Announcements

As a leading open access publisher, MDPI provides scholars with a high-quality and rich academic exchange platform by continuously expanding into new and exciting research areas.

In December 2022, MDPI launched five new journals, covering multiple subjects such as life sciences, biology, medicine and pharmacology, social sciences and humanities. These new journals are being edited by established scholars across the world.

If you are interested in creating more open access journals with us to publish cutting-edge research, please send your journal proposal application to newjournal-committee@mdpi.com.

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.

Conference: 2023 AAG Annual Meeting
Date: 23–27 April 2023
Location: Denver, USA

MDPI will be attending the 2023 AAG Annual Meeting as an exhibitor, and we welcome researchers from different backgrounds to visit and share their latest ideas with us.

This conference is organized by the American Association of Geographers (AAG). The theme of the meeting is “Toward More Just Geographies”. At the meeting, specialists will share and discuss the latest in research and applications in geography, sustainability, and GIScience.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Remote Sensing (leading journal);
• Sustainability (leading journal);
• IJGI;
• Hydrology;
• Land;
• Water;
• Earth;
• Atmosphere;
• IJERPH;
• Fire;
• Oceans;
• GeoHazards;
• Coasts;
• Geomatics.

Remote Sensing (ISSN: 2072-4292, IF: 5.349) publishes regular research papers, reviews, technical notes and communications covering all aspects of remote sensing science, from sensor design and validation/calibration to its application in geosciences, environmental sciences, ecology, and civil engineering. The aim is to publish novel/improved methods/approaches and/or algorithms of remote sensing to benefit the community, open to everyone in need of them.

Sustainability (ISSN: 2071-1050, IF: 3.889) encourages experts to publish their experimental, computational and theoretical research on sustainability. This encompasses topics related to social sciences, natural and applied science and engineering, in order to enable the application and development of sustainability.

If you are planning to attend this conference, please do not hesitate to start an online conversation with us. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person and answering any questions that you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit the following website: https://www.aag.org/events/aag2023/.

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.

On behalf of the Section Editorial Board Member Dr. Joanne Hudson, we are now accepting Special Issue proposals for the “Health-Related Quality of Life and Well-Being” Section 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, Ms. Jocelyn Xu (Jocelyn.xu@mdpi.com). 

IJERPH is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed, and open access journal published semimonthly online by MDPI. It covers environmental sciences and engineering, public health, environmental health, occupational hygiene, economic health 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 “Health-Related Quality of Life and Well-Being” Section has the following topics for your consideration:

• Home-based physical activity interventions;
• Health inequalities in a post-COVID-19 world;
• Effectiveness of strategies to change physical activity behavior in middle-aged adults;
• Cross-discipline approaches to enhancing health;
• Health impacts of the self–environment interaction.

 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 the following link: 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’s title and scope, and providing a short introduction (100–200 words) as well as 5–10 keywords to set up the Special Issue’s 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: conducting a pre-review check, making 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 the opportunity to publish one of your papers free of charge in an Open Access form, in addition to 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 communicating 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

On behalf of Section Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Kristie L. Ebi, we are now accepting Special Issue proposals for the Section “Climate Change” 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, Ms. Ann Cheng (ann.cheng@mdpi.com). 

The journal 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 “Climate Change” has the following topics for your consideration:

• Elaborating causal pathways related to global environmental changes with health;
• Quantifying associations between weather and health, taking into consideration other key drivers;
• Assessing the current burden of climate-sensitive diseases;
• Identifying thresholds and time of emergence of climate-sensitive health outcomes;
• Projecting climate-sensitive disease burdens under different climate and development pathways, including health system impacts, focusing on how changing weather patterns could affect the geographic range, seasonality, and/or burden of health outcomes;
• Examining challenges and opportunities for multi-sectoral adaptation partnerships that benefit human health;
• Identifying, implementing, and evaluating the effectiveness of adaptation policies and programs;
• Estimating the range of health co-benefits of climate change mitigation policies and technologies.

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

• Refining the Special Issue title and scope, and providing 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: conducting a pre-review check, making 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

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.

On behalf of the Section Editor-in-Chief, Prof Lingxin Chen, we are now accepting Special Issue proposals for the Section “Environmental Science and Engineering” 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, Ms. Isobel Luan (isobel.luan@mdpi.com).

IJERPH is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed, and 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 “Environmental Science and Engineering” has the following topics for your consideration:

• Toxic effects and degradation mechanisms of environmental/marine pollution;
• Machine learning uses in environmental monitoring and remediation;
• Pollution removal/remediation’s new materials, methods, and techniques;
• Relationship between pollution and health;
• Marine and coastal zone pollution;
• Rapid sampling and detection techniques as well as instruments;
• “Double carbon”- and green-chemistry-related analyses and remediation research.

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 the following link: 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’s title and scope, as well as providing a short introduction (100–200 words) and 5–10 keywords to set up the Special Issue’s 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: conducting a pre-review check, making 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, in addition to the chance to provide discounts to the papers that you invite 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 communicating with scholars in the research community, as well as a chance to mark you as influential within your discipline. The relationships that 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 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

On behalf of the Section Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. William Douglas Evans, we are now accepting Special Issue proposals for the Section “Health Communication and Informatics” 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, Pansy Wu (pansy.wu@mdpi.com).

The journal 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 “Health Communication and Informatics” has the following topics for your consideration:

• Digital technology strategies to reduce health disparities and increase equity;
• Health communication strategies to increase routine vaccination uptake among children and adolescents in the post-COVID era.

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 providing 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: conducting a pre-review check, making 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

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!