Announcements

We welcome the appointment of Prof. Dr. Jacqueline Batley and Prof. Dr. Bin Yu as the new Associate Section Editors-in-Chief of the “Plant Genetics and Genomics” Section in Genes (ISSN: 2073-4425).

Prof. Dr. Jacqueline Batley is from The University of Western Australia. She is very experienced in crop genomics, disease resistance, and population and evolutionary genomics.

Prof. Dr. Bin Yu is from the University of Nebraska, and he focuses on non-coding RNAs, epigenetics, and plant functional genomics.

We look forward to their contributions to the journal.

Further details about the “Plant Genetics and Genomics” Section Board can be found at:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/genes/sectioneditors/p_g_g.

Congratulations to Genes for publishing more than 5000 articles at the beginning of Quarter 3. Thank you very much for your continued support and contributions. Genes will work towards an even higher goal, and we look forward to cooperating with you in the near future.

To see the latest publications, please click the following link:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/genes.

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)

We are pleased to announce that SEBBM 2021 has arranged a booth partnership with Genes.

SEBBM BCN 2021—43rd Congress of the Spanish Biochemical and Molecular Biology Society (Link:  https://congresosebbm.barcelona2021.es/)

A central part of the Congress will be the three simultaneous Symposia about top scientific topics and state-of-the-art technologies in the field of Biomedicine. The meeting includes plenary speakers with leading scientists such as Adrian Krainer (Cold Spring Harbor, New York, USA), Ana María Cuervo (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, USA), Anna Akhmanova (Utrecht Univ., Utrecht, The Netherlands) and Barbara Cannon (The Wenner-Gren Institute, Stockholm, Sweden). Similar to previous editions, the meeting will include keynote sessions from our counterpart societies from Chile and Argentina as well as the L’Oréal-UNESCO conference.

Date: 19–22 July 2021
Location: Barcelona, Spain

To specifically develop different research areas and attract more high-quality papers, we are pleased to announce the following Sections in Genes:

• Epigenomics
• Neurogenomics
• Pharmacogenetics
• RNA
• Toxicogenomics
• Bioinformatics
• Cytogenetics
• Genes & Environments
• Genetic Diagnosis
• Transgenic Technology
• Viral Genomics

We are now recruiting Editorial Board Members (EBMs) for these Sections. If you are an active researcher in one of the aforementioned fields and are passionate about publishing cutting-edge research, please do not hesitate to get in touch (genes@mdpi.com). You can find more information on our homepage: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/genes.

Editorial Board Members have the following responsibilities:

• Making decisions on whether a manuscript can be accepted or not, based on the reports we collect;
• Reviewing a small number of papers per year;
• Acting as a Guest Editor of a Special Issue on a topic related to your research interests;
• Promoting the journal Genes and increasing its visibility at related academic conferences.

Genes (ISSN 2073-4425) is a peer-reviewed, open access journal of genetics and genomics published monthly online by MDPI. Genes is indexed within Scopus, SCIE (Web of Science), PubMed, MEDLINE, PMC, Embase, AGRIOLA, and many other databases.

We believe that by combining our rigorous editorial policies with your expertise, we can build a high-quality journal. We thank you in advance for your interest, and we look forward to collaborating with you.

We are pleased to announce that the 2021 10th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Science (ICBBS 2021) has set up a free media partnership with Genes.

2021 10th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Science (ICBBS 2021)

Date: 29–31 October 2021 | "Online+Offline"| Xiamen, China

The 2021 10th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Science will be held on 29-31 October 2021 in Xiamen, China. The ICBBS series is held annually, and it has previously been successfully held in Xiamen (Online), Beijing, Shenzhen, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Copenhagen, Bali, and Singapore. The ICBBS aims to provide a platform for researchers, engineers, academicians, as well as industrial professionals from all over the world to present their research results and development activities in Bioinformatics and Biomedical Science and related fields. This conference provides opportunities for delegates to exchange new ideas and application experiences face to face, establish business or research relations, and find global partners for future collaboration. The three-day event features keynote speeches and invited talks, academic visits, and regular paper presentations including oral, poster, and video. We welcome you to join us in ICBBS 2021.

Genes is also sponsoring the conference's Best Paper Award. Please see the conference website for more information.

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)

Genes (ISSN 2073-4425; CODEN: GENEG9) is launching new sections:

• Epigenomics
• Neurogenomics
• Pharmacogenetics
• RNA
• Toxicogenomics

Therefore, new positions of Editor-in-Chief are open for applications.

Genes (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/genes) is an international peer-reviewed open access journal of genetics and genomics published monthly online by MDPI, and led by Editor-in-Chief Prof. Dr. J. Peter W. Young from the University of York, UK.

Should you decide to serve on this section, you would be responsible for some of the following tasks:

• Defining the aims and scope of the section;
• Advising on the section and journal development;
• Promoting the journal and increasing its visibility at related academic conferences;
• Recommending section board members to join and contribute to editorial work;
• Ensuring the quality of the published content;
• Advising on special topics or editing a Special Issue in the section.

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.