Announcements

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 openaccess@qnl.qa.

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/

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.

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:

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.

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:

• Energies
• Processes
• Separations
• Fluids
• Catalysts
• Membranes
• Chemengineering
• Clean Technologies

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/.

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/

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:

• Water
• Sustainability
• Energies
• Hydrology
• Membranes

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.

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