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Scopus, the abstract and citation database, has further expanded the coverage of research published at MDPI, accepting to include the journals listed in the below. Coverage in Scopus is going to offer more visibility to the work published in these journals.

Thank you to the authors, editors and reviewers involved, for turning these journals into venues for publishing original, state-of-the-art research!

We are pleased to announce that Prof. Dr. Carlos J. Gómez García has been appointed Section Editor-in-Chief for the Magnetism and Magnetic Materials Section of Magnetochemistry (ISSN 2312-7481).

Prof. Dr. Carlos J. Gómez García
Affiliation: Instituto de Ciencia Molecular, Parque Científico, Universidad de Valencia, C/José Beltrán,2, 46980 Paterna, Valencia, Spain
Email: carlos.gomez@uv.es
Interests: molecular magnetism; coordination magnetic polymers; magnetic MOFs; magnetic polyoxometalates; conducting magnetic materials; multifunctional magnetic materials

Carlos J. Gómez García (Valladolid, 1964) studied Chemistry at the University Of Valencia (Extraordinary Prize for Degree in 1988) and was awarded a scholarship at the Colegio Mayor San Juan de Ribera de Burjasot. He completed his Doctoral Thesis with Eugenio Coronado at the Department of Inorganic Chemistry of the University of Valencia (Extraordinary Prize of PhD in 1991). Between 1993 and 1995, he completed two post-doctoral stays, at the University de Rennes (France) and at the Paul Pascal Center de Recherche in Bordeaux (France), with an HCM grant from the European Union. He has been Full Professor of Inorganic Chemistry since 1998, and in 2006, he obtained the National Authorization as Professor of College. Since 2007, he has been Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Valencia. He has been a member of the group of Professor Eugenio Coronado since its inception in 1988 and has belonged to the Institute of Molecular Science of the University Of Valencia since its creation in 2000. He is the author of more than 20 chapters of national and international books and of a total of 316 publications in international magazines (which have received more than 9650 citations, with an h-index of 47 and m of 2). He has given more than 25 invited conferences in different national and international universities and schools and has submitted more than 40 communications, oral and invited, and has participated in more than 280 communications in national and international congresses. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Brest (France) on two occasions (2001 and 2010), at the University of Nottingham (UK) in 2012, and at the University of Rennes in 2014. In the 2007/2008 academic year, he received the award for quality teaching in the educational innovation project of the Faculty of Chemistry of the University of Valencia. Since 2005, he has been the Spanish representative in the Management Committee of the European action COST D35, and he heads a COST working group that includes 15 European laboratories.

We warmly welcome Prof. Dr. Carlos J. Gómez García in his role as Section Editor-in-Chief for the Magnetism and Magnetic Materials Section and look forward to Magnetochemistry achieving more milestones under his leadership.

Since 1996, MDPI has been committed to supporting the research community by providing the latest research freely available and making relevant and useful research available as quickly as possible. The world is current experiencing a pandemic of COVID-19, and researchers are working extremely hard to understand it and find a cure.

The values MDPI holds strongly are particularly important at the moment, and we will continue to publish relevant, peer-reviewed research as quickly as possible in open access format. This means that it will immediately be available for researchers, health professionals, and the general public to read, distribute, and reuse. We believe that scientific advancements will be crucial to overcoming this pandemic, and will do everything we can to support researchers working looking for solutions.

COVID-19 Academic Resources Center contains a variety of information related to COVID-19 available from MDPI, including journal articles, special issues, and preprints, among others.

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As a leading Open Access publisher, MDPI is committed to fostering open scientific exchange in all forms across all disciplines. Due to the outbreak of COVID-19, many researchers have to stay at home and many academic conferences have been cancelled or postponed. In light of these changes, MDPI has adopted numerous initiatives that may help accelerate scientific exchange and provide support to the academics during this period.

Scholarly Community—Encyclopedia

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Comprehensive and Free Literature Database—Scilit

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Display Academic Achievements—SciProfiles

SciProfiles is an innovative social network for researchers and scholars that is developed by MDPI. In line with our broad mission, the purpose of SciProfiles is to accelerate discovery and innovation by facilitating immediate access to research results and providing opportunities for academic networking.

Organize and Participate in Conferences Online—Sciforum

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Post Early Versions of Research Outputs—Preprints

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MDPI remains committed to open science and open data and has signed a statement, along with more than thirty scholarly publishers, showing our intention to facilitate sharing of new research findings as early on as possible. The initiative sees publishers collectively removing barriers to new research, in the face of a global healthcare crisis.

The world is currently suffering from a global pandemic of the corona virus COVID-19. MDPI expresses its sympathies for all of those affected by the virus and stands in solidarity with medical staff and researchers treating patients and searching for scientific solutions.

MDPI has previously published papers covering corona viruses in addition to new papers on the current outbreak, see all papers here. In particular, Viruses has published a number of Special Issues and papers on the topic (see here, here, and here) as well as a forthcoming Special Issue.

Alongside journal articles, MDPI has been a strong supporter of preprints, which are increasingly being used to rapidly disseminate the latest research, and we run the preprint server Preprints.org. Our database of research articles, Scilit, is free to use and covers all publishers including preprint servers. New papers are often in search results within hours of publication and users can set up alerts for new papers.

Our main priority during this period has been the health and safety of staff, and we continue to allow staff to work at home and closely monitor the situation in all locations in which we work. Despite the restrictions, we continue to provide a full publication service and, by close collaboration with our editorial boards and making use our in-house teams, ensure that there are no unnecessary delays in publishing vital research. Fast and open publication has always been at the core of MDPI values and is now more important than ever.

We hope that a solution to the current situation will emerge soon. In the meantime, we will do our best to continue communicating vital research in all fields.

The advantages of the open access model of scientific publishing are being increasingly recognized in the scientific community. It allows new scientific evidence to be accessed from the moment of publication for free by anyone around the globe, boosting the impact of new research. In response, many funders, libraries and universities have been adopting new principles to accelerate the transition to open access.

Recently, “transformative agreements” have been negotiated between traditional publishers and various institutions. While increasing the number of open access papers, these agreements lack binding commitments to a full transition to open access, their conditions vary across different regions, and access is still limited for many users.

MDPI is a co-signatory of the recent position statement raising concerns about potential downsides of transformative agreements and how they may delay a full transition to open access. The statement highlights that these models “risk perpetuating current limitations on access, transparency and market competitiveness, while simultaneously facilitating excessive charges on the public purse”.

As a pioneering open access journal publisher, MDPI is the first to promote the importance of science being made available to everyone. Our peer-reviewed journals, covering diverse academic disciplines, are fully accessible to the public free of charge under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). This is why, along with other open access publishers, MDPI is a proud signatory of the position paper and is committed to contributing to the replacement of weak transitional agreements with “agreements with publishers that are already fully committed to open science and who offer full, immediate and transparent Open Access”.

Read the position paper here

We are pleased to announce that Encyclopedia will be awarding five Outstanding Contributor Awards for researchers in 2020. The nominations and applications will be assessed by an Evaluation Committee consisting of senior scholars from the Encyclopedia Editorial Board.

Prize for Winners

1. An official certificate;
2. A cash award of 500 CHF or an MDPI discount voucher of 800 CHF.

Application Deadline

31 December, 2020 (Please send your application email with a list of all entries you contributed to our office before the deadline: office@encyclopedia.pub)

Candidate Requirements

1. Have a Ph.D. degree;
2. Have more than three qualified entries published in Encyclopedia in 2020.

Evaluation Standards

1. Number of entries published in Encyclopedia in 2020;
2. Quality of entries online (including length, figure quality, and novelty);
3. Impact of entries (including the number of likes, discussion contents, views, and downloads).

If you are a researcher and have not yet contribute entries to Encyclopedia, please do not miss this chance to highlight your research results.

We are pleased to announce that Prof. Dr. Evgeny Katz has been appointed Section Editor-in-Chief for the Magnetic Nanospecies Section of Magnetochemistry (ISSN 2312-7481).

Prof. Dr. Evgeny Katz

Affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Science, Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY, USA
Website: https://www.clarkson.edu/people/evgeny-katz
Email: ekatz@clarkson.edu
Interests: bioelectronics; bionanotechnology; bioelectrochemistry; biosensors; self-assembling enzymes; monolayers; modified electrodes

Evgeny Katz received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Frumkin Institute of Electrochemistry (Moscow), Russian Academy of Sciences, in 1983. He was Senior Researcher at the Institute of Photosynthesis (Pushchino), Russian Academy of Sciences, in 1983–1991. In 1992–1993, he performed research at München Technische Universität (Germany) as a Humboldt fellow. Later, in 1993–2006, Dr. Katz was Research Associate Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has been Milton Kerker Chaired Professor at the Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Science, Clarkson University, NY (USA) since his appointment in 2006. He has (co)authored over 470 papers in peer-reviewed journals/books with total citations of more than 35,000 (Hirsch-index 88) and holds more than 20 international patents. He has edited five books on different topics, including bioelectronics, molecular and biomolecular computing, implantable bioelectronics, and forensic science. He recently published two books on switchable electrochemical systems and enzyme-based computing in which he is the sole author. He has served as Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Sensors (2009–2012) and currently serves on the editorial board of numerous other journals. His scientific interests are broadly in the areas of bioelectronics, biosensors, biofuel cells, and biomolecular information processing (biocomputing). In 2019, he received the international Katsumi Niki Prize in recognition of his contributions to bioelectrochemistry.

We warmly welcome Prof. Dr. Evgeny Katz in his role as Section Editor-in-Chief for the Magnetic Nanospecies Section, and look forward to Magnetochemistry achieving more milestones under his leadership.

Magnetochemistry (ISSN 2312-7481) is an international peer-reviewed open access journal published quarterly online by MDPI. Magnetochemistry focuses on molecular magnetism, the relationship between chemical structure and magnetism, and magnetic materials. The website of Magnetochemistry can be accessed at https://www.mdpi.com/journal/magnetochemistry.

As an Editorial Board Member, you would be responsible for:

Suggesting interesting topics in your research field;

Supervising one Special Issue related to your research field or making recommendations regarding Guest Editor candidates (you are then entitled to publish an additional paper free of charge);

Pre-screening submissions and making decisions on whether they should be rejected or accepted for further processing;

Inviting/recommending 3–5 feature papers each year, for which we could waive the publication fee;

Promoting Magnetochemistry and increasing its visibility at related academic conferences.

To apply or request further information, please contact the Magnetochemistry Editorial Office (magnetochemistry@mdpi.com). We look forward to hearing from you soon.

We are pleased to announce the inclusion of the titles Biosensors (ISSN 2079-6374) and Magnetochemistry (ISSN 2312-7481) into the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) in the Web of Science^TM. Both journals are going to receive 2019 journal metrics in the 2020 release of the Journal Citation Reports^TM (Clarivate Analytics).

Thank you to the editors, authors and reviewers who contributed to these journals and enabled the achievements!