Announcements

On behalf of Section Editor-in-Chief, Prof Dr. Karl Goodkin, we are now accepting Special Issue proposals for the Section “Mental Health” of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH, ISSN: 1660-4601). If you are an active researcher in the field and are passionate about publishing cutting-edge research, please do not hesitate to contact the Section Managing Editor, Mr. Michael Pei ([email protected]).

IJERPH is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed, open access journal published semimonthly online by MDPI. It covers Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Public Health, Environmental Health, Occupational Hygiene, Health Economic and Global Health Research, etc. The journal is indexed within Scopus, SCIE and SSCI (Web of Science), PubMed, MEDLINE, PMC, Embase, GEOBASE, CAPlus / SciFinder, and other databases. For more details, please see the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph/about.

The Section “Mental Health” has the following topics for your consideration:

• Long-term mental health sequelae of COVID;
• Expansion of tele-mental health services;
• New applications of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS);
• Trauma-informed care --improving assessment of trauma history and integration into current care;
• Psychedelic research as an adjuvant to psychotherapy;
• Social media—the need for further definition of appropriate boundaries;
• Virtual reality: Treatment applications in mental health.

The topics are tentative, and you are also welcome to propose a title that is of interest to you and within the scope of the journal. If you are interested, you are welcome to submit your proposal at: https://www.mdpi.com/journalproposal/sendproposalspecialissue/ijerph. Our editors will respond to you as soon as possible. 

The duties of acting as a Guest Editor are as follows:

• Refining the Special Issue title and scope, and provide a short introduction (100–200 words) and 5–10 keywords to set up the Special Issue website;
• Inviting contributors with the assistance of the in-house editor to achieve a publication target (e.g., 10 papers);
• Supervising the peer review process of this Special Issue: conduct a pre-review check, make final decisions based on at least two review reports that we have collected, etc.

The benefits of acting as a Guest Editor are as follows:

• As the Guest Editor, you will be offered an opportunity to publish one of your papers free of charge in open access form, and the chance to provide discounts to the papers that you invited for your Special Issue;
• A printed book of the Special Issue can be sent to you if more than 10 papers are published by the end of the Special Issue. See an example at https://www.mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/1209;
• It is an ideal venue for networking and communication with scholars in the research community, as well as a chance to mark you as influential within your discipline. The relationships you develop will last beyond the publication of your Special Issue, establishing a network for future collaboration.

The Editorial Office will set up the Special Issue’s website, arrange the promotional materials, assist with the invitations for paper contributions, and take care of the administrative tasks associated with peer review (including inviting reviewers, collating reports, contacting authors, and arranging professional production before publication).

We look forward to receiving your proposals.

IJERPH Editorial Office