Announcements

MDPI will be attending the 11th International Conference on Food Science, which will take place in Nanjing, China, from 20^th to 21^st November 2021. For more information about the conference, please visit: http://www.spkx.net.cn/CN/news/news45.shtml.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Foods (leading journal)
• Nutrients (leading journal)
• Processes
• Molecules

If you are also 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.

We would like to invite you to join the Reviewer Board (RB) of Foods (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/foods).

Reviewer Board Members of Foods will experience the following benefits:

1. The Foods Editorial Board will acknowledge all Reviewer Board Members in its annual reviewer list, which is published in the “Acknowledgement to Reviewers of Foods” editorial and announced on the journal website;
2. Reviewers who provide timely, thorough, and rigorous peer review reports will receive a voucher that can be applied toward their next publication in any MDPI journal;
3. The Foods Editorial Board will present special recognition certificates to “Exceptional Reviewer Board Members” to thank them for their outstanding reviewing work;
4. Reviewer Board Members may be presented with the possibility to join the Editorial Board of the journal (subject to the approval of the Editor-in-Chief).

If you are interested in joining, please click on the link below to apply:
https://susy.mdpi.com/volunteer_reviewer_info/update.

If you have any other questions, please contact the Foods Editorial Office (foods@mdpi.com). We look forward to hearing from you.

We are pleased to announce that Prof. Dr. Katrina Campbell has been appointed Section Editor-in-Chief of the “Food Systems” Section in Foods (ISSN 2304-8158).

Prof. Dr. Katrina Campbell is a Professor of Food Security and Diagnostics within the Institute for Global Food Security, School of Biological Sciences at Queen’s University Belfast. Her research focuses on the examination of food systems for the identification and recognition of known and emerging threats within the food supply chain from “environment to farm to fork to waste” and determining any consequential effects on plants, animals, and human health. A key element of this research is the development of (bio)analytical approaches that can be used for the rapid detection of natural toxins, chemical contaminants, and harmful organisms, as tools to enhance food safety and sustainability. These state-of-the-art scientific techniques and next generation biosensor tools as multiplex detection systems may create a new facet in rapid food safety monitoring and traceability for the benefit of plants, animals, and human health with an outlook on increasing food security.

We warmly welcome Prof. Dr. Katrina Campbell in taking up her role as Section Editor-in-Chief and look forward to her leading Foods to achieve many more milestones.

This serves to announce to our valued authors based in Japan that value-added tax, or consumption tax will now be imposed on article processing fees and other service fees for all papers submitted, or resubmitted (assigned new paper IDs), effective from 15 August 2021. The change is in accordance with the Japanese "Act for Partial Revision of the Income Tax Act and Other Acts" (Act No. 9 of 2015), which includes a revision of consumption taxation on cross-border supplies of services such as digital content distribution.

For additional information from the National Tax Agency please see here ("Cross-border supplies of electronic services").

Contact: Setsuko Nishihara, MDPI Tokyo

The 2020 citation metrics have been officially released in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR)!

We are pleased to announce that 85 MDPI journals are included, of which:

• 10 journals received their first impact factor
• 96% of journals increased their impact factor from 2019
• 32 journals (38%) ranked among the top 25% of journals, in at least one category

* Journals given their first Impact Factor in 2021

Source: 2020 Journal Impact Factors, Journal Citation Reports ® (Clarivate, 2021)

In order to better categorize papers published within the journal, Foods is looking to expand its Editorial Board to cover areas that need additional representation by the current team. If you are interested in serving as an Academic Editor on the Editorial Board or would like to recommend potential candidates, please reach out to us.

The main responsibilities and benefits of Editorial Board Members are as follows:

1. Prescreen submissions and make decisions on whether they should be rejected or accepted for processing, and suggest additional reviewers if necessary;
2. Review a couple of manuscripts per year;
3. Lead at least one Special Issue in your particular field of expertise every two years;
4. Suggest some interesting topics for the journal;
5. You may publish open access papers with discounts;
6. All Editorial Board Members have the chance to obtain sponsorship for the conferences that they organize or attend.

MDPI Books recently released Book Builder, a new online tool to conveniently arrange, design and produce an eBook from any content published in MDPI journals. Book Builder offers two functions: on the one hand (1) Selections, available to every registered user of MDPI; on the other hand (2) Special Issue Reprints, which can be used exclusively by Guest Editors of Special Issues.

Selections

In just a matter of a few clicks, all users are now able to assemble books from MDPI articles and receive instantaneous feedback in the form of a fully produced and compiled book (PDF), which can be downloaded or ordered as print copy. Selections can include any paper published with MDPI, picking and combining content from different journals and special issues.

This way, the user may for example choose to compile an ebook focusing around a particular topic, or assemble articles from a group of others.

We invite you to make yourself familiar with the new tool! The Book Builder can be found here: https://www.mdpi.com/books/book_builder.

Special Issue Reprints

The Book Builder allows Guest Editors of MDPI journals to create a reprint from a successfully completed Special Issue or Topical Collection in book format. If you are a Guest Editor for an MDPI journal, you can use the new tool  to create an PDF document which includes all articles published in the Special Issue as well as a book cover and table of contents.

For Special Issues containing a minimum of 5 articles, the Guest Editor can request its publication on the MDPI Book platform. Published reprints are assigned an ISBN and DOI.

In addition to the PDF copy of the Reprint Book, as a token of our gratitude, MDPI offers every Guest Editor one (1) complimentary print copy (via print-on-demand). All contributors benefit from a discount on orders of any additional print copies, to share with colleagues or libraries or others.

Why choose MDPI Books?

In line with our organization's values, MDPI Books publishes all content in open access, promoting the exchange of ideas and knowledge in a globalized world. MDPI Books encompasses all the benefits of open access—high availability and visibility, as well as wide and rapid dissemination. MDPI Books are distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License, meaning as an author you retain the copyright for your work. In addition, with MDPI Books you can complement the digital version of your work with a high-quality printed counterpart.

If you are interested in editing a book volume or series, or have a monograph manuscript to be considered for publication, please submit your proposal online and look at our Information for Authors.

Contact: Laura Wagner, MDPI Books Manager (email)

In June of this year, MDPI will celebrate the 25th anniversary of its foundation. To mark this significant milestone, we have created a 25th Anniversary page on our website that evokes the development of our company over the past quarter-century.

MDPI has been a pioneer of Open Access publishing ever since the concept was first created.

In a wide-ranging interview, our CEO Delia Mihaila reflects on the company’s 25th anniversary and its contribution to the world of scientific publishing.

Delia considers how MDPI has evolved since starting life in 1996 as a visionary ‘project’ run out of an apartment in Basel, Switzerland, by Dr. Shu-Kun Lin. A chemist who was passionate about the long-term preservation of rare chemical sample, Dr. Lin was determined to help scholars publish their findings as quickly as possible and make their research results available to as wide a readership as possible worldwide. That determination remains unchanged 25 years later.

Today, MDPI is an international organization with over 4,000 employees based on three continents and in ten countries, and ranks among the world's top four academic publishers.

MDPI's mission is to accelerate access to new scientific research, delivering insight faster for researchers worldwide. Read more here about the company's remarkable success story and what the Open Access publishing model can offer the global scientific community.

We are pleased to announce that the following researchers have joined the Editorial Board of Foods.

• Prof. Dr. Andreas L. Lopata
  Molecular Allergy Research Laboratory, College of Public Health, Medical and Veterinary Sciences, Australian Institute of Tropical Health & Medicine, James Cook University, Douglas, QLD 4811, Australia
  Interests: tropomyosin; shellfish; shrimp; mollusc; food allergy; parvalbumin; fish allergy; IgE antibody; food allergen; seafood

• Prof. Dr. Monique Lacroix
  INRS—Armand-Frappier, Health & Biotechnology Centre, INRS, Laval City, QC, Canada
  Interests: irradiation; food safety; nutrition; polyphenols; probiotics; bio-based packaging; active edible coating and packaging

• Prof. Dr. Giuseppina Marilia Tantillo
  Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Bari, Italy
  Interests: food safety; food hygiene; food microbiology; chemical risk in foods; commercial fraud

• Prof. Dr. Hanne Christine Bertram
  Department of Food Science, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
  Interests: foodomics; metabolomics; nuclear magnetic resonance; nutrition; endogenous metabolism; gut health; functional ingredients; animal-based foods; dietary protein; meat science; water mobility; NMR relaxometry

We wish them every success in their new positions.

Further details concerning the Editorial Board can be found here:

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/foods/editors.

The COVID-19 pandemic has aroused the interest of researchers and the general public in viruses, including food researchers. This is an excellent opportunity to increase our knowledge about viruses and the ways for understanding the effects of COVID-19 on human health related to food. Thus, the editors shared some papers and Special Issues to invite you to participate and follow up on the new publications!

Published Papers: https://www.mdpi.com/search?q=COVID-19+&journal=foods

Special Issues:

• Viruses in Food
  Guest Editors: Prof. Vicente M. Gómez-López and Prof. Julie Jean
• Natural Products and Bioactive Compounds to Help in the Fight against the COVID-19 Pandemic
  Guest Editors: Dr. Luís Manuel Lopes Rodrigues da Silva and Dr. Gilberto Alves
• Advancing Healthy Food Environments for Sustainable Diets in a Changing World
  Guest Editors: Prof. Selena Ahmed and Prof. Shauna Downs
• Effects and Implications of COVID-19 for the Human Senses, Consumer Preferences, Appetite and Eating Behaviour
  Guest Editor: Prof. Dr. Derek V. Byrne
• The Food Safety Risk Perceptions of Consumers during the COVID-19 Pandemic
  Guest Editor: Prof. Dr. Sylvain Charlebois