Announcements

MDPI’s Young Investigator Awards recognize promising junior researchers, acknowledge their contributions, and enhance communication among scientists. We are proud to present the winners for the year 2021 in the “Computer Science & Mathematics”, who were selected by the journals’ editors.

We warmly congratulate the awarded Young Investigators for their outstanding contributions.

MDPI will continue to provide support and recognition to the academic community.

Mathematics:

• Marina Murillo Arcila, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain

Symmetry:

• Tanmoy Paul, University of Burdwan, India

The purpose of our best paper awards is to promote and recognize the most impactful contributions published within MDPI journals.

The editors of each journal carefully selected reviews and research papers through a rigorous judging process based on the criteria such as scientific merit, overall impact, and quality of the presentation of the papers published in the journal.

We are honored to present the winners in the “Computer Science & Mathematics”, who were selected amongst extensive competition, and congratulate the authors for their outstanding scientific publications.

MDPI will continue to provide support and recognition to the academic community.

Axioms:

• A New gH-Difference for Multi-Dimensional Convex Sets and Convex Fuzzy Sets
  By Luciano Stefanini and Barnabas Bede
  Axioms 2019, 8(2), 48; doi:10.3390/axioms8020048

• Initial Value Problem for Nonlinear Fractional Differential Equations with ψ-Caputo Derivative via Monotone Iterative Technique
  By Choukri Derbazi, Zidane Baitiche, Mouffak Benchohra and Alberto Cabada
  Axioms 2020, 9(2), 57; doi:10.3390/axioms9020057

Future Internet:

• A review of Machine Learning and IoT in Smart Transportation
  By Fotios Zantalis, Grigorios Koulouras, Sotiris Karabetsos and Dionisis Kandris
  Future Internet 2019, 11(4), 94; doi:10.3390/fi11040094

Signals:

• Recognition of Blinks Activity Patterns during Stress Conditions Using CNN and Markovian Analysis
  By Alexandra I. Korda, Giorgos Giannakakis, Errikos Ventouras, Pantelis A. Asvestas, Nikolaos Smyrnis, Kostas Marias and George K. Matsopoulos
  Signals 2021, 2(1), 55–71; doi:10.3390/signals2010006

• An Educational Guide through the FMP Notebooks for Teaching and Learning Fundamentals of Music Processing
  By Meinard Müller
  Signals 2021, 2(2), 245–285; doi:10.3390/signals2020018

Symmetry:

• Hadronic and Hadron-Like Physics of Dark Matter
  By Vitaly Beylin, Maxim Yu. Khlopov, Vladimir Kuksa and Nikolay Volchanskiy
  Symmetry 2019, 11(4), 587; doi:10.3390/sym11040587

• Role of Asymmetric Autocatalysis in the Elucidation of Origins of Homochirality of Organic Compounds
  By Kenso Soai, Tsuneomi Kawasaki and Arimasa Matsumoto
  Symmetry 2019, 11(5), 694; doi:10.3390/sym11050694

• Convenient Asymmetric Synthesis of Fmoc-(S)-6,6,6-Trifluoro-Norleucine
  By Haibo Mei, Zizhen Yin, Toshio Miwa, Hiroki Moriwaki, Hidenori Abe, Jianlin Han and Vadim A. Soloshonok
  Symmetry 2019, 11(4), 578; doi:10.3390/sym11040578

• CMB Tensions with Low-Redshift H₀ and S₈ Measurements: Impact of a Redshift-Dependent Type-Ia Supernovae Intrinsic Luminosity
  By Matteo Martinelli and Isaac Tutusaus
  Symmetry 2019, 11(8), 986; doi:10.3390/sym11080986

The 2021 citation metrics have been released in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR), and we’re pleased to announce the following results for MDPI journals:

For more information on Impact Factors and what it means to index academic journals, please visit our related blog posts.

* Journals given their first Impact Factor in 2022

Source: 2021 Journal Impact Factors, Journal Citation Reports ^TM (Clarivate, 2022)

We are pleased to report that the CiteScore of Mathematics (ISSN: 2227-7390) has increased to 2.9 (from 2.2). It now ranks 53/391 (Q1) in "General Mathematics", 34/90 (Q2) in "Computer Science", and 45/115 (Q2) in "Engineering". For full details of the current CiteScore release, please refer to the journal’s Source profile at: https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/21100830702.

We would like to extend our sincerest gratitude to all the authors, editors, and reviewers for their great contributions. We are grateful for their excellent work that has helped us to achieve this milestone for Mathematics!

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

The 2021 citation metrics have been officially released in Scopus!

We are pleased to announce that 182 MDPI journals are included, of which:

● 21 journals received their first CiteScore.
● 85% of journals increased their CiteScore from 2020.
● 155 journals (85%) ranked above average, in at least one category.

The following 65 MDPI journals (36%) ranked among the top 25% of journals, in at least one category:

Source: 2021 CiteScores™ (Elsevier)

The journal Mathematics (ISSN: 2227-7390) is currently recruiting a Section Editor-in-Chief for the Section “Financial Mathematics”.

The Section “Financial Mathematics” aims to publish original contributions focused on the development and application of novel mathematical methods and solutions for financial problems. It is also dedicated to providing a platform and forum for mathematical scientists who are interested in the mathematical aspects of finance, as well as financial economists who are interested in rigorous treatments of scientific computational problems related to practice.

Further information about the Section may be found via the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/mathematics/sections/financial_mathematics.

The Section Editor-in-Chief is responsible for the following:

• Defining the aims and scope of the Section;
• Advising on the strategic development of the Section;
• Ensuring that the published content is of high quality;
• Nominating/inviting Guest Editors and optionally providing them with the authority to make final acceptance decisions about submitted articles;
• Nominating/inviting contributors;
• Nominating and leading the Section Editorial Board;
• Promoting the journal at scientific conferences or through other venues;
• Conducting preliminary checks of submissions and making the final decision as to whether a paper can be accepted for publication following peer review and author revisions (when it suits your schedule).

To apply for this position, please contact the Mathematics Editorial Office (mathematics@mdpi.com) with the following two files attached:

• A full academic CV;
• A short cover letter that details your interest and enthusiasm for the position.

“A New Fuzzy MARCOS Method for Road Traffic Risk Analysis”
Miomir Stanković et al.
Mathematics 2020, 8(3), 457; https://doi.org/10.3390/math8030457

“Numerical Investigation on the Swimming of Gyrotactic Microorganisms in Nanofluids through Porous Medium over a Stretched Surface”
Anwar Shahid et al.
Mathematics 2020, 8(3), 380; https://doi.org/10.3390/math8030380

“A Regularity Criterion in Weak Spaces to Boussinesq Equations”
Ravi P. Agarwal et al.
Mathematics 2020, 8(6), 920; https://doi.org/10.3390/math8060920

“Predicting Hard Rock Pillar Stability Using GBDT, XGBoost, and LightGBM Algorithms”
Weizhang Liang et al.
Mathematics 2020, 8(5), 765; https://doi.org/10.3390/math8050765

“Deep Hybrid Model Based on EMD with Classification by Frequency Characteristics for Long-Term Air Quality Prediction”
Xue-Bo Jin et al.
Mathematics 2020, 8(2), 214; https://doi.org/10.3390/math8020214

“New General Variants of Chebyshev Type Inequalities via Generalized Fractional Integral Operators”
Ahmet Ocak Akdemir et al.
Mathematics 2021, 9(2), 122; https://doi.org/10.3390/math9020122

“A Compromised Decision-Making Approach to Third-Party Logistics Selection in Sustainable Supply Chain Using Fuzzy AHP and Fuzzy VIKOR Methods”
Chia-Nan Wang et al.
Mathematics 2021, 9(8), 886; https://doi.org/10.3390/math9080886

“General Fractional Integrals and Derivatives with the Sonine Kernels”
Yuri Luchko
Mathematics 2021, 9(6), 594; https://doi.org/10.3390/math9060594

“Design of Constrained Robust Controller for Active Suspension of In-Wheel-Drive Electric Vehicles”
Xianjian Jin et al.
Mathematics 2021, 9(3), 249; https://doi.org/10.3390/math9030249

“Models for COVID-19 Daily Confirmed Cases in Different Countries”
Hamdy M. Ahmed et al.
Mathematics 2021, 9(6), 659; https://doi.org/10.3390/math9060659

We are pleased to announce that Prof. Dr. Paolo Mercorelli has been appointed Editor-in-Chief of the Section “Engineering Mathematics” in Mathematics (ISSN: 2227-7390).

Prof. Dr. Paolo Mercorelli received an M.S. (Laurea) in electronic engineering from the University of Florence, Florence, Italy, in 1992 and a Ph.D. in systems engineering from the Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy, in 1998. In 1997, he spent one year as a Visiting Researcher in the Department of Mechanical and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. He participated in the Marie Curie Actions research fellowship program sponsored by the European Commission in 1998, during which he spent his time at ABB (Asea Brown Boveri) Corporate Research, Heidelberg. Thanks to this scholarship, from 1998 to 2001, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher with ABB (Asea Brown Boveri) Corporate Research, Heidelberg, Germany. From 2002 to 2005, he was a Senior Researcher with the Institute of Automation and Informatics, Wernigerode, Germany, where he was the Leader of the Control Group. From 2005 to 2011, he was an Associate Professor of process informatics at the Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences, Wolfsburg, Germany. In 2011, he was a Visiting Professor at Villanova University, Philadelphia, USA.

He has been a Distinguished Full Professor (Chair) of Control and Drive Systems at the Institute of Product and Process Innovation, Leuphana University of Lueneburg, Lueneburg, Germany, since 2012. His current research interests include mechatronics, signal processing, wavelets, model predictive control, sliding mode control, sensorless control, Kalman filters, knock control, lambda control, and robotics.

In the winter semester of the 2017/2018 academic year, he worked at the Institute of Automatic Control of Lodz University of Technology (Poland) under a Distinguished International Visiting Professor Fellowship. In 2018, he was a Visiting Scientist Fellowship at the Czech Academy of Science of Prague (Czech Republic) with the Institute of Information Theory and Automation (UTIA). As of 2019, he has been working as a lecturer and Visiting Professor at the Ph.D. Schools of the University of Miskolc (Hungary) and University of Craiova (Romania). During the summer semester of 2020, he began working as a lecturer for USAC (University Studies Abroad Consortium), giving online lectures for different American Universities each semester: Nevada University Reno and Las Vegas, Arkansas University and Wright State University. Prof. Dr. Paolo Mercorelli is within the top 2% of scientists in Control Systems in accordance with Elsevier Search Data for the years 2019, 2020, and 2021.

The following is a short Q&A with Prof. Dr. Paolo Mercorelli, who shared his vision for the journal with us as well as his views on the research area:

1. What appealed to you about the journal that made you want to take the role as its Section Editor-in-Chief?

It is my honor and pleasure to accept this task with its important mission for different reasons. I think that the field of engineering mathematics has an important purpose in our society—not only in terms of developing new and more human technologies but also in terms of education. As a professor, first of all, I am an educator, and, thus, as Editor-in-Chief of the “Engineering Mathematics” Section of this journal, I would like to emphasize possible future applications that are strongly rooted in mathematical background. This approach will benefit students more directly. It is my wish to emphasize the submission of papers that include a background on their topics, even if brief. The idea is to attract readers, students, and lecturers who can profit from the content of our articles.

More than the aforementioned, I would like to clarify and apply some ethical aspects, as I did in other fields of my life and other occasions throughout my life. I spent ten years living in the Christian community of Opera Madonnina del Grappa in Florence, Italy, sharing this period of my studies assisting children. I also spent one year of my life driving a lorry throughout Albania helping Mother Teresa. It is important for me in this mission as Editor-in-Chief to provide the message of peace in a different way than I have in the past but with the same significance. Under my direction, we will only review papers in which the corresponding authors declare that their results have not come from military applications. If the paper is accepted for publication, the authors must acknowledge that they wish, as I do, that the readers do not apply this knowledge to any form of military application: either military offense or defense. Peace depends on the contributions of each of us. Each war originates from injustices that are carried out by guilty people. In the same way, it is also true that none of us are innocent if we do not contribute to the creation of peace in some way. In some sense, all of us are guilty people because we are not able to leave the categories of war in order to assume the categories of peace. Each war tells us about ourselves. In fact, almost all technological advancements of our era come from war-like technologies, including the internet, for instance. This particular historical period is pressed by oppression, where violence is mixed with our mediocrity, and our response must not be to be scared but to care. Additionally, we must trust in our intelligence to turn the science and, in particular, our intellectual energy of engineering mathematics from potentially bellicose perspectives into serving peace:

Si vis pacem, para pacem! (“If you want peace, prepare for peace!”)

2. What is your vision for the Section?

I see an interesting future for this field and an extremely important mission for this Section. In fact, engineering mathematics develops a mathematical structure in which not strictly mathematical subjects can be examined. Engineering mathematics encompasses a wide range of mathematical methods and shows the practical application of mathematical theories.

Mathematical methods are becoming increasingly important for solving engineering problems. Anyone who studies engineering mathematics today learns how mathematical methods can be used to further develop technology. Algorithms, which can be used to simulate technical processes, play an important role here. Simulation is an essential tool for the development of new products. With its diverse sub-areas, from analysis to optimization, mathematics creates the basis for the further development of numerical methods. In my vision, the “Engineering Mathematics” Section should make space for the techniques and connections that belong to this fascinating science, which will result in new findings that will influence our everyday lives again and again. With this Section, I intend to create an important worldwide platform for research, development, and application in the fields of mathematically oriented sciences—from the development of new algorithms and their implementation on a computer, to prove their functionality. By combining mathematical training with the knowledge of application problems from engineering, a potential reader of our Section can find inspiration to solve current problems and then work with engineering teams to develop the technologies of tomorrow. Our society has set the goal of developing itself into the most dynamic knowledge-based economy, with more and higher qualified jobs and a larger need for social justice. Engineering mathematics can make significant contributions to this goal, and although the role of mathematicians is widely recognized, there is still much room for improvement in the research. In particular, more attention should be paid to mathematical modeling, simulation, optimization, and scientific computing. This applies to both industry and life sciences. In the life sciences, for example, mathematics is used to plan operations and to better understand biological, physiological, social, and more complex systemic processes.

3. What does the future of this field of research look like?

In this sense, this field of research offers tremendous potential in the context of algorithms. The insights mentioned above are needed to optimize the algorithms that are the basis of all artificial intelligence and the direct product of our field. The quality of these algorithms determines an organization's leadership and develops the trust of users. We have to trust computers and robots. I think that better results do not necessarily come from better intellect, nor do they necessarily come from better computing power—they might just as well come from a better process with human finalities. Additionally, for this, people and machines should interact with as much trust as possible. The society of the future is condemned to trust, so we have to trust algorithms.

I would like to summarise with the mantra: “Think mathematically, act algorithmically!”

Moreover, in this controversial historical period, heavy with injustice and oppression, the field of engineering mathematics and its Section in this journal can provide an important contribution in terms of trust and in terms of believing.

In fact, as I introduced above, this is connected, never more so than it is today, with a higher and more important level of trust and belief in the form of a rational integral humanism in which engineering mathematics contributes to peace: Si vis pacem, para pacem!

We warmly welcome Prof. Dr. Paolo Mercorelli to his role as Section Editor-in-Chief and look forward to his guidance in leading “Engineering Mathematics” to more milestones.

The journal Mathematics (ISSN: 2227-7390) is currently recruiting a Section Editor-in-Chief for the Section “Financial Mathematics”.

The Section “Financial Mathematics” aims to publish original contributions focused on the development and application of novel mathematical methods and solutions for financial problems. It is also dedicated to providing a platform and forum for mathematical scientists who are interested in the mathematical aspects of finance, as well as financial economists who are interested in rigorous treatments of scientific computational problems related to practice. Further information about the Section may be found via the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/mathematics/sections/financial_mathematics.

The Section Editor-in-Chief is responsible for the following:

• Defining the aims and scope of the Section;
• Advising on the strategic development of the Section;
• Ensuring that the published content is of high quality;
• Nominating/inviting Guest Editors and optionally providing them with the authority to make final acceptance decisions about submitted articles;
• Nominating/inviting contributors;
• Nominating and leading the Section Editorial Board;
• Promoting the journal at scientific conferences or through other venues;
• Conducting preliminary checks of submissions and making the final decision as to whether a paper can be accepted for publication following peer review and author revisions (when it suits your schedule).

To apply for this position, please contact the Mathematics Editorial Office (mathematics@mdpi.com) with the following two files attached:

• A full academic CV;
• A short cover letter that details your interest and enthusiasm for the position.

Mathematics Editorial Office

We are currently recruiting Topical Advisory Panel Members. The main responsibility of the Topical Advisory Panel is to provide regular support to Guest Editors and Section Board Members. Each year the members’ performance is evaluated, and outstanding members will be promoted to the Editorial Board by the journal's Editor-in-Chief. You can check the detailed Topical Advisory Panel responsibilities at the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/editors#Supporting_Editor_Responsibilities.

Mathematics (ISSN 2227-7390) is a peer-reviewed and open access journal that provides an advanced forum for studies related to mathematics, and is published semimonthly online by MDPI. The European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology (EUSFLAT) and International Society for the Study of Information (IS4SI) are affiliated with Mathematics. The aims and scope of the journal can be found at the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/mathematics/about.

To qualify as a Topical Advisory Panel Member, applicants are required to:

• Have expertise and experience in a field related to the journal;
• Be within approximately 10 years of receiving a Ph.D.;
• Have at least six published papers in the last 5 years as a first author or corresponding author;
• Currently hold an independent research position in academia or at a government institute.

If you are interested in this position, please apply here, or send an email to mathematics@mdpi.com with your academic CV.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Mathematics Editorial Office