Women’s Special Issue Series: Fermentation

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue, entitled "Women’s Special Issue Series: Fermentation”, is intended to celebrate and highlight the significant scientific achievements of women scientists that have been leaders within the field of fermentation research. Topics of interest for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, industrial fermentation, fermentation processes and product development, strain improvement, fermentation food and beverages, microbial physiology and metabolism, and bioinformatics.

In particular, we encourage the submission of articles where the lead authors are women or that are completely authored by women. Nevertheless, we welcome submissions from all authors, irrespective of gender. We warmly invite you to contribute original research papers or comprehensive review articles for peer review and possible publication in this Special Issue.

Prof. Dr. Penka Petrova
Dr. Alice Vilela
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Fermentation is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2100 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.