Announcements

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

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

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

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

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

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

To apply or request further information, please contact the Energies Editorial Office (energies@mdpi.com). We look forward to hearing from you soon.

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

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

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

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

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

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

To apply or request further information, please contact the Energies Editorial Office (energies@mdpi.com). We look forward to hearing from you soon.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Energies is recruiting Topic Editors for the journal:

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

Responsibilities of Energies Topic Editors include the following:

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

Benefits for Energies Topic Editors include the following:

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

To apply or request further information, please contact the Energies Editorial Office (energies@mdpi.com).

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

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

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

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

The Coalition is committed to:

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

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

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

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

1) Information is displayed in the left information bar.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Materials
• Energies
• Metals
• Gels
• Technologies

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