Announcements

We are pleased to inform you that Entropy (ISSN: 1099-4300) has received an updated CiteScore of 4.7 according to the 2022 CiteScores™ (Elsevier) that was released recently, making an assessment of the scientific influence of journals in the 2019 to 2022 period.

Entropy’s CiteScore ranks as follows:

• Q1 (9 out of 81 journals) in the "Mathematical Physics" category;
• Q1 (16 out of 67 journals) in the "Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)" category;
• Q2 (76 out of 240 journals) in the "General Physics and Astronomy" category;
• Q2 (248 out of 738 journals) in the "Electrical and Electronic Engineering" category;
• Q2 (133 out of 379 journals) in the "Information Systems" category.

For more journal statistics, please visit https://www.mdpi.com/journal/entropy/stats.

Excellent performance is inseparable from the support and dedication of all journal editors, reviewers, authors, and readers. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you who have contributed to the journal.

MDPI will be attending the 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory (ISIT 2023) in Taipei, Taiwan, which will take place from 25 to 30 June 2023.

ISIT is the premier international conference series dedicated to the advancement of information theory and related areas. It brings together an international community of researchers and practitioners each year to present and discuss new research results and perspectives on future developments relevant to all areas of information theory, including big data analytics, source and channel coding, communication theory and systems, cryptography and security, detection and estimation, emerging applications, networks, network coding, signal processing, and statistical/machine learning.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Entropy;
• Mathematics;
• Information;
• Axioms;
• Algorithms;
• Symmetry;
• Data;
• JCP;
• Cryptography.

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: https://isit2023.org/.

We are pleased to announce the winners of the Entropy 2022 Outstanding Reviewer Award. The Entropy Editorial Board and editorial team would like to gratefully acknowledge the time and energy dedicated by reviewers in checking the manuscripts submitted to Entropy (ISSN: 1099-4300). It is due to their efforts that the high quality of the journal and quick turnaround are maintained.

Name: Prof. Dr. Alexander Zlotnik
Affiliation: Department of Mathematics, Higher School of Economics University, Moscow, Russia
Research interests: numerical methods for PDEs; mathematical gas
dynamics and hydrodynamics

Name: Dr. Jim W. Kay
Affiliation: School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK
Research interests: probability; mathematical statistics; statistical inference and modeling; computational statistical inference; Bayesian modeling; discrete information theory; partial information decomposition; machine learning

Name: Dr. Irina Basieva
Affiliation: International Center for Mathematical Modeling in Physics and Cognitive Science, Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden
Research interests: quantum mechanics; probability; laser physics; telecommunications; artificial intelligence; cognitive psychology; decision making; rationality

Name: Dr. Sergio Luiz E. F. da Silva
Affiliations: 1. DISAT, Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy
2. GISIS, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, Brazil
Research interests: geophysics; statistical physics; image processing; inverse problems; data analysis

Name: Prof. Dr. Michael Evans
Affiliation: Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Research Interests: foundations of statistical inference; measuring statistical evidence; eliciting and checking priors; measuring and controlling bias

The prize for each winner:

• CHF 500;
• A 50% discount on the APC for one paper to be published in Entropy in 2023;
• A certificate.

Entropy Editorial Office

As a leading open access publisher, MDPI provides scholars with a high-quality and rich academic exchange platform by continuously expanding into new and exciting research areas.

In December 2022, MDPI launched five new journals, covering multiple subjects such as life sciences, biology, medicine and pharmacology, social sciences and humanities. These new journals are being edited by established scholars across the world.

If you are interested in creating more open access journals with us to publish cutting-edge research, please send your journal proposal application to newjournal-committee@mdpi.com.

MDPI is pleased to announce that we now display the co-authors’ email addresses in addition to the corresponding author’s email address on the webpage of published papers, protected by Captcha. For more information about this change, please visit the journal’s instructions for authors page. 

We believe this change will facilitate academic discussions and advance our cause of open science and research. The corresponding authors are responsible for communicating with their co-authors and indicating in our system (https://susy.mdpi.com/) if co-authors would prefer for their email addresses not to be displayed.

We are pleased to announce that the winner of the Entropy 2022 Young Investigator Award is Dr. Xiao Yuan.

As the awardee, Dr. Xiao Yuan will receive an honorarium of CHF 2000, an offer to publish a paper free of charge before 31 December 2023 in Entropy (ISSN: 1099-4300) after peer review, and an electronic certificate.

We would like to thank all the nominees from various fields of study for their participation and all the Award Committee members for their evaluation of the many excellent nominations.

Prof. Dr. Kevin H. Knuth
Editor-in-Chief of Entropy

On 9 February 2023, Clarivate, a global leader in providing trusted insights and analytics, added the Preprint Citation Index to the Web of Science platform, streamlining the research process by allowing researchers to locate and link to preprints alongside other trusted content in the database.

The Preprint Citation Index will act as a bridge to connect cutting-edge preprints with peer-reviewed journal articles published within the Web of Science Core Collection. Alerts can be easily set to monitor new research across several repositories and authors will also be able to include preprints on their Web of Science Research Profile to more accurately display their various research outputs.

As of its launch, the Preprint Citation Index will provide nearly two million preprints from various repositories, including MDPI’s own Preprints.org.

MDPI's Preprints Platform – Preprints.org

To advance Open Science and the fast dissemination of research, MDPI offers researchers a free multidisciplinary preprint platform. Preprints.org accepts submissions from all research areas and offers authors high visibility, permanent archiving, article-level Metrics and immediately citable content by assigning a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) to all preprints.

During submission to any MDPI journal, authors have the option to share their research as a preprint. After an initial screening, the manuscript is available online in 48 hours or less. Once online, preprints can be downloaded, shared, commented on, and cited, providing authors maximum visibility.

We invite you to join the ranks of the over 100k researchers using Preprints.org and share your research.

For more information, please visit Preprints.org.

Date: 9 March 2023
Time: 18:30 (CET)
Webinar website: https://entropy-2.sciforum.net/
Webinar ID: 819 5910 7295
Register here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/8516739556759/WN_NOp7pOVsQmS1_dWouqmiLg
Participation fee: none
Language: English
Webinar keywords: irregularity, complexity, entropy, time series, multidimensional data, graphs, multivariate data
Related Special Issue: “Entropy Measures to Assess Irregularity and Complexity of Time Series and Multidimensional Data”

Chair:

Prof. Dr. Anne Humeau-Heurtier
Univ Angers, LARIS, SFR MATHSTIC, F-49000 Angers, France

Speakers:

Prof. Dr. Luca Faes
Department of Engineering, University of Palermo, 90128 Palermo, Italy
Presentation: “Recent Advances in the Information-Theoretic Analysis of Time Series: From Static to Dynamic Measures and From Multivariate Approaches to High-Order Interactions”

Dr. Hamed Azami
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto Dementia Research Alliance, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Presentation: “Recent Advances in Entropy Analysis: From One-Dimensional to Multi-Dimensional”

Dr. Javier Escudero Rodriguez
School of Engineering, Institute for Digital Communications (IDCOM), The University of Edinburgh, 8 Thomas Bayes Rd, Edinburgh EH9 3FG, UK
Presentation: “From Multivariate Time Series to Graphs Data and Beyond: Extending Entropy Analysis Techniques to Irregularly Sampled Data”

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

This program will enable early career researchers (who must hold a Ph.D. in a related field) to experience editing a Special Issue in MDPI journals, under the mentorship of our experienced Editorial Board Members or other experienced scientists. The mentor program will provide an excellent opportunity for early career scientists to gain editorial experience, and to cultivate their ability to edit scientific research.

The mentee’s responsibilities include:

• Proposing a Special Issue title and assisting the mentor in preparing a summary (around 200–400 words) and 3–10 keywords describing the background, importance, and goal of the Issue;
• Writing a brief promotion plan for the Special Issue;
• Preparing a list of scholars who may be interested in the Issue and personally e-mailing invitations on behalf of Guest Editors;
• Writing an editorial for the online Special Issue together with the mentor.

The mentor’s responsibilities include:

• Conducting a final check before the Special Issue is published online;
• Performing editorial control of the Special Issue and quality control of the publications, both of which must be carried out in a timely manner;
• Providing suggestions to younger scholars if they have any doubts or concerns regarding submissions;
• Organizing video calls with young scholars and the Editorial Office regularly to discuss problems and improvement suggestions for the Special Issue;
• Making and submitting decisions regarding submissions with the assistance of mentees.

Certificates and awards:
After the Special Issue closes, the Editorial Office will provide official certificates for all the mentors and early career researchers.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please send your Special Issue proposal to the Editorial Office of a journal you choose, and we will discuss the process (i.e., mentor collaboration, Special Issue topic feasibility analysis, etc.) in further detail. The full list of MDPI journals is as follows: https://www.mdpi.com/about/journals.

In addition to the new Special Issue Mentor Program, we will continue to welcome all Special Issue proposals focusing on hot research topics.

Recently, Clarivate^TM revealed its 2022 list of Highly Cited Researchers^TM—individuals at universities, research institutes, and commercial organizations.

The scientists who were selected for this year’s list of Highly Cited Researchers have published highly cited papers in the 11-year period from January 2011 to December 2021, with a citation frequency in the top 1% of academic subjects and in the same year of publication in the Web of Science^TM database. Based on Web of Science citation data, 6,938 researchers from across the globe who have demonstrated a disproportionate level of significant and broad influence in their chosen field or fields over the last decade have been awarded Highly Cited Researcher 2022 designations. The list is truly global, spanning 69 countries or regions and spread across a diverse range of research sciences and social sciences.

According to statistics, seven members of the Editorial Board of Entropy (ISSN: 1099-4300) have been selected for the list of Highly Cited Researchers of Clarivate in 2022. They are being recognized for their high-quality scientific research achievements and outstanding contributions to professional fields. The Entropy journal office sincerely congratulates all elected Editorial Board Members and hopes that they continue to have an academically productive relationship with the journal.