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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").

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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 warmly welcome the following distinguished researcher to the Editorial Board of Magnetochemistry. We look forward to achieving new milestones with his support.

• Dr. Jose Maria Porro
  1. BCMaterials, Basque Center for Materials, Applications and Nanostructures, UPV/EHU Science Park, 48940 Leioa, Spain;
  2. IKERBASQUE, Basque Foundation for Science, Plaza Euskadi 5, 48009 Bilbao, Spain.

Further details about the Editorial Board can be found at: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/magnetochemistry/editors

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.

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Dear Colleagues,

As the Editor-in-Chief of Magnetochemistry, I am pleased to announce the winners of the Magnetochemistry 2021 Best Paper Awards.

The awards have been granted to two articles and one review:

Articles:

A Clock Transition in the Cr₇Mn Molecular Nanomagnet
By Charles A. Collett, Kai-Isaak Ellers, Nicholas Russo, Kevin R. Kittilstved, Grigore A. Timco, Richard E. P. Winpenny and Jonathan R. Friedman
Magnetochemistry 2019, 5(1), 4; https://doi.org/10.3390/magnetochemistry5010004

A Series of Field-Induced Single-Ion Magnets Based on the Seven-Coordinate Co(II) Complexes with the Pentadentate (N₃O₂) H₂dapsc Ligand
By Vyacheslav A. Kopotkov, Denis V. Korchagin, Valentina D. Sasnovskaya, Ildar F. Gilmutdinov and Eduard B. Yagubskii
Magnetochemistry 2019, 5(4), 58; https://doi.org/10.3390/magnetochemistry5040058

Review：

Magnetic Janus Particles for Static and Dynamic (Bio)Sensing
By Susana Campuzano, Maria Gamella, Verónica Serafín, María Pedrero, Paloma Yáñez-Sedeño and José Manuel Pingarrón
Magnetochemistry 2019, 5(3), 47; https://doi.org/10.3390/magnetochemistry5030047

Each winner (corresponding author) will receive CHF 300, a certificate and a chance to publish a paper free of charge in Magnetochemistry in 2021.

On behalf of the Assessment Committee, I congratulate the winners on their accomplishments. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the nominated research groups of the above exceptional papers for their contributions to Magnetochemistry, as well as thank the Award Committee for voting and helping with these awards.

Editor-in-Chief

Prof. Dr. Carlos J. Gómez García, Magnetochemistry

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.

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We are please to welcome the following recognized researchers who have recently joined the Topic Board of Magnetochemistry. We look forward to their contributions to the journal.

Dr. Walter Alberto Cañón Mancisidor, Universidad de Santiago de Chile (USACH), Santiago, Chile
Prof. Dr. Yiquan Zhang, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, China
Prof. Dr. Zhigao Sheng, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei 230036, China
Dr. Olaf Stefanczyk, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
Dr. Dima Cheskis, Ariel University, Ariel 40700, Israel
Dr. Tiina Titma, Tallinn University of Technology, Tallinn 12618, Estonia
Dr. Imanol de Pedro, University of Cantabria, Santander 39005, Spain
Dr. Pradip Das, University of Montpellier, ENSCM, CNRS, 34095 Montpellier, France
Dr. Max Burian, Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen PSI, Switzerland
Dr. Fernando Martínez-Pedrero, Complutense University of Madrid, E-28040 Madrid, Spain
Dr. Olga Mokhodoeva, Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry of Russian Academу of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Dr. Karol Szałowski, University of Lodz, PL90-236 Łódź, Poland
Dr. Robert F. Higgins, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Dr. L. Claudia Gómez-Aguirre, University of A Coruña, 15071 A Coruña, Spain
Dr. Kamil Gareev, Saint Petersburg Electrotechnical University “LETI”, 197376 Saint Petersburg, Russia
Dr. Kai Cai, University of Wisconsin System, Madison, WI, USA
Dr. Joseb Blazek, Technical University Kosice, Fac Aeronaut, Kosice, Slovakia
Dr. Jacques Curély, University of Bordeaux, 33405 Talence Cedex, France
Dr. Dong Shao, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), Shenzhen 518055, China
Dr. Ondrej Malina, Palacky University Olomouc, 17. Listopadu 1192/12, 771 46 Olomouc, Czech Republic
Dr. Giulia Serrano, University of Florence, INSTM, UdR Firenze, Via della Lastruccia, 3 Sesto Fiorentino (FI) 50019, Italy
Dr. Dongwoo Kang, Keimyung University, Daegu 42601, Korea
Dr. Cristina Bartha, National Institute of Materials Physics (NIMP), RO77125 Bucharest-Magurele, Romania
Dr. Zhizheng Wu, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China
Dr. Michael Tayler, Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO), Barcelona, Spain
Dr. Denisa Olekšáková, Technical University of Košice, Košice, Slovakia
Dr. Valentina Mameli, University of Cagliari, 09124 Cagliari, Italy
Dr. Tej Lamichhane, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA
Dr. Ian Shuttleworth, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham NG11 8NS, UK
Dr. Yujie Yang, Anhui University, Hefei, China
Dr. Yin-Shan Meng, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian 116024, China
Dr. Angeliki Giannoulis, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

We warmly welcome the following distinguisshed researchers to the Editorial Board of Magnetochemistry. We look forward to achieving new milestones with their support.

Dr. Li-Min Zheng, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
Prof. Dr. Oded Gottlieb, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel
Prof. Dr. Jiang Li, Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 585
Prof. Dr. Xuan Gao, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Ave, Cleveland, OH 44106, USA
Prof. Dr. Devashibhai Adroja, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot, Oxon, UK
Prof. Dr. Lotfi Bessais, Paris-Est Créteil University, CNRS, ICMPE, Thiais, France
Dr. Yishay Manassen, Ben Gurion University, POB 653, Beer Sheva IL-8410501, Israel
Prof. Dr. Marat Khusniyarov, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Egerlandstr. 1, 91058 Erlangen, Germany
Prof. Dr. Roman Boca, University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius, 917 01 Trnava, Slovakia
Dr. Pankaj Attri, Kyushu University, Fukuoka 819-0395, Japan
Dr. Sabine Wurmehl, Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden IFW, Helmholtzstraße 20 D-01069, Dresden, Germany
Prof. Alessandra Continenza, University of L'Aquila, 67100 L'Aquila, Italy
Dr. Dimitrios A. Pantazis, Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Platz, 1, 45470 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
Dr. Alexander M. Panich, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, P.O.Box 653, 8410501 Be'er Sheva, Israel
Dr. Jürgen Lindner, Institute of Ion Beam Physics and Materials Research, Magnetism Department, Bautzner Landstraße 400, 01328 Dresden, Germany
Prof. Dr. Jing-Lin Zuo, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210023, China
Prof. Dr. Yan-Zhen Zheng, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710054, China
Prof. Dr. Gopalan Rajaraman, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Powai, Mumbai 400076, India
Prof. Sabina Lesz, Silesian University of Technology, 44-100 Gliwice, Poland
Prof. Dr. Janet R. Morrow, the State University of New York, Buffalo, NY 14260, USA

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.

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Magnetochemistry is recruiting Section Editors-in-Chief for the following two new sections:

• Spin Crossover
• Spintronics

Magnetochemistry (ISSN 2312-7481; CODEN: MAGNCZ) is an international, scientific, peer-reviewed, open access journal on all areas of magnetism and magnetic materials published online by MDPI. Magnetochemistry received its first Impact Factor of 1.947 with a JCR category ranking of 22/45 (Q2) in ‘CHEMISTRY, INORGANIC & NUCLEAR’.

Section Editors-in-Chief are responsible for the following:

• Defining the Aims and Scope of the Section;
• Advising on the strategic development of the Section;
• Ensuring the quality of the published content;
• Nominating/inviting Guest Editors and optionally delegating to them the authority to make final acceptance decisions for submitted articles;
• Nominating/inviting contributors;
• Nominating and leading the Section Editorial Board;
• Promoting the journal at scientific conferences or through other venues.

To apply for this position, recommend potential candidates, or request further information, please contact the Magnetochemistry Editorial Office (Magnetochemistry@mdpi.com) before 31 March 2021.