Information | 2021 Review

Information (ISSN: 2078-2489) continued its development throughout 2021 and it has seen a continuous increase in its CiteScore over the past five years. Moreover, it received a CiteScore (2020) of 3.0, combined with a steadily increasing submission rate, with 1581 new submissions in 2021. The team behind the journal is trying their best to improve the visibility and reputation of Information in the field of information science and technology, data, knowledge and communication.

In 2021, we received 1581 new submissions and published 524 papers. The median processing time (from submission to publication online) was 38 days in 2021. A total of 9 new Editorial Board Members (EBMs) joined the journal, and the number of Editorial Board Members increased to 169. Furthermore, we now have 1305 subscribers in total.

Information also held the 1st International Online Conference on Information (IECI 2021) (https://sciforum.net/event/IECI2021). We invited the Associate Editor to be the General Chair and 34 EBMs to make up the committee. There were eight speakers in total, including EBMs and other excellent scholars, and we also set up a “Best Poster Award”. We published 14 conference papers. We appreciate all the support and help from our chairs, conference committee, and speakers. The journal will continue to attract more and more authors from all over the world who appreciate its very efficient peer review and publishing processes.

Highly Cited Papers:

• “Twitter Sentiment Analysis towards COVID-19 Vaccines in the Philippines Using NaïveBayes”
  by Charlyn Villavicencio, Julio Jerison Macrohon, X. Alphonse Inbaraj, et al.
• “An Explainable Fake News Detector Based on Named Entity Recognition and Stance Classification Applied to COVID-19”
  by Giorgio De Magistris, Samuele Russo,and Paolo Roma et al.
• “Impulse Buying Behaviors in Live Streaming Commerce Based on the Stimulus-Organism-Response Framework”
  by Chao-Hsing Lee and Chien-Wen Chen
• “A Comprehensive Survey of Knowledge Graph-Based Recommender Systems: Technologies, Development, and Contributions”
  by Janneth Chicaiza and Priscila Valdiviezo-Diaz
• “An Empirical Study on the Impact of E-Commerce Live Features on Consumers’ Purchase Intention: From the Perspective of Flow Experience and Social Presence”
  by Haijian Wang, Jianyi Ding, and Umair Akram et al.

Collections/Special Issues:

Information runs Special Issues to create collections of papers on specific topics. The aim is to build a community of authors and readers to discuss the latest research and develop new ideas and research directions. Special Issues are led by Guest Editors who are experts in the subject and oversee the editorial process for papers. Papers that are published in a Special Issue are collected on a dedicated page of the journal’s website.

Hot Special Issues:

• “Knowledge Graphs for Search and Recommendation”;
• “Pervasive Computing in IoT”;
• “Novel Methods and Applications in Natural Language Processing”;
• “Knowledge Management, Digital Trust, and Corporate Social Responsibility in the Era of Social Media”;
• “Recent Advances in IoT and Cyber/Physical Security”;
• “Advances in AI for Health and Medical Applications”;
• “Natural Language Processing and Applications: Challenges and Perspectives”;
• “Secure and Trustworthy Cyber–Physical Systems”;
• “Evaluating Methods and Decision Making”.

Open Calls:

• Topical Collection “Augmented Reality Technologies, Systems and Applications”
  edited by Dr. Ramon Fabregat, Dr. Jorge Bacca-Acosta, and Dr. N.D. Duque-Mendez
• Topical Collection “Pervasive Intelligent Data Systems”
  edited by Prof. Dr. Filipe Portela, Prof. Dr. Manuel Filipe Santos, and Dr. Kolomvatsos Kostas
• Special Issue “Machine Learning Applications and Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Development”
  edited by Dr. Rahul Reddy Nadikattu, Dr. Roman Tsarev, and Dr. Pawan Whig
• Special Issue “Wireless Edge Computing: Enabling Technologies for the Next Generation of Cloud Computing”
  edited by Dr. Diogo Mattos, and Dr. Dianne Medeiros
• Special Issue “Advances in Algorithmic Game Theory and Multi-Agent Systems”
  edited by Dr. Jie Zhang
• Special Issue “Data Science in Health Services”
  edited by Dr. Philippe J. Giabbanelli, Dr. Jennifer M. Badham, and Dr. Teresa B. Gibson

See the full list of Special Issues at the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/information/special_issues.

On behalf of the editorial team, we would like to express our gratitude to the Editor-in-Chief of Information, all Section Editors-in-Chief and Editorial Board Members, as well as the Guest Editors of Special Issues, Topical Advisory Panel Members, and Reviewer Board Members, all of whom have ensured the continued success of the journal through their hard work and diligence.

In 2022, Information will continue to contribute to academic exchange and the sharing of knowledge.