Announcements

UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all. In 2020 the SDG Publishers Compact was launched, aimed to inspire publishers and accelerate progress to achieve the 17 goals by 2030. Members of the programme are committed to support the publication of materials that will promote and inspire actions towards SDGs.

MDPI is an eager advocate of SDGs and has already been supporting the programme by creating Special Issues and publishing a series of books on SDGs prior to joining the Compact in 2021. MDPI's Sustainability Foundation initiated the World Sustainability Awards in 2016. We fully support UN's goals to promote sustainable actions that make the world a better place for all and, as part of its commitment, we will focus our actions on SDG10: Reduced Inequalities whilst promoting all 17 SDGs. For more details, please visit the programme’s website: https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sdg-publishers-compact/.

Joining this initiative was a unanimous decision. MDPI has in its core values the dissemination of science for all, breaking the wall between research access and under-represented members of the scientific community and the general population. To support this initiative further and continue to support under-represented scientists, MDPI will take a series of actions that will be announced once ready.

The first action MDPI takes is to nominate Dr. Liliane Auwerter as the coordinator of the programme. Dr. Auwerter studied Environmental Process Technology (UTFPR, Brazil), obtained her MSc degree in Water and Environmental Engineering (University of Surrey, UK) and in 2020 completed her PhD in self-healing low-friction materials for water transport (Imperial College London, UK), always focusing on diverse scientific projects that would potentially bring sustainability to industrial processes. As a student in Brazil, she engaged in volunteering activities focused on environmental education and took part in the Millennial Development Goals meetings held at the university.

For more information, please contact:
Dr. Liliane Auwerter
Scientific Officer
liliane.auwerter@mdpi.com

This serves to announce to our valued authors based in Japan that value-added tax, or consumption tax will now be imposed on article processing fees and other service fees for all papers submitted, or resubmitted (assigned new paper IDs), effective from 15 August 2021. The change is in accordance with the Japanese "Act for Partial Revision of the Income Tax Act and Other Acts" (Act No. 9 of 2015), which includes a revision of consumption taxation on cross-border supplies of services such as digital content distribution.

For additional information from the National Tax Agency please see here ("Cross-border supplies of electronic services").

Contact: Setsuko Nishihara, MDPI Tokyo

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)

Machines is recruiting Editorial Board Members for the following three new Sections:

- Electrical Machines and Drives;

- Micro/Nano Electromechanical Systems (MEMS/NEMS);

- Turbomachinery.

The main responsibilities of the Section Editorial Board Members are as follows:

1) Promoting this new Section on your social media or among your acquaintances;

2) Supervising the quality of the papers in this Section (when we have new submissions in the Section);

3) Acting as a/recommending a Guest Editor for a Special Issue on a topic related to your research interests;

4) Providing conference/society cooperation recommendations.

Machines (ISSN 2571-8789) is an open access, international journal on machinery, manufacturing, and engineering. It was launched in 2013 and has been indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)—Web of Science, Scopus, and Inspec and will receive its first Impact Factor in June 2021. Its CiteScore is 4.5 (Scopus), which equals rank 136/596 (Q1) in the Mechanical Engineering, 78/336 (Q1) Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, 20/111 (Q1) Control and Optimization, and 12/69 (Q1) Computer Science (miscellaneous).

As we provide a low-cost publishing service in open access format, we, unfortunately, cannot pay our Editor Members an honorarium. The term of the membership is two years and after that period it can be renewed.

To apply for this position, please send your full academic CV and a short cover letter that details your interest and enthusiasm for the position to machines@mdpi.com.

We are pleased to announce that Prof. Dr. Dan Zhang has been appointed the Section Editor-in-Chief of the “Automation Systems” Section of Machines (ISSN 2075-1702).

Prof. Dr. Dan Zhang received his Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from Laval University in June 2000. He is a Kaneff Professor and the Tier 1 York Research Chair in advanced robotics and mechatronics with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, Lassonde School of Engineering, York University. His research interests include robotics and mechatronics, high-performance parallel robotic machine development, micro/nanomanipulation, and MEMS devices, and rehabilitation robots and rescue robots. He has served as a member of Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Grant Selection Committee. He is a registered Professional Engineer of Canada; a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (CAE), the Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC), the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering (CSME); a Senior Member of the SME and IEEE.

We warmly welcome Prof. Dr. Dan Zhang in his role as our Section Editor-in-Chief, and we look forward to him leading Machines to achieve more milestones.

Prof. Dr. Dan Zhang
Email: dzhang99@yorku.ca
Affiliation: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Lassonde School of Engineering, York University, 4700 Keele Street, Toronto, ON M3J 1P3, Canada
Homepage: mech.lassonde.yorku.ca/dan-zhang/
Interests: robotics and mechatronics; high-performance parallel robotic machine development; sustainable/green manufacturing systems; micro/nanomanipulation and MEMS devices (sensors); micro mobile robots and control of multi-robot cooperation; intelligent servo control system for the MEMS-based high-performance micro-robot; web-based remote manipulation; rehabilitation robot and rescue robot

MDPI will be attending the China Instrument and Control Society Annual Meeting, which is to be held in Shanghai, China, on 27–29 August 2021. The conference invites experts and students who are engaged in the study of instrumentation to participate in an in-depth discussion on the basic research direction, technological innovation, and industrial path of the instrumentation discipline.

The following MDPI journals will be represented at the meeting:

• Sensors;
• Machines;
• ASI;
• Electronics;
• Photonics.

If you are attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth: C-01. Our delegates are looking forward to meeting you in person and answering any questions you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit: http://meeting.cis.org.cn/.

We are pleased to announce that Prof. Dr. Antonio J. Marques Cardoso has been appointed as the Editor-in-Chief of Machines (ISSN ISSN 2075-1702).

Prof. Dr. Antonio J. Marques Cardoso received his Dipl. Eng., Dr. Eng., and Habilitation degrees from the University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal, in 1985, 1995 and 2008, respectively, all in Electrical Engineering. From 1985 until 2011, he was with the University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal, where he was Director of the Electrical Machines Laboratory. Since 2011, he has been with the University of Beira Interior (UBI), Covilhã, Portugal, where he is Full Professor at the Department of Electromechanical Engineering and Director of CISE—Electromechatronic Systems Research Centre (http://cise.ubi.pt). He was Vice-Rector of UBI (2013–2014). His teaching interests cover electrical machines, power electronics and drives, maintenance management, and fault diagnosis of electromechatronic systems, and his research interests are focused on diagnosis and fault tolerance of electrical machines, power electronics and drives.

He is the author of a book entitled Fault Diagnosis in Three-Phase Induction Motors (Coimbra, Portugal: Coimbra Editora, 1991), (in Portuguese), editor of a book entitled Diagnosis and Fault Tolerance of Electrical Machines, Power Electronics and Drives (IET/SciTech, UK, 2018), and also author of around 500 papers published in technical journals and conference proceedings.

Prof. Dr. Cardoso has spent two sabbatical years (2009/2010 and 2016/2017) at the Sapienza University of Rome (Italy), and he has also been an Invited Visiting Professor at several universities abroad: Vaxjo University, Sweden (2003, 2004, 2008), University of Vigo, Spain (2003, 2004 and 2005), University of Minas Gerais, Brazil (2006), University of Sciences and Technology of Oran, Algeria (2007), University of Tunis El Manar, Tunisia (2009, 2014 and 2016), Sapienza University of Rome, Italy (2007, 2008, 2009 and 2011), Universidad Autónoma de Occidente, Cali, Colombia (2011 and 2014), University Mohamed Khider, Biskra, Algeria (2012 and 2018), Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia (2015), Aalto University, Espoo, Finland (2015), Coventry University, Coventry, UK (2016, 2020), Technische Universitat Wien, Vienna, Austria (2017), INP-ENSEEIHT, Toulouse, France (2017) and Aalborg University, Denmark (2018).

He has been acting as European Union Expert Evaluator; Independent Scientific Expert of the Italian Ministry for Education, University and Research (MIUR); Independent Scientific Expert of the Polish Centre for Research and Development; Independent Scientific Expert of the University of Sharjah (United Arab Emirates); Independent Scientific Expert of the University of Agder (Norway); Independent Scientific Expert of the National Science Centre (Poland); External Consultant of the Universidad Autónoma de Occidente (Colombia); Independent Scientific Expert of the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portuguese Bational funding agency for science, research and technology).

We warmly welcome Prof. Dr. Antonio J. Marques Cardoso as our Editor-in-Chief and are confident that his experience and expertise will help Machines continue to grow.

Prof. Dr. Antonio J. Marques Cardoso
Affiliation: CISE—Electromechatronic Systems Research Centre, Department of Electromechanical Engineering, University of Beira Interior, Calçada Fonte do Lameiro, P - 6201-001 Covilhã, Portugal
Email: ajmcardoso@ieee.org
Interests: diagnosis and fault tolerance of electrical machines; power electronics and drives
Web: http://www.cise.ubi.pt/index.php?op=details&user=5

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)

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.

To expand our contribution to the Mechanical Engineering community, Machines is recruiting scientists to join the Journal Board: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/machines.

Should you decide to serve on the Journal Board, you will be responsible for one or some of the following tasks:

• Reviewing a couple of manuscripts per year;
• Editing a Special Issue on a topic related to your research, plus making final decisions for submitted papers;
• Recommending timely topics and suggesting potential Guest Editors;
• Identifying appropriate conferences for Editors to attend;
• Promoting the journal.

Machines (ISSN 2571-8789) is an open access international journal on machinery, manufacturing and engineering. It was launched in 2013 and has been indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE)-Web of Science, Scopus, Inspec and will receive its first Impact Factor in June 2021. Its CiteScore is 3.2 (Scopus). Machines ranks 92/340(Q2) in the category “Engineering: Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering” and 184/585 (Q2) in the category “Engineering: Mechanical Engineering”.

As we provide a low-cost publishing service in open access format, we, unfortunately, cannot pay our Editor Members an honorarium. The term of the membership is two years and after that period it can be renewed.

We believe that your expertise, together with our rigorous editorial policies, can build a high-standard journal specifically dedicated to mechanical research. If you are interested in becoming a Journal Editor for Machines, please send your full academic CV and a short cover letter that details your interest and enthusiasm for the position to machines@mdpi.com before 31 August 2021.