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20 May 2022
Energies | Five Articles Marked as “Hot Papers” in the Web of Science

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
13 May 2022
Energies | Special Issue Mentor Program

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
10 February 2022
Energies | 2021 Review

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”:
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
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.
11 January 2022
Energies | Top 10 Downloaded Articles in 2021
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
22 November 2021
722 MDPI Editorial Board Members Receiving "2021 Highly Cited Researchers" Distinction
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 ResearchersTM 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.
Abate, Antonio Abatzoglou, John T. Abbaszadeh, Mostafa Acharya, U. Rajendra Acharya, Viral V. Agarwal, Ravi P. Ahn, Myung-Ju Airoldi, Laura Ali, Imran Allakhverdiev, Suleyman I. Aluko, Rotimi E. Anasori, Babak Andersson, Dan I. Andes, David Anker, Stefan D. Apergis, Nicholas Ariga, Katsuhiko Arqub, Omar Abu Aschner, Michael Assaraf, Yehuda G. Astruc, Didier Atala, Anthony Atanasov, Atanas G. Atangana, Abdon Bahram, Mohammad Bakris, George L. Balandin, Alexander A. Baleanu, Dumitru Balsamo, Gianpaolo Bando, Yoshio Banks, William A. Bansal-Travers, Maansi Barba, Francisco J. Barros, Lillian Basit, Abdul W. Baskonus, Haci Mehmet Bassetti, Matteo Battino, Maurizio Bell, Jordana T. Bellomo, Nicola Benediktsson, Jon Atli Benelli, Giovanni Benjakul, Soottawat Bhatnagar, Amit Biddle, Stuart J. H. Biondi, Antonio Biondi-Zoccai, Giuseppe Bjarnsholt, Thomas Blaabjerg, Frede Blaschke, Thomas Blay, Jean-Yves Blumwald, Eduardo Blunt, John W. Boffetta, Paolo Bogers, Marcel Bonomo, Robert A. Bowman, David M.J.S. Boyer, Cyrille Brestic, Marian Brevik, Eric C. Buhalis, Dimitrios Burdick, Jason A. Byrd, John C. Cabeza, Luisa F. Cai, Xingjuan Cai, Jianchao Calhoun, Vince D. Calin, George Cao, Jinde Cao, Guozhong Carvalho, Andre F. Castellanos-Gomez, Andres Cerqueira, Miguel Ângelo Parente Ribeiro Chang, Jo-Shu Chang, Chih-Hao Chastin, Sebastien Chau, Kwok-wing Chemat, Farid Chen, Xiaobo Chen, YangQuan Chen, Jianmin Chen, Chaoji Chen, Min Chen, Qi Chen, Jun Chen, Xi Chen, Peng Chen, Yulin Chen, Bo Chen, Chen Chen, Zhi-Gang Chen, Wei-Hsin Chen, Gang Chen, Yongsheng Chen, Xiang Chen, Yimin Chen, Runsheng Chen, Lidong Chen, Shaowei Chen, Qian Chen, Yu Chen, Shuangming Chiclana, Francisco Cho, Sun Young Choi, Wonyong Chowdhary, Anuradha Choyke, Peter L. Cichocki, Andrzej Corella, Dolores Corma, Avelino Cortes, Javier Cortes, Jorge Costanza, Robert Crommie, Michael F. Cui, Yi Cui, Haiying Cui, Qinghua Cummings, Kenneth Michael Dai, Shifeng Dai, Sheng Daiber, Andreas Davis, Steven J. Dawson, Ted M. de la Fuente-Nunez, Cesar Decker, Eric Andrew Dekel, Avishai Demaria, Marco Deng, Yong Deng, Xiangzheng DePinho, Ronald A. Desneux, Nicolas Dimopoulos, Meletios-Athanasios Ding, Aijun Dionysiou, Dionysios D. Dokmeci, Mehmet Remzi Dolgui, Alexandre Dong, Fan Dou, Shi Xue Dou, Letian Du, Qian Du, Bo Dube, Shanta Rishi Dufresne, Alain Dummer, Reinhard Dupont, Didier Edwards, David Elaissari, Abdelhamid Elhoseny, Mohamed Ellahi, Rahmat Ellis, Erle C. ElMasry, Gamal Esteller, Manel Estévez, Mario Fabbro, Doriano Facchetti, Antonio Fan, Zhanxi Fang, Chuanglin Fasano, Alessio Fečkan, Michal Felser, Claudia Feng, Liangzhu Fensholt, Rasmus Ferdinandy, Péter Fernandez-Lafuente, Roberto Ferreira, Isabel C. F. R. Filippi, Massimo Fisher, Helen Fortino, Giancarlo Fosso Wamba, Samuel Franceschi, Claudio Fujita, Hamido Fujita, Masayuki Gai, Francesco Gaisford, Simon Galanakis, Charis M. Galluzzi, Lorenzo Galvano, Fabio Gan, Ren-You Gan, Lihua Gandomi, Amir H. Gao, Bin Gao, Feng Gao, Minrui Gao, Huijun Gao, Wei Gao, Huile Garbe, Claus Garcia, Hermenegildo Gasbarrini, Antonio Gasco, Laura Gautret, Philippe Geng, Yong Gerdts, Gunnar Geschwind, Daniel H. Ghadimi, Noradin Ghaffari, Roozbeh Ghamisi, Pedram Giampieri, Francesca Glick, Bernard R. Gnant, Michael Goel, Ajay Gogotsi, Yury Goldewijk, Kees Klein Gong, Jinlong Gong, Yongji Govindan, Kannan Granato, Daniel Grancini, Giulia Green, Douglas R. Grosso, Giuseppe Gu, Ke Guan, Cao Guastella, Adam J. Guerrero, Josep M. Gui, Guan Guizani, Mohsen Guo, Zaiping Gupta, Rangan Gutzmer, Ralf Haase, Dagmar Habibi-Yangjeh, Aziz Hagemann, Stefan Hagger, Martin Hamblin, Michael R. Hammoudeh, Shawkat Han, Heesup Hanes, Justin Harrison, Roy M. Hartung, Hans-Peter Hasanuzzaman, Mirza He, Jr-Hau He, Hongwen He, Jiaqing He, Debiao Henseler, Jörg Herrera, Francisco Herrera-Viedma, Enrique Hetz, Claudio Ho Kim, Jung Holmes, Elaine Hossain, Ekram Hsueh, Po-Ren Hu, Xiaosong Hu, Wenbin Huang, Jianping Huang, Hongwei Huang, Yu |
Huang, Jianying Huang, Peng Huang, Baibiao Huang, Shaoming Hubacek, Klaus Iqbal, Hafiz M. N. Ismail, Ahmad Fauzi Izzo, Angelo A. Jacobson, Kenneth A. Jain, Atul Jankovic, Joseph Jelezko, Fedor Ji, Xiaobo Ji, Guangbin Jiang, Hai-Long Jiang, Lei Jiang, Junjun Jiang, Qing Jiang, Shibo Jin, Shi Jones, Peter A. Kalantar-zadeh, Kourosh Kaner, Richard B. Kannan, Kurunthachalam Kappos, Ludwig Karagiannidis, George K. Karimi, Hamid Reza Karimi-Maleh, Hassan Karp, Peter D. Kataoka, Kazunori Katritch, Vsevolod Kawi, Sibudjing Keesstra, Saskia Kepp, Oliver Keyzers, Robert A. Khademhosseini, Ali Khan, Nafees A. Kiessling, Fabian Kim, Ki-Hyun Kim, Haegyeom Kim, Jeonghun Kim, Jong Seung Kirkwood, John M. Kisi, Ozgur Kivshar, Yuri Klenk, Hans-Peter Ko, Wen-Chien Konopleva, Marina Y. Kontoyiannis, Dimitrios P. Koonin, Eugene V. Kou, Gang Krausmann, Fridolin Krebs, Frederik C. Kroemer, Guido Kuca, Kamil Kudo, Masatoshi Kuhn, Jens H. Kumar, Devendra Kumar, Alan Prem Kumar, Sudhir Kumar Sangaiah, Arun Kurths, Juergen Kuznetsov, Nikolay V. Kuzyakov, Yakov Kwan, Mei-Po Kyrpides, Nikos C. La Vecchia, Carlo Lai, Yuekun Lam, James Lammers, Twan Lamuela-Raventos, Rosa M. Lancellotti, Patrizio Landi, Francesco Laurent, Sophie Lavie, Carl J. Laxminarayan, Ramanan Lee, Sang Soo Lee, Jin-Wook Lee, Pooi See Lehmann, Johannes Lei, Yaguo Lei, Ting Leng, Lijian Leung, Dennis Y. C. Leung, Victor C. M. Levine, Ross Li, Wei Li, Jie Li, Jinghong Li, Jun Li, Heng Li, Gang Li, Yat Li, Peng Li, Hailong Li, Changpin Li, Yan Li, Yurui Li, Xiaodi Li, Hong Li, Shutao Li, Hongyi Li, Zhijun Li, Peiyue Lin, Yuehe Lin, Hongjun Lin, Lin Lip, Gregory Y. H. Liu, Jian Liu, Meng Liu, Hong Liu, Tao Liu, Lei Liu, Jianxing Liu, Wei Liu, Gang Liu, Yang Liu, Peide Lockhart, Shawn R. Long, Hualou Löscher, Wolfgang Lu, Jun Lu, Jianquan Lu, Nanshu Lucey, Brian Luigi Russo, Gian Lund, Henrik Luo, Jun Luo, Yi Luo, Jingshan Luo, Yangchao Lupton, Deborah Luque, Rafael Lv, Wei Lvov, Yuri M. Lyons, Timothy W. Ma, Tianyi Ma, Jun Ma, Jiayi Ma, Wen-Xiu Ma, Yanming Maggioni, Aldo Pietro Mahmood, Nasir Mahmoudi, Morteza Mai, Liqiang Mallavarapu, Megharaj Mandala, Mario Mardani, Abbas Marengo, Jose Maria Rossolini, Gian Martinoia, Enrico Mathiesen, Brian Vad Mathivanan, Suresh Mattick, John S. Matyjaszewski, Krzysztof McCabe, Matthew E. McCauley, Darren McClements, David Julian Melcher, Karsten Melenhorst, Jan Joseph Melero, Ignacio Mezzetti, Bruno Mirjalili, Seyedali Mishchenko, Artem Mittler, Ron Moreau, Philippe Motohashi, Hozumi Mousavi Khaneghah, Amin Mu, Shichun Mueller, Lukas A. Mueller-Roeber, Bernd Muenzel, Thomas Muhammad, Khan Munger, J. William Nauen, Ralf Naushad, Mu. Negri, Eva Nemeroff, Charles B. Newman, David J. Niaura, Raymond S. Nie, Feiping Nieto, Juan J. Novara, Agata Nunkoo, Robin Ogino, Shuji Olabi, Abdul-Ghani Ong, Hwai Chyuan O'Regan, Donal Orsini, Nicola Ouyang, Minggao Ozcan, Aydogan Pacher, Pal Pan, Xiaoqing Pan, Likun Pan, Quan-Ke Pang, Huan Pavela, Roman Pedrycz, Witold Pei, Yanzhong Peng, Shushi Peng, Qing Peng, Mugen Perc, Matjaz Perez-Alvarez, Jose Angel Perlin, David S. Piquero, Alex R. Polasky, Stephen Pommier, Yves Poor, H. Vincent Postolache, Mihai Potenza, Marc N. Poulter, Benjamin Preat, Veronique Prinsep, Michele R. Pu, Hong-Bin Putnik, Predrag Qiu, Jieshan Qu, Xiaogang Quiles, José L. Rabczuk, Timon Ramakrishna, Seeram Ramkissoon, Haywantee Ran, Jingrun Recio, Isidra Reiter, Russel J. Remuzzi, Giuseppe Ren, Jinsong Ren, Jun Riahi, Keywan Richardson, Paul G. Rignot, Eric Rimm, David Rinn, John L. Robert, Caroline Rodriguez, Rosa M. Rojo, Teofilo Ros, Emilio Rosen, Marc A. Roubaud, David Russo, Alessandro Saad, Fred Saad, Walid Sadorsky, Perry Sander, Chris Santamouris, Mattheos |
Santoro, Gabriele |
The full list of 2021 Highly Cited Researchers can be accessed at the following webpage in the Web of ScienceTM https://recognition.webofscience.com/awards/highly-cited/2021/.
--- Highly Cited Researchers (HCR) is a Clarivate product.
16 November 2021
Topical Advisory Panel Established to Support Editorial Board
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.
3 November 2021
Recruiting Editorial Board Members for Energies
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.
30 October 2021
Recruiting Reviewer Board Members for Energies

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.
27 October 2021
Energies | Call for Special Issue Proposal for Section “Nuclear Energy”
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.
25 October 2021
Open Access Week 2021 | It Matters How We Open Knowledge: Building Structural Equity, 25–31 October
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.
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.
21 October 2021
Energies | Call for Special Issue Proposal for Section “Energy Economics and Policy”
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.
9 October 2021
Recruiting Editorial Board Members for Section “Thermal Management” of Energies

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.
30 September 2021
Recruiting Editorial Board Members for Section “Geo-Energy” of Energies

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.
24 September 2021
Meet Us at the 21st Chinese Zeolite Conference (21 CZC) in Qingdao, China, 27–30 September 2021

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/.
23 September 2021
Recruiting Editorial Board Members for the Section “Energy and Climate Change” of Energies

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.
23 September 2021
2020 MDPI Top Reviewer Award—Winners Announced

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.
22 September 2021
MDPI Joins SDG Publishers Compact
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]
18 September 2021
Energies — Call for Special Issue Proposals
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:
Energy markets Energy policy Renewable energy transition Energy management of EV Intelligent transportation systems Ground/air/underwater vehicles Entropy generation Thermal conductivity Nanofluids Power harvesting Wireless networks Power converters Modeling of wind turbines Aerodynamics of wind turbines Wind farm optimization Data science for building Building physics Smart building energy Battery energy storage Optical and electronic magnetic material Catalysis and energy |
Demand response Power flow Forecasting (load, electricity price, wind, and solar) Electrical energy storage Carbon capture and storage Greenhouse gas emissions Sequestration of carbon dioxide Geothermal energy extraction Petroleum exploration and production Materials for solar cells Photovoltaic system Solar photocatalysis Catalysis in hydrogen production Fuel cell systems Bio-hydrogen Life cycle assessment Low carbon energy technologies Energy footprints Biogas Lignocellulosic biomass Biomass thermochemical conversion |
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.
14 September 2021
Recruiting Editorial Board Members for the Section “Energy and Environment” of Energies

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.
8 September 2021
Recruiting Editorial Board Members for the Section “Nuclear Energy” of Energies

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.
31 August 2021
Recruiting Editorial Board Members for the Section “Energy Economics and Policy” of Energies

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.
24 August 2021
Energies 4th Webinar | Advanced Research in Two-Phase Heat Transfer, 16 September 2021
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.
Speaker/Presentation |
Time |
Prof. Dr. Marco Marengo Chair Introduction |
8:00 pm (CST Asia) | 2:00 pm (CEST) |
Prof. Dr. Sandip Dutta "Machine Learning in Two-Phase Heat Transfer" |
8:05 pm (CST Asia) | 2:05 pm (CEST) |
Dr. Ana Sofia Moita "Energy Conversion Cooling/Heating (Micro)Systems for Civil and Military Applications" |
8:35 pm (CST Asia) | 2:35 pm (CEST) |
Dr. Mirco Magnini "Direct Numerical Simulations of Flow Boiling in Microchannels" |
9:05 pm (CST Asia) | 3:05 pm (CEST) |
Q&A Session |
9:35 pm (CST Asia) | 3:35 pm (CEST) |
Chair
Prof. Dr. Marco Marengo School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics, University of Brighton, UK |
Prof. Dr. Marco Marengo is the Director of the Advanced Engineering Centre, Professor of Thermal Engineering, and Chair of the Engineering Industrial Advisory Board at the University of Brighton, UK. In 1991, Prof. Dr. Marengo completed his master’s degree in Physics cum laude at the University of Turin on Dynamical Systems, and in 1996, he received a Ph.D. in Energetics from the Polytechnic of Milan. From 1998 to 2002, he was an Assistant Professor of Thermal Physics and then, until 2016, an Associate Professor of Thermal Physics at the University of Bergamo, Italy. In 2014, he was appointed Full Professor of Thermal Engineering at the University of Brighton. Since 2019, he has been an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Multiphase Flows, and since 2018, he has been the Editor-in-Chief of the Section “Thermal Management” of the MDPI journal Energies. Since 2021, he has been the Associate Editor of Energies. From 2009 to 2018, he was the European Editor of the international journal Atomization & Sprays, Begell House. He is the UK representative on the board of the International Heat Pipe Conference. Prof. Dr. Marengo is an Adjunct Professor at York University, Toronto, Canada and a Senior Research Fellowat the National Science Foundation of Portugal, Centre for Innovation, Technology and Policy Research - IN+, Lisbon, Portugal. From 2005 to 2018, Marengo was a Visiting Professor at the University of Mons-Hainaut. He has founded three spin-off companies. He is a member of scientific committees of various international conferences and an editorial board member of various scientific journals. Since 2015, he has been the co-director of the successful course series LIDESP “Advanced Course in Liquid Interfaces, Drops and Sprays”, and since 2018, he has been the chair of the International Workshop SWEP on “Surface Wettability Effect on Phase Change Phenomena”. He is leading the ESA Pulsating Heat Pipe scientific team and is active in many ESA parabolic campaigns. He has published more than 340 scientific papers, among which more than 80 are in peer-reviewed international journals. Prof. Dr. Marengo is internationally recognized in the fundamental and applied research of two-phase systems, associated with phase change heat transfer, for space and ground applications, as well as in the experimental and numerical modelling of phase-change heat transfer. |
Speakers
Prof. Dr. Sandip Dutta Department of Mechanical Engineering, Clemson University, USA |
Prof. Dr. Dutta obtained his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M and is an ASME Fellow. He worked at the faculty of Mechanical Engineering, and then switched his career from academia to industry. Lately, he has re-entered academia and is currently working as a lecturer at Clemson University, South Carolina, USA. Prof. Dr. Dutta has contributed to many different topics, namely: - Computational Sciences: Data Analytics with R and Python; Advanced modeling with Ansys (Finite Element Analysis), Software Quality and Development Life Cycle. Marketing and training for smart image processing products; Manager of software repository hub; Optimization with Python. - Thermal Sciences and Fluid Mechanics: Designs related to turbine blades; Heat and water management in PEM fuel cells; Numerical model development and analysis of complex flows and turbulence in turbine blades; Design of experiments, predictions for the next generation of gas-turbines; Complex, multivariable, statistical numerical analysis of thermal sciences and other engineering problems; Very complex turbulence and fluid dynamics computation using finite element and control volume approaches; Developed a new turbulence model for separated flows. - Automation Technology: Mechatronics, PLC, Factory Automation, Statistical analyses, Finite Element analyses, Control Volume simulations; Instrumentation and non-destructive measurements, field trial validation, Component life assessment, and statistical forecasting. - Software and Hardware Release Management: Bug triage for service releases and new feature evaluations/feasibility studies for new products; Create installation packages and automate builds; Convert UI for multiple languages and regions; Oversee documentation and online help; Developed real-world software for Insurance, Manufacturing, Telecommunication industries and start-up companies; These codes had to be maintainable, readable, upgradable, and fault tolerant. - Machine Vision: Quality and maintenance of complex machine vision and robotics software; Built a link among customers, marketing, training personnel, sales and application engineers, and developers for smooth and systematic product development; Business transition from start-up to an established company; Recent work on “Reverse Engineer the Brain”. |
Dr. Ana Sofia Moita CINAMIL – Portuguese Military Academy, Portugal; IN+Center for Innovation, Technology and Policy Research, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal |
Dr. Ana Sofia Moita is currently a post-doc researcher at IN+/IST and an Assistant Professor at the Military Academy. She completed her Engineering Diploma in 2001, her M.Sc. in 2004 and her Ph.D. in 2009, all in Mechanical Engineering at IST. During the last decade, she has developed her background in interfacial transport phenomena, both at the macro and microscale, with applications to cooling systems, and more recently, to lab-on-chips. She has participated in 12 national and international projects (half of them as a PI-coPI), co-authored 47 papers in peer-reviewed journals, 7 book chapters and 90 papers in international conferences (H=14, with aprox. 841 citations in ISI, H=17, with 1311 citations in Google Academic). |
Dr. Mirco Magnini Department of Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Engineering, University of Nottingham, UK |
Dr. Magnini is an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Nottingham, UK, Subject Editor for Elsevier’s Chemical Engineering Research and Design, and invited member of European Space Agency’s Physical Sciences Working Group. He received a Ph.D. in Energy Engineering at the University of Bologna in 2012, where he worked on numerical methods tailored to the simulation of boiling flows in confined geometries; he was a post-doc researcher at EPFL, Switzerland, from 2013 to 2017, working on simulations and experiments of flow boiling in multi-microchannels and micro-pin fins evaporators, and research associate at Imperial College London in 2018–2019, where he worked on the modelling of wax deposition in crude oil transportation pipelines. At Nottingham, his research lines include analyses of the fundamentals of boiling applied to thermal management in a collaborative project with Brunel University and Imperial College, evaporative cooling of fuel cells in collaboration with EPFL, and thin film and bubbly flows in confined channels in different collaborations with Princeton University and Tel Aviv University. |
For any questions about the webinar, please send an email to [email protected].
3 August 2021
Announcement on Japanese Consumption Tax (JCT)
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
14 July 2021
Recruiting Editorial Board Members for the Section “Electrical Power and Energy System” of Energies

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.
14 July 2021
Energies 3rd Webinar | Peer-to-Peer Energy Trading in Smart Grid

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.
Speaker/Presentation | Time |
Prof. Dr. Pierluigi Siano Introduction |
4:00 pm (CST Asia) | 10:00 am (CEST) |
Dr. Barry Hayes "Open Platforms for Decentralised Electricity Trading in Future Power Grids" |
4:05 pm (CST Asia) | 10:05 am (CEST) |
Prof. Dr. Zita Vale "Sustainable Energy Solutions for the Smart Grid: The Importance of Citizen Energy Communities" |
4:35 pm (CST Asia) | 10:35 am (CEST) |
Prof. Dr. Pierluigi Siano "An Extreme-Scale Distributed Parallel Optimization for Energy Communities" |
5:05 pm (CST Asia) | 11:05 am (CEST) |
Q&A | 5:35 pm (CST Asia) | 11:35 am (CEST) |
Chair
Prof. Dr. Pierluigi Siano |
Pierluigi Siano received his MSc degree in electronic engineering and his Ph.D. degree in information and electrical engineering from the University of Salerno, Salerno, Italy, in 2001 and 2006, respectively. He is a Professor and Scientific Director of the Smart Grids and Smart Cities Laboratory with the Department of Management and Innovation Systems, University of Salerno. His research activities are centered on demand response, energy management, the integration of distributed energy resources in smart grids, electricity markets, and the planning and management of power systems. |
Speaker
Dr. Barry Hayes |
Dr. Barry Hayes is an Assistant Professor in Electrical Power Engineering at University College Cork (UCC) and a Funded Investigator at the MaREI Research Centre (www.marei.ie). Prior to joining UCC, he was an Assistant Professor at the National University of Ireland Galway (2016–2018), and a Marie Sklodowska-Curie research fellow at IMDEA Energy in Madrid (2013–2016). He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Power Systems Engineering from the University of Edinburgh (2013) and has held visiting researcher positions at National Grid UK (2011) and the University of Tennessee (2016). Barry is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and has co-authored more than 40 peer-reviewed, international publications in books, conference proceedings, and journals. Barry’s research group focuses on the electricity grid integration of sustainable energy technologies, and the operation and planning of future power systems. Barry is the UCC principal investigator on a €3.8 million research project on local energy trading called “CENTS” (Co-operative Energy Trading System). |
Prof. Dr. Zita Vale |
Zita Vale is a Full Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering of the Institute of Engineering—Polytechnic of Porto (ISEP). She received her diploma in Electrical Engineering in 1986, her Ph.D. in 1993, and her Habilitation in 2003, from the University of Porto. She works in the area of Power and Energy Systems, with a special interest in the application of artificial intelligence techniques. She has been involved in more than 60 funded projects related to the development and the use of knowledge-based systems, multi-agent systems, neural networks, particle swarm intelligence, and data mining. The main application fields of these projects comprise: - Smart grids, accommodating an intensive use of renewable energy sources, distributed energy resources (DER), namely distributed generation (DG), storage, electrical vehicles, including the ones with gradable capability (V2G), and demand flexibility. The real-time management and simulation of energy resources, considering electrical networks, buildings, and diverse Internet of Things (IoT) and machine-to-machine (M2M) approaches are relevant aspects of her work in this field; - Electricity markets, addressing decision support for market participants, prices and tariffs, ancillary services, energy transactions, service provision, and market simulation in the scope of wholesale and local markets. The integration of DER, demand response, and EVs in electricity markets, transactive energy (TE), and peer-to-peer approaches are important aspects of her work. Her work also focuses on the conception, development, and test of new business models for market participants and aggregation models for energy resources and the respective management and operation methods. The results of her research are published in more than 140 journal papers. Professor Zita Vale actively participates in several technical working groups and committees, namely from IEEE. She also has regular activity as a reviewer and an evaluator for papers and project proposals and monitoring, from different funding agencies around the world. |
For any questions about the webinar, please send an email to [email protected].
13 July 2021
Recruiting Editorial Board Members for the Section “Smart Cities and Urban Management” of Energies
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.
12 July 2021
Recruiting Topic Board Members for the “Electrical Power and Energy System” Section in Energies

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.
10 July 2021
Recruiting Topic Editors for Energies
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]).
9 July 2021
Prof. Dr. Umberto Berardi Appointed as Section Editor-in-Chief of “Smart Cities and Urban Management” in Energies
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/
5 July 2021
Meet Us at the 2nd International Conference for Global Chinese Academia on Energy and Built Environment, Chengdu, China, 16–19 July 2021

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:
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.
30 June 2021
2020 Impact Factors - Released
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
Journal | Impact Factor | Rank | Category |
Cancers | 6.639 | Q1 | • Oncology |
Cells | 6.600 | Q2 | • Cell Biology |
Pharmaceutics | 6.321 | Q1 | • Pharmacology & Pharmacy |
Antioxidants | 6.313 | Q1 | • Food Science & Technology |
• Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | |||
• Chemistry, Medicinal | |||
Biomedicines | 6.081 | Q1 | • Medicine, Research & Experimental |
• Pharmacology & Pharmacy | |||
• Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | |||
International Journal of Molecular Sciences | 5.924 | Q1 | • Biochemistry & Molecular Biology |
Q2 | • Chemistry, Multidisciplinary | ||
Pharmaceuticals | 5.863 | Q1 | • Pharmacology & Pharmacy |
• Chemistry, Medicinal | |||
Journal of Fungi | 5.816 | Q1 | • Mycology |
• Microbiology | |||
Nutrients | 5.719 | Q1 | • Nutrition & Dietetics |
Biosensors | 5.519 | Q1 | • Chemistry, Analytical |
• Instruments & Instrumentation | |||
Q2 | • Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | ||
Marine Drugs | 5.118 | Q1 | • Chemistry, Medicinal |
• Pharmacology & Pharmacy | |||
Biology | 5.079 | Q1 | • Biology |
Nanomaterials | 5.076 | Q1 | • Physics, Applied |
Q2 | • Chemistry, Multidisciplinary | ||
• Materials Science, Multidisciplinary | |||
• Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | |||
Viruses | 5.048 | Q2 | • Virology |
Journal of Personalized Medicine | 4.945 | Q1 | • Medicine, General & Internal |
• Health Care Sciences & Services | |||
Metabolites | 4.932 | Q2 | • Biochemistry & Molecular Biology |
Biomolecules | 4.879 | Q2 | • Biochemistry & Molecular Biology |
Remote Sensing | 4.848 | Q1 | • Geosciences, Multidisciplinary |
Q2 | • Remote Sensing | ||
• Imaging Science & Photographic Technology | |||
• Environmental Sciences | |||
Gels * | 4.702 | Q1 | • Polymer Science |
Antibiotics | 4.639 | Q2 | • Infectious Diseases |
• Pharmacology & Pharmacy | |||
Toxins | 4.546 | Q1 | • Toxicology |
• Food Science & Technology | |||
Vaccines | 4.422 | Q2 | • Immunology |
• Medicine, Research & Experimental | |||
Molecules | 4.412 | Q2 | • Chemistry, Multidisciplinary |
• Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | |||
Foods | 4.350 | Q2 | • Food Science & Technology |
Polymers | 4.329 | Q1 | • Polymer Science |
Journal of Clinical Medicine | 4.242 | Q1 | • Medicine, General & Internal |
Toxics | 4.146 | Q2 | • Toxicology |
• Environmental Sciences | |||
Catalysts | 4.146 | Q2 | • Chemistry, Physical |
Microorganisms | 4.128 | Q2 | • Microbiology |
Membranes | 4.106 | Q1 | • Polymer Science |
Q2 | • Engineering, Chemical | ||
• Materials Science, Multidisciplinary | |||
• Chemistry, Physical | |||
Genes | 4.096 | Q2 | • Genetics & Heredity |
Fermentation * | 3.975 | Q2 | • Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology |
Journal of Cardiovascular Development and Disease * | 3.948 | Q2 | • Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems |
Plants | 3.935 | Q1 | • Plant Sciences |
Life | 3.817 | Q2 | • Biology |
Diagnostics | 3.706 | Q2 | • Medicine, General & Internal |
Current Oncology | 3.677 | Q3 | • Oncology |
Materials | 3.623 | Q1 | • Metallurgy & Metallurgical Engineering |
Q2 | • Materials Science, Multidisciplinary | ||
• Chemistry, Physical | |||
• Physics, Applied | |||
• Physics, Condensed Matter | |||
Sensors | 3.576 | Q1 | • Instruments & Instrumentation |
Q2 | • Chemistry, Analytical | ||
• Engineering, Electrical & Electronic | |||
Pathogens | 3.492 | Q2 | • Microbiology |
Agronomy | 3.417 | Q1 | • Agronomy |
• Plant Sciences | |||
Chemosensors | 3.398 | Q2 | • Instruments & Instrumentation |
• Chemistry, Analytical | |||
Q3 | • Electrochemistry | ||
Land | 3.398 | Q2 | • Environmental Studies |
Brain Sciences | 3.394 | Q3 | • Neurosciences |
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health | 3.390 | Q1 | • Public, Environmental & Occupational Health (SSCI) |
Q2 | • Public, Environmental & Occupational Health (SCIE) | ||
• Environmental Sciences (SCIE) | |||
Tomography | 3.358 | Q2 | • Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging |
Fractal and Fractional * | 3.313 | Q1 | • Mathematics, Interdisciplinary Applications |
Sustainability | 3.251 | Q2 | • Environmental Sciences (SCIE) |
• Environmental Studies (SSCI) | |||
Q3 | • Green & Sustainable Science & Technology (SCIE) | ||
• Green & Sustainable Science & Technology (SSCI) | |||
Water | 3.103 | Q2 | • Water Resources |
• Environmental Sciences | |||
Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research | 3.049 | Q3 | • Business |
Energies | 3.004 | Q3 | • Energy & Fuels |
Agriculture | 2.925 | Q1 | • Agronomy |
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information | 2.899 | Q2 | • Geography, Physical |
• Computer Science, Information Systems | |||
Q3 | • Remote Sensing | ||
Micromachines | 2.891 | Q2 | • Instruments & Instrumentation |
• Physics, Applied | |||
Q3 | • Chemistry, Analytical | ||
• Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | |||
Coatings | 2.881 | Q2 | • Materials Science, Coatings & Films |
• Physics, Applied | |||
Q3 | • Materials Science, Multidisciplinary | ||
Children | 2.863 | Q2 | • Pediatrics |
Processes | 2.847 | Q3 | • Engineering, Chemical |
Separations | 2.777 | Q3 | • Chemistry, Analytical |
Insects | 2.769 | Q1 | • Entomology |
Animals | 2.752 | Q1 | • Agriculture, Dairy & Animal Science |
• Veterinary Sciences | |||
Symmetry | 2.713 | Q2 | • Multidisciplinary Sciences |
Atmosphere | 2.686 | Q3 | • Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
• Environmental Sciences | |||
Applied Sciences | 2.679 | Q2 | • Engineering, Multidisciplinary |
• Physics, Applied | |||
Q3 | • Chemistry, Multidisciplinary | ||
• Materials Science, Multidisciplinary | |||
Photonics | 2.676 | Q2 | • Optics |
Buildings * | 2.648 | Q2 | • Construction & Building Technology |
• Engineering, Civil | |||
Healthcare | 2.645 | Q2 | • Health Policy & Services (SSCI) |
Q3 | • Health Care Sciences & Services (SCIE) | ||
Minerals | 2.644 | Q2 | • Mining & Mineral Processing |
• Mineralogy | |||
• Geochemistry & Geophysics | |||
Forests | 2.634 | Q1 | • Forestry |
Crystals | 2.589 | Q2 | • Crystallography |
Q3 | • Materials Science, Multidisciplinary | ||
Entropy | 2.524 | Q2 | • Physics, Multidisciplinary |
Diversity | 2.465 | Q2 | • Biodiversity Conservation |
Q3 | • Ecology | ||
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering | 2.458 | Q2 | • Oceanography |
• Engineering, Marine | |||
• Engineering, Ocean | |||
Medicina | 2.430 | Q2 | • Medicine, General & Internal |
Machines * | 2.428 | Q2 | • Engineering, Mechanical |
Q3 | • Engineering, Electrical & Electronic | ||
Electronics | 2.397 | Q3 | • Engineering, Electrical & Electronic |
• Computer Science, Information Systems | |||
• Physics, Applied | |||
Fishes * | 2.385 | Q2 | • Fisheries |
• Marine & Freshwater Biology | |||
Metals | 2.351 | Q2 | • Metallurgy & Metallurgical Engineering |
Q3 | • Materials Science, Multidisciplinary | ||
Horticulturae * | 2.331 | Q1 | • Horticulture |
Veterinary Sciences * | 2.304 | Q1 | • Veterinary Sciences |
Universe | 2.278 | Q3 | • Physics, Particles & Fields |
• Astronomy & Astrophysics | |||
Mathematics | 2.258 | Q1 | • Mathematics |
Magnetochemistry | 2.193 | Q3 | • Chemistry, Inorganic & Nuclear |
• Chemistry, Physical | |||
• Materials Science, Multidisciplinary | |||
Current Issues in Molecular Biology | 2.081 | Q4 | • Biochemistry & Molecular Biology |
Actuators | 1.994 | Q3 | • Instruments & Instrumentation |
• Engineering, Mechanical | |||
Aerospace * | 1.659 | Q2 | • Engineering, Aerospace |
* Journals given their first Impact Factor in 2021
Source: 2020 Journal Impact Factors, Journal Citation Reports ® (Clarivate, 2021)
29 June 2021
Energies Receives Updated CiteScore of 4.7

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).
25 June 2021
Recruiting Guest Editors for Fourteen New Sections of Energies
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]).
16 June 2021
Meet us at the 16th International Conference on Waste Management and Technology, Beijing, China, 25–28 June 2021

MDPI will be attending the 16th 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:
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/.
10 June 2021
Energies | Top 10 Downloaded Articles in 2018
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “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 - “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
9 June 2021
Prof. Dr. Maria Founti Appointed as Section Editor-in-Chief of “Energy and Combustion Science” in Energies
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
20 May 2021
Prof. Dr. Giovanni Esposito Appointed as Section Editor-in-Chief of “Hydrogen Energy” in Energies
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
20 May 2021
Prof. Dr. Juan Ramón Morante Appointed as Section Editor-in-Chief of “Advanced Energy Materials” in Energies
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
20 May 2021
Energies | Top 10 Downloaded Articles in 2019
- “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
18 May 2021
Energies | Top 10 Downloaded Articles in 2020
- “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
12 May 2021
Energies | 2020 Highly Cited Chinese Researchers
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
28 April 2021
Book Builder—Compile a Customized E-Book from Your Favorite MDPI Open Access Content
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.
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)
23 April 2021
Meet Us at 2021 IEEE 4th International Conference on Electronics Technology (ICET), Chengdu, China, 7–10 May 2021

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:
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://icet.net/.
21 April 2021
Prof. Dr. Wei-Hsin Chen Appointed as Section Editor-in-Chief of “Artificial Intelligence and Smart Energy” Section in Energies
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
20 April 2021
Meet us at the OceanTech Asia Pacific, Zhoushan Campus, Zhejiang University, China, May 19 - 21, 2021

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
15 April 2021
MDPI Celebrates Company Milestone With 25th Anniversary Page
"We exist to help scientists achieve their own objectives"

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.
15 April 2021
Dr. Philippe Leclère Appointed Section Editor-in-Chief of “Solar Energy and Photovoltaic Systems” in Energies
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.
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Name: Dr. Philippe Leclère |
24 March 2021
Recruiting Editors for Energies
Energies is recruiting Editorial Board members for the following nine new sections:
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.
11 March 2021
Recruiting Editors for Energies
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.
10 March 2021
Journal Selector: Helping to Find the Right MDPI Journal for Your Article
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)
22 December 2020
Recruiting Topic Editors for Energies

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:
- Promoting Energies and published papers among your peers via social media or other venues periodically;
- Suggesting 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]).
15 December 2020
MDPI adopts C4DISC principles to improve diversity and inclusion in scholarly communications
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.
14 December 2020
Article Layout and Templates Revised for Future Volumes
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.
11 December 2020
2020 "Highly Cited Researchers" on MDPI Journal's Editorial Boards
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.
Adams, Dave Agarwal, Ravi P. Ahn, Choon Ki Ahn, Myung-Ju Albrecht, Randy A. Andersson, Dan I. Anker, Stefan D. Apergis, Nicholas Ariga, Katsuhiko Artaxo, Paulo Balsamo, Gianpaolo Barba, Francisco J. Benediktsson, Jon Atli Benelli, Giovanni Bhatnagar, Amit Bialystok, Ellen Blaabjerg, Frede Blay, Jean-Yves Bogers, Marcel Bolton, Declan J. Boyer, Cyrille Brocca, Luca Bruix, Jordi Buhalis, Dimitrios Burdick, Jason A. Byrd, John C. Cabeza, Luisa F. Cabrerizo-Lorite, Francisco Javier Cai, Jianchao Calhoun, Vince D. Cantu, Robert C. Cerqueira, Miguel Chang, Jo-Shu Chau, Kwok-wing Chemat, Farid Chen, Jianmin Chen, Jun Chen, Min Chen, Shaowei Chen, Wei Chen, Wei-Hsin Chen, Xiaofeng Chen, Yangkang Chen, Zhi-Gang Chiclana, Francisco Corella, Dolores Cortes, Javier Cortes, Jorge Cummings, Kenneth Michael Dai, Shifeng Decker, Eric A. DePinho, Ronald A. Dimopoulos, Meletios-Athanasios Dincer, Ibrahim Du, Yihong Dupont, Didier Edwards, David Ellahi, Rahmat Ellis, Erle C. ElMasry, Gamal Esteller, Manel Estruch, Ramón Fang, Chuanglin Fasano, Alessio Fernandez-Lafuente, Roberto Ferreira, Isabel Fortino, Giancarlo Galluzzi, Lorenzo Galvano, Fabio Gandomi, Amir H. Gandomi, Amir H. Gao, Bin Gao, Feng Gao, Wei Garbe, Claus García, Hermenegildo Geschwind, Daniel H. Giampieri, Francesca Giralt, Sergio A. Glanz, Karen Goldewijk, Kees Klein Gössling, Stefan Govindan, Kannan Granato, Daniel Grosso, Giuseppe Grosso, Giuseppe Guerrero, Josep M. Haase, Dagmar Hagger, Martin S. Hamblin, Michael R. Han, Heesup Jankovic, Joseph Janotti, Anderson |
Jiang, Hai-Long Kalaji, Hazem M. Kalantar-Zadeh, Kourosh Kaner, Richard B. Karimi, Hamid Reza Kataoka, Kazunori Keesstra, Saskia Kepp, Oliver Kerminen, Veli-Matti Keyzers, Robert A. Khademhosseini, Ali Khan, Nafees A. Kim, Ki-Hyun Klemeš, Jiří Jaromír Klenk, Hans-Peter Konopleva, Marina Y. Krammer, Florian Krebs, Frederik C. Kroemer, Guido Kudo, Masatoshi Kurths, Juergen Kurzrock, Razelle Kuznetsov, Nikolay V. Kyrpides, Nikos C. La Vecchia, Carlo Lai, Yuekun Lam, James Lancellotti, Patrizio Lee, Sangmoon Leung, Victor C. M. Li, Jinghong Li, Yurui Lindahl, José M. Merigó Lip, Gregory Y. H. Loh, Xian Jun Long, Hualou Lund, Henrik Luo, Jingshan Luque, Rafael Lyons, Timothy W. Ma, Jun Ma, Wen-Xiu Ma, Yanming Maeda, Keisuke Makarova, Kira Mantovani, Alberto Martín-Belloso, Olga Martinoia, Enrico Marzband, Mousa Masclaux-Daubresse, Celine Masson, Patrick Mateos, María Victoria Mathiesen, Brian Vad Matyjaszewski, Krzysztof McArthur, Grant A. McCauley, Darren Medlock, Jolyon M. Melero, Ignacio Mezzetti, Bruno Miroshnichenko, Andrey E. Moran, Daniel Mueller, Lukas A. Mueller-Roeber, Bernd Naushad, Mu Nemeroff, Charles B. Nieto, Juan J. O'Donnell, Colm Ogino, Shuji Olabi, Abdul-Ghani O'Regan, Donal Orsini, Nicola Oswald, Isabelle P. Ozcan, Aydogan Pahl-Wostl, Claudia Pang, Huan Payne, James E. Peng, Shushi Perc, Matjaz Perez-Alvarez, Jose Angel Piquero, Alex R. Ploss, Alexander Postolache, Mihai Pradhan, Biswajeet Prinsep, Michele R. Qian, Dong Qu, Xiaogang Reiter, Russel J. Riahi, Keywan Richter, Andreas Rignot, Eric Robert, Caroline Ros, Emilio Rosell, Rafael |
Rosen, Marc A. |
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.
3 December 2020
Energies Reaches 20,000 Articles Milestone

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.
1 December 2020
Introducing Editor's Choice Articles in Energies

Energies would like to introduce a new feature, called "Editor's Choice Articles", which highlight outstanding papers published in the journal. These are selected by the editors, and include original articles which make important and impactful findings, as well as review articles that are excellently written. With this feature, readers can expect timely and useful highlights of recent articles in the journal, and deserving authors would receive more attention on their excellent contributions. We hope that this feature will enhance your reading pleasure and experience with Energies.
27 November 2020
Meet Us at 2020 MRS Fall Meeting—Virtual
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:
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
26 October 2020
Meet us at the China Materials Conference and Exhibition 2020, Qingdao, Shandong, China, November 19–21, 2020

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/
11 September 2020
Meet us at the 4th Micro-Nano Optics Technology and Application Exchange Conference (MOTA2020), Chengdu, China, 26–28 September 2020

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.
22 August 2020
Energies — Call for Special Issue Proposals

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:
Energy Markets Energy Policy Renewable Energy Transition Energy Management of EV Intelligent Transportation Systems Ground/Air/Underwater Vehicles Entropy Generation Thermal Conductivity Nanofluids Power Harvesting Wireless Networks Power Converters Modeling of Wind Turbines Aerodynamics of Wind Turbines Wind Farm Optimization Data science for Building Building Physics Smart Building Energy Battery Energy Storage Optical, Electronic Magnetic Material Catalysis and Energy |
Demand Response Power Flow Forecasting (Load, Electricity Price, Wind, Solar) Electrical Energy Storage Carbon Capture and Storage Greenhouse Gas Emissions Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide Geothermal Energy Extraction Petroleum Exploration and Production Materials for solar cells Photovoltaic system Solar Photocatalysis Catalysis in hydrogen production Fuel cell systems Bio-hydrogen Life Cycle Assessment Low Carbon Energy Technologies Energy Footprints Biogas Lignocellulosic Biomass Biomass Thermochemical Conversion |
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.
22 August 2020
Recruiting Editors for Energies

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.
10 July 2020
The Association of European Renewable Energy Research Centres (EUREC) is Now an Affiliated Society Member of Energies
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.
9 July 2020
Open Access Agreement Between Jisc Collections and MDPI
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].
13 May 2020
COVID-19 Academic Resources Center

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
9 May 2020
Energies Outstanding Reviewer Award 2020 Winners Selected
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
9 April 2020
Free Open Platforms to Support Academics During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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.
25 March 2020
MDPI Comment on the COVID-19 Virus
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.
18 March 2020
MDPI Co-Signed Position Statement on Transformative Agreements
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
16 March 2020
Encyclopedia Outstanding Contributor Awards 2020 - Open for Application
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
- An official certificate;
- 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
- Have a Ph.D. degree;
- Have more than three qualified entries published in Encyclopedia in 2020.
Evaluation Standards
- Number of entries published in Encyclopedia in 2020;
- Quality of entries online (including length, figure quality, and novelty);
- 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.
12 March 2020
The 1st World Energies Forum (Rome, September 2020)— Submission Deadline Extended Due to Coronavirus

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
4 March 2020
Meet us at the 17th International Congress on Catalysis, San Diego, California, USA, June 14-19, 2020

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:
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/
18 December 2019
Meet Us at TMS 2020 in San Diego, CA, USA, 23–27 February 2020

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:
Journal of Manufacturing and Materials Processing
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.
12 November 2019
Recruiting Editors for Energies
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.
11 October 2019
Introducing SciProfiles, an Academic Social Network
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
2 October 2019
Winners of the 2019 MDPI Writing Prize
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.
20 September 2019
Meet us at the 5th International Conference on Perovskite Solar Cells and Optoelectronics (PSCO-2019).

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
20 September 2019
MDPI Now Gives Scholars the Possibility to Endorse and Recommend Articles
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
18 September 2019
Meet us at the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) in San Francisco, USA, 7–11 December 2019

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:
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/.
11 September 2019
Create an Entry in Encyclopedia to Get a 100 CHF Voucher in Publishing in MDPI Journals
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].
6 September 2019
Meet us at the 35th Annual International Conference on Soils, Sediments, Water, and Energy in Amherst, Massachusetts, USA, 21-24 October 2019

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:
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
6 August 2019
Preprints Reaches 10,000 Posted Articles Milestone
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.
2 August 2019
DeepGreen Partnering with Publishers and Universities in Distributing Open Access Content to Institutional Repositories
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.
If you would like to know in more detail which institutions take part in the advanced test phase of DeepGreen, you can find more information here.
17 July 2019
First Basel Sustainable Publishing Forum
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
3 July 2019
Meet Us at the Conference EWTEC 2019 in Napoli, Italy, 1–6 September 2019

MDPI will be attending the 13th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference (EWTEC 2019) in Napoli, Italy, 1–6 September 2019.
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
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/.
27 June 2019
Meet Us at the 14th European Congress on Catalysis in Aachen, Germany, 18–23 August 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:
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/.
20 June 2019
Energies Receiving 2018 Updated Impact Factor of 2.707
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.
18 June 2019
Meet Us at the MNE 2019 in Rhodes Island, Greece, 23–26 September 2019

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:
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/.
28 May 2019
Meet us at the 8th World Hydrogen Technologies Convention (WHTC 2019) in Tokyo, Japan

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.
10 May 2019
Meet us at the 27th European Biomass Conference & Exhibition (EUBCE 2019) in Lisbon, Portugal

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/.
8 May 2019
Meet Us at the 24th Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE 2019) in Manchester, UK, 26–29 June 2019

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:
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
8 May 2019
Meet us at the 46th IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference (PVSC 46) in Chicago, Illinois, USA

MDPI will attend PVSC 46 in Chicago, Illinois, USA, from 16−21 June 2019.
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.
29 April 2019
Meet Us at the ELECTRIMACS 2019 in Salerno, Italy, 21–23 May 2019

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:
If you are also attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth (Booth #Procida). 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.electrimacs2019.unisa.it/
2 April 2019
Meet Us at NAM26, the 2019 North American Catalysis Society Meeting in Chicago, USA, 23–28 June 2019

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:
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
20 March 2019
Fostering Open Access Publishing Worldwide: New IOAP Participants in February and March 2019
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].
20 March 2019
Energies Reaches 10,000 Articles Milestone

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.
5 March 2019
MDPI Joins Jisc’s Publications Router Service
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.
1 February 2019
2018 MDPI Top Reviewer Award—Winners Announced
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
24 January 2019
JAMS Journals: A Low-Cost Publishing Platform

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]).
24 January 2019
Popularity of Preprints Continues to Grow
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.
14 January 2019
The European Biomass Industry Association (EUBIA) is Now an Affiliated Society Member of Energies
In November 2018, the European Biomass Industry Association (EUBIA) chose Energies as its preferred journal and became an affiliated society member of the journal. As part of this collaboration, all members of EUBIA enjoy a discount on the article processing charges (APC) when submitting articles to Energies.
EUBIA’s main objective is to support the European biomass industries at all levels, promoting the sustainable use of biomass as a source of energy and bio-based materials, developing innovative bioenergy concepts, and fostering international co-operation within the bioenergy field. Given that biomass will have an important role to play in promoting sustainable development worldwide and the deployment of clean energies, EUBIA intends to contribute to strengthening the European policies in the sector, protecting industrial interest, identifying new opportunities, and promoting job creation and a better environment for all.
EUBIA is a professional organization whose functions are highly relevant to the scope of Energies. We look forward to collaborating with ENBIA and publishing state-of-the-art research from its members in this field.
9 January 2019
Open Access Agreement between the Austrian Academic Library Consortium (KEMÖ), the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), and MDPI
We are delighted to announce the establishment of our national Open Access agreement with the Austrian Academic Library Consortium (KEMÖ) and the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). Through this national agreement, the Austrian institutions listed below as well as FWF will cover the Article Processing Charges (APC) of manuscripts published by eligible corresponding or funded authors in MDPI journals as long as central funds are available.
All participating institutions have gained access to the MDPI online submission system where they can find full article metadata and pricing information as well as Funder and Grant ID details for easy identification and additional transparency. At the same time eligible authors are benefited from an APC discount which comes at no cost for the institutions.
Eligible corresponding authors affiliated with the participating institutions are prompted to choose the corresponding Institutional Open Access Program (IOAP) when they submit an article via our online submission system. The program will be selected automatically if authors submit their papers using their institutional email address. To claim their discount, FWF funded authors should choose the particular funder and add their Grant ID upon online submission of their manuscript. The institutions will then crosscheck the information and confirm the APC funding.
Eligible authors that have their APC covered by their institution or funder are advised to include the following sentence in their acknowledgments: "Open Access Funding by the [name of the institution/funder]".
The full text of the agreement is openly available online at: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2536007
For any questions about the agreement, please contact the KEMÖ Consortium at [email protected], FWF at [email protected], or the MDPI IOAP team at [email protected]
The Austrian institutions participating in this agreement are:
- Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
- University for Continuing Education Krems
- University of Applied Sciences BFI Vienna
- University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria
- University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien
- Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences
- International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
- Institute of Science and Technology Austria
- MCI Management Center Innsbruck
- University of Graz
- University of Linz
- University of Salzburg
- Graz University of Technology
- TU Wien
- University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
- University of Vienna
This is our first collective agreement with a national library consortium, while the individual institutions around the world participating in our IOAP are now more than 500 - see details here: https://www.mdpi.com/about/ioap. We would be mostly interested in discussing about possible collaborations with other consortia, funders, and institutions in our mutual efforts to accelerate Open Access.
2 January 2019
Encyclopedia—the Scholarly Community Encyclopedia

We are pleased to announce the new platform Encyclopedia, which is an online reference created and curated by active scholars. It aims to highlight the latest research results as well as providing benchmark information for researchers and the general public interested in accurate and advanced knowledge on specific topics.
We encourage authors of review articles to quote and adapt the content of their published papers to create Encyclopedia entries. You can create completely new entries on topics in which you have knowledge and expertise. There is no limit on the topics or research fields. All of science and the humanities are included. Each entry will be published directly after submission.
We also have prepared a DOI application function in Encyclopedia. Once a DOI application is approved, the entry website will announce the DOI number and a pdf version with DOI information will be automatically created.
We look forward to your contributions and hope you will make use of this service. Find more about the service at: https://encyclopedia.pub/
15 November 2018
Meet Us at MEMS 2019 in Seoul, Korea, 27–31 January 2019

We will attend the 32nd International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS 2019). It will be held in Seoul, Korea, 27–31 January 2019, and it will be organized by the society of Micro and Nano Systems (SMNS). MEMS 2019 is one of the premier annual events reporting research results on every aspect of microsystems technology. This conference reflects from the rapid proliferation of the commitment and success of the microsystems research community. In recent years, the IEEE MEMS Conference has attracted more than 700 participants and 800+ abstract submissions and has created a forum to present over 200 select papers in podium and poster/oral sessions. Representatives of the following open-access journals will attend:
J – Journal of Multidisciplinary Science
If you are also attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth (booth #40). 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://mems19.org/html/main.php.
15 November 2018
Meet Us at the TMS 2019 Annual Meeting and Exhibition at San Antonio, TX, USA, 10–14 March 2019

Our colleagues and editors will be attending the TMS 2019 Annual Meeting and Exhibition, to be held in San Antonio, TX, USA, 10–14 March 2019. The following MDPI journals will be represented:
If you are also attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth (#137). Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person and answering any questions you may have.
The TMS meeting will bring together more than 4,000 engineers, scientists, and other professionals in the materials field for a comprehensive, cross-disciplinary exchange of technical knowledge leading to solutions in the workplace and in society. For more information about the conference, please visit https://www.tms.org/tms2019.
30 October 2018
Institutional Open Access Agreement between Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and MDPI

We are delighted to announce that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) is now a participant of our Institutional Open Access Program (IOAP). Authors funded by the BMGF can enjoy discounts on the APC, while the funder covers the costs of eligible articles centrally. BMGF also has access to the MDPI online submission system where they can find full article metadata and pricing information as well as Grant ID details for easy identification and additional transparency.
We hope that funded authors find the programme beneficial and we are happy to offer our IOAP to other funders that need a streamlined workflow of compliance checking and APC coverage.
To claim their discount, BMGF funded authors should choose the particular funder and add their Grant ID upon online submission of their manuscript.
For any questions about the BMGF agreement, please contact the funder at [email protected] or the MDPI IOAP team at [email protected].
2 October 2018
MDPI Welcomes Plan S
Recently, it was announced that a group of European funders supported 10 principles that will help to expand open access, known as Plan S. MDPI warmly welcomes this move as a step towards achieving more open and accessible communication of research across all disciplines. Some aspects remain to be clarified, however the details given so far match the aims and values that MDPI has held over the past two decades.
We believe that open access publishers should be active participants in discussions around Plan S, particularly regarding potential new business models and practical aspects of implementation. MDPI supports APCs as a transparent unit of payment for article publishing, however we are committed to exploring other measures and recently signed the Jussieu Call. Sustainability is a key value for MDPI, and future funding models should have at their heart the sustainability of knowledge and research dissemination. Plan S provides an opportunity for funders and publishers to directly discuss funding of open access journals in ways that are beneficial to all parties involved.
7 September 2018
Meet Us at ASME's International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition in Pittsburgh, USA (9–15 November 2018)

MDPI will be represented at IMECE 2018 in Pittsburgh, USA, from 9–15 November 2018.
ASME's International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE) is the largest interdisciplinary mechanical engineering conference in the world. IMECE plays a significant role in stimulating innovation from basic discovery to translational application. It fosters new collaborations that engage stakeholders and partners not only from academia, but also from national laboratories, industry, research settings, and funding bodies.
The following MDPI open access journals will be represented:
If you are planning to attend this conference, please stop by our booth #202. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person, and will be happy to answer any questions you may have regarding open access publishing or our journals. For more information about the conference, please visit: https://www.asme.org/events/imece
5 September 2018
Meet Us at MRS Fall Meeting in Boston, USA, 25–30 November 2018

MDPI will be attending 2018 MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit, to be held in Boston, USA, 25–30 November 2018.
This conference is the key forum to present research to an interdisciplinary and international audience. It provides a window on 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 network with colleagues.
The following MDPI journals will be represented:
- Materials
- Polymers
- Energies
- Nanomaterials
- Metals
- Journal of Functional Biomaterials (JFB)
- Processes
- Sensors
- Sustainability
- C
- Journal of Manufacturing and Materials Processing (JMMP)
- Biomimetics
- Methods and Protocols (MPs)
If you are also attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth (Booth #123). 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.mrs.org/fall2018
30 August 2018
MDPI establishes Open Access agreement with Qatar National Library
We are happy to announce the establishment of an Open Access (OA) agreement with Qatar National Library (QNL). QNL is committed to supporting and helping Qatar authors publish OA at no cost. Through this national agreement, QNL will cover the Article Processing Charges (APC) of manuscripts published by Qatar-based corresponding authors in MDPI journals.
Eligible corresponding authors affiliated with Qatar research centers and universities are prompted to choose QNL as part of our Institutional Open Access Program (IOAP) when they submit an article via our online submission system. The program will be selected automatically if authors submit their papers using their institutional email and/or a computer registered with the institution’s IP range. QNL will then crosscheck the information and confirm the APC funding.
Qatar authors that have their APC covered by QNL are advised to include the following sentence in their acknowledgments: "The publication of this article was funded by Qatar National Library".
For more information, please visit Open Access at QNL or email the QNL Open Access team at [email protected].
22 August 2018
Meet us at the 9th Edition of the International Solaris Conference in Chengdu, China

MDPI will be represented at Solaris 2018 in Chengdu, China, from 3–31 August 2018.
The Solaris conference network provides a platform for the meeting of professionals researching the areas of solar radiation, daylighting, solar energy conversion systems, and efficient energy use in built environments. The main aim of this conference is the presentation of the state-of-the-art in solar energy and building energy research, as well as to establish close contact amongst researchers, facilitating the dissemination of their research outcomes and encouraging professional collaboration.
The MDPI open access journal Energies will be represented.
If you are planning to attend this conference, please stop by our booth. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person, and will be happy to answer any questions you may have regarding open access publishing or our journals. For more information about the conference, please visit: https://www.solaris2018.com/
13 July 2018
Meet Us at the XXVI Ibero-American Catalysis Congress (CICat 2018) in Coimbra, Portugal, 9–14 September 2018

Our editorial team will be attending the XXVI Ibero-American Catalysis Congress (CICat 2018) in Coimbra, Portugal, 9–14 September 2018
As a result of the biannual meetings held since 1968, the Ibero-American Federation of Catalysis Societies (FISoCat), the Portuguese Society of Chemistry (SPQ) and the University of Coimbra, have the pleasure of organizing the XXVI Ibero-American Catalysis Congress (CICat 2018).
As in previous editions, this event aims to be a meeting point for the Ibero-American community working in Catalysis and in all its different areas of scientific knowledge. The 2018 CICat has a symbolic historical importance, for reaching 50 years since the beginning of this series of Encounters. Participants of CICat 2018 are also invited to visit the city of Coimbra, as well as its historic center and the University of Coimbra (UNESCO World Heritage Site).
The following MDPI journals will be represented:
Catalysts
Processes
Energies
Symmetry
Applied Sciences
Sustainability
Materials
If you are also attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth (Booth near the Lobby Coffee Break). 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://cicat2018.eventos.chemistry.pt/?setLn=es.
26 June 2018
2017 Impact Factor Released for Energies: 2.676
We are pleased to inform that Energies received an updated Journal Impact Factor of 2.676 in the June 2018 release of the Journal Citation Reports®. The journal's 5-Year Impact Factor is 3.045. Energies now ranks 48/97 (Q2) in the category 'Energy & Fuels.'
Overview of Citation Metrics:
- Journal Impact Factor, 2 yrs (2017): 2.676
- 5-Year Impact Factor (2017): 3.045
- CiteScore, 3 yrs (Scopus): 3.11
- SJR Scimago Journal Rank 2017 (SJR): 0.670
- Source Normalized Impact 2017 (SNIP): 1.340
Evolution of Impact Factor, Citations and Publications for Energies:
22 June 2018
Meet US at the 8th Tokyo Conference on Advanced Catalytic Science and Technology (TOCAT8) in Yokohama, Japan, 5–10 August 2018

MDPI will be attending the 8th Tokyo Conference on Advanced Catalytic Science and Technology (TOCAT8), to be held in Yokohama, Japan, 5–10 August 2018.
Catalysis Society of Japan will organize this meeting as a continuation of TOCAT (1990), TOCAT2 (1994), TOCAT3 (1998), TOCAT4 (2002), TOCAT5 (2006), TOCAT6/APCAT5 (2010), and TOCAT7 (2014). The past seven TOCAT conferences have earned a good reputation as a new series of international conferences on catalysis that has significantly filled the gap between research and technology in catalysis. Stimulating closer ties between academia and industry and encouraging young researchers in the field of catalysis are the central concept of this conference. This conference should greatly contribute to exchanging new ideas and technologies and promoting developments of new outstanding catalysts and systems under the scope that catalysis is a highly and eagerly demanded technology in industries and for sustainable society and drives innovation in many other fields.
The following MDPI journals will be represented:
Catalysts
Processes
Energies
Molecules
Materials
If you are also attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth (Booth #8). 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.shokubai.org/tocat8/index.html.
15 June 2018
Meet us at CHISA 2018 and PRES 2018

Meet us at the 23rd International Congress of Chemical and Process Engineering (CHISA 2018) and 21st Conference on Process Integration, Modelling and Optimisation for Energy Saving and Pollution Reduction (PRES 2018) in Prague, Czech Republic, from 25–29 August 2018.
MDPI will be represented at the CHISA 2018 jointly held with PRES 2018 in Prague, Czech Republic, from 25–29 August 2018.
CHISA 2018 and PRES 2018 will offer you many interdisciplinary connections and cover a range of important topics with focus on addressing global challenges in energy, water, pollution, and sustainability using classical chemical engineering approaches, enhanced by many interdisciplinary collaborations.
The following MDPI journals will be represented:
If you are also attending these two conferences, please stop by our booth at the Clarion Congress Hotel Prague. 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 the conferences, please visit http://2018.chisa.cz/.
15 June 2018
Meet us at the 17th International Conference on Sustainable Energy Technologies in Wuhan, China

MDPI will be represented at SET 2018 in Wuhan, China, from 21–23 August 2018.
With the theme, Sustainable Energy Technologies for Eco Cities and Environment, this conference will primarily focus on discussion topics such as energy storage for the age of renewables; research, innovation and commercialization in sustainable energy technologies; integrating planning and policy, architecture, engineering and economics; energy and environment; engineering thermophysics; and systemic change for cities.
The MDPI open access journal Energies will be represented.
If you are also attending this conference, 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 the conference, please visit: http://set2018.org/
12 June 2018
Meet US at IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition in Tokyo, Japan, 16–21 September 2018

MDPI will be attending the IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition, to be held in Tokyo, Japan, 16–21 September 2018.
The IWA World Water Congress & Exhibition is the global event for water professionals covering the full water cycle. As the Congress rotates through cities and countries each event has an extra emphasis on issues of specific interest to the region. The 2018 edition taking place in Tokyo will have as key focus the digital economy, megacities, diffusion of innovation, disaster resilience and sustainability.
The following MDPI journals will be represented:
If you are also attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth (Booth #102). 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://worldwatercongress.org/
1 June 2018
Energies 2017 CiteScore™ Announced - 3.11
We are pleased to report Energies received a CiteScore of 3.11 for 2017. The metric reflects citation activity in 2017 in Scopus for papers published in the period 2014‒2016.
For the full details in the current CiteScore release, please see the journal's Source profile. To check the full list of MDPI journals receiving CiteScores, please see here.
31 May 2018
2017 CiteScore™ Metrics Released
The 2017 CiteScore™ data is available now, based on citation data in the Scopus® database. The current CiteScore reflects citation activity in 2017 for articles published in 2014‒2016. Please note that the list below includes journals assigned a CiteScore in this year’s release. For a full list of journals indexed in Scopus, please see our journal list.
Thirteen of our journals received a CiteScore which is in the top 10% of the distribution in at least one of the categories (marked with * in the table below), while a further 32 journals exhibit scores that are in the first quartile of the respective categories.
To access the full data for MDPI journals, please see here. More data can also be found in SJR Scimago Journal & Country Rank.
Unlike CiteScores and the widely used Journal Impact Factors, the Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) metrics are normalized in order to correct for differences in citation practices between scientific fields. Therefore, the SNIP allows direct comparison between journals specialized in different fields.
According to 2017 data, MDPI publishes six journals with an average citation impact, or SNIP, in excess of 1.500. These journals are Biomolecules, Cancers, Journal of Clinical Medicine (JCM), Marine Drugs, Remote Sensing and Sensors (see the last column in the table below).
CiteScore Data for MDPI Journals
Journal | Rank (Quartile) |
Category | Link | CiteScore 2017 | 2016 |
2015 |
SNIP 2017 |
Aerospace | 43/116 (Q2) | • Aerospace Engineering | Link | 1.23 | - | - | 1.152 |
Agriculture | 69/309 (Q1) 91/398 (Q1) 78/255 (Q2) |
• Agronomy and Crop Science • Plant Science • Food Science |
Link | 1.93 | - | - | 1.133 |
Agronomy | 46/309 (Q1) | • Agronomy and Crop Science | Link | 2.38 | - | - | 1.115 |
Algorithms | 22/46 (Q2) 61/125 (Q2) 60/107 (Q3) 64/114 (Q3) |
• Numerical Analysis • Computational Mathematics • Computational Theory and Mathematics • Theoretical Computer Science |
Link | 1.03 | 1.15 | 1.07 | 0.749 |
Animals | 12/154 (Q1) * 48/367 (Q1) |
• General Veterinary • Animal Science and Zoology |
Link | 2.02 | 1.46 | 1.66 | 1.099 |
Antibiotics | 6/68 (Q1) * 62/263 (Q1) 55/230 (Q1) 31/108 (Q2) 47/134 (Q2) 139/398 (Q2) |
• General Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics • Infectious Diseases • Pharmacology (medical) • Microbiology (medical) • Microbiology • Biochemistry |
Link | 2.85 | 1.65 | - | 0.975 |
Antibodies | 43/143 (Q2) 61/164 (Q2) 85/189 (Q2) |
• Drug Discovery • Immunology and Allergy • Immunology |
Link | 2.85 | - | - | 0.844 |
Antioxidants | 23/119 (Q1) 35/169 (Q2) 100/398 (Q2) 119/367 (Q2) 102/264 (Q2) |
• Clinical Biochemistry • Physiology • Biochemistry • Molecular Biology • Cell Biology |
Link | 3.42 | - | - | 1.361 |
Applied Sciences | 48/270 (Q1) 15/66 (Q1) 31/116 (Q2) 18/53 (Q2) 151/434 (Q2) 186/535 (Q2) |
• General Engineering • Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes • Instrumentation • Process Chemistry and Technology • General Materials Science • Computer Science Applications |
Link | 1.90 | - | - | 0.801 |
Biology | 12/177 (Q1)* 32/186 (Q1) 10/40 (Q1) |
• General Agricultural and Biological Sciences • General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology • General Immunology and Microbiology |
Link | 3.48 | 3.02 | 2.78 | 0.961 |
Biomolecules | 31/398 (Q1) * 41/367 (Q1) |
• Biochemistry • Molecular Biology |
Link | 5.72 | 1.67 | 3.08 | 1.542 |
Biosensors | 20/119 (Q1) | • Clinical Biochemistry | Link | 3.59 | 2.83 | 2.37 | 1.122 |
Brain Sciences | 47/111 (Q2) | • General Neuroscience | Link | 2.56 | - | - | 0.695 |
Cancers | 26/323 (Q1) * 23/191 (Q1) |
• Oncology • Cancer Research |
Link | 5.82 | 5.02 | 4.07 | 1.567 |
Catalysts | 32/151 (Q1) 21/46 (Q2) |
• Physical and Theoretical Chemistry • Catalysis |
Link | 3.23 | 3.44 | 3.45 | 0.954 |
Crystals | 76/272 (Q2) 140/434 (Q2) 127/398 (Q2) 26/64 (Q2) |
• General Chemical Engineering • General Materials Science • Condensed Matter Physics • Inorganic Chemistry |
Link | 1.97 | 1.89 | 1.47 | 0.745 |
Diagnostics | 49/119 (Q2) | • Clinical Biochemistry | Link | 2.43 | - | - | 0.788 |
Diversity | 30/124 (Q1) 14/52 (Q2) 83/306 (Q2) 11/29 (Q2) |
• Nature and Landscape Conservation • Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) • Ecology • Ecological Modelling |
Link | 2.15 | 2.03 | 1.96 | 1.300 |
Electronics | 109/644 (Q1) 26/148 (Q1) 42/224 (Q1) 50/259 (Q1) 23/96 (Q1) |
• Electrical and Electronic Engineering • Hardware and Architecture • Control and Systems Engineering • Computer Networks and Communications • Signal Processing |
Link | 2.97 | - | - | 1.227 |
Energies | 6/73 (Q1) * 31/192 (Q1) 103/644 (Q1) 4/16 (Q1) 47/140 (Q2) |
• Control and Optimization • Energy Engineering and Power Technology • Electrical and Electronic Engineering • Energy (miscellaneous) • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment |
Link | 3.11 | 2.50 | 2.87 | 1.340 |
Entropy | 35/202 (Q1) | • General Physics and Astronomy | Link | 2.41 | 1.87 | 1.99 | 1.189 |
Forests | 17/129 (Q1) | • Forestry | Link | 2.31 | 2.06 | 1.76 | 0.990 |
Future Internet | 132/259 (Q3) | • Computer Networks and Communications | Link | 1.25 | - | - | - |
Games | 132/187 (Q3) 78/110 (Q3) 305/418 (Q3) |
• Statistics and Probability • Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty • Applied Mathematics |
Link | 0.61 | 0.87 | 0.57 | 1.038 |
Genes | 21/91 (Q1) 74/311 (Q1) |
• Genetics (clinical) • Genetics |
Link | 3.49 | 3.62 | 3.18 | 0.374 |
Geosciences | 32/182 (Q1) |
• General Earth and Planetary Sciences | Link | 1.97 | 1.67 | 1.29 | 0.856 |
Information | 143/251 (Q3) | • Information Systems | Link | 1.16 | 0.78 | 0.94 | 1.146 |
Insects | 27/135 (Q1) | • Insect Science | Link | 1.85 | 1.81 | 1.38 | 0.719 |
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) | 80/478 (Q1) 34/106 (Q2) |
• Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis |
Link | 2.41 | 2.38 | 2.42 | 0.931 |
International Journal of Molecular Sciences (IJMS) | 7/69 (Q1) * 61/535 (Q1) 20/163 (Q1) 9/64 (Q1) 26/151 (Q1) 89/367 (Q2) 17/46 (Q2) |
• Spectroscopy • Computer Science Applications • Organic Chemistry • Inorganic Chemistry • Physical and Theoretical Chemistry • Molecular Biology • Catalysis |
Link | 3.86 | 3.73 | 3.37 | 0.998 |
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (IJGI) | 79/605 (Q1) 22/82 (Q2) 13/36 (Q2) |
• Geography, Planning and Development • Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) • Computers in Earth Sciences |
Link | 2.10 | 1.62 | 1.52 | 1.062 |
Journal of Clinical Medicine (JCM) | 10/841 (Q1) * | • General Medicine | Link | 7.07 | - | - | 1.535 |
Journal of Functional Biomaterials (JFB) | 43/199 (Q1) 23/77 (Q2) |
• Biomedical Engineering • Biomaterials |
Link | 3.47 | - | - | 1.344 |
Journal of Low Po- wer Electronics and Applications (JLPEA) |
301/644 (Q2) | • Electrical and Electronic Engineering | Link | 1.12 | 0.98 | 0.83 | 0.367 |
Journal of Personalized Medicine (JPM) | 54/189 (Q2) | • Medicine (miscellaneous) | Link | 2.61 | - | - | 0.944 |
Land | 50/124 (Q2) 129/306 (Q2) 36/65 (Q3) |
• Nature and Landscape Conservation • Ecology • Global and Planetary Change |
Link | 1.44 | - | - | 0.658 |
Life | 4/94 (Q1) * 70/561 (Q1) 40/186 (Q1) 20/80 (Q2) |
• Palaeontology • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics • General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology • Space and Planetary Science |
Link | 3.16 | 2.95 | 1.68 | 0.935 |
Marine Drugs | 17/146 (Q1) | • Drug Discovery | Link | 4.58 | 3.83 | 3.66 | 1.537 |
Materials | 83/434 (Q1) | • General Materials Science | Link | 3.02 | 3.26 | 3.11 | 1.285 |
Membranes | 5/18 (Q2) 15/53 (Q2) 4/10 (Q2) |
• Chemical Engineering (miscellaneous) • Process Chemistry and Technology • Filtration and Separation |
Link | 2.69 | 2.19 | 2.95 | 0.880 |
Metabolites | 47/209 (Q1) 103/398 (Q2) 127/367 (Q2) |
• Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism • Biochemistry • Molecular Biology |
Link | 3.35 | - | - | 0.925 |
Metals | 155/434 (Q2) | • General Materials Science | Link | 1.87 | - | - | 0.955 |
Micromachines | 105/554 (Q1) 154/644 (Q1) 64/224 (Q2) |
• Mechanical Engineering • Electrical and Electronic Engineering • Control and Systems Engineering |
Link | 2.31 | 1.83 | 1.78 | 0.987 |
Minerals | 33/175 (Q1) 45/208 (Q1) |
• Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology • Geology |
Link | 2.21 | 2.13 | 1.77 | 1.149 |
Molecules | 4/25 (Q1) 25/172 (Q1) 18/104 (Q1) 31/163 (Q1) 30/151 (Q1) 31/146 (Q1) 55/160 (Q2) |
• Chemistry (miscellaneous) • Pharmaceutical Science • Analytical Chemistry • Organic Chemistry • Physical and Theoretical Chemistry • Drug Discovery • Molecular Medicine |
Link | 3.27 | 3.09 | 2.65 | 1.146 |
Nutrients | 11/255 (Q1) * 9/112 (Q1) * |
• Food Science • Nutrition and Dietetics |
Link | 4.35 | 4.29 | 4.07 | 1.403 |
Pathogens | 38/263 (Q1) 20/108 (Q1) 9/40 (Q1) 40/164 (Q1) 110/367 (Q2) |
• Infectious Diseases • Microbiology (medical) • General Immunology and Microbiology • Immunology and Allergy • Molecular Biology |
Link | 3.52 | - | - | 1.166 |
Pharmaceuticals | 14/172 (Q1) * 33/160 (Q1) |
• Pharmaceutical Science • Molecular Medicine |
Link | 4.12 | 4.90 | 3.64 | 1.370 |
Pharmaceutics | 21/172 (Q1) | • Pharmaceutical Science | Link | 3.68 | 3.83 | 2.68 | 1.092 |
Photonics | 30/116 (Q1) 80/270 (Q2) 53/160 (Q2) |
• Instrumentation • Radiology Nuclear Medicine and Imaging • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics |
Link | 1.96 | - | - | 0.817 |
Plants | 73/561 (Q1) 48/389 (Q1) 44/306 (Q1) |
• Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics • Plant Science • Ecology |
Link | 3.13 | - | - | 0.969 |
Polymers | 17/142 (Q1) 63/359 (Q1) |
• Polymers and Plastics • General Chemistry |
Link | 3.30 | 3.74 | 3.37 | 1.213 |
Religions | 26/389 (Q1) * | • Religious Studies | Link | 0.56 | - | - | 0.676 |
Remote Sensing | 13/182 (Q1) * | • General Earth and Planetary Sciences | Link | 4.03 | 3.56 | 3.76 | 1.559 |
Resources | 19/142 (Q1) 39/261 (Q1) |
• Nature and Landscape Conservation • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law |
Link | 2.69 | - | - | 1.387 |
Scientia Pharmaceutica | 92/172 (Q3) | • Pharmaceutical Science | Link | 0.86 | - | - | 0.513 |
Sensors | 9/116 (Q1) * 25/160 (Q1) 100/644 (Q1) 19/104 (Q1) 113/398 (Q2) |
• Instrumentation • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics • Electrical and Electronic Engineering • Analytical Chemistry • Biochemistry |
Link | 3.23 | 2.78 | 2.21 | 1.550 |
Social Sciences | 81/213 (Q2) | • General Social Sciences | Link | 0.60 | - | - | 0.445 |
Sustainability | 61/605 (Q1) * 55/261 (Q1) 60/140 (Q2) |
• Geography, Planning and Development • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment |
Link | 2.37 | 1.96 | 1.78 | 1.030 |
Symmetry | 44/327 (Q1) 17/45 (Q2) 16/40 (Q2) 14/25 (Q2) |
• General Mathematics • Computer Science (miscellaneous) • Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous) • Chemistry (miscellaneous) |
Link | 1.32 | 1.12 | 0.95 | 0.802 |
Toxins | 18/106 (Q1) 21/111 (Q1) |
• Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis • Toxicology |
Link | 3.32 | 3.34 | 3.76 | 1.136 |
Vaccines | 5/230 (Q1) * 13/263 (Q1) * 18/302 (Q1) * 11/146 (Q1) * 32/189 (Q1) |
• Pharmacology (medical) • Infectious Diseases • Pharmacology • Drug Discovery • Immunology |
Link | 4.88 | 1.23 | 3.76 | 1.255 |
Viruses | 29/263 (Q1) 16/68 (Q1) |
• Virology • Infectious Diseases |
Link | 3.88 | 3.60 | 3.74 | 1.130 |
Water | 66/605 (Q1) 37/191 (Q1) 43/199 (Q1) 193/398 (Q2) |
• Geography, Planning and Development • Water Science and Technology • Aquatic Science • Biochemistry |
Link | 2.29 | 2.05 | 1.96 | 1.007 |
24 May 2018
MDPI will be represented at the ECOS 2018, held in Guimarães, Portugal, from 17–22 June, 2018.

Meet us at the ECOS 2018—The 31st International Conference on Efficiency, Cost, Optimization, Simulation and Environmental Impact of Energy Systems, from 17–22 June, in Guimarães, Portugal.
Focused on the fundamentals of thermodynamics, economics and environment analysis of all forms of energy conversion, this conference has a special session designed to transmit the view of industrial partners on energy management and conversion technologies, exchanging their experiences with the academic community. During this session, which is entitled “Industrial Challenge”, several energy intensive companies have been invited to participate, in order to establish a link between what the industry sees as the biggest challenges that can be studied and improved by the academic community.
The following MDPI journals will be represented:
If you are also attending this conference, please stop by our booth at Vila Flor Palace. 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 the conference, please visit: http://www.ecos2018.org/
30 April 2018
Winners of the First MDPI Writing Prize
We are pleased to announce the results of the first MDPI Writing Prize. We received a large number of entries from across the globe on the theme of “The Global Benefits of Open Research”. It was a pleasure to read so many original, well-researched and well-presented ideas, and the final choice was not an easy one. We are pleased to announce that the winners are as follows:
1st prize (500 CHF, Swiss knife and certificate)
Edmond Sanganyado, Shantou University, China
2nd prizes (250 CHF, Swiss knife and certificate)
Kamala T. Rajahgopal, Asia e University, Malaysia
Yin Zhixuan, Qingdao University of Technology, China
3rd prizes (100 CHF, Swiss knife and certificate)
Alexandra Ticea, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Romania
Ankur Sarker, University of Virginia, USA
Daniel Attoye, United Arab Emirates University, UAE
Congratulations to all of them! The winning entries can be downloaded by clicking on the names above. A compilation of all entries will soon be available as an open access book.
The writing prize is sponsored by the MDPI English editing service.
4 April 2018
Congratulations to Entropy for Publishing the 20th Volume in 2018
We would like to send warm wishes from the Editor-in-Chief of Entropy and look to the future. Acknowledgement of our past achievements provides the strongest stimulus for future endeavor.
As the journal Entropy enters its 20th year, one cannot help but reflect not only on how far the journal has come, but also on how far the field has come. I have been Editor-in-Chief of Entropy for the past six years, which is roughly one-third of the lifetime of the journal. While my predecessors did an excellent job in establishing the journal, I am grateful to have had the opportunity to help it grow. On my arrival in 2012, Entropy had an impact factor of 1.183. This last year, 2017, the impact factor reached a respectable 1.821 and it promises to break 2.0 in the next year or so, as Entropy continues its rapid growth.
I have been an active member of the MaxEnt (Bayesian Inference and Maximum Entropy Methods in Science and Engineering) community since I first attended the MaxEnt 1997 workshop over twenty years ago, just before the birth of the journal Entropy. My MaxEnt colleagues had long been concerned about the fact that there were few precious journals that would entertain their research papers for publication. Historically, the MaxEnt community has been known for being about a decade or so ahead of its time. While this is an exciting position to be in, it is extremely difficult from a pragmatic perspective, since it is common for the scientific community to undervalue or, worse, to misunderstand our work. We continue to encounter some of these difficulties at Entropy, since it is still frequent for the scientific community to think of entropy as a thermodynamic quantity rather than a tool for making inferences. Fortunately, as the journal continues to grow, the number of those who understand entropy grows.
I was delighted to take the helm of Entropy in 2012. I had access to a large circle of excellent scientists who had much to contribute and could profit from a growing journal with a scope to accommodate their work! Contribute they did. But I was astonished to discover so many other people out there who were applying entropic concepts to their problems. I was, and still am, excited to learn of new applications and advances and I am grateful that Entropy is in an excellent and respected position to present and showcase them.
— Prof. Dr. Kevin Knuth
Editor-in-Chief of Entropy
To celebrate the recent milestones, we have established a few Special Issues to look back over 20 years of outstanding accomplishments and to highlight innovative frontier research perspectives. We encourage you to keep an eye on the publications in these Special Issues and hope you consider them as a venue for publishing your latest work.
- "20th Anniversary of Entropy - Approximate and Sample Entropy" (guest editor: Prof. Dr. Roberto Hornero)
- "20th Anniversary of Entropy - Recent Advances in Entropy and Information-Theoretic Concepts and Their Applications" (guest editor: Prof. Dr. Raúl Alcaraz Martínez)
23 March 2018
Check for Updates: A New Function in the Article PDF Version
At MDPI, we always want to keep you up to date. Even for already published articles, some corrections or minor changes may occur. To prevent you from missing any updates, from now on you will be able to access the latest version of any manuscript by clicking on the “check for updates” logo that you can find in the PDF file, even if you have saved the file on your computer.
16 March 2018
Meet US at RFG 2018 in Vancouver, Canada, 16–21 June 2018

We will be attending the RFG 2018, to be held in Vancouver Convention Center, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 16–21 June 2018. It is the first international conference dedicated to the availability of resources needed to sustain future generations. The conference will examine the critical natural resources that have led to the development of the human race over the last 10,000 years, and remain fundamental to our existence—energy, minerals and water. This is a unique opportunity to participate in a conference with implications for a sustainable future. Representatives of the following open access journals will attend:
Resources
Water
Energies
Minerals
Sustainability
Environments
14 March 2018
Announcing the Winners of the Energies 10th Anniversary Best Paper Award
This year, 2018, we will celebrate the 10th anniversary of Energies. To acknowledge authors’ continued support, we are pleased to announce the “10th Anniversary Best Paper Awards”. The winners were selected based on the total number of cites from web of science until 1 January 2018. The author(s) of the awarded papers will be recognized with a certificate and an offer to publish a paper free of charge in Energies.
Our winners and their papers are listed as follows:
Patrick Linke, Athanasios I. Papadopoulos and Panos Seferlis
Systematic Methods for Working Fluid Selection and the Design, Integration and Control of Organic Rankine Cycles – A Review
Elisha R. Frederiks, Karen Stenner and Elizabeth V. Hobman
The Socio-Demographic and Psychological Predictors of Residential Energy Consumption: A Comprehensive Review
Yulong Li, Xun Shi, Dudi Ren, Jikun Chen and Lidong Chen
Investigation of the Anisotropic Thermoelectric Properties of Oriented Polycrystalline SnSe
Siraj Sabihuddin, Aristides E. Kiprakis and Markus Mueller
A Numerical and Graphical Review of Energy Storage Technologies
Saeed Sepasi, Leon R. Roose and Marc M. Matsuura
Extended Kalman Filter with a Fuzzy Method for Accurate Battery Pack State of Charge Estimation
Enrico Fabrizio and Valentina Monetti
Methodologies and Advancements in the Calibration of Building Energy Models
Liuzhang Ouyang, Miaolian Ma, Minghong Huang, Ruoming Duan, Hui Wang, Lixian Sun and Min Zhu
Enhanced Hydrogen Generation Properties of MgH2-Based Hydrides by Breaking the Magnesium Hydroxide Passivation Layer
Andrea Alaimo, Antonio Esposito, Antonio Messineo, Calogero Orlando and Davide Tumino
3D CFD Analysis of a Vertical Axis Wind Turbine
Sean Michael Scully and Johann Orlygsson
Recent Advances in Second Generation Ethanol Production by Thermophilic Bacteria
Pierre Tchakoua, René Wamkeue, Mohand Ouhrouche, Fouad Slaoui-Hasnaoui, Tommy Andy Tameghe and Gabriel Ekemb
Wind Turbine Condition Monitoring: State-of-the-Art Review, New Trends, and Future Challenges
Aime Hilaire Tchapda and Sarma V. Pisupati
A Review of Thermal Co-Conversion of Coal and Biomass/Waste
José F. Herbert-Acero, Oliver Probst, Pierre-Elouan Réthoré, Gunner Chr. Larsen and Krystel K. Castillo-Villar
A Review of Methodological Approaches for the Design and Optimization of Wind Farms
Xuezhe Wei, Zhenshi Wang and Haifeng Dai
A Critical Review of Wireless Power Transfer via Strongly Coupled Magnetic Resonances
Shengjin Tang, Chuanqiang Yu, Xue Wang, Xiaosong Guo and Xiaosheng Si
Remaining Useful Life Prediction of Lithium-Ion Batteries Based on the Wiener Process with Measurement Error
Hao Liang and Weihua Zhuang
Stochastic Modeling and Optimization in a Microgrid: A Survey
Yuei-An Liou and Sanjib Kumar Kar
Evapotranspiration Estimation with Remote Sensing and Various Surface Energy Balance Algorithms-A Review
John J. Milledge, Benjamin Smith, Philip W. Dyer and Patricia Harvey
Macroalgae-Derived Biofuel: A Review of Methods of Energy Extraction from Seaweed Biomass
Theodore Dickerson and Juan Soria
Catalytic Fast Pyrolysis: A Review
Ankita Juneja, Ruben Michael Ceballos and Ganti S. Murthy
Effects of Environmental Factors and Nutrient Availability on the Biochemical Composition of Algae for Biofuels Production: A Review
Fernando Porté-Agel, Yu-Ting Wu and Chang-Hung Chen
A Numerical Study of the Effects of Wind Direction on Turbine Wakes and Power Losses in a Large Wind Farm
John Benemann
Microalgae for Biofuels and Animal Feeds
Muhammad Aminul Islam, Marie Magnusson, Richard J. Brown, Godwin A. Ayoko, Md. Nurun Nabi and Kirsten Heimann
Microalgal Species Selection for Biodiesel Production Based on Fuel Properties Derived from Fatty Acid Profiles
Dina Silva, Eugen Rusu and Carlos Guedes Soares
Evaluation of Various Technologies for Wave Energy Conversion in the Portuguese Nearshore
Ping Wang and Mehrdad Massoudi
Slag Behavior in Gasifiers. Part I: Influence of Coal Properties and Gasification Conditions
Zou Yuan, Liu Teng, Sun Fengchun and Huei Peng
Comparative Study of Dynamic Programming and Pontryagin's Minimum Principle on Energy Management for a Parallel Hybrid Electric Vehicle
Kalpesh K. Sharma, Holger Schuhmann and Peer M. Schenk
High Lipid Induction in Microalgae for Biodiesel Production
Mohammad I. Jahirul, Mohammad G. Rasul, Ashfaque Ahmed Chowdhury and Nanjappa Ashwath
Biofuels Production through Biomass Pyrolysis-A Technological Review
James Daniell, Michael Köpke and Séan Dennis Simpson
Commercial Biomass Syngas Fermentation
Sheng S. Zhang
Improved Cyclability of Liquid Electrolyte Lithium/Sulfur Batteries by Optimizing Electrolyte/Sulfur Ratio
Su Shiung Lam and Howard A. Chase
A Review on Waste to Energy Processes Using Microwave Pyrolysis
Klaus Wallmann, Elena Pinero, Ewa Burwicz, Matthias Haeckel, Christian Hensen, Andrew Dale and Lars
Ruepke
The Global Inventory of Methane Hydrate in Marine Sediments: A Theoretical Approach
Noshin Omar, Mohamed Daowd, Peter van den Bossche, Omar Hegazy, Jelle Smekens, Thierry Coosemans and Joeri van Mierlo
Rechargeable Energy Storage Systems for Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles-Assessment of Electrical Characteristics
Fei Wang, Zengqiang Mi, Shi Su and Hongshan Zhao
Short-Term Solar Irradiance Forecasting Model Based on Artificial Neural Network Using Statistical Feature Parameters
Peter J. Schubel and Richard J. Crossley
Wind Turbine Blade Design
Karthik Rajendran, Solmaz Aslanzadeh and Mohammad J. Taherzadeh
Household Biogas Digesters-A Review
Byman Hamududu and Aanund Killingtveit
Assessing Climate Change Impacts on Global Hydropower
Martin Olofsson, Teresa Lamela, Emmelie Nilsson, Jean Pascal Bergé, Victória del Pino, Pauliina Uronen and
Catherine Legrand
Seasonal Variation of Lipids and Fatty Acids of the Microalgae Nannochloropsis oculata Grown in Outdoor Large-Scale Photobioreactors
Yu-Ting Wu and Fernando Porté-Agel
Atmospheric Turbulence Effects on Wind-Turbine Wakes: An LES Study
Adrian K. James, Ronald W. Thring, Steve Helle and Harpuneet S. Ghuman
Ash Management Review-Applications of Biomass Bottom Ash
Jon Van Wagenen, Tyler W. Miller, Sam Hobbs, Paul Hook, Braden Crowe and Michael Huesemann
Effects of Light and Temperature on Fatty Acid Production in Nannochloropsis Salina
Hai-Wen Li, Yigang Yan, Shin-ichi Orimo, Andreas Züttel andCraig M. Jensen
Recent Progress in Metal Borohydrides for Hydrogen Storage
Hongwen He, Rui Xiong and Jinxin Fan
Evaluation of Lithium-Ion Battery Equivalent Circuit Models for State of Charge Estimation by an Experimental Approach
Yinjiao Xing, Eden W. M. Ma, Kwok L. Tsui and Michael Pecht
Battery Management Systems in Electric and Hybrid Vehicles
Xuejun Shi, Yulong Wu, Huaifeng Yi, Guo Rui, Panpan Li, Mingde Yang and Gehua Wang
Selective Preparation of Furfural from Xylose over Sulfonic Acid Functionalized Mesoporous Sba-15 Materials
Leonardo P. Chamorro and Fernando Porté-Agel
Turbulent Flow Inside and Above a Wind Farm: A Wind-Tunnel Study
Judith M. Schicks, Erik Spangenberg, Ronny Giese, Bernd Steinhauer, Jens Klump and Manja Luzi
New Approaches for the Production of Hydrocarbons from Hydrate Bearing Sediments
Guoqing Xu, Weimin Li, Kun Xu and Zhibin Song
An Intelligent Regenerative Braking Strategy for Electric Vehicles
Robert A. Varin, Leszek Zbroniec, Marek Polanski and Jerzy Bystrzycki
A Review of Recent Advances on the Effects of Microstructural Refinement and Nano-Catalytic Additives on the Hydrogen Storage Properties of Metal and Complex Hydrides
Yong Zeng, Yanpeng Cai, Guohe Huang and Jing Dai
A Review on Optimization Modeling of Energy Systems Planning and GHG Emission Mitigation under Uncertainty
Karin Kandananond
Forecasting Electricity Demand in Thailand with an Artificial Neural Network Approach
Vladimir Alvarado and Eduardo Manrique
Enhanced Oil Recovery: An Update Review
Manfred Lenzen
Current State of Development of Electricity-Generating Technologies: A Literature Review
Eileen Hao Yu, Ulrike Krewer and Keith Scott
Principles and Materials Aspects of Direct Alkaline Alcohol Fuel Cells
Ashley E. Franks and Kelly P. Nevin
Microbial Fuel Cells, A Current Review
Ivan Ivanov, Tanja Vidaković-Koch and Kai Sundmacher
Recent Advances in Enzymatic Fuel Cells: Experiments and Modeling
Qiang Lu, Zhi-Fei Zhang, Chang-Qing Dong and Xi-Feng Zhu
Catalytic Upgrading of Biomass Fast Pyrolysis Vapors with Nano Metal Oxides: An Analytical Py-GC/MS Study
Xiaosong Hu, Fengchun Sun and Yuan Zou
Estimation of State of Charge of a Lithium-Ion Battery Pack for Electric Vehicles Using an Adaptive Luenberger Observer
Eileen Hao Yu and Keith Scott
Enzymatic Biofuel Cells-Fabrication of Enzyme Electrodes
Yuji Ohya and Takashi Karasudani
A Shrouded Wind Turbine Generating High Output Power with Wind-lens Technology
Kang Xu
Electrolytes and Interphasial Chemistry in Li Ion Devices
Ronald W. Breault
Gasification Processes Old and New: A Basic Review of the Major Technologies
Hengfu Shui, Zhenyi Cai and Chunbao Xu
Recent Advances in Direct Coal Liquefaction
Christopher D. Elvidge, Daniel Ziskin, Kimberly E. Baugh, Benjamin T. Tuttle, Tilottama Ghosh, Dee W.
Pack, Edward H. Erwin and Mikhail Zhizhin
A Fifteen Year Record of Global Natural Gas Flaring Derived from Satellite Data
Ajay Kumar, David D. Jones and Milford A. Hanna
Thermochemical Biomass Gasification: A Review of the Current Status of the Technology
Charles A. S. Hall, Stephen Balogh and David J.R. Murphy
What is the Minimum EROI that a Sustainable Society Must Have?
Dong Jin Ham and Jae Sung Lee
Transition Metal Carbides and Nitrides as Electrode Materials for Low Temperature Fuel Cells
Mengbo Ji and Zidong Wei
A Review of Water Management in Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells
Veronica Arthurson
Closing the Global Energy and Nutrient Cycles through Application of Biogas Residue to Agricultural Land - Potential Benefits and Drawbacks
Nathan Gagnon, Charles A.S. Hall and Lysle Brinker
A Preliminary Investigation of Energy Return on Energy Investment for Global Oil and Gas Production
Cristina L. Archer and Ken Caldeira
Global Assessment of High-Altitude Wind Power
Massimiliano Cimenti and Josephine M. Hill
Direct Utilization of Liquid Fuels in SOFC for Portable Applications: Challenges for the Selection of Alternative Anodes
Zibin Zhang, Luanne Lohr, Cesar Escalante and Michael Wetzstein
Ethanol, Corn, and Soybean Price Relations in a Volatile Vehicle-Fuels Market
Albert Tarancón
Strategies for Lowering Solid Oxide Fuel Cells Operating Temperature
Arjun B. Chhetri, K. Chris Watts and M. Rafiqul Islam
Waste Cooking Oil as an Alternate Feedstock for Biodiesel Production
David Pimentel, Alison Marklein, Megan A. Toth, Marissa Karpoff, Gillian S. Paul, Robert McCormack, Joanna Kyriazis and Tim Krueger
Biofuel Impacts on World Food Supply: Use of Fossil Fuel, Land and Water Resources
Abiney L. Cardoso, Soraia Cristina Gonzaga Neves and Marcio J. Da Silva
Esterification of Oleic Acid for Biodiesel Production Catalyzed by SnCl2: A Kinetic Investigation
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13 March 2018
MDPI Becoming a Member of UKSG
We are proud to announce that MDPI is now a member of UKSG, the UK´s largest scholarly communications community. Through UKSG, different stakeholders share their knowledge and experience in order to improve the knowledge and information environment for researchers. UKSG´s members include universities, publishers, content providers, intermediaries, and other similar organisations. Members participate in discussions and events on issues around scholarly communications.
The UKSG Annual Conference and Exhibition is a flagship initiative from the UKSG and one of the most stimulating events in the scholarly communications calendar. It is held annually and attracts a large number of delegates. More information is available at https://www.uksg.org/events/annualconference
MDPI is delighted to be a part of this active community and we look forward to making our own contribution. We will continue to support organisations and initiatives that boost collaboration and vision within scholarly communication.
More information about UKSG can be found at https://www.uksg.org/. The full membership list is available at: https://www.uksg.org/members.
8 March 2018
Meet Us at the EUBCE 2018 in Copenhagen, Denmark, 14-18 May 2018

MDPI will be represented at the EUBCE 2018 which will be held in Copenhagen, Denmark, 14-18 May, 2018.
As the leading platform for the collection, exchange and dissemination of scientific and industrial know-how in the field of biomass, the EUBCE combines one of the largest biomass science and technology conferences with a high quality industry exhibition, attracting biomass professionals from around the globe. Representatives of the following open access journals will attend:
Energies
Catalysts
Resources
Materials
ChemEngineering
If you are also attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth (Booth #H3). 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 the conference, please visit: http://www.eubce.com/
8 March 2018
Meet Us at NANOTECH 2018 in Anaheim, CA, USA, 13–16 May 2018

We will be attending the 20th annual Nanotech 2018 Conference & Expo (NANOTECH 2018), co-located with the TechConnect World Innovation Conference, Defense TechConnect Summit and Spring SBIR/STTR Conference. The event will attract more than 350 featured exhibitors and an expected crowd of more than 4000 attendees, including business executives, venture capitalists, politicians, s cientists and researchers from over 70 countries. Nanotech contains 38 symposiums and brings together specialists from a wide range of scientific fields, technology and business.
Representatives of the following open access journals will attend:
Sensors
Materials
Nanomaterials
Journal of Functional Biomaterials (JFB)
Journal of Imaging
Sustainability
Fluids
Photonics
Electronics
Catalysts
Applied Sciences
Inventions
Diagnostics
Cancers
Journal of Low Power Electronics and Applications (JLPEA)
Designs
Pharmaceuticals
C
Inorganics
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH)
Machines
Pharmaceutics
Journal of Manufacturing and Materials Processing (JMMP)
Actuators
Robotics
Energies
Biosensors
Chemosensors
Membranes
Coatings
Micromachines
If you will also attend this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth (Booth # 317). 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.techconnectworld.com/Nanotech2018/
Conference Location:
Anaheim Convention Center,
800 W Katella Avenue
Anaheim CA 92802
USA
5 March 2018
Energies Best Paper Awards 2017—Open Now!

In 2018, we're celebrating Energies' 10th anniversary. To acknowledge our authors’ continued support, we are pleased to announce the introduction of a Best Paper Award for research and review articles published between 1 January and 31 December 2017. Based on a thorough evaluation by the journal award committee, three review papers and five research papers will receive an award.
Selection criteria:
The articles will be selected by the journal award committee according to the following criteria:
- Originality and significance;
- Citation and download rates in 2018;
- Data Source: Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics).
Prizes:
Winners (corresponding authors) will receive a certificate and an offer to publish a paper free of charge in Energies, after the normal peer-review procedure. Each winner will additionally receive a bonus based on the award class:
- First Award (one for a review paper and one for a research paper): 800 CHF each
- Second Award (one for a review paper and two for research papers): 500 CHF each
- Third Award (one for a review paper and two for research papers): 300 CHF each
The winners will be announced in early March 2019. For further details, please click here: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/energies/awards/266/view
26 February 2018
Energies Best Paper Awards 2016—Open Now!

In 2018, we will celebrate the 10th anniversary of Energies. To acknowledge authors’ continued support, we are pleased to announce the establishment of a Best Paper Award for research and review articles published between 1 January and 31 December 2016. After a thorough evaluation by the journal award committee, three review papers and five research papers will be awarded.
Selection criteria
The articles will be selected by the journal award committee according to the following criteria:
- Originality and significance;
- Citation and download rates in 2018;
- Data Source: Web of Science (Clarivate Analytics).
Prize
Winners (corresponding author) will receive a certificate and an offer to publish a paper free of charge in Energies, after the normal peer-review procedure. Each winner will additionally receive a bonus based on the award class:
- First Award (one for a review paper and one for a research paper): 800 CHF each
- Second Award (one for a review paper and two for research papers): 500 CHF each
- Third Award (one for a review paper and two for research papers): 300 CHF each
The winners will be announced in early March 2019. For further details, please click here: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/energies/awards/279/view
1 February 2018
MDPI Signed the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA)
The DORA initiative addresses the need for advanced approaches in the evaluation and measurement of the quality of scientific research outputs. It is a worldwide initiative covering all scholarly disciplines. MDPI proudly joins a list of more than 400 organizations around the world which support DORA’s recommendations for improving the way the quality of research results is evaluated.
More info can be found at http://www.ascb.org/dora/
25 January 2018
Meet Us at the ACS National Meeting & Exposition in New Orleans, USA, 18–22 March 2018

We will be attending the 255th ACS National Meeting & Exposition. It is an interdisciplinary forum open to anyone with an interest in Chemistry and the related disciplines. Representatives of the following open access journals will attend:
Agronomy
Applied Sciences
Beverages
Biomimetics
Biosensors
C
Catalysts
ChemEngineering
Chemosensors
Coatings
Energies
Environments
Fibers
Foods
Gels
Inorganics
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (JMSE)
Lubricants
Materials
Mathematics
Metals
Molecules
Nanomaterials
Polymers
Processes
Resources
Safety
Sensors
Separations
Sustainability
Symmetry
Toxins
Water
If you are also attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth (Booth #640). 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.acs.org/content/acs/en/meetings/national-meeting.html?sc=home_meetings_170818_mtg_NO18_od
19 December 2017
Announcing the MDPI English Writing Prize
The competition is still open until end of March! Please check out the banner for more details: https://mdpi-res.com/data/english-prize.pdf
15 December 2017
UCL Press Adopts the MDPI Editorial Platform JAMS

We are delighted to announce that UCL Press has adopted MDPI's Journal Article & Management System, JAMS, including production services. JAMS is a modular, integrated editorial platform for academic publishers. It offers flexibility, ease-of-use, and is a fully integrated solution for the end-to-end management of scholarly journals. JAMS is based on the software used to publish MDPI’s portfolio of journals.
Ian Caswell, UCL Press Journals Manager, says he is "excited to see UCL Press and MDPI partner together to implement the JAMS submission system for all UCL Press journals. The system offered a flexible, efficient and straightforward solution for our processes from author submission to ready for publication. I am grateful for the valuable experience and support MDPI have offered and look forward to developing our programme with an effective submission system in place.” Dr Martyn Rittman, MDPI’s Publishing Services Manager, adds, “We are proud to support one of the UK’s premier university presses in their publishing operation. This is an excellent way for us at MDPI to share our experience and knowledge, and benefit the research community beyond our own journals.”
JAMS combines services that are kept separate for many publishers. The entire editorial process, production and invoicing (e.g. for open access article processing charges) are fully integrated into a single platform. This allows for efficient, fast manuscript processing. For further information about JAMS, see https://www.mdpi.com/publishing_services.
7 December 2017
Meet Us at the TMS 2018 Annual Meeting & Exhibition in Phoenix
We will be attending the 147th TMS Annual Meeting & Exhibition, which will be held in Phoenix, Arizona, USA, March 11–15, 2018, representing the following open access journals:
Metals
Materials
Coatings
Applied Sciences
Energies
Minerals
Fibers
JFB
Please come along to our booth (#322) to talk with our delegates about online publishing and our journals. We look forward to meeting you in person in Phoenix!
For more information on the conference, please visit:
http://www.tms.org/tms2018
23 November 2017
New Participants in the Institutional Open Access Program (IOAP)
We are pleased to welcome new participants to MDPI's Institutional Open Access Program (IOAP), designed to help institutions manage the transition to the Open Access publishing model. Researchers affiliated with participating universites benefit from a 10% discount on the Article Processing Charges (APC) for any paper published in an MDPI journal, while the participating library or university incurs no basic fee for participating in the program.
The IOAP set of free services, provided by MDPI to institutions that sign up, include:- No fee for participants and no obligation to prolong after the initial 12 months. The participants may withdraw from the programme at any time, and we will also keep it free for the library for as long as they continue in the programme.
- Authors affiliated with the university will receive a 10% discount on the APC.
- The institution is granted free access to the MDPI submission system and can receive free alerts of new submissions to our journals.
- By default, authors from the institution will continue to be invoiced directly unless the institution opts for central billing.
- Auto-archiving of papers into the institutions´ repository as long as it supports SWORD 1.3.
More details about the programme and a list of our current participant institutions can be found at: https://www.mdpi.com/about/ioap
Institutions which are interested to participate may do so online at: https://www.mdpi.com/ioap-form
The following North American universities have signed up to the IOAP program recently:
Connecticut College, USA
Emory University, USA
Florida International University, USA
Johns Hopkins University, USA
Mississippi State University, USA
Northeastern University, USA
Rice University, USA
University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada
University of Rhode Island, USA
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA
University of Toronto, Canada
University of Windsor, Canada
University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA
Wellesley College, USA
West Virginia University, USA
Many prestigious institutions from Europe and Asia have joined as well:
Asia Pacific University of Technology & Innovation, Malaysia
Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
Gdansk University of Technology, Poland
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan
Newcastle University, UK
Northumbria University, UK
Southwest University, China
Technical University of Crete, Greece
University Malaya, Malaysia
University of Antwerp, Belgium
University of Cyprus, Cyprus
University of Manchester, UK
University of Reading, UK
University of Sussex, UK
University of Warwick, UK
West Pomeranian University of Technology Szczecin, Poland
We offer a warm welcome to the new participants!
10 November 2017
Available Journal Awards at MDPI
In order to reward the academic community, especially young researchers, and enhance communication among scientists, MDPI journals regularly offer various awards to researchers in specific fields, for example, Young Investigator Awards, Travel Awards, Best Paper Awards, and Best Poster Awards, etc. The awardees range from PhD students to junior scientists.
Currently, the following 44 awards given by MDPI journals are accepting applications. Please click on the award title below to check whether you are eligible for it and start the application process.
Subject |
Journal |
Award |
Intended Awardee |
Biology & Life Sciences |
Animals |
PhD students or postdoctoral researchers |
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Antioxidants |
Postdoctoral researchers or PhD students |
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Biology |
PhD or postdoctoral fellows |
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Forests |
Postdocs or PhD students |
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International Journal of Molecular Sciences (IJMS) |
Ground-breaking contribution in the fields of Molecular Biology, and Molecular Pathology |
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Journal of Fungi (JoF) |
PhD graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows |
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Life |
PhD students or postdoctoral fellows |
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Metabolites |
PhD students |
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Pharmaceuticals |
PhD students |
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Toxins |
Postdoctoral fellows |
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Viruses |
Viruses 2018 participants |
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Viruses |
Viruses 2018 participants |
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Water |
Young investigators |
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Chemistry & Materials Science |
Biomimetics
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Graduate Student or Postdoctoral Trainee / Research Associate |
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Catalysts |
PhD students |
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Chemosensors |
PhD or postdoctoral fellows |
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Entropy |
Young investigators |
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Fibers |
Postdocs or PhD students |
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Magnetochemistry |
Postdocs |
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Materials |
PhD or postdoctoral fellows |
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Metals |
PhD or postdoctoral fellows |
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Minerals |
PhD or postdoctoral fellows |
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Sensors |
PhD or postdoctoral fellows |
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Sensors |
Sensors' reviewers in 2017 |
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Sensors |
Young investigators |
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Technologies |
PhD students |
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Computer Science & Mathematics |
Multimodal Technologies and Interaction (MTI) |
Postdoctoral researchers or PhD students |
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ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information(IJGI) |
Postdocs |
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Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks (JSAN) |
Postdoctoral fellows and PhD students |
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Journal of Imaging |
Postdoctoral fellows and PhD students |
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Engineering |
Actuators |
PhD or postdoctoral fellows |
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Remote Sensing |
Authors |
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Machines |
PhD or postdoctoral fellows |
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Micromachines |
PhD or postdoctoral fellows |
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Fluids |
Postdoctoral fellows and PhD students |
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ChemEngineering |
Postdoctoral researchers and PhD students |
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Environmental & Earth Sciences |
Diversity |
Postdoctoral fellows |
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International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) |
Authors who submit from 1 Nov 2017 to 31 Oct 2018 |
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Resources |
Postdocs or PhD students |
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Geosciences |
Postdoctoral fellows and PhD students |
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Physical Sciences & Astronomy |
Galaxies |
Ph.D. students, postdoctoral fellows, or lecturers in cosmology or galaxies physics |
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Applied Science |
Postdocs |
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Medicine & Pharmacology; Public Health & Healthcare |
Journal of Clinical Medicine (JCM) |
PhD or postdoctoral fellows |
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Medicines |
Postdocs |
9 November 2017
Energies Reaches 5'000 Articles Milestone
Energies, MDPI's open access energy research journal, has published more than 5'000 papers since its inception in 2008. Energies received an Impact Factor of 2.262 for 2016, which corresponds to rank 45/92 (Q2) in the JCR category 'Energy & Fuels'.
Energies' current CiteScore in Scopus is 2.50. The CiteScore is a ratio between the number of citations in 2016 to papers published 2013–2015 in the numerator and the number of papers published 2013–2015 in the denominator, drawn from Scopus data.
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, who ensure the continued significance of the journal.
7 November 2017
MDPI has signed the Jussieu Call for Open Science and Bibliodiversity
The Jussieu Call aims to develop and implement alternative models to meet the aims of open science while promoting bibliodiversity. In particular it wishes to promote new business models for funding open access publication. It was drafted on the Jussieu campus in Paris by a group of French researchers and scientific publishing professionals.
MDPI supports scholarly communities and initiatives that innovate and further promote Open Access publishing. There is a need to explore different frameworks to fund open access in ways that ensure that excessive funds are not diverted from research towards publishing. Many fair funding models already exist, and they can be further developed and extended. These include institutional support, library contributions or subsidies, premium services, participatory funding, etc. For this reason, MDPI has signed up to the Jussieu call and welcomes its aims.
More information can be found at http://jussieucall.org/ (archived here)
6 October 2017
Dr. Franck Vazquez, MDPI CEO, Interviewed by Scholarly Kitchen
The Society for Scholarly Publishing’s popular blog about topics in academic publishing, Scholarly Kitchen, recently interviewed MDPI’s CEO, Dr. Franck Vazquez. He shared some thoughts and information on the past and future of MDPI and open access publishing in general:
“In the long run, we aim to anchor MDPI in research communities. We recently developed and launched the preprint platform Preprints, revamped our free-to-use conference hosting platform Sciforum, and are working on other projects, such as Scilit, our bibliographic database.”
Read the full interview here.
19 September 2017
Meet Us at the 2017 MRS Fall Meeting in Boston
We will be attending the 2017 MRS Fall Meeting which will be held in Boston, Massachusetts, from November 26–December 1, 2017, and representing the following open access journals:
Materials
Nanomaterials
Energies
Metals
Applied Sciences
Crystals
Minerals
Journal of Functional Biomaterials
Coatings
Robotics
Biosensors
Chemosensors
Polymers
Bioengineering
Please come along to our booth (booth number: #122) to chat with our delegates about our journals and hear about our travel awards offered to Postdocs and PhD students. Our delegates will also answer any questions about online publishing and our journals. We look forward to meeting you in person in Boston!
For more information on the conference, please visit:
www.mrs.org/fall2017
19 September 2017
Meet us at ERSCP 2017 Conference in Skiathos, Greece
We are pleased to announce that Energies will be attending the ERSCP 2017 Conference (1–5 October 2017)
If you will also be attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth and meet our delegates.
Conference details:
ERSCP 2017
1–5 October 2017
Skiathos Palace Hotel
Koukounaries Bay, 37002 Skiathos, Greece
19 September 2017
A Warm Welcome to the New IOAP Participants
We are delighted to have welcomed 24 new participants to our Institutional Open Access Programme (IOAP) since the beginning of September this year. These are University libraries and Research Institutions located around the world; from the USA and Canada to the UK, and from Norway and Spain to Greece. Well respected Universities, such as the University of Denver, the University of Colorado Boulder, and the University of Arizona in the US, have signed up, while their researchers can now benefit from a 10% discount on the Article Processing Charges (APC) for any papers they publish in MDPI journals, at no cost for the library or the University.
We are more than happy to see the Open Access movement growing stronger and wider every day and we appreciate the vital role which librarians, repository managers, and other scholarly communications professionals play in the field. Our communication with and service to this community is, therefore, one of our principal priorities. The IOAP is our way to support academic and scientific Institutions as well as their scholars in managing, administrating, and publishing research in an Open Access world.
The IOAP set of free services, provided by MDPI to institutions that sign up, include:
- No fee for participants and no obligation to prolong after the initial 12 months. The participants may withdraw from the programme at any time, and we will also keep it free for the library for as long as they continue in the programme.
- Authors affiliated with the university will receive a discount on the article processing charge (APC).
- The institution is granted free access to the MDPI submission system and can receive free alerts of new submissions to our journals.
- By default, authors from the institution will continue to be invoiced directly unless the institution opts for central billing.
- Auto-archiving of papers into the institutions´ repository as long as it supports SWORD 1.3.
More details about the programme and a list of our current participant institutions can be found at: https://www.mdpi.com/about/ioap
Institutions which are interested to participate may do so online at: https://www.mdpi.com/ioap-form
The full list of the Institutions that signed up in September is as follows:
- University of Denver, USA
- University of Colorado Boulder, USA
- University of Arizona, USA
- Institute of Metrology of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Middlebury College, USA
- Touro College, USA
- University of New Orleans, USA
- University of Leicester, UK
- Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, USA
- University of Strathclyde, UK
- Cranfield University, UK
- Hope College, USA
- Oregon State University, USA
- Drew University, USA
- Swansea University, UK
- University of South Florida, USA
- University of Georgia, USA
- Arizona State University, USA
- University of Southern Mississippi, USA
- Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Canada
- Grinnell College, USA
- Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
- University of Patras, Greece
- Public University of Navarre, Spain
19 September 2017
Energies Is Attending SDEWES 2017 Conference in Dubrovnik, Croatia
We will be attending the SDEWES 2017 Conference, which takes place 4–8 October 2017, representing the open access journal Energies:
If you will also be attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth and meet our delegates.
Conference details:
SDEWES 2017
4–8 October 2017
Valamar Lacroma Dubrovnik Hotel
Iva Dulcica 34, 20 000 Dubrovnik, Croatia
23 June 2017
Congratulations for Publishing the 100,000th Peer-Reviewed Article
Congratulations to the authors Javier Monroy and Javier Gonzalez-Jimenez from Universidad de Malaga, Spain, Victor Hernandez-Bennets, Han Fan and Achim Lilienthal from Örebro University, Sweden for publishing the 100,000th peer-reviewed article.
The article is published in the Chemical Sensors section of Sensors.
GADEN: A 3D Gas Dispersion Simulator for Mobile Robot Olfaction in Realistic Environments
Evermore pressing environmental concerns have led global actors and decision-makers to search for stricter emission monitoring approaches. As part of novel monitoring systems, robots with gas and environmental sensors are a promising solution. However, validation of such robotic inspectors is expensive, time consuming, and plagued by repeatability issues. In this article, we present GADEN (the short form for Gas Dispersion Simulator for Mobile Robot Olfaction in Realistic Environments), which combines gas dispersion and robotics simulation in a common framework. Developed under the widely used Robot Operating System (ROS), GADEN enables validation of sensing strategies with gas dispersion being simulated using computational fluid dynamics and filament dispersion theory. GADEN allows simulating complex, realistic, 3D environments for reproducible testing of robotic gas sensing algorithms. Through qualitative and quantitative evaluations, we show that GADEN is a versatile and user-friendly evaluation tool and emphasize its enormous potential for the mobile robot olfaction community.
Read the full article here: https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/17/7/1479/htm
14 June 2017
2016 Impact Factor Released for Energies – 2.262
Energies now ranks 45/92 (Q2) in the category ‘Energy & Fuels’. It ranks second highest among the Open Access journals in this category.
Evolution of Impact Factor, Citations and Publications for Energies :
6 June 2017
CiteScore™ Metrics Released for Scopus Journals
The CiteScore, the new citation metric for journals covered in the Scopus® database, was released on 1 June 2017, reflecting the citation activity in 2016 for articles published during the three previous years. Please note that the list below does not contain all MDPI journals covered in Scopus. For the CiteScore to serve as a reliable metric at least three volumes of articles need to be indexed in Scopus; journals which have not met this criterion have been omitted here.
Ten MDPI journals received a CiteScore which is in the Top 10% of scores in at least one of the categories, while a further 21 journals exhibit scores that are in the first quartile of the respective categories.
CiteScore Data for MDPI Journals
Journal | Rank | Category | Link | CiteScore 2016 | 2015 |
2014 |
Algorithms | 44/112 (Q2) 49/111 (Q2) 19/42 (Q2) 52/113 (Q2) |
• Numerical Analysis • Computational Mathematics • Computational Theory and Mathematics • Theoretical Computer Science |
Link | 1.15 | 1.07 | 1.06 |
Animals | 69/343 (Q1) 21/146 (Q1) |
• Animal Science and Zoology • General Veterinary |
Link | 1.46 | 1.66 | 0.74 |
Biology | 13/92 (Q1) 34/81 (Q1) 10/75 (Q1) |
• General Agricultural and Biological Sciences • General Biochemistry, Gene- tics and Molecular Biology • General Immunology and Microbiology |
Link | 3.02 | 2.78 | 1.74 |
Biomolecules | 234/382 (Q3) 260/353 (Q3) |
• Biochemistry • Molecular Biology |
Link | 1.67 | 3.08 | 1.00 |
Biosensors | 36/118 (Q2) 209/2156 (Q1) |
• Clinical Biochemistry • General Medicine |
Link | 2.83 | 2.37 | 2.04 |
Cancers | 29/196 (Q1) 27/321 (Q1) |
• Cancer Research • Oncology |
Link | 5.02 | 4.07 | 2.31 |
Catalysts | 18/44 (Q2) 27/144 (Q1) |
• Catalysis • Physical and Theoretical Chemistry |
Link | 3.44 | 3.45 | 2.17 |
Crystals | 70/270 (Q2) 25/64 (Q2) 118/398 (Q2) 131/424 (Q2) |
• General Chemical Engineering • Inorganic Chemistry • Condensed Matter Physics • General Materials Science |
Link | 1.89 | 1.47 | 1.03 |
Diversity | 10/41 (Q1) 9/25 (Q2) 76/291 (Q2) 24/109 (Q1) |
• Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) • Ecological Modelling • Ecology • Nature and Landscape Conservation |
Link | 2.03 | 1.96 | 1.82 |
Energies | - | - | Link | 2.50 | 2.87 | 2.66 |
Entropy | 51/198 (Q2) | • General Physics and Astronomy | Link | 1.87 | 1.99 | 1.69 |
Forests | 17/127 (Q1) | • Forestry | Link | 2.06 | 1.76 | 1.84 |
Games | 204/398 (Q3) 83/181 (Q2) 48/105 (Q2) |
• Applied Mathematics • Statistics and Probability • Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty |
Link | 0.87 | 0.57 | 0.64 |
Genes | 62/300 (Q1) 18/90 (Q1) |
• Genetics • Genetics (clinical) |
Link | 3.62 | 3.18 | 1.33 |
Geosciences | 36/169 (Q1) |
• General Earth and Planetary Sciences | Link | 1.67 | 1.29 | 1.13 |
Information | 156/237 (Q3) | • Information Systems | Link | 0.78 | 0.94 | 0.74 |
Insects | 28/131 (Q1) | • Insect Science | Link | 1.81 | 1.38 | 1.23 |
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) | 67/446 (Q1) 31/102 (Q2) |
• Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis |
Link | 2.38 | 2.42 | 2.47 |
International Journal of Molecular Sciences (IJMS) | 23/157 (Q1) 8/64 (Q1) 90/353 (Q1) 22/144 (Q1) 16/44 (Q1) 8/62 (Q1) |
• Organic Chemistry • Inorganic Chemistry • Molecular Biology • Physical and Theoretical Chemistry • Catalysis • Spectroscopy |
Link | 3.73 | 3.37 | 3.06 |
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information | 12/29 (Q2) 28/79 (Q2) 96/587 (Q1) |
• Computers in Earth Sciences • Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) • Geography, Planning and Development |
Link | 1.62 | 1.52 | - |
Journal of Low Power Electronic Applications (JLPEA) | 301/645 (Q2) | • Electrical and Electronic Engineering | Link | 0.98 | 0.83 | 0.83 |
Life | 65/525 (Q1) 36/186 (Q1) 5/92 (Q1) 20/80 (Q2) |
• Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics • General Biochemistry, Gene- tics and Molecular Biology • Palaeontology • Space and Planetary Science |
Link | 2.95 | 1.68 | 1.20 |
Marine Drugs | 18/145 (Q1) | • Drug Discovery | Link | 3.83 | 3.66 | 3.59 |
Materials | 63/424 (Q1) | • General Materials Science | Link | 3.26 | 3.11 | 2.69 |
Membranes | 103/424 (Q1) | • Materials Science | Link | 2.19 | 2.95 | 2.42 |
Micromachines | 173/645 (Q2) 69/211 (Q2) 113/526 (Q1) |
• Electrical and Electronic Engineering • Control and Systems Engineering • Mechanical Engineering |
Link | 1.83 | 1.78 | 2.10 |
Minerals | 45/206 (Q1) 29/167 (Q1) |
• Geology • Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology |
Link | 2.13 | 1.77 | - |
Molecules | 32/157 (Q1) | • Organic Chemistry | Link | 3.09 | 2.65 | 2.62 |
Nutrients | 12/247 (Q1) | • Food Science | Link | 4.29 | 4.07 | 3.78 |
Pharmaceuticals | 8/168 (Q1) 21/158 (Q1) |
• Pharmaceutical Science • Molecular Medicine |
Link | 4.90 | 3.64 | 1.92 |
Pharmaceutics | 19/168 (Q1) | • Pharmaceutical Science | Link | 3.83 | 2.68 | 2.46 |
Polymers | 13/138 (Q1) 44/354 (Q1) |
• Polymers and Plastics • General Chemistry |
Link | 3.74 | 3.37 | 4.10 |
Remote Sensing | 13/169 (Q1) | • General Earth and Planetary Sciences | Link | 3.56 | 3.76 | 3.23 |
Sensors | 25/96 (Q2) 25/159 (Q1) 124/382 (Q2) 103/645 (Q1) |
• Analytical Chemistry • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics • Biochemistry • Electrical and Electronic Engineering |
Link | 2.78 | 2.21 | 2.40 |
Sustainability | 49/129 (Q2) 68/587 (Q1) 56/236 (Q1) |
• Renewable Energy, Sustai-nability and the Environment • Geography, Planning and Development • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law |
Link | 1.96 | 1.78 | 1.52 |
Symmetry | 17/42 (Q2) 49/111 (Q2) |
• Numerical Analysis • Computational Mathematics |
Link | 1.12 | 0.95 | 1.02 |
Toxins | 16/102 (Q1) 16/108 (Q1) |
• Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis • Toxicology |
Link | 3.34 | 3.76 | 2.85 |
Vaccines | 146/184 (Q4) 151/250 (Q3) 93/145 (Q3) 186/299 (Q3) 130/232 (Q3) |
• Immunology • Infectious Diseases • Drug Discovery • Pharmacology • Pharmacology (medical) |
Link | 1.23 | 3.76 | 2.85 |
Viruses | 15/68 (Q1) 34/250 (Q1) |
• Virology • Infectious Diseases |
Link | 3.60 | 3.74 | 3.80 |
Water | 33/184 (Q1) 48/195 (Q1) 62/587 (Q1) 198/382 (Q3) |
• Water Science and Technology • Aquatic Science • Geography, Planning and Development • Biochemistry |
Link | 2.05 | 1.96 | 1.45 |
23 May 2017
Meet Us at 25th North American Meeting of the Catalysis Society
We will be attending the 25th North American Meeting (NAM) of the Catalysis Society, which takes place June 4-9, 2017, representing the following open access journals:
Please come along to our stand, booth number #211, to talk to our delegates about our journals and travel awards you could apply. We also would like to invite you to our ‘Meet and Greet’ session at 12:00 pm on 7th June! Catalysts Professor Keith Hohn, the Editor-in-Chief of Catalysts, and the Editorial Board Member Professor Calvin Bartholomew will be there to answer your questions about the Open Access publishing.
Food and refreshments will be provided and we look forward to meeting you in person to answer your questions.
Conference address:
MDPI booth - number #211
25th North American Meeting of the Catalysis Society
June 4-9, 2017
Hyatt Regency Hotel and Convention Center, Denver, Colorado, USA
For more information on the conference, please visit
http://www.nam25.org/
17 May 2017
Three New Institutional Memberships Established
We are pleased to announce that the Goethe University of Frankfurt, the Technical University of Hamburg (TU Hamburg-Harburg), as well as the Humboldt University of Berlin, in Germany, have joined MDPI's institutional membership program: Primary authors from these instititions will benefit from a 10% discount on the article processing charges.
Additional details can be found on our institutional membership page.
4 May 2017
MDPI Supports the Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC)
As an open access publisher, we are keen to support openness and transparency in the research process. Citation data is very important for assessing the value of individual papers and the contribution of researchers. As such, we support the recently launched Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC). The initiative recognizes that citations should be freely available and machine-readable. By doing so, authors gain the maximum benefit from having their work cited.
MDPI now uploads citation data with metadata uploaded to Crossref when registering digital object identifiers (DOIs) for published papers. We are delighted to take this step to support a truly open research environment.
2 May 2017
Publons Peer Review Academy Goes Live
Getting high quality review reports is critical for any journal’s editorial process. At MDPI we have put in place several measures to motivate reviewers and reward them for their work. We are proud of the quality of reviewer reports we receive and grateful for the hours put in by active researchers from across the globe.
Reviewers of MDPI’s largest journals can get recognition via Publons, a website dedicated to rewarding peer reviewers. They have now taken this one step further and launched the Publons Reviewer Academy to help train reviewers to provide useful feedback. Through the academy, researchers can be trained and tutored in various aspects of how to provide structured feedback that will be of genuine help to editors and authors. We support this initiative and recommend it to potential MDPI reviewers, especially early career researchers. See the Publons announcement for further information.
More information on reviewing for MDPI, including how to volunteer as a reviewer, can be found here.
24 April 2017
Two New Institutional Memberships Established
We are pleased to announce that the following universities have joined MDPI's institutional membership program: Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas, USA and the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia. Primary authors from these instititions will benefit from a 10% discount on the article processing charges.
Additional details can be found on our institutional membership page.
30 March 2017
Credit for Preprints Comments via Publons
Preprints.org is a platform run by MDPI that allows authors to make early versions of manuscripts available before peer review has been completed.
One of the major benefits of putting a preprint online is to get feedback before journal submission. Until now, however, the feedback has been on a voluntary basis. Preprints is delighted to be the first preprint server to collaborate with Publons to acknowledge substantial comments as reviews and give commentators the opportunity to receive credit for their efforts.
When you add a comment to any article, there is a check box to click for it to appear on Publons. If you have already linked your account it will be passed on automatically. If you don't already have a Publons account, you will be contacted soon afterwards with instructions on how to create one.
We appreciate the enthusiasm and cooperation of Publons in this project and expect it to be of great benefit to authors and commenters alike.
20 March 2017
MDPI 2016 Annual Report Released
We are pleased to announce that our annual report for the year 2016 has now been published.
It contains information regarding company and journal performance, conferences and other publishing services that we provided throughout 2016.
To read the report in full or download a copy, please click here.
16 March 2017
Meet MDPI at the 253rd American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition
MDPI will be attending the 253rd American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition, which takes place 2–6 April 2017, representing the following open access journals:
Molecules
Materials
Energies
Nanomaterials
Catalysts
Applied Sciences
Batteries
Coatings
Metals
Magnetochemistry
Marine Drugs
Processes
Pharmaceuticals
Symmetry
If you are planning to attend, please visit our booth (Number 1618) to talk to our delegates about our journals and open access publishing. Also feel free to attend our ‘Meet and Greet’ session at 12:30pm on 3 April with Dr. Derek J. McPhee, the Editor-in-Chief of our journal Molecules. Food and refreshments will be provided.
Conference address:
MDPI - Booth 1618
253rd American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition
The Moscone Center, 747 Howard Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
USA
15 March 2017
Our 100,000th Article Could be Yours!
After the 20th anniversary of MDPI in 2016, we will reach another milestone this year and will publish the 100,000th peer-reviewed article in one of our 170+ open access journals.
We would like you to be part of this great achievement and so are offering to publish the 100,000th accepted paper free of charge.
To be in with a chance, select a journal in one of our 10 scientific subject areas and submit your paper.
Access the live tracker on published articles here.
3 March 2017
1000 Preprints Online
We are delighted that Preprints now has 1000 papers online since its launch on 3 May 2016.
For more information, see the editorial here.
9 February 2017
Minister and State Secretaries Visit MDPI Office at STP, Belgrade, Serbia
Earlier this week the Science Technology Park in Belgrade, Serbia was visited by Swiss Secretary of State Dr. Mauro Dell’Ambrogio, as well as Serbian Minister of Public Administration and Local Self-Government Ana Brnabic, State Secretary Dr. Vladimir Popovic and Mayor of Belgrade Mr. Siniša Mali.
During the visit to the STP they had a short presentation from MDPI’s CEO Dr. Franck Vazquez and IT Manager Mr. Miloš Čučulović, and further discussed important issues such as Open Access and Open education. Dr. Dell'Ambrogio said he was impressed with the potential for development and ideas for business.
For more information please see:
http://bit.ly/2kpIu7k and http://bit.ly/2kpUQfz
7 February 2017
The 6th World Sustainability Forum: Final Press Release
Basel, 29 January 2017
The 6th World Sustainability Forum #WSF2017SA: African universities critical to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals
Jeffrey and Sonia Sachs win first World Sustainability Award.
Universities need to take the lead in solving the greatest challenges the world faces today, particularly in Africa. They need to do this not only through education – teaching the next generation to think critically and creatively to find sustainable solutions – but also through research that cuts across a range of disciplines. To ensure these solutions are implemented, they need to partner with the private sector and with government.
This was the key message from the 6th World Sustainability Forum (WSF2017), which took place in Cape Town on 27 and 28 January 2017. Sponsored by MDPI and the journal Sustainability under the patronage of the Universities of the Western Cape (UWC), Cape Town (UCT), University of Basel and the National Research Foundation (NRF) of South Africa, the conference was attended by key national and international speakers, including world-leading economist Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs, senior United Nations (UN) advisor and director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University.
The WSF is an annual sustainability conference which addresses research in a range of areas related to sustainable development and sustainability globally. This was the first WSF to take place on the African continent. Discussions at the 2017 conference were driven by the 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) adopted as part of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development by the UN in September 2015.
Achieving the SDGs “is the moonshot for our generation,” said Sachs. “Like the moonshot [moon landing] of the 1960s, these are tough, bold and achievable objectives.”
“This is a nasty, tough world we live in, and our world agrees on very little. So when 193 governments agree on something, that is important. And when they agree on something as important as sustainable development, that is really something for us to grab hold of – that is a lifeline.”
There was agreement at the WSF that the SDGs are particularly important for Africa, and that African universities in particular have a role to play in achieving them.
Said Professor Tyrone Pretorius, vice-chancellor of UWC: “The quest for sustainable development can only be met through education. Universities today are the oil that fuels the knowledge economy.”
As part of the drive to develop academic capacity to provide the knowledge needed to meet the SDGs, WSF2017 was preceded by the 1st Postgraduate Forum on Sustainability. “A series of workshops for postgraduate education linked to WSF are important, in order to equip postgraduates with the skills necessary to promote sustainability,” said Professor Thandi Mgwebi, director for research at UWC. A second postgraduate forum will take place alongside the WSF2018 in Beijing.
This capacity development is particularly critical to Africa. Said Sachs: “African universities need to do research to find solutions to Africa’s development challenges, because no other university will.”
The UN set a target of achieving the SDGs by 2030: “I regard this as the breakthrough period to end extreme poverty on the continent,” said Sachs, “and for Africa to become one of the most dynamic centres of the world economy.”
It is a critical time for South African universities, said Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng, deputy vice-chancellor for research and internationalisation at UCT: “Higher education is at a crossroads, and there is much polarisation. We need to think carefully about how this sustainable development agenda is owned by all so that it is inclusionary.”
There was also strong emphasis on public–private partnerships – for universities, business and government to work together to achieve the goals.
Said Professor Francis Petersen, deputy vice-chancellor at UCT and vice-chancellor designate at the University of the Free State: “Business sustainability has become critical, because there is increasing demand and complexity of demand on business from the natural, social and economic environment. Sustainability cannot be a standalone issue, divorced from business as usual. Sustainability needs to be embedded into business.”
Environmental crises and climate change was also high on the WSF agenda. In his keynote address, Sachs noted the irreversibility of the climate- and environmental-related challenges.
“If we don’t get our act together, we lose the chance of safety,” he said.
Said Professor Mark New, pro vice-chancellor and director of the African Climate and Development Initiative at UCT: “We have a fundamental challenge in responding to climate change, and we must go further than just putting a plaster on a wound. We need to address the deep structural issues, to move from our current model of development into climate-compatible development.”
“This requires researchers to find the evidence for the correct development pathways to take, and then support the ability of policymakers at all levels to enable the shift to climate-compatible development planning.”
Said Dr. Aldo Stroebel, executive director of international relations and cooperation at the NRF, in closing: “We have seen over the past two days an urgency towards the next step of thinking, that critical type of framework that we all must engage with, not only from an academic perspective, but further up into the policy environment and into rural-based environments where one can clearly see the links and effectiveness of the work.”
World Sustainability Awards
The first World Sustainability Award and the first Emerging Sustainability Leader Awards were presented by Prof. Thandi Mgwebi, Director of Research at UWC, and Dr. Franck Vazquez, CEO of MDPI, during the ceremony on 27 January 2017 as part of the gala dinner of the 6th World Sustainability Forum in South Africa.after day one of proceedings of the 2017 World Sustainability Forum South Africa.
Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs and Dr. Sonia Ehrlich Sachs are the joint recipients of the first World Sustainability Award. Jeffrey Sachs is a world-renowned economist and senior United Nations (UN) advisor and director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. Sonia Sachs is a paediatrician and public health specialist, and director of the Health Centre at the Centre for Sustainable Development, also at Columbia University.
The joint recipients of the first Emerging Sustainability Leader Award are Dr. Esther Ngumbi and Dr. Xiaosong Hu. Esther Ngumbi is a postdoctoral researcher at Auburn University in Alabama USA and serves as a 2015 Clinton Global University Mentor for agriculture. Xiaosong Hu is a professor at the Chongqing University in China and specialises in automotive control systems and mechanical engineering.
The World Sustainability Award and the Emerging Sustainability Leader Awards are funded to encourage new initiatives and developments in sustainability with the ultimate aim of fostering the transition to sustainable practices and societies.
The World Sustainability Award is funded by the MDPI Sustainability Foundation, and included a monetary prize of USD 100,000 to Jeffrey and Sonia Sachs. The Emerging Sustainability Leader Award is funded by the journal Sustainability, awarded to researchers under 40, and included a monetary prize of USD10,000.
Issued jointly by: UCT Global Strategy and Visibility, Research Office, UWC Communications & Media and MDPI AG
Conference photos are free available at: https://sciforum.net/conference/wsf-6/page/175 Photo credit: Matthias Burkhalter
Carla Bernardo |
Luthando Tyhalibongo |
Matthias Burkhalter |
31 January 2017
Three New Institutional Memberships Established
We are pleased to announce that the Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, the University of Manitoba, Canada and the Technical University of Cartagena, Spain, have joined MDPI's institutional membership program: Primary authors from these institutions will benefit from a 10% discount on the article processing charges.
Additional details can be found on our institutional membership page.
27 January 2017
6th World Sustainability Forum under way in South Africa
The 6th World Sustainability Forum is currently being held at the Cape Sun Hotel until 28 January 2017.
The Forum will showcase the work of internationally renowned researchers and include more than 150 presentations. During the conference dinner, the World Sustainability Award, associated with a US$ 100,000 prize, will be announced, as well as the Emerging Sustainability Leader Award, associated with a US$ 10,000 prize. The prizes are sponsored by the MDPI Sustainability Foundation and Sustainability, an academic open access journal by MDPI.
Here are some pictures from the forum so far:




To see the full WSF2017 program and schedule, please see here: https://sciforum.net/conference/wsf-6/page/schedule
19 January 2017
Cape Town to Host the 6th World Sustainability Forum
Cape Town will host the 6th World Sustainability Forum at the Cape Sun Hotel on 27 and 28 January 2017. This prominent event, held for the first time in Africa, will include many illustrious South African and international experts, such as Her Excellency Graça Machel (Sustainable Development Advocate for the United Nations, Mozambique), Joyene Isaacs (HoD Agriculture Western Cape Government), Jeffrey Sachs (Columbia University, USA), Max Bergman (SRaM, University of Basel), Mark New (Pro Vice-Chancellor, University of Cape Town), Frans Swanepoel (FutureAfrica, University of Pretoria) and Francis Petersen (Vice-Chancellor-designate, University of the Free State). The Forum will provide a stage for national and international debates on sustainability in South Africa, the African continent, and about international perspectives on sustainability. It brings together researchers and representatives from government and the business sector to discuss a wide-ranging set of issues associated with sustainability, including food security, water and energy scarcity, mining, poverty reduction, climate change, and urbanisation.
The next few decades will be marked by profound changes in the relationships between global economics, national societies, and the environment. We have entered what some call the Anthropocene, an age in which human activity dominates the climate and the environment. These changes will have numerous consequences on societies around the globe. South Africa and Africa will play a central role, for better or worse, in creating opportunities and risks during these changing times as Africa is profoundly influencing and being influenced by global developments.
The adoption of the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in September 2015 was accompanied by what insiders considered an optimism they have not experienced in relation to UN resolutions before. The relative efficiency in the drafting, the lack of trenches between East and West, or between North and South, and the unanimity of support of the 193 countries speak volumes. In stark contrast, sustainability seems to go against a changing economic and political tide, where waves of nationalism and protectionism from some of the most powerful countries risk the wellbeing of the rest of the world. The 6th World Sustainability Forum will enable fruitful exchanges, which sensitise South African and international communities to the global urgency and specifics of sustainability.
The Forum will showcase the work of internationally renowned researchers and include more than 150 presentations. During the conference dinner, the World Sustainability Award, associated with a US$ 100 000 prize, will be announced, as well as the Emerging Sustainability Leader Award, associated with a US$ 10 000 prize. The prizes are sponsored by the MDPI Sustainability Foundation and Sustainability, an academic open access journal by MDPI. The World Sustainability Forum is preceded by the Postgraduate Forum on Sustainability, which will introduce more than 100 young scholars from South Africa and the African continent to sustainability research. Both events are organized and sponsored by the University of Cape Town, the University of the Western Cape, the University of Basel, MDPI, and by the National Research Foundation of South Africa.
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6 January 2017
MDPI Supports the OA2020 Initiative
MDPI is now a proud supporter of the OA2020 Initiative.
Open Access 2020 is an international initiative that aims to induce the swift, smooth and scholarly-oriented transformation of today’s scholarly journals from subscription to open access publishing.
MDPI is participating in the upcoming Berlin13 conference in March 2017, where we are contributing to the initiative by aiding in the design of the roadmap which will make OA the default publishing model.
For more information please see here.
5 January 2017
Three New Institutional Memberships Established
We are pleased to announce that the University of Texas at Arlington, USA, the Harbin Institute of Technology, China and TU Darmstadt, Germany, have joined MDPI's institutional membership program: Primary authors from these institutions will benefit from a 10% discount on the article processing charges.
Additional details can be found on our institutional membership page.
22 December 2016
Two New Institutional Memberships Established
We are pleased to announce that the Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Germany and the University of California, Berkeley, USA, have joined MDPI's institutional membership program: Primary authors from these instititions will benefit from a 10% discount on the article processing charges.
Additional details can be found on our institutional membership page.
19 December 2016
MDPI and Wellcome Trust Compliance
The Wellcome Trust has, for a number of years, required that the results of its funded projects are published in open access format. Recently it announced criteria that publishers must fulfil for publication fees to be paid by the Trust. MDPI is pleased to have been added to the list of compliant publishers.
Only publishers who have confirmed their compliance by 16 December 2016 will be eligible to receive payment of APCs by the Wellcome Trust as of 1 April 2017. For more information on the criteria and a full list of publishers that meet them, see here.
13 December 2016
Meet MDPI at the 2016 AGU Fall Meeting
MDPI is currently attending the 2016 AGU Fall Meeting (12–16 December, 2016)
If you are also attending the conference, please feel free to stop by our booth (Booth #1147) and meet the representative editors.
Conference details:
2016 AGU Fall Meeting
12–16 December 2016
Moscone Center
747 Howard St
San Francisco, CA 94103, USA
8 December 2016
Three New Institutional Memberships Established
We are pleased to announce that Purdue University, USA, the Universitat Politécnica de Valencia, Spain and the Queensland University of Technology, Australia, have joined MDPI's institutional membership program: Primary authors from these instititions will benefit from a 10% discount on the article processing charges.
Additional details can be found on our institutional membership page.
16 November 2016
World Sustainability Award - Final Extension
The deadline for the World Sustainability Award has been extended for one last time! You now have one more month to nominate an individual researcher, group or project! The final deadline for nominations will be December 15, 2016.
For full details, please visit here.
11 November 2016
Three New Institutional Memberships Established
We are pleased to announce that the University of Minnesota, USA, the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain and Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, have joined MDPI's institutional membership program: Primary authors from these instititions will benefit from a 10% discount on the article processing charges.
Additional details can be found on our institutional membership page.
4 November 2016
MDPI Joins the United Nations Global Compact
MDPI has become a member of the United Nations Global Compact to support corporate sustainability and have committed ourselves to the ten principles associated with the Compact.
Sustainability has always been at the core of MDPI’s values, starting with the collection and preservation of rare chemical samples that started in 1996 and led to the first journal, Molecules. Sustainability has become one of our flagship journals and we have supported and organized several conferences and events based on Sustainability, including the upcoming 6th World Sustainability Forum. As a global enterprise, we see it as our duty to promote responsible practices that will ensure a bright future for our planet. Given this, the choice to join the Global Compact was an easy one and we will do our utmost to fully implement it.
3 November 2016
MDPI Now a Member of SPARC Europe
We are delighted to announce that MDPI has become a member of SPARC Europe, an organization that works for open scholarship in Europe, including support of open access publication.
As one of the few publishers to join SPARC Europe to date, MDPI looks forward to making a contribution that puts open scholarship on a positive and sustainable path. We fully support the goals of open scholarship that allow the largest number of people possible to benefit from work of researchers in all disciplines. We hope that our membership will enable us to work with other stakeholders to find the best possible solution.
2 November 2016
World Sustainability Award Deadline Extension
The deadline for the World Sustainability Award has been extended! You now have until November 15, 2016 to nominate an individual researcher, group or project!
For full details, please visit here.
26 October 2016
Four New Institutional Memberships Established
We are pleased to announce that the Wuppertal Institut, Germany, the University of Girona, Spain and Central South University and Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, have joined MDPI's institutional membership program: Primary authors from these instititions will benefit from a 10% discount on the article processing charges.
Additional details can be found on our institutional membership page.
24 October 2016
International Open Access Week 2016
Meet us during International Open Access Week 2016! We will be presenting at various locations in Europe and China.
To get involved and for full details see the complete list of events organised by MDPI here.
18 October 2016
Institutional Membership established with Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain and Aalto University, Finland
We are pleased to announce that the Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain and Aalto University, Finland, have joined MDPI's institutional membership program: Primary authors from these universities will benefit from a 10% discount on the article processing charges.
Additional details can be found on our institutional membership page.
12 October 2016
Institutional Membership Established with Iowa State University and the University of North Texas, USA
We are pleased to announce that the Iowa State University and the University of North Texas, USA, have joined MDPI's institutional membership program: Primary authors from these universities will benefit from a 10% discount on the article processing charges.
Additional details can be found on our institutional membership page.
7 October 2016
MDPI at Open Access Days in Munich, 10-11 October 2016
Meet MDPI during the Open Access Days held from 10-11 October 2016 at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany.
The two-day event will feature experts from the open access sector, scientists from all disciplines, publishing representatives and supporters of scientific research and communication from libraries as well as research institutes and funding institutions. Join us!
For more information about the event and to see the program, visit the event webpage.
7 October 2016
Institutional Membership Established with the University of Sevilla and the University of Alicante, Spain
We are pleased to announce that the University of Sevilla and the University of Alicante, Spain have joined MDPI's institutional membership program: Primary authors from these universities will benefit from a 10% discount on the article processing charges.
Additional details can be found on our institutional membership page.
29 September 2016
Institutional Membership Established with the University of Delaware
We are pleased to announce that the University of Delaware, USA, has joined MDPI's institutional membership program: Primary authors from this university will benefit from a 10% discount on the article processing charges.
Additional details can be found on our institutional membership page.
19 September 2016
Peer Review Week 2016
As an open access publisher indebted to the work of our peer reviewers, we are proud to support Peer Review Week 2016. As part of the week's activities and to celebrate this year's theme "Recognition for Review", MDPI will host two webinars that anyone can join.
These webinars will explore the role and value of reviewers and the recognition they receive from a publishers perspective, with examples from MDPI's experience in publishing nearly 80,000 peer reviewed papers, along with evidence from reviewer surveys. It will also touch upon potential changes in how review is carried out and tips for early career researchers who want to be involved in the review process.
Details and links to join can be found below:
Wednesday September 21, 08:00 (CEST)
Friday September 23, 16:00 (CEST)
For more information about all the activites taking place, please visit the Peer Review Week website.
6 September 2016
Institutional Membership established with Kansas State University and Northwestern University, USA
We are pleased to announce that Kansas State University and Northwestern Universty, USE, have joined MDPI's institutional membership program: Primary authors from these universities will benefit from a 10% discount on the article processing charges.
Additional details can be found on our institutional membership page.
5 September 2016
Institutional Membership Established with University College Cork
We are pleased to announce that University College Cork, Ireland, has joined MDPI's institutional membership program: Primary authors from this university will benefit from a 10% discount on the article processing charges.
Additional details can be found on our institutional membership page.
22 August 2016
MDPI New Office Location
We are pleased to announce that MDPI has now moved to a new permanent address:
MDPI AG
St. Alban Anlage 66
CH-4052 Basel
Postfach, CH-4020 Basel
Switzerland
Telephone and fax numbers remain unchanged.
10 August 2016
Institutional Membership established with the University of Texas at Austin, USA, the Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland and the University of Granada and the Compultense University of Madrid, Spain
We are pleased to announce that the following institutions have joined MDPI's institutional membership program in August 2016:
- University of Texas at Austin, USA
- Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland
- University of Granada, Spain
- Compultense University of Madrid, Spain
Authors affiliated with these institutions will benefit from a 10% discount on the article processing charges.
Additional details can be found on our institutional membership page.
18 July 2016
Institutional Membership established with Louisiana State University and Florida State University, USA, Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland, University of Rostock, Germany, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland and Southeast University, China
We are pleased to announce that the following institutions have joined MDPI's institutional membership program in July 2016:
- Louisiana State University, USA
- Florida State University, USA
- Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland
- University of Rostock, Germany
- AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
- Southeast University, China
Authors affiliated with these institutions will benefit from a 10% discount on the article processing charges.
Additional details can be found on our institutional membership page.
12 July 2016
MDPI Moving to New Office Location in Basel (Switzerland) in August 2016
As of 20 August 2016, MDPI's new address in Basel will be:
MDPI AG
St. Alban-Anlage 66
CH-4052 Basel
Switzerland
Telephone and fax numbers remain unchanged.
St. Alban-Anlage 66 was built from 1947 to 1948 and initially the home of the "Bühler AG", a book printing business.
For more information about this building, see: https://www.mdpi.com/about/headquarters
21 June 2016
"Behind the Scenes of Academic Publishing—A Publisher's Perspective" - MDPI's Lecture at the University of Basel
From the 15-16 September, 2016, MDPI will run a course on Academic Publishing at the University of Basel.
In this two day workshop, MDPI will look in detail at the role performed by academic journal publishers and how they interact with academics. Ethical dimensions, what happens when problems occur and how the publisher coordinates all aspects of the submission process will also be covered.
For more detailed information about the program, trainers and registration please visit the course webpage.
14 June 2016
2015 Impact Factors Released
We are pleased to report the 2015 Journal Impact Factors in the latest Journal Citation Reports® Science Edition, published by Thomson Reuters in June 2016. Twenty out of 25 journals have seen an increase in their Impact Factor and two journals (Crystals and IJGI) received a first Impact Factor. Coatings was recently added to SCIE and will receive its first Impact Factor in next year’s JCR.
Updated Impact Factors for Journals in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)
Journal | 2015 Impact Factor | Details | Category Rank |
Applied Sciences | 1.726 | Link | 83/163 (Q3) in ‘Chemistry, Multidisciplinary’; 129/271 (Q2) in ‘Materials Science, Multidisciplinary’; 64/145 (Q2) in ‘Physics, Applied’ |
Atmosphere | 1.221 | Link | 66/84 (Q4) in ‘Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences’ |
Catalysts | 2.964 | Link | 53/144 (Q2) in ‘Chemistry, Physical’ |
Energies | 2.077 | Link | 43/88 (Q2) in ‘Energy & Fuels’ |
Entropy | 1.743 | Link | 25/79 (Q2) in ‘Physics, Multidisciplinary’ |
Forests | 1.583 | Link | 19/66 (Q2) in ‘Forestry’ |
Genes | 3.242 | Link | 60/165 (Q2) in ‘Genetics & Heredity’ |
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) | 2.035 | Link | 101/225 (Q2) in ‘Environmental Sciences’ |
International Journal of Molecular Sciences (IJMS) | 3.257 | Link | 110/289 (Q2) in ‘Biochemistry & Molecular Biology’; 51/163 (Q2) in ‘Chemistry, Multidisciplinary’ |
Marine Drugs | 3.345 | Link | 13/59 (Q1) in ‘Chemistry, Medicinal’ |
Materials | 2.728 | Link | 63/271 (Q1) in ‘Materials Science, Multidisciplinary’ |
Metals | 1.574 | Link | 18/73 (Q1) in ‘Metallurgy & Metallurgical Engineering’; 145/271 (Q3) in ‘Materials Science, Multidisciplinary’ |
Micromachines | 1.295 | Link | 30/56 (Q3) in ‘Instruments & Instrumentation’ 63/83 (Q4) in ‘Nanoscience & Nanotechnology’ |
Minerals | 1.468 | Link | 9/21 (Q2) in ‘Mining & Mineral Processing; 14/29 (Q2) in ‘Mineralogy’ |
Molecules | 2.465 | Link | 24/59 (Q2) in ‘Chemistry, Organic’ |
Nanomaterials | 2.690 | Link | 64/271 (Q1) in ‘Materials Science, Multidisciplinary’; 36/83 (Q2) in ‘Nanoscience & Nanotechnology’ |
Nutrients | 3.759 | Link | 16/78 (Q1) in ‘Nutrition & Dietetics’ |
Polymers | 2.944 | Link | 20/85 (Q1) in ‘Polymer Science’ |
Remote Sensing | 3.036 | Link | 5/28 (Q1) in ‘Remote Sensing’ |
Sensors | 2.033 | Link | 36/75 (Q2) in ‘Chemistry, Analytical’; 16/27 (Q3) in ‘Electrochemistry’; 12/56 (Q1) in ‘Instruments & Instrumentation’ |
Sustainability | 1.343 | Link | 146/225 (Q3) in ‘Environmental Sciences’; 22/29 (Q4) in ‘Green & Sustainable Science & Technology’ |
Symmetry | 0.841 | Link | 31/63 (Q2) in ‘Multidisciplinary Sciences’ |
Toxins | 3.571 | Link | 16/89 (Q1) in ‘Toxicology’ |
Viruses | 3.042 | Link | 14/33 (Q2) in ‘Virology’ |
Water | 1.687 | Link | 33/85 (Q2) in ‘Water Resources’ |
Journals with First Impact Factors
Journal | 2015 Impact Factor | Details | Category Rank |
Crystals | 2.075 | Link | 13/26 (Q2) in ‘Crystallography’ |
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information | 0.651 | Link | 45/49 (Q4) in ‘Geography, Physical’; 26/28 (Q4) in ‘Remote Sensing’. |
14 June 2016
2015 Impact Factor Released for Energies – 2.077
We are pleased to inform you that the new Impact Factor of Energies has been released. According to the Journal Citation Reports®, published by Thomson Reuters in June 2016, the new Impact Factor is 2.077, and the 5-Year Impact Factor is 2.468.
Energies now ranks 43/88 (Q2) in the category ‘Energy & Fuels’. It ranks second highest among the Open Access journals in this category.
Evolution of Impact Factor, Citations and Publications for Energies:
26 May 2016
Institutional Membership established with University of Bremen, Germany, Koç University, Turkey, IIASA, Austria and Jilin University and Kunming Institute of Botany, CAS, China
We are pleased to announce that the following institutions have joined MDPI's institutional membership program in May 2016:
- Unversity of Bremen, Germany
- Koç University, Turkey
- International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria
- Jilin University, China
- Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Authors affiliated with these institutions will benefit from a 10% discount on the article processing charges.
Additional details can be found on our institutional membership page.
23 May 2016
Institutional Membership Established with the KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden and the South China University of Technology, Beijing University of Technology and Southern Medical University, China
We are pleased to announce that the following institutions have joined MDPI's institutional membership program in April and May 2016:
- KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
- South China University of Technology, China
- Beijing University of Technology, China
- Southern Medical University, China
Authors affiliated with these institutions will benefit from a 10% discount on the article processing charges.
Additional details can be found on our institutional membership page.
26 April 2016
New Section on www.mdpi.com - Latest Books
You may have noticed a new section that is now visible on our home page. This section is called "Latest Books" and showcases recent publications from MDPI Books, our book publishing service.
By clicking on the hyperlink "More Books" you will be taken to the MDPI Books Home Page. There you will find more information about the service, as well as the "Recent Publications" list.
Clicking on any of the book images in this list will take you to detailed information about that book (shown below). Here you can also download a PDF version of the book, or order a hardcover printed copy.
For further information about the MDPI Books service, please visit the webpage or contact [email protected].
31 March 2016
Axioms, Behavioral Sciences, Photonics, Separations and Toxics added to the Emerging Sources Citation Index in Web of Science
We are pleased to announce that the journals Axioms, Behavioral Sciences, Photonics, Separations and Toxics were recently accepted for inclusion in the newly launched Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) in Web of Science.
ESCI serves to highlight promising journals which are still under consideration for the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) or the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI).
The Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index
(SSCI), and Web of Science™ (WoS) are Thomson Reuters products.
30 March 2016
Institutional Membership established with the University of Winchester, UK, Silesian University of Technology, Poland and Beijing Jiaotong University and Zhejiang University, China
We are pleased to announce that the University of Winchester, UK, the Silesian University of Technology, Poland and Beijing Jiaotong University and Zhejiang University, China, have joined our Institutional Membership program. Primary authors from these universities will benefit from a 10% discount on article processing charges.
Additional details can be found on our institutional membership page.
24 March 2016
New Editorial Office in Barcelona, Spain
We are excited to announce the opening of our new editorial office in Barcelona, Spain. The launch team is led by a Senior Editor and comprises further staff holding doctoral degrees with several years of research experience. The new editorial team will help us to get closer to European research communities and progress Sciforum, the platform to support the scientific community via conference hosting and other functions. They will also help spread the word about Open Access and meet academics at scientific events.
We are in the process of hiring more doctoral and masters graduates to join the editorial team and welcome applications via [email protected]. For contact details about the office, see our contact page.
22 February 2016
Membership Established with the Max Planck Society
We are pleased to announce that the Max Planck Digital Library (MPDL) has signed an agreement with MDPI to support authors associated with the Max Planck Society (Max-Planck-Gesellschaft). As of 22 February 2016, corresponding authors will receive full funding from the MPDL for articles published in MDPI journals, with a 10% discount applied to the Article Processing Charges. Additional details can be found at our institutional membership page.
Founded in 1948, The Max Planck Society is one of Germany’s leading research organizations, and is currently made up of 83 institutes conducting basic research in natural sciences, life sciences, social sciences and humanities. 18 Nobel laureates have emerged from its ranks of scientists and the society has more than 15,000 publications in scientific journals each year.
5 February 2016
Institutional Membership Extension: Wageningen University, CSIC, University of Zürich, ETH Zürich, University of Tübingen and Osnabrück University
We are pleased to announce that Wageningen University, the Netherlands, the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Spain, the University of Zürich and ETH Zürich, Switzerland, and the University of Tübingen and Osnabrück University, Germany, have not only renewed their institutional memberships with MDPI after two years of successful cooperation, but have also increased the reduction of the article processing charges (APCs) for affiliated authors to 25%.
Additional details can be found on our institutional membership page.
5 February 2016
Institutional Membership established with Brock University, Canada and the University of Pisa, Italy
We are pleased to announce that Brock University, Cananda, and the University of Pisa, Italy, have joined MDPI's institutional membership program: Primary authors from these universities will benefit from a 10% discount on the article processing charges as of 01 February 2016.
Additional details can be found on our institutional membership page.
25 January 2016
MDPI Sponsors diss:kurs with the University of Basel
MDPI is pleased to announce its newly established sponsorship of diss:kurs, an event coordinated by the University of Basel to support their doctorate program. For more information about the event and how to register, please visit the diss:kurs webpage.
7 January 2016
New Institutional Memberships Established with Tsinghua University, the Chinese Society of Micro-Nano Technology, Ruhr University Bochum and the University of Ulm
We are pleased to announce that the following institutions have joined MDPI's institutional membership program as of 1 January 2016:
- Tsinghua University, China
- Chinese Society of Micro-Nano Technology (CSMNT)
- Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
- University of Ulm, Germany
Authors affiliated with these institutions will benefit from a 10% discount on the article processing charges.
Additional details can be found on our institutional membership page.
5 January 2016
Safety, Fermentation, C-Journal of Carbon Research, Magnetochemistry, Batteries and Horticulturae Released Their First Issue in December 2015
We are pleased to announce that MDPI's open access journals Safety, Journal of Imaging, Fermentation, C-Journal of Carbon Research, Magnetochemistry, Batteries and Horticulturae released their first issue at the end of December 2015.
17 December 2015
Institutional Membership Extension: University of Bern, Switzerland
We are pleased to announce that the University of Bern, Switzerland has not only renewed their institutional membership with MDPI after two years of successful cooperation, but also increased the reduction of the article processing charges (APCs) for affiliated authors to 25%.
17 December 2015
Institutional Membership with the University of Ulm and Helmholtz Zentrum Munich
We are pleased to announce that University of Ulm, Germany and Helmholtz Zentrum Munich, Germany has joined MDPI's institutional membership program:
Primary authors from the University of Ulm and Helmholtz Zentrum Munich will benefit from a 10% discount on the article processing charges as of 1 January 2016. Additional details can be found on our institutional membership page.
9 December 2015
Membership Established with the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech)
We are pleased to announce that Virginia Tech has joined MDPI's institutional membership program. Authors from Virginia Tech will benefit from a 10% discount on the article processing charges as of 1 December 2015. Additional details can be found on our institutional membership page.
1 December 2015
Membership Established with the Technical University of Denmark and the University of North Florida
We are pleased to announce that the following universities have joined MDPI's institutional membership program:
- Technical University of Denmark (as of 1 November 2015)
- University of North Florida, USA (as of 15 November 2015)
Primary authors from the Technical University of Denmark and the University of North Florida will benefit from a 10% discount on the article processing charges.
Additional details can be found on our institutional membership page.
2 October 2015
Membership Established with the University of Freiburg and the University of Regensburg
We are pleased to announce that the following universities have joined MDPI's institutional membership program:
University of Freiburg, Germany
University of Regensburg, Germany
Primary authors from the University of Freiburg and the University of Regensburg will benefit from a 10% discount on the article processing charges as of 1 October 2015 and 1 November 2015.
Additional details can be found on our institutional membership page.
19 June 2015
Updated Impact Factor for Energies – 2.072
We are pleased to report the 2014 Impact Factor for Energies. According to the 2015 release of the Journal Citation Reports® Science Edition (published by Thomson Reuters in June 2015), the updated Impact Factor for Energies is 2.072. It has risen from 1.602 in the previous year (+29%), as illustrated in the figure below. The 5-Year Impact Factor is 2.436. Energies now ranks 43/88 (Q2) in the category ‘Energy & Fuels’.
Evolution of the Energies Impact Factor:
Evolution of citations to Energies:
1 March 2013
Energies Best Paper Award 2013
With the start of 2013, Energies is instituting an annual award to recognize outstanding papers related to scientific research, technology development, engineering, and the studies in policy and management that meet the aims, scope and high standards of this journal.
We are pleased to announce the “Energies Best Paper Award” for 2013. Nominations were solicited from the Editorial Board members, with all papers published in 2009 eligible for consideration.
Article Award:
1st prize
Christopher D. Elvidge, Daniel Ziskin, Kimberly E. Baugh, Benjamin T. Tuttle, Tilottama Ghosh, Dee W. Pack, Edward H. Erwin and Mikhail Zhizhin
A Fifteen Year Record of Global Natural Gas Flaring Derived from Satellite Data
2nd prize
Ugo Bardi and Alessandro Lavacchi
A Simple Interpretation of Hubbert’s Model of Resource Exploitation
Review Award:
1st prize
Dong Jin Ham and Jae Sung Lee
Transition Metal Carbides and Nitrides as Electrode Materials for Low Temperature Fuel Cells
For more details, please refer to Best Paper Award Editorial by Prof. Dr. Enrico Sciubba (Editor-in-Chief, Energies).
16 July 2012
Energies Special Issue "Wind Turbines" closing up - 16 papers published
We are pleased to report that special issue "Wind Turbines" has been successfully closed. 16 papers have been published in this issue.
Professor Lance Manuel, one of the Guest Editors of this issue, says "The wide-ranging set of articles from authors all over the world reflects the growing importance of wind energy development and highlights notable research studies. The articles cover a comprehensive set of topics that deal with measurements, inflow characterization, array effects, design, reliability, control, and power for small and large wind turbines."
A new special issue on this topic is planned to be set up soon for the year 2013, aiming to further encourage scholars in this field to share their research results in a timely way.