Announcements

We are pleased to inform the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health received an updated Journal Impact Factor of 2.468 in the recent release of the Journal Citation Reports®. The journal's 5-Year Impact Factor is 2.948. IJERPH now ranks 67/185 (Q2) in the category 'Public, Environmental & Occupational Health' (SCIE edition), 38/162 (Q1) in 'Public, Environmental & Occupational Health' (SSCI edition) and 112/250 (Q2) in 'Environmental Sciences.'

Evolution of Impact Factor, Citations and Publications for IJERPH:

Source: data according to Journal Citation Reports®, 2018 release, a Clarivate Analytics product.

We are pleased to announce that all the accepted submissions of the 1st International Electronic Conference on Environmental Health Sciences have been published in a dedicated volume of Proceedings and this volume has now been released online.

• Volume Editor: Prof. Dr. Jon Øyvind Odland

The 1st International Electronic Conference on Environmental Health Sciences was an incredible success. It was our first attempt, and it led to the receipt of some excellent submissions. Some important topics were missed, e.g., global environment, registry epidemiology, and climate change, but it was a good and promising start. The concept of electronic conferences is here to stay, with huge potential for development, due to its environmentally friendly nature. The precautionary principle should be the basis of all environmental health science approaches based on newly acquired knowledge, including risk assessments and the definition of strategies to reduce contaminant exposure to humans.

We are also delighted to announce that the 2nd International Electronic Conference on Environmental Health Sciences now is open to contributions; you are welcome to join us at https://iecehs-2.sciforum.net/.

To read the articles published in the volume, please visit the website https://www.mdpi.com/2504-3900/6/1.

Barcelona, Spain
27 September–1 October 2019

We will be attending the ESMO Congress 2019 in Barcelona, Spain from 27 September to 1 October 2019. The European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) is the leading European professional organization for medical oncology. Comprised of 17,000 oncology professionals from over 130 countries, they are the society of reference for oncology education and information. The annual ESMO Congress, which is held every year, is attended by 25,000 participants. The Congress presents the latest scientific developments in basic, translational and clinical cancer research and contextualizes new findings for practical implementation in everyday patient care. Representatives of the following MDPI open access journals will attend:

Cancers (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/cancers)

Diagnostics (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/diagnostics)

Genes (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/genes)

Healthcare (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/healthcare)

IJERPH (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph)

Journal of Clinical Medicine (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/jcm)

Journal of Personalized Medicine (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/jpm)

Medicina (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/medicina)

Medicines (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/medicines)

Vaccines (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/vaccines)

If you will attend this conference, please stop by our booth (Booth # P433). Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person and to answering any questions you may have concerning open access publishing and our journals.

For more information about the conference, please visit
https://www.esmo.org/Conferences/ESMO-Congress-2019

We will attend the Japan Geoscience Union Meeting 2019 (JpGU 2019). It will be held at the Makuhari Messe, International Convention Complex in Chiba, Japan, on 26–30 May 2019, and will be organized by the Japan Geoscience Union (JpGU). JpGU is an academic union that encompasses all the Earth and planetary sciences disciplines and related fields, and has been organizing annual meetings since 2005. JpGU 2019 will cover a wide range of Earth and planetary sciences, including space and planetary sciences, atmospheric and hydrospheric sciences, human geosciences, solid Earth sciences, and biogeosciences. The JpGU annual meeting provides participants with a good opportunity to become familiar with cutting-edge research and unique approaches to research objects within their own special field as well as beyond. Representatives of the following open-access journals will attend:

Minerals

Geosciences

Water

Atmosphere

Remote Sensing

Resources

Education Sciences

Climate

IJERPH

We will be attending the 46th Controlled Release Society Annual Meeting & Exposition. It is one of the biggest events in pharmaceutical field. Representatives of the following open access journals will attend:

Pharmaceutics
JCM
Biomolecules
Materials
IJMS
Molecules
Nanomaterials
Pharmaceuticals
Scientia Pharmaceutica
Vaccines
JPM
Genes
JFB
IJERPH
Biomedicines
Healthcare

If you are also attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth (Booth #303). Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person to answer any questions you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit: https://2019.controlledreleasesociety.org/

We are pleased to welcome more universities from Poland, Italy, Germany, Brazil and other parts of the world to MDPI's Institutional Open Access Program (IOAP). A warm welcome to the institutions listed below, who have joined the Program in February and March this year.

Authors affiliated with these institutions can now enjoy a discount on the APC for papers accepted for publication in any MDPI journal. If you would like to learn more about our program, please visit: https://www.mdpi.com/about/ioap or email us at ioap@mdpi.com.

We are delighted to announce our participation in Jisc’s Publication Router project, as of March 2019.

Publications Router is a Jisc service that automatically sends notifications about research articles to institutions' systems such as their repositories or CRISs, since May 2015. Through this agreement, MDPI will provide Jisc with daily feeds and information regarding published articles, which will be gathered by their system and delivered to institutions also registered to this service. Nearly all of our articles are published within 15 days of acceptance, so institutions will receive them quite promptly.

The feed will include the full text of the published version of record, with no embargo, so the articles can be exposed immediately for public view. They are accompanied by rich metadata, including confirmation of the immediate CC BY licence, minimising the need for any manual intervention or checking.

For more information about Publications Router, you may contact Jisc’s central helpdesk at help@jisc.ac.uk. For any queries about MDPI’s institutional agreements and collaborations, you may get in touch with MDPI’s Institutional Engagement team at ioap@mdpi.com, which would be very happy to hear from further UK institutions.

Rigorous peer-review is the cornerstone of high quality academic publishing. Over 97,000 scholars served as reviewers for MDPI journals in 2018. We are extremely appreciative of all those who made a contribution to the editorial process in this capacity. At the beginning of every year, journal editorial offices publish a list all reviewers’ names to express our gratitude. In addition, this year the “MDPI Top Reviewer Awards” are announced, to recognize the very best reviewers for their expertise, dedication, high quality, and timely review reports. We are pleased to announce the following winners of the 2018 MDPI Top Reviewer Awards:

• Ali Behnood
• Andrea Pezzuolo
• Angela Gorgoglione
• Anna D'Auria
• Antonio D'Andrea
• Azhar Abbas
• Bogdan Zagajewski
• Chunhui Chen
• Dominika Głąbska
• Dominika Guzek
• Dragan Pamucar
• Francisco J. G. Silva
• Frank Li
• Gianluca Serafini
• Gyorgy Szekely
• Haozhi Pan
• Helvi Heinonen-Tanski
• José Manuel Gómez-Soberón
• Kathy Lewis
• Klara Kosova
• Luis N. López De Lacalle
• M. Z. Naser
• Malwina Tytła
• Masoume Amirkhani
• Matteo Ghidelli
• Moretti Laura
• Petra Schneider
• Roberto Cerchione
• Spyros Papaefthymiou
• Ştefan Cristian Gherghina

Since 2010, MDPI has run its own online submission system. More recently, we have made the software, with accompanying publishing services, available to other publishers as JAMS (Journal and Article Management System). We are now delighted to announce the launch of JAMS Journals, a standardized platform for operating open access journals at low cost.

JAMS Journals provides a comprehensive service, including a shared submission website, journal websites hosted at a URL provided by the publisher, and a full production service. There is a small setup fee and the cost for each published paper is just a few hundred Swiss francs.

The platform demonstrates that running an open access journal can be straightforward and affordable. The JAMS Journals platform is suitable for

• small publishers or groups of scholars looking to launch their own journal;
• existing publishers or societies seeking to explore open access options;
• publishers looking to convert an existing subscription journal to open access.

JAMS journals launches with two journals from Canadian-based publisher Etcetera Publications:

• Canadian Journal of Pesticides & Pest Management (http://www.cjppm.ca)
• Nanotechnology in Agriculture, Food & Environment (http://www.nanoafe.ca)

Dr AJ Al-Rajab (President of Etcetera Publications) comments:

“In the past few months, we were working on our project to launch new open access scientific journals in the field of agricultural and environmental sciences. We decided to go with JAMS for this venture because of the high quality of their services, reasonable prices, professionalism and easy communication. Our portfolio is expected to grow rapidly during 2019 to include more titles covering different areas in agriculture and environment. MDPI earned already our complete satisfaction and we are looking for a long term cooperation.”

Alongside the new platform, we continue to provide flexible, tailored journal management solutions for existing publishers. For any questions or to request a quotation, contact Dr. Constanze Schelhorn (constanze.schelhorn@mdpi.com).