Announcements

Recently, it was announced that a group of European funders supported 10 principles that will help to expand open access, known as Plan S. MDPI warmly welcomes this move as a step towards achieving more open and accessible communication of research across all disciplines. Some aspects remain to be clarified, however the details given so far match the aims and values that MDPI has held over the past two decades.

We believe that open access publishers should be active participants in discussions around Plan S, particularly regarding potential new business models and practical aspects of implementation. MDPI supports APCs as a transparent unit of payment for article publishing, however we are committed to exploring other measures and recently signed the Jussieu Call. Sustainability is a key value for MDPI, and future funding models should have at their heart the sustainability of knowledge and research dissemination. Plan S provides an opportunity for funders and publishers to directly discuss funding of open access journals in ways that are beneficial to all parties involved.

Representatives of the following MDPI open access journals will attend:

Cancers (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/cancers)
Antibodies (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/antibodies)
Diagnostics (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/diagnostics)
Healthcare (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/healthcare)
Journal of Clinical Medicine (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/jcm)
Vaccines (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/vaccines)
Medicina (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/medicina)

If you are attending this conference, please stop by our booth (Booth # 3-25). Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person and answering any questions you may have concerning open access publishing and our journals.

For more information about the conference, please visit:
https://www.congre.co.jp/jca2018/index_en.php

We are happy to announce the establishment of an Open Access (OA) agreement with Qatar National Library (QNL). QNL is committed to supporting and helping Qatar authors publish OA at no cost. Through this national agreement, QNL will cover the Article Processing Charges (APC) of manuscripts published by Qatar-based corresponding authors in MDPI journals.

Eligible corresponding authors affiliated with Qatar research centers and universities are prompted to choose QNL as part of our Institutional Open Access Program (IOAP) when they submit an article via our online submission system. The program will be selected automatically if authors submit their papers using their institutional email and/or a computer registered with the institution’s IP range. QNL will then crosscheck the information and confirm the APC funding.

Qatar authors that have their APC covered by QNL are advised to include the following sentence in their acknowledgments: "The publication of this article was funded by Qatar National Library".

For more information, please visit Open Access at QNL or email the QNL Open Access team at openaccess@qnl.qa.

We will be attending the ESMO 2018 Congress in Munich, Germany from 19th to 23rd October 2018. The European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) is the leading European professional organization for medical oncology. Comprising 18,000 oncology professionals from over 150 countries, they are the society of reference for oncology education and information. The ESMO 2018 Congress will provide a scientific and educational program able to directly impact the daily clinical practice of oncologists. This year, the program also features a dedicated nursing track through a collaboration with the European Oncology Nursing Society (EONS). Representatives of the following MDPI open access journals will attend:

Cancers (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/cancers)
Antibodies (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/antibodies)
Epigenomes (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/epigenomes)
Healthcare (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/healthcare)
High-Throughput (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/high-throughput)
Journal of Clinical Medicine (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/jcm)
Journal of Personalized Medicine (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/jpm)
Medical Sciences (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/medsci)
Medicina (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/medicina)
Medicines (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/medicines)
Vaccines (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/vaccines)

If you are attending this conference, please stop by our booth (Booth # P106). Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person and answering any questions you may have concerning open access publishing and our journals.

For more information about the conference, please visit:
http://www.esmo.org/Conferences/ESMO-2018-Congress

We are pleased to announce that the Journal of Clinical Medicine (JCM) has received a first Impact Factor in the latest edition of the Journal Citation Reports®, published by Clarivate Analytics in June 2018.

JCM is covered in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) in Web of Science and received a first Impact Factor of 5.583. The journal ranks 15/154 (Q1) in 'Medicine, General & Internal.'

The Journal Citation Reports®, 2018 release, is a Clarivate Analytics product.

We will be attending the 18th World Congress of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology, which will be held in Kyoto, Japan, 1–6 July 2018, and representing the following open access journals:

JCM
Pharmaceuticals
Biomedicines
Brain Sciences
Diseases
Pharmacy
Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease
Cancers
Marine Drugs

Please come along to our booth (#3-6) to chat with our delegates about our journals. We'll gladly answer any questions about our journals and about open access publishing. We look forward to meeting you in person in Edmonton!

For more information on the conference, please visit:
http://www.wcp2018.org/

We are pleased to report the Journal of Clinical Medicine (JCM) received a CiteScore of 7.07 for 2017. The metric reflects citation activity in 2017 in Scopus for papers published in the period 2014‒2016.

JCM ranks 10th out of 841 in the 'General Medicine' category.

For the full details in the current CiteScore release, please see the journal's Source profile. To check the full list of MDPI journals receiving CiteScores, please see here.

The 2017 CiteScore™ data is available now, based on citation data in the Scopus® database. The current CiteScore reflects citation activity in 2017 for articles published in 2014‒2016. Please note that the list below includes journals assigned a CiteScore in this year’s release. For a full list of journals indexed in Scopus, please see our journal list.

Thirteen of our journals received a CiteScore which is in the top 10% of the distribution in at least one of the categories (marked with * in the table below), while a further 32 journals exhibit scores that are in the first quartile of the respective categories.

To access the full data for MDPI journals, please see here. More data can also be found in SJR Scimago Journal & Country Rank.

Unlike CiteScores and the widely used Journal Impact Factors, the Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) metrics are normalized in order to correct for differences in citation practices between scientific fields. Therefore, the SNIP allows direct comparison between journals specialized in different fields.

According to 2017 data, MDPI publishes six journals with an average citation impact, or SNIP, in excess of 1.500. These journals are Biomolecules, Cancers, Journal of Clinical Medicine (JCM), Marine Drugs, Remote Sensing and Sensors (see the last column in the table below).

CiteScore Data for MDPI Journals

MDPI will be attending ASM Microbe 2018 International Conference during the three day event held from 8–10 June.

ASM Microbe showcases the best microbial sciences in the world and provides a one-of-a-kind forum to explore the complete spectrum of microbiology, from basic science to translation and application. Representatives of the following open access journals will attend:

Toxins
Journal of Clinical Medicine
Viruses
Antibiotics
Diseases
Medicines
Fermentation
Veterinary Sciences
Genes
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH)
Pathogens
Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease
Vaccines
Microorganisms

If you are also attending this conference, please stop by our Booth: #731. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person, to answer any questions you may have regarding open access publication and our journals. For more information about the conference, please visit: https://www.asm.org/index.php/asm-microbe-2018.

Date: 8–10 June 2018
Location: Georgia World Congress Center, 285 Andrew Young International Blvd NW, Atlanta, GA 30313, USA

We are pleased to announce the results of the first MDPI Writing Prize. We received a large number of entries from across the globe on the theme of “The Global Benefits of Open Research”. It was a pleasure to read so many original, well-researched and well-presented ideas, and the final choice was not an easy one. We are pleased to announce that the winners are as follows:

1st prize (500 CHF, Swiss knife and certificate)

Edmond Sanganyado, Shantou University, China

2nd prizes (250 CHF, Swiss knife and certificate)

Kamala T. Rajahgopal, Asia e University, Malaysia
Yin Zhixuan, Qingdao University of Technology, China

3rd prizes (100 CHF, Swiss knife and certificate)

Alexandra Ticea, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Romania
Ankur Sarker, University of Virginia, USA
Daniel Attoye, United Arab Emirates University, UAE

Congratulations to all of them! The winning entries can be downloaded by clicking on the names above. A compilation of all entries will soon be available as an open access book.

The writing prize is sponsored by the MDPI English editing service.