Announcements

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.

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.

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.

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!

We are currently recruiting Editorial Board Members (EBMs) for MDPI journals indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) in Web of Science. In particular, we are looking for experts who are interested in aiding in the development of our journals and safeguarding the scientific quality of the published findings.

Journals currently listed in the ESCI will receive an Impact Factor in June 2023, according to the changes announced by Web of Science (Clarivate). Therefore, this is an excellent time to become an Editorial Board Member for one of these fast-developing journals.

If you are interested in sharing your expertise in one of the journals listed below, please send us an application using this link.

The Editorial Office of the journal will contact you once the application has been approved.
Editorial Board Members are responsible for academic decisions on manuscripts in their field of expertise, will edit Special Issues, and may be invited to review manuscripts. The initial term lasts for two years, after which it can be renewed, and entails the following:

• Prescreening and making decisions on new submissions related to your research interests;
• Setting up at least one Special Issue during your term on a topic related to your research interests (or supervising Special Issues related to your research field);
• Providing input or feedback regarding journal policies;
• Helping to promote the journal among your peers or at conferences;
• Attending Board meetings to suggest journal development strategies;
• Reviewing manuscripts.

Editorial Board Members are entitled to a full waiver on one publication per year in the journal that they serve and need to be experts in their fields.

The list of ESCI journals can be found here: https://www.mdpi.com/about/journals/esci.

Please find the list of ESCI journals, categorized by subject, for which we are recruiting Editorial Board Members below.

We are pleased to announce that the website of the MDPI Sustainability Foundation has been revamped! For the past couple of months, our UX UI team and front-end developers have been working hard to launch the website in time for the opening of the Sustainability Awards nominations.

The website is not the only thing that has had a remodeling. Indeed, the format of the Emerging Sustainability Leader Award (ESLA) has been updated. ESLA is now a competition open to individual researchers or start-ups founded by researchers under the age of 35. Nominee applications will go through 2 rounds of selection until the final 3 are decided. The finalists will then be invited to give pitch presentations during the Award Ceremony to win either first place (10,000 USD) or runner-up (2 x 5000 USD).

The World Sustainability Award, on the other hand, remains the same: a total prize money of 100,000 USD is up for grabs by senior individual researchers or groups of researchers from the international research community.

Nominations for both the World Sustainability Award and the Emerging Sustainability Leader award are now open! Check out our new website for more information on how to nominate.

We are pleased to announce the launch of a new initiative—the Special Issue Mentor Program.

This program aims to provide an opportunity for early career scientists to enhance their editing, networking, and organizational skills as well as to work closely with our journal to gain more editorial experience. Early career scientists who have novel ideas for new Journal of Low Power Electronics and Applications Special Issues will act as Guest Editors under the mentorship of an experienced scientist; this mentor could be a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Low Power Electronics and Applications (JLPEA, ISSN: 2079-9268), from other well-established research institutes or laboratories, etc.

The mentee’s responsibilities include:

• Providing a CV, including a list of publications;
• Proposing a Special Issue title and a short introduction;
• Writing a brief promotion plan for the Special Issue;
• Writing an editorial for the online Special Issue;
• Reviewing and making decisions on submissions under the mentorship of our Editorial Board Members.

The mentor’s responsibilities include:

• Conducting a final check before the Special Issue is published online;
• Co-editing the Special Issue with younger scholars and performing quality control of the publications in the Special Issue;
• Providing suggestions to younger scholars if they have 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.

Certificates and awards:
After the Special Issue closes, the Editorial Office will provide official certificates for all the mentors and mentees. If you are interested in this opportunity, please send your Special Issue proposal to the JLPEA Editorial Office (jlpea@mdpi.com), and we will discuss the process (mentor collaboration, Special Issue topic feasibility analysis, etc.) in further detail.

In addition to the new Special Issue Mentor Program, JLPEA continues to welcome all Special Issue proposals based on hot research topics as usual.

JLPEA Editorial Office

We warmly welcome Dr. Pak Kwong Chan (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore), Dr. Shaahin Angizi (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA), Dr. Xiaoxi Liu (Shinshu University, Japan), Dr. Weigang Wang (University of Arizona, USA), Prof. Dr. Bruno Allard (INSA Lyon, France) and Dr. Chih-Hung Chen (McMaster University, Canada) to the Editorial Board of Journal of Low Power Electronics and Applications (JLPEA, ISSN: 2079-9268), and we look forward to their contributions to the continued success of the journal.

1. “A 0.3 V Rail-to-Rail Ultra-Low-Power OTA with Improved Bandwidth and Slew Rate”
by Francesco Centurelli, Riccardo Della Sala, Pietro Monsurrò, Giuseppe Scotti and Alessandro Trifiletti
J. Low Power Electron. Appl. 2021, 11(2), 19; https://doi.org/10.3390/jlpea11020019
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9268/11/2/19

2. “Reliability-Aware Resource Management in Multi-/Many-Core Systems: A Perspective Paper”
by Siva Satyendra Sahoo, Behnaz Ranjbar and Akash Kumar
J. Low Power Electron. Appl. 2021, 11(1), 7; https://doi.org/10.3390/jlpea11010007
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9268/11/1/7

3. “Low-Power Audio Keyword Spotting Using Tsetlin Machines”
by Jie Lei, Tousif Rahman, Rishad Shafik, Adrian Wheeldon, Alex Yakovlev, Ole-Christoffer Granmo, Fahim Kawsar and Akhil Mathur
J. Low Power Electron. Appl. 2021, 11(2), 18; https://doi.org/10.3390/jlpea11020018
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9268/11/2/18

4. “A Review of Algorithms and Hardware Implementations for Spiking Neural Networks”
by Duy-Anh Nguyen, Xuan-Tu Tran and Francesca Iacopi
J. Low Power Electron. Appl. 2021, 11(2), 23; https://doi.org/10.3390/jlpea11020023
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9268/11/2/23

5. “Accelerating Population Count with a Hardware Co-Processor for MicroBlaze”
by Iouliia Skliarova
J. Low Power Electron. Appl. 2021, 11(2), 20; https://doi.org/10.3390/jlpea11020020
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9268/11/2/20

6. “A g_m/I_D-Based Design Strategy for IoT and Ultra-Low-Power OTAs with Fast-Settling and Large Capacitive Loads”
by Gianluca Giustolisi and Gaetano Palumbo
J. Low Power Electron. Appl. 2021, 11(2), 21; https://doi.org/10.3390/jlpea11020021
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9268/11/2/21

7. “A Dynamic Reconfigurable Architecture for Hybrid Spiking and Convolutional FPGA-Based Neural Network Designs”
by Hasan Irmak, Federico Corradi, Paul Detterer, Nikolaos Alachiotis and Daniel Ziener
J. Low Power Electron. Appl. 2021, 11(3), 32; https://doi.org/10.3390/jlpea11030032
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9268/11/3/32

8. “A Novel Standard-Cell-Based Implementation of the Digital OTA Suitable for Automatic Place and Route”
by Gaetano Palumbo and Giuseppe Scotti
J. Low Power Electron. Appl. 2021, 11(4), 42; https://doi.org/10.3390/jlpea11040042
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9268/11/4/42

9. “Minimization of the Line Resistance Impact on Memdiode-Based Simulations of Multilayer Perceptron Arrays Applied to Pattern Recognition”
by Fernando Leonel Aguirre, Nicolás M. Gomez, Sebastián Matías Pazos, Félix Palumbo, Jordi Suñé and Enrique Miranda
J. Low Power Electron. Appl. 2021, 11(1), 9; https://doi.org/10.3390/jlpea11010009
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9268/11/1/9

10. “Analog Filters Design for Improving Precision in Proton Sound Detectors”
by Elia Arturo Vallicelli and Marcello De Matteis
J. Low Power Electron. Appl. 2021, 11(1), 12; https://doi.org/10.3390/jlpea11010012
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9268/11/1/12

1. “Temperature Compensation Circuit for ISFET Sensor”
by Ahmed Gaddour, Wael Dghais, Belgacem Hamdi and Mounir Ben Ali
J. Low Power Electron. Appl. 2020, 10(1), 2; https://doi.org/10.3390/jlpea10010002
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9268/10/1/2

2. “An Autonomous Low-Power LoRa-Based Flood-Monitoring System”
by Mattia Ragnoli, Gianluca Barile, Alfiero Leoni, Giuseppe Ferri and Vincenzo Stornelli
J. Low Power Electron. Appl. 2020, 10(2), 15; https://doi.org/10.3390/jlpea10020015
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9268/10/2/15

3. “Rediscovering Majority Logic in the Post-CMOS Era: A Perspective from In-Memory Computing”
by John Reuben
J. Low Power Electron. Appl. 2020, 10(3), 28; https://doi.org/10.3390/jlpea10030028
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9268/10/3/28

4. “Rectifiers’ Design and Optimization for a Dual-Channel RF Energy Harvester”
by Davide Colaiuda, Iolanda Ulisse and Giuseppe Ferri
J. Low Power Electron. Appl. 2020, 10(2), 11; https://doi.org/10.3390/jlpea10020011
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9268/10/2/11

5. “Simple Scheme for the Implementation of Low Voltage Fully Differential Amplifiers without Output Common-Mode Feedback Network”
by Mario Renteria-Pinon, Jaime Ramirez-Angulo and Alejandro Diaz-Sanchez
J. Low Power Electron. Appl. 2020, 10(4), 34; https://doi.org/10.3390/jlpea10040034
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9268/10/4/34

6. “Low-Power Embedded System for Gait Classification Using Neural Networks”
by Francisco Luna-Perejón, Manuel Domínguez-Morales, Daniel Gutiérrez-Galán and Antón Civit-Balcells
J. Low Power Electron. Appl. 2020, 10(2), 14; https://doi.org/10.3390/jlpea10020014
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9268/10/2/14

7. “Accurate Analysis and Design of Integrated Single Input Schmitt Trigger Circuits”
by Mohamed R. Elmezayen, Wei Hu, Amr M. Maghraby, Islam T. Abougindia and Suat U. Ay
J. Low Power Electron. Appl. 2020, 10(3), 21; https://doi.org/10.3390/jlpea10030021
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9268/10/3/21

8. “Evaluation of In Vivo Spike Detection Algorithms for Implantable MTA Brain—Silicon Interfaces”
by Mattia Tambaro, Elia Arturo Vallicelli, Gerardo Saggese, Antonio Strollo, Andrea Baschirotto and Stefano Vassanelli
J. Low Power Electron. Appl. 2020, 10(3), 26; https://doi.org/10.3390/jlpea10030026
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9268/10/3/26

9. “Power Management Circuits for Low-Power RF Energy Harvesters”
by Michele Caselli, Marco Ronchi and Andrea Boni
J. Low Power Electron. Appl. 2020, 10(3), 29; https://doi.org/10.3390/jlpea10030029
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9268/10/3/29

10. “High-Efficiency Switched-Capacitor DC-DC Converter with Three Decades of Load Current Range Using Adaptively-Biased PFM”
by Anurag Veerabathini and Paul M. Furth
J. Low Power Electron. Appl. 2020, 10(1), 5; https://doi.org/10.3390/jlpea10010005
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2079-9268/10/1/5