Announcements

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.

1. “Dynamics of Two Anadromous Species in a Dam Intersected River: Analysis of Two 100-Year Datasets”
by Ulisses M. Azeiteiro, Mário J. Pereira, Amadeu M. V. M. Soares, Heitor O. Braga, Fernando Morgado, Magda C. Sousa, João M. Dias and Carlos Antunes
Fishes 2021, 6(2), 21; https://doi.org/10.3390/fishes6020021
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2410-3888/6/2/21

2. “Foundation and Prospects of Wild Population Reconstruction of Acipenser dabryanus”
by Junyi Li, Hao Du, Jinming Wu, Hui Zhang, Li Shen and Qiwei Wei
Fishes 2021, 6(4), 55; https://doi.org/10.3390/fishes6040055
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2410-3888/6/4/55

3. “Concentration of Metals in Native and Invasive Species of Fish in the Fluvial-Lagoon-Deltaic System of the Palizada River, Campeche”
by María del Refugio Castañeda-Chávez, Fabiola Lango-Reynoso, Gabycarmen Navarrete-Rodríguez and Armando Toyokazu Wakida-Kusunoki
Fishes 2021, 6(4), 72; https://doi.org/10.3390/fishes6040072
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2410-3888/6/4/72

4. “Otolith Microchemistry and Demographic History Provide New Insight into the Migratory Behavior and Heterogeneous Genetic Divergence of Coilia grayii in the Pearl River”
Gongpei Wang, Qindong Tang, Zhi Chen, Dingli Guo, Lei Zhou,Han Lai and Guifeng Li
Fishes 2022, 7(1), 23; https://doi.org/10.3390/fishes7010023
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2410-3888/7/1/23

5. “Wild and Farmed Sea Bass (Dicentrarchus Labrax): Comparison of Biometry Traits, Chemical and Fatty Acid Composition of Fillets”
by Simona Tarricone, Anna Caputi Jambrenghi, Prospero Cagnetta and Marco Ragni
Fishes 2022, 7(1), 45; https://doi.org/10.3390/fishes7010045
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2410-3888/7/1/45

6. “The Lifetime Migratory History of Anadromous Brook Trout (Salvelinus fontinalis): Insights and Risks from Pesticide-Induced Fish Kills”
by Scott D. Roloson, Kyle M. Knysh, Sean J. Landsman, Travis L. James, Brendan J. Hicks and Michael R. van den Heuvel
Fishes 2022, 7(3), 109; https://doi.org/10.3390/fishes7030109
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2410-3888/7/3/109

7. “Otolith Microchemistry Assessment: Evidence of Migratory Coilia nasus of Yangtze River Living in the Shengsi Sea Area”
by Yu Li, Jianhua Chen, Guangpeng Feng, Jian Yang, Feng Zhao, Chenchen Shen, Chao Song and Tao Jiang
Fishes 2022, 7(4), 172; https://doi.org/10.3390/fishes7040172
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2410-3888/7/4/172

8. “Boldness in Zebrafish Larvae—Development and Differences between a Domesticated Lab Strain and Offspring of Wild-Caught Fish”
by Johanna Axling, Hampus Jakobsson, Natalia Frymus,Per-Ove Thörnqvist, Erik Petersson and Svante Winberg
Fishes 2022, 7(4), 197; https://doi.org/10.3390/fishes7040197
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2410-3888/7/4/197

9. “First Evaluation of Associated Gut Microbiota in Wild Thick-Lipped Grey Mullets (Chelon labrosus, Risso 1827)”
by Jorge García-Márquez, Isabel M. Cerezo, Félix L. Figueroa, Roberto Teófilo Abdala-Díaz and Salvador Arijo
Fishes 2022, 7(4), 209; https://doi.org/10.3390/fishes7040209
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2410-3888/7/4/209

10. “Population Structure of Wild Schizothorax kozlovi in the Upper Yangtze River Based on mtDNA and Stable Isotopes, and Their Relationship with Ambient Temperature”
by Yongfeng He, Jinling Gong, Xingbing Wu, Yongjiu Zhu and Deguo Yang
Fishes 2022, 7(5), 292; https://doi.org/10.3390/fishes7050292
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2410-3888/7/5/292

11. ”Nutritional Profiling of Wild (Pangasius pangasius) and Farmed (Pangasius hypophthalmus) Pangasius Catfish with Implications to Human Health”
by Suprakash Chakma, Md. Arifur Rahman, Muhammad A. B. Siddik, Md. Sazedul Hoque, SM Majharul Islam and Ioannis N. Vatsos
Fishes 2022, 7(6), 309; https://doi.org/10.3390/fishes7060309
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2410-3888/7/6/309

12. “Genetic Diversity and Differences among Three F1 Families and Two Wild Populations of Genus Scylla Using Microsatellite Markers”
by Weifeng Gao, Wenxiao Cui, Fangchun Wu, Huiying Chen, Simin Liu, Mengyun Guan, Hafiz Sohaib Ahmed Saqib, Shaopan Ye, Mhd Ikhwanuddin and Hongyu Ma
Fishes 2023, 8(1), 18; https://doi.org/10.3390/fishes8010018
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2410-3888/8/1/18

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.

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.

MDPI has just become the first open access (OA) publisher to reach the milestone of one million articles published. That is one million articles freely available to all, to circulate and build upon! We are proud to share this special moment with the global scientific community.

This landmark has been reached thanks to the immeasurable support of more than 600,000 expert reviewers, 66,000 editorial board members and 6700 hard-working colleagues across MDPI’s global offices.

Within more than 25 years of publishing, our journals received 2.1 million manuscripts and generated 4.6 million peer review reports to get to one million papers published.

Reaching the milestone of one million articles published reinforces our mission to remove any existing barriers and to make scientific research accessible to all. Since its inception, MDPI’s goal has been to create reliable processes to make science open. This is a path towards facilitating the dissemination of novel insights in scientific communities.

Regular feedback from authors and reviewers shows that our service is greatly appreciated and needed. At the same time, the feedback helps us identify areas for further improvement.

As it stands, a significant share of published research findings remain closed access. More than half of the content published with the most well-known legacy publishers stays behind a paywall, and that is not including articles published in hybrid OA journals, or made available months or years after publication.

A new policy announced by the US administration in August 2022 requires that, as of January 2026, all US federally funded research be made freely and immediately available after publication. While the new policy does not mandate articles be published under an open access license, it is aligned with the open access movement in removing all barriers to research. Similarly, some of the most advanced research institutions in the world intend to have all funded research articles published in open access by 2025.

MDPI is proud to be the leading agent of the transition to open access.

"Thanks a Million" to all the contributors!

We are pleased to announce that the website of the MDPI Sustainability Foundation has been revamped! For the past couple of months, our UX UI team and front-end developers have been working hard to launch the website in time for the opening of the Sustainability Awards nominations.

The website is not the only thing that has had a remodeling. Indeed, the format of the Emerging Sustainability Leader Award (ESLA) has been updated. ESLA is now a competition open to individual researchers or start-ups founded by researchers under the age of 35. Nominee applications will go through 2 rounds of selection until the final 3 are decided. The finalists will then be invited to give pitch presentations during the Award Ceremony to win either first place (10,000 USD) or runner-up (2 x 5000 USD).

The World Sustainability Award, on the other hand, remains the same: a total prize money of 100,000 USD is up for grabs by senior individual researchers or groups of researchers from the international research community.

Nominations for both the World Sustainability Award and the Emerging Sustainability Leader award are now open! Check out our new website for more information on how to nominate.

The congress theme, “Aquaculture: seas and rivers of opportunities”, indicates that aquaculture activity should be central to the concept of “blue growth” and should be a source of opportunities for entrepreneurship and the generation of jobs associated with this economic activity. The objective of the XVIII CNA, organized by the Spanish Aquaculture Society (SEA), is to support this idea and allow the results presented therein to contribute to its consolidation.

The congress, as usual, will be a place for different agents of the aquaculture sector to meet and debate, focusing on various aspects of aquaculture (nutrition and feeding, welfare, reproduction, genetics, economy and production, species diversification, engineering and technology, instrumentation and aquaculture processes, environmental sustainability, aquaculture management, etc.). In addition, it is expected to highlight the future lines that government authorities are designing for the sector.

Selected authors from the XVIII Spanish National Aquaculture Congress are invited to submit their original research and review papers to the Special Issue “Selected Papers from the XVIII Spanish National Aquaculture Congress Cádiz 2022—Aquaculture: Seas and Rivers of Opportunities” of Fishes (ISSN: 2410-3888), which will be fully peer reviewed for further selection and publication. More information about the Special Issue can be found here: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/fishes/special_issues/OU017LG21H.

The Fishes journal will also sponsor the Best Poster award, and the winner will be selected by the conference.

To find out more about the conference please visit the following link: https://www.seacongresos.org/.

We are pleased to share that 38 Editorial Board Members from MDPI’s Fishes (ISSN: 2410-3888) were featured in Stanford’s List of the World's Top 2% Scientists. The list was created by Prof. John P. A. Ioannidis from Stanford University and his research team. They have created a publicly available database of 100,000 top-cited scientists that provides standardized information on citations, h-index, co-authorship adjusted hm-index, citations to papers in different authorship positions and a composite indicator (c-score). Scientists are classified into 22 scientific fields and 176 sub-fields.

We would like to congratulate our Editorial Board Members on their excellent achievement and thank them for their immense contribution to the scientific progression and development of Fishes.

We are pleased to announce that Prof. Dr. Bror Jonsson has been appointed Editor-in-Chief of the Section “Biology and Ecology” in Fishes (ISSN: 2410-3888).

The following is a short Q&A with Prof. Dr. Bror Jonsson, who shared his vision for the journal with us, as well as his view of the research area and open access publishing:

1. What appealed to you about the journal that made you want to take the role as its Section Editor-in-Chief?

During the last 30 years, I have been a member of editorial boards of several ecological and biological journals, and I really like reviewing and editing scientific manuscripts to make them clearer, more informative and useful for an international readership. I like the journal Fishes for accepting such a wide variety of manuscripts from genetics, physiology and toxicology to systematics, ecology, fisheries science and conservation of ecosystems and species.

2. What does the future of this field of research look like?

I feel that the effects on organisms of environmental problems, such as climate change and pollution, will be even more pressing in the future. I assume that these effects will influence many of the future submissions within the fields of biology and ecology. These environmental problems affect all ontogenetic stages from eggs to adults and influence life histories in a variety of ways because of evolutionary selection, epigenetics and phenotypic plasticity. We have only seen the beginning of the research on these ecological effects. Earlier, a large part of the ecological literature was based on field studies, but there is a trend towards more experimental studies and a combination of the two, as well as analyses of time series to detect causes and effects in aquatic systems. I think this is the way future research in this field will grow.

3. What is your vision for the journal?

Because of its wide scope, I assume the journal will grow quickly, given that prominent scientists find it attractive. The present Editorial Board will do its best to increase its attractiveness. It is self-evident that good papers from eminent scientists are the fastest way to success for a scientific journal, and I assume that Fishes will increase its efforts to attract good researchers.

4. What do you think of the development of open access in the publishing field?

Open access is mandatory for the dissemination of results from research work financed by research councils, at least in many European countries. Scientists have presented different views on the need for open access publishing, but at present, open access publishing has become politically correct and is therefore the future for all scientific publishing. Typically, public money finances scientific research, and open presentation of the results seems correct.

We wish Prof. Dr. Jonsson every success both in his research and in the development of the Fishes journal.

Further details about the Editorial Board can be found at: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/fishes/editors.

1. “Morphometric Relationships of the Global Invader Callinectes sapidus Rathbun, 1896 (Decapoda, Brachyura, Portunidae) from Papapouli Lagoon, NW Aegean Sea, Greece. with Notes on Its Ecological Preferences”
by Thodoros E. Kampouris et al.
Fishes 2020, 5(1), 5; https://doi.org/10.3390/fishes5010005
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2410-3888/5/1/5

2. “Nutritional and Growth Effect of Insect Meal Inclusion on Seabass (Dicentrarchuss labrax) Feeds”
by María Reyes et al.
Fishes 2020, 5(2), 16; https://doi.org/10.3390/fishes5020016
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2410-3888/5/2/16

3. “Biocontrol of the Common Carp (Cyprinus carpio) in Australia: A Review and Future Directions”
by Kenneth A McColl et al.
Fishes 2020, 5(2), 17; https://doi.org/10.3390/fishes5020017
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2410-3888/5/2/17

4. “Yellowstone Lake Ecosystem Restoration: A Case Study for Invasive Fish Management”
by Todd M. Koel et al.
Fishes 2020, 5(2), 18; https://doi.org/10.3390/fishes5020018
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2410-3888/5/2/18

5. “The Application of Single-Cell Ingredients in Aquaculture Feeds—A Review”
by Brett D. Glencross et al.
Fishes 2020, 5(3), 22; https://doi.org/10.3390/fishes5030022
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2410-3888/5/3/22

6. “Trends in Growth Modeling in Fisheries Science”
by Shane A. Flinn et al.
Fishes 2021, 6(1), 1; https://doi.org/10.3390/fishes6010001
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2410-3888/6/1/1

7. “Eradication of the Invasive Common Carp, Cyprinus carpio from a Large Lake: Lessons and Insights from the Tasmanian Experience”
by Jonah L. Yick et al.
Fishes 2021, 6(1), 6; https://doi.org/10.3390/fishes6010006
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2410-3888/6/1/6

8. “Slight Increases in Salinity Improve Muscle Quality of Grass Carp (Ctenopharyngodon idellus)”
by Xi Zhang et al.
Fishes 2021, 6(1), 7; https://doi.org/10.3390/fishes6010007
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2410-3888/6/1/7

9. “Bioproduction of Prodigiosin from Fishery Processing Waste Shrimp Heads and Evaluation of Its Potential Bioactivities”
by Van Bon Nguyen et al.
Fishes 2021, 6(3), 30; https://doi.org/10.3390/fishes6030030
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2410-3888/6/3/30

10. “Growth Performance, Feed Utilization, Gut Integrity, and Economic Revenue of Grey Mullet, Mugil cephalus, Fed an Increasing Level of Dried Zooplankton Biomass Meal as Fishmeal Substitutions”
by Hamdy A. Abo-Taleb et al.
Fishes 2021, 6(3), 38; https://doi.org/10.3390/fishes6030038
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2410-3888/6/3/38