Announcements

JMSE (ISSN 2077-1312) has experienced significant growth over the past few years, both in terms of overall influence and the quality and quantity of topics that the journal covers. To manage this expansion, we have decided to set up the “Marine Energy” Section, allowing a more specific avenue toward which experts all over the world can submit their works.

Section Information

The Section “Marine Energy” within the Journal of Marine Science and Engineering welcomes original articles that make original and valued contributions to the subject of ocean energy development. Contributions, in the form of technical papers, are invited that report the latest state-of-the-art research outputs from fundamental research activities in clean ocean energy, development of new innovative engineering solutions in the capture and supply of clean energy from our oceans, and new supporting policy and financial engineering frameworks to expedite the uptake of clean ocean energy systems and deliver these to the market.

Keywords

• Wave energy;
• Tidal energy;
• Ocean energy;
• Ocean thermal energy conversion;
• Offshore wind energy;
• Nearshore wind energy;
• Floating photovoltaics;
• Marine renewables;
• Offshore renewable energy.

Given the prospect of open access repositories and especially the vigorous development of JMSE, we are now recruiting Guest Editors (GEs) for this Section. As Guest Editor, you will have the following responsibilities and opportunities:

• Serving as the Editor of Special Issues on topics related to your critical research interests, at your convenience;
• Deciding whether a manuscript qualifies for acceptance in the Special Issue, according to MDPI criteria;
• Promoting JMSE at academic events and to increase its visibility within related academic fields;
• Inviting paper submissions and enjoy our premium editorial service at any time.

It is our pleasure to receive applications from leading experts in the aforementioned academic fields. We welcome and encourage you to apply.

You can submit your application directly via the link here.

If you have any questions that you would like to clarify before or after applying, please do not hesitate to contact us (jmse@mdpi.com).

It is our great pleasure to announce the launch of the section “Marine Energy”, which will provide a specific venue for this field of research in JMSE.

We are now recruiting Editorial Board Members (EBMs) for this section (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/jmse/sections/marine_energy). If you are an active researcher in the field and passionate about publishing cutting-edge research, please do not hesitate to contact us (jmse@mdpi.com).

Responsibilities of JMSE Editorial Board Members include the following:

• Making decisions on whether a manuscript can be accepted, or not, based on the reports we collect within your research field;
• Promoting JMSE and published papers among your peers and at conferences that you attend or organize;
• Suggesting the latest topics within your research field that the journal could cover.

Benefits for JMSE Editorial Board Members include the following:

• Certain discounts for the papers you publish;
• A certificate in recognition of your role as an Editorial Board Member of JMSE;
• Additional sponsorships offered by JMSE for conferences that you organize.

Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (ISSN 2077-1312, IF 2.458, CiteScore 2.0) is an international, peer-reviewed open access journal which provides an advanced forum for studies related to marine science and engineering. For more information about JMSE, please visit the journal website: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/jmse.

We are pleased to report that the CiteScore of JMSE has increased to 2.0 (from 1.8). It now ranks: 45/96 (Q2) in the "Ocean Engineering" category, 125/225 (Q3) in the "Water Science and Technology" category, and 180/318 (Q3) in the "Civil and Structural Engineering" category. For full details of the current CiteScore release, please refer to the Source page: (https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/21100830140).

We would like to extend our sincerest gratitude to all of the authors, editors, and reviewers for their great contributions. We are grateful for their excellent work, which has helped us to obtain this achievement for JMSE!

Read more and submit at https://www.mdpi.com/journal/jmse.

The 2020 citation metrics have been officially released in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR)!

We are pleased to announce that 85 MDPI journals are included, of which:

• 10 journals received their first impact factor
• 96% of journals increased their impact factor from 2019
• 32 journals (38%) ranked among the top 25% of journals, in at least one category

* Journals given their first Impact Factor in 2021

Source: 2020 Journal Impact Factors, Journal Citation Reports ® (Clarivate, 2021)

We are now recruiting Editorial Board Members (EBMs) (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/jmse/editors). If you are an active researcher in the field and passionate about publishing cutting-edge research, please do not hesitate to contact us (jmse@mdpi.com).

Responsibilities of JMSE Editorial Board Members include the following:

1. Making decisions on whether a manuscript can be accepted, or not, based on the reports we collect within your research field;
2. Promoting JMSE and published papers among your peers and at conferences that you attend or organize;
3. Suggesting the latest topics within your research field that the journal could engage with.

Benefits for JMSE Editorial Board Members include the following:

1. Certain discounts for the papers you publish;
2. A recognition certificate as an Editorial Board Member of JMSE;
3. Additional sponsorships are offered by JMSE for conferences that you organize.

Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (ISSN 2077-1312, IF 2.033, CiteScore 2.0) is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal that provides an advanced forum for studies related to marine science and engineering. For more information about JMSE, please visit: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/jmse.

MDPI Books recently released Book Builder, a new online tool to conveniently arrange, design and produce an eBook from any content published in MDPI journals. Book Builder offers two functions: on the one hand (1) Selections, available to every registered user of MDPI; on the other hand (2) Special Issue Reprints, which can be used exclusively by Guest Editors of Special Issues.

Selections

In just a matter of a few clicks, all users are now able to assemble books from MDPI articles and receive instantaneous feedback in the form of a fully produced and compiled book (PDF), which can be downloaded or ordered as print copy. Selections can include any paper published with MDPI, picking and combining content from different journals and special issues.

This way, the user may for example choose to compile an ebook focusing around a particular topic, or assemble articles from a group of others.

We invite you to make yourself familiar with the new tool! The Book Builder can be found here: https://www.mdpi.com/books/book_builder.

Special Issue Reprints

The Book Builder allows Guest Editors of MDPI journals to create a reprint from a successfully completed Special Issue or Topical Collection in book format. If you are a Guest Editor for an MDPI journal, you can use the new tool  to create an PDF document which includes all articles published in the Special Issue as well as a book cover and table of contents.

For Special Issues containing a minimum of 5 articles, the Guest Editor can request its publication on the MDPI Book platform. Published reprints are assigned an ISBN and DOI.

In addition to the PDF copy of the Reprint Book, as a token of our gratitude, MDPI offers every Guest Editor one (1) complimentary print copy (via print-on-demand). All contributors benefit from a discount on orders of any additional print copies, to share with colleagues or libraries or others.

Why choose MDPI Books?

In line with our organization's values, MDPI Books publishes all content in open access, promoting the exchange of ideas and knowledge in a globalized world. MDPI Books encompasses all the benefits of open access—high availability and visibility, as well as wide and rapid dissemination. MDPI Books are distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License, meaning as an author you retain the copyright for your work. In addition, with MDPI Books you can complement the digital version of your work with a high-quality printed counterpart.

If you are interested in editing a book volume or series, or have a monograph manuscript to be considered for publication, please submit your proposal online and look at our Information for Authors.

Contact: Laura Wagner, MDPI Books Manager (email)

MDPI will be attending the OceanTech Asia Pacific, Zhoushan Campus, Zhejiang University, China, May 19 - 21, 2021.

OceanTech Asia Pacific (OAP) provides strategic venues for marine engineers, technologists, industrialists and scientists to facilitate the development, strengthening and exchange of new solutions – technologies and methodologies. The objectives of OAP are to facilitate sustainable utilization of oceanic resources to address contemporary economic and societal challenges: Augmenting and maintaining environmentally sound human habitats, food supplies, energy resources and transportation; Upgrading, development and transfer of new instruments, tools and methodologies for further marine research and discovery.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (leading journal)
• Sustainability
• Energies

In June of this year, MDPI will celebrate the 25th anniversary of its foundation. To mark this significant milestone, we have created a 25th Anniversary page on our website that evokes the development of our company over the past quarter-century.

MDPI has been a pioneer of Open Access publishing ever since the concept was first created.

In a wide-ranging interview, our CEO Delia Mihaila reflects on the company’s 25th anniversary and its contribution to the world of scientific publishing.

Delia considers how MDPI has evolved since starting life in 1996 as a visionary ‘project’ run out of an apartment in Basel, Switzerland, by Dr. Shu-Kun Lin. A chemist who was passionate about the long-term preservation of rare chemical sample, Dr. Lin was determined to help scholars publish their findings as quickly as possible and make their research results available to as wide a readership as possible worldwide. That determination remains unchanged 25 years later.

Today, MDPI is an international organization with over 4,000 employees based on three continents and in ten countries, and ranks among the world's top four academic publishers.

MDPI's mission is to accelerate access to new scientific research, delivering insight faster for researchers worldwide. Read more here about the company's remarkable success story and what the Open Access publishing model can offer the global scientific community.

It is our great pleasure to announce the launch of “Marine Environmental Science”, which will provide a specific venue for this field of research. The section will be led by Prof. Dr. Gerardo Gold-Bouchot (Texas A&M University).

We are now recruiting Editorial Board Members (EBMs) for the Section (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/jmse/sectioneditors/marine_environment). If you are an active researcher in the field and passionate about publishing cutting-edge research, please do not hesitate to contact us (jmse@mdpi.com).

Responsibilities of JMSE Editorial Board Members include the following:

1. Making decisions on whether a manuscript can be accepted, or not, based on the reports we collect within your research field.
2. Promoting JMSE and published papers among your peers and at conferences that you attend or organize;
3. Suggesting the latest topics within your research field that the journal could engage with.

Benefits for JMSE Editorial Board Members include the following:

1. Certain discounts for the papers you publish;
2. A recognition certificate as an Editorial Board Member of JMSE;
3. Additional sponsorships are offered by JMSE for conferences that you organize.

Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (ISSN 2077-1312, IF 2.033, CiteScore 1.8)  is an international, peer-reviewed open access journal which provides an advanced forum for studies related to marine science and engineering. For more information about JMSE, please visit: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/jmse.

At MDPI, we strive to make your online publication process seamless and efficient. To achieve this, our team is continuously developing tools and features to make the user experience useful and convenient.

As the number of academic papers continues to grow, so does the need to analyze and work with them on a large scale. This prompted us to design a new feature aimed at helping researchers find journals that are relevant to their publication by matching their abstract topic. In this regard, we designed a similarity model that automatically identifies the most suitable academic journals for your paper.

We are pleased to introduce Journal Selector, a new feature that measures similarity in academic contexts. By simply entering the title and/or abstract into our Journal Selector, the author will see a list of the most related scientific journals published by MDPI. This method helps authors select the correct journals for their papers, highlighting the time of publication and citability.

The methodology is known as representation learning, where words are represented as vectors in hyperspace. Representation helps us differentiate between different concepts within articles, and in turn, helps us identify similarities between them.

We used an advanced machine learning model to better capture the semantic meanings of words. This helps the algorithm make better predictions by leveraging scientific text representation. In turn, this ensures high precision, helping authors decide which journal they should submit their paper to.

The goal is to support authors to publish their work in the most suitable journal for their research, as fast as possible, accelerating their career progress.

Contact: Andrea Perlato, Head of Data Analytics, MDPI (email)