to answer any questions you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit: https://isen.northwestern.edu/nam262019-north-american-catalysis-society-meeting

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

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

Energies, MDPI's open access energy research journal, has published more than 10,000 papers since its inception in 2008. Energies received an Impact Factor of 2.676 for 2017, which corresponds to rank 48/97 (Q2) in the JCR category “Energy & Fuels”.

Our sincere thanks go to the Editor-in-Chief of Energies, Prof. Dr. Enrico Sciubba, as well as the Associate Editors-in-Chief, Prof. Dr Thomas E. Amidon and Prof. Dr. Paul Stewart, whose relentless effort ensures the continued success of the journal.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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