Feature Papers to Celebrate the First Impact Factor of Machines

Dear Colleagues,

It is our great pleasure to announce that Machines (ISSN 2075-1702) has received its first Impact Factor of 2.428, as published in the 2020 Edition of the Journal Citation Reports® (Clarivate), released in June 2021.

To celebrate this wonderful achievement, we are launching this Special Issue to publish top-quality papers from editorial board members and leading researchers invited by the editorial team. Papers could be both long research papers and review papers describing the current state of the art in one of the areas covered by the journal. All papers will be published in open access and without any charges.

If you are interested in publishing your work in the Special Issue, please contact us or the editorial office. 

Prof. Dr. Antonio J. Marques Cardoso
Prof. Dr. Giuseppe Carbone
Prof. Dr. Birgit Vogel-Heuser
Prof. Dr. Dan Zhang
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Machines is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.