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6 January 2023
Metabolites | Publications from Academicians in 2020–2022
We are pleased to highlight several papers published in Metabolites (ISSN: 2218-1989) from the last three years. We invite you to read the selection of published papers listed below.
1. “Discovery and Validation of Potential Serum Biomarkers with Pro-Inflammatory and DNA Damage Activities in Ulcerative Colitis: A Comprehensive Untargeted Metabolomic Study”
by Boli Zhang (张伯礼)
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2218-1989/12/10/997
2. “Apple Polyphenol Extract Suppresses Clostridioides difficile Infection in a Mouse Model”
by Lanjuan Li (李兰娟)
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2218-1989/12/11/1042
3. “Targeted Metabolomics Analysis of Bile Acids in Patients with Idiosyncratic Drug-Induced Liver Injury”
by Lanjuan Li (李兰娟)
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2218-1989/11/12/852
4. “Comparison of the Three Most Commonly Used Metabolic Syndrome Definitions in the Chinese Population: A Prospective Study”
by Runlin Gao (高润霖)
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2218-1989/13/1/12
5. “Identification of Biomarkers for Methamphetamine Exposure Time Prediction in Mice Using Metabolomics and Machine Learning Approaches”
by Guangji Wang (王广基)
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2218-1989/12/12/1250
6. “Identification of Morphine and Heroin-Treatment in Mice Using Metabonomics”
by Guangji Wang (王广基)
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2218-1989/11/9/607
7. “Metabolites Associated with the Main Nutrients in Two Varieties of Purple Rice Processed to Polished Rice”
by Hongcheng Zhang (张洪程)
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2218-1989/13/1/7
8. “Untargeted Metabolomics Reveals the Function of GPRC6A in Amino Acid and Lipid Metabolism in Mice”
by Yulong Yin (印遇龙)
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2218-1989/12/9/776
9. “GPRC6A Mediates Glucose and Amino Acid Homeostasis in Mice”
by Yulong Yin (印遇龙)
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2218-1989/12/8/740
10. “Quantitative Profiling of Bile Acids in Feces of Humans and Rodents by Ultra-High-Performance Liquid Chromatography–Quadrupole Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry”
by Fazheng Ren (任发政)
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2218-1989/12/7/633
11. “Muscle Nutritive Metabolism Changes after Dietary Fishmeal Replaced by Cottonseed Meal in Golden Pompano (Trachinotus ovatus)”
by Kangsen Mai (麦康森)
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2218-1989/12/7/576
12. “Simultaneous Quantification of Trace and Micro Phenolic Compounds by Liquid Chromatography Tandem-Mass Spectrometry”
by Peiwu Li (李培武)
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2218-1989/11/9/589
13. “Identification and Validation of Metabolic Markers for Adulteration Detection of Edible Oils Using Metabolic Networks”
by Peiwu Li (李培武)
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2218-1989/10/3/85
6 January 2023
Metabolites | Highly Cited Papers in 2020–2022 in Science Citation Index Expanded in Web of Science
It is our great honor to congratulate the publications that have been distinguished as highly cited papers by ClarivateTM from 2020 to 2022, according to the Web of Science data. As of December 2022, these highly cited papers received enough citations to place them in the top 1% of the academic field of the “Biochemistry and Molecular Biology” category, based on a high citation threshold for the field and the publication year analyzed in the “Essential Science Indicators”, distinguishing them as hugely influential within their research areas.
1. “Major Nutritional Metabolic Alterations Influencing the Reproductive System of Postpartum Dairy Cows”
by Abdul Sammad, Muhammad Zahoor Khan, Zaheer Abbas, Lirong Hu, Qudrat Ullah, Yajing Wang, Huabin Zhu and Yachun Wang
Metabolites 2022, 12(1), 60; https://doi.org/10.3390/metabo12010060
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2218-1989/12/1/60
2. “Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists for Treatment of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis: An Updated Meta-Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials”
by Alessandro Mantovani, Graziana Petracca, Giorgia Beatrice, Alessandro Csermely, Amedeo Lonardo and Giovanni Targher
Metabolites 2021, 11(2), 73; https://doi.org/10.3390/metabo11020073
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2218-1989/11/2/73
3. “Comprehensive Meta-Analysis of COVID-19 Global Metabolomics Datasets”
by Zhiqiang Pang, Guangyan Zhou, Jasmine Chong and Jianguo Xia
Metabolites 2021, 11(1), 44; https://doi.org/10.3390/metabo11010044
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2218-1989/11/1/44
4. “The Potential of Metabolomics in Biomedical Applications”
by Vanessa Gonzalez-Covarrubias, Eduardo Martínez-Martínez and Laura del Bosque-Plata
Metabolites 2022, 12(2), 194; https://doi.org/10.3390/metabo12020194
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2218-1989/12/2/194
5. “Gut Microbiota Dysbiosis Is Associated with Elevated Bile Acids in Parkinson's Disease”
by Peipei Li, Bryan A. Killinger, Elizabeth Ensink, Ian Beddows, Ali Yilmaz, Noah Lubben, Jared Lamp, Meghan Schilthuis, Irving E. Vega and Randy Woltjer et al.
Metabolites 2021, 11(1), 29; https://doi.org/10.3390/metabo11010029
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2218-1989/11/1/29
6. “L-Carnitine and Acylcarnitines: Mitochondrial Biomarkers for Precision Medicine”
by Marc R. McCann, Mery Vet George De la Rosa, Gus R. Rosania and Kathleen A. Stringer
Metabolites 2021, 11(1), 51; https://doi.org/10.3390/metabo11010051
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2218-1989/11/1/51
7. “MetaboAnalystR 3.0: Toward an Optimized Workflow for Global Metabolomics”
by Zhiqiang Pang, Jasmine Chong, Shuzhao Li and Jianguo Xia
Metabolites 2020, 10(5), 186; https://doi.org/10.3390/metabo10050186
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2218-1989/10/5/186
8. “Gut Microbiota Metabolites in Major Depressive Disorder-Deep Insights into Their Pathophysiological Role and Potential Translational Applications”
by Miguel A. Ortega, Miguel Angel Alvarez-Mon, Cielo García-Montero, Oscar Fraile-Martinez, Luis G. Guijarro, Guillermo Lahera, Jorge Monserrat, Paula Valls, Fernando Mora and Roberto Rodríguez-Jiménez et al.
Metabolites 2022, 12(1), 50; https://doi.org/10.3390/metabo12010050
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2218-1989/12/1/50
9. “The Role of Fructose as a Cardiovascular Risk Factor: An Update”
by Stefan-Sebastian Busnatu, Teodor Salmen, Maria-Alexandra Pana, Manfredi Rizzo, Tiziana Stallone, Nikolaos Papanas, Djordje Popovic, Denisa Tanasescu, Dragos Serban and Anca Pantea Stoian
Metabolites 2022, 12(1), 67; https://doi.org/10.3390/metabo12010067
Full text available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2218-1989/12/1/67
22 December 2022
Special Issue Mentor Program
We are pleased to announce the launch of a new initiative—the MDPI Special Issue Mentor Program.
This program will enable early career researchers (who must hold a Ph.D. in a related field) to experience editing a Special Issue in MDPI journals, under the mentorship of our experienced Editorial Board Members or other experienced scientists. The mentor program will provide an excellent opportunity for early career scientists to gain editorial experience, and to cultivate their ability to edit scientific research.
The mentee’s responsibilities include:
- Proposing a Special Issue title and assisting the mentor in preparing a summary (around 200–400 words) and 3–10 keywords describing the background, importance, and goal of the Issue;
- Writing a brief promotion plan for the Special Issue;
- Preparing a list of scholars who may be interested in the Issue and personally e-mailing invitations on behalf of Guest Editors;
- Writing an editorial for the online Special Issue together with the mentor.
The mentor’s responsibilities include:
- Conducting a final check before the Special Issue is published online;
- Performing editorial control of the Special Issue and quality control of the publications, both of which must be carried out in a timely manner;
- Providing suggestions to younger scholars if they have any doubts or concerns regarding submissions;
- Organizing video calls with young scholars and the Editorial Office regularly to discuss problems and improvement suggestions for the Special Issue;
- Making and submitting decisions regarding submissions with the assistance of mentees.
Certificates and awards:
After the Special Issue closes, the Editorial Office will provide official certificates for all the mentors and early career researchers.
If you are interested in this opportunity, please send your Special Issue proposal to the Editorial Office of a journal you choose, and we will discuss the process (i.e., mentor collaboration, Special Issue topic feasibility analysis, etc.) in further detail. The full list of MDPI journals is as follows: https://www.mdpi.com/about/journals.
In addition to the new Special Issue Mentor Program, we will continue to welcome all Special Issue proposals focusing on hot research topics.
14 December 2022
"Thanks a Million!" – One Million Articles Published in MDPI Journals
MDPI has just become the first open access (OA) publisher to reach the milestone of one million articles published. That is one million articles freely available to all, to circulate and build upon! We are proud to share this special moment with the global scientific community.
This landmark has been reached thanks to the immeasurable support of more than 600,000 expert reviewers, 66,000 editorial board members and 6700 hard-working colleagues across MDPI’s global offices.
Within more than 25 years of publishing, our journals received 2.1 million manuscripts and generated 4.6 million peer review reports to get to one million papers published.
Reaching the milestone of one million articles published reinforces our mission to remove any existing barriers and to make scientific research accessible to all. Since its inception, MDPI’s goal has been to create reliable processes to make science open. This is a path towards facilitating the dissemination of novel insights in scientific communities.
Regular feedback from authors and reviewers shows that our service is greatly appreciated and needed. At the same time, the feedback helps us identify areas for further improvement.
As it stands, a significant share of published research findings remain closed access. More than half of the content published with the most well-known legacy publishers stays behind a paywall, and that is not including articles published in hybrid OA journals, or made available months or years after publication.
A new policy announced by the US administration in August 2022 requires that, as of January 2026, all US federally funded research be made freely and immediately available after publication. While the new policy does not mandate articles be published under an open access license, it is aligned with the open access movement in removing all barriers to research. Similarly, some of the most advanced research institutions in the world intend to have all funded research articles published in open access by 2025.
MDPI is proud to be the leading agent of the transition to open access.
"Thanks a Million" to all the contributors!
8 December 2022
MDPI Sustainability Foundation: New Look and Nominations for the 2023 Sustainability Awards Now Open
We are pleased to announce that the website of the MDPI Sustainability Foundation has been revamped! For the past couple of months, our UX UI team and front-end developers have been working hard to launch the website in time for the opening of the Sustainability Awards nominations.
The website is not the only thing that has had a remodeling. Indeed, the format of the Emerging Sustainability Leader Award (ESLA) has been updated. ESLA is now a competition open to individual researchers or start-ups founded by researchers under the age of 35. Nominee applications will go through 2 rounds of selection until the final 3 are decided. The finalists will then be invited to give pitch presentations during the Award Ceremony to win either first place (10,000 USD) or runner-up (2 x 5000 USD).
The World Sustainability Award, on the other hand, remains the same: a total prize money of 100,000 USD is up for grabs by senior individual researchers or groups of researchers from the international research community.
Nominations for both the World Sustainability Award and the Emerging Sustainability Leader award are now open! Check out our new website for more information on how to nominate.
21 November 2022
Meet Us at the 15th Annual Meeting of Chinese Society for Immunology, 27–30 December 2022, Chongqing, China

A range of MDPI journals will be attending the 15th Annual Meeting of Chinese Society for Immunology. This meeting will be held in Chongqing, China, from 27 to 30 December 2022.
The conference focuses on the following areas:
- Recognition and regulation of innate immune responses;
- Adaptive immune response;
- Immune metabolism and immune regulation;
- Immunity to COVID-19 infection;
- Tumor immunity and tumor immunotherapy;
- Autoimmune diseases and other topics.
The following MDPI journals will be represented:
- IJMS (leading journal);
- Vaccines;
- Metabolites;
- Cells;
- Cancers;
- Biomedicines;
- CIMB;
- Pathogens;
- Immuno.
If you plan on attending this conference, feel free to stop by our booth #B13. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person to answer any questions you may have.
For more information about the conference, please see the following link: https://csimeeting2022.sciconf.cn/cn/web/index/13562.
9 November 2022
Editorial Board Members from Metabolites Featured in Stanford’s List of the World’s Top 2% Scientists
Stanford University has recently published an update of the list of the top 2% most widely cited scientists—the World’s Top 2% Scientists.
The time node of the statistical data of this list is from 1960 to 2022, and it is divided into two lists: "Lifetime Scientific Influence Ranking" and "2022 Annual Scientific Influence Ranking". The "Lifetime Scientific Influence Ranking" counts the comprehensive influence performance of scientists during their careers, and the "2022 Annual Influence Ranking" focuses on highlighting the academic influence of scientists in the previous year. This ranking, considered the most prestigious worldwide, is based on the bibliometric information contained in the Scopus database and includes more than 200,000 researchers from the more than 10 million scientists considered to be active worldwide, with 22 scientific fields and 176 subfields taken into account.
We are pleased to share that 67 Editorial Members from MDPI’s journal Metabolites (ISSN: 2218-1989) were featured in Stanford University World’s Top 2% Scientists list in 2022.
Name |
Affiliation |
Prof. Age K. Smilde |
University of Amsterdam |
Dr. Akiyoshi Hirayama |
Keio University |
Dr. Alice S. Ryan |
University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore |
Prof. Augustin Scalbert |
International Agency for Research on Cancer |
Dr. Caroline H. Johnson |
Yale University |
Dr. Chi Chen |
University of Minnesota |
Dr. Cholsoon Jang |
University of California |
Dr. Christoph Steinbeck |
Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena |
Prof. Daniel Raftery |
University of Washington |
Prof. Dante Rotili |
“Sapienza” University of Rome |
Dr. David J. Beale |
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) |
Prof. David Wishart |
University of Alberta |
Prof. Dietrich A. Volmer |
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
Prof. Eiichiro Fukusaki |
Osaka University |
Dr. Geoffrey Kite |
Royal Botanic Gardens |
Prof. Giuseppe Paglia |
University of Milano-Bicocca |
Prof. Guangju Zhai |
Memorial University of Newfoundland |
Dr. Guorong Wu |
Southwest University |
Prof. Guowang Xu |
Chinese Academy of Sciences |
Dr. Haiwei Gu |
Arizona State University |
Prof. Hanne Christine Bertram |
Aarhus University |
Dr. Helen Gika |
Aristotle University Thessaloniki |
Prof. Hirokazu Kawagishi |
Shizuoka University |
Prof. Hiroshi Shimizu |
Osaka University |
Prof. Hua Zhao |
Virginia Commonwealth University |
Dr. Ian Davis |
The United States Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases |
Prof. Jan W. Eriksson |
Uppsala University |
Prof. Jayoung Kim |
University of California |
Dr. Jianguo Xia |
McGill University |
Prof. Jun Fan |
Jinan University |
Dr. Kati Hanhineva |
University of Eastern Finland |
Dr. Kwangsik Nho |
Indiana University School of Medicine |
Dr. Maciej Banach |
Medical University of Lodz |
Prof. Malcolm McConville |
University of Melbourne |
Prof. Mario Thevis |
German Sport University Cologne |
Prof. Markus R. Meyer |
Saarland University |
Dr. Martin Giera |
Leiden University Medical Center |
Dr. Martin Jastroch |
Helmhoitz Zentrum München and German National Diabetes Center |
Prof. Massimo Federici |
University of Rome Tor Vergata |
Prof. Patricia Iozzo |
National Research Council |
Dr. Peter D. Karp |
SRI International |
Prof. Philip Britz-McKibbin |
McMaster University |
Dr. Qi Zhang |
Zhejiang University School of Medicine |
Prof. Qing Zhong |
Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine |
Prof. Robert A. Quinn |
Michigan State University |
Dr. Rodrigo Ledesma-Amaro |
Imperial College London |
Prof. Sebastian Böcker |
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena |
Prof. Shigehiko Kanaya |
Nara Institute of Science and Technology |
Dr. Sonia Osorio |
University of Málaga – Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (IHSM-UMA-CSIC) |
Dr. Steffen Neumann |
Institute of Plant Biochemistry |
Dr. Stephen C. Kolwicz |
Ursinus College |
Prof. Takayuki Tohge |
Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST) |
Dr. Teodoro Bottiglieri |
Scott and White, Center of Metabolomics |
Prof. Tuulia Hyötyläinen |
Örebro University |
Prof. Usama Ramadan Abdelmohsen |
Deraya University |
Dr. Vassilis Mougios |
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki |
Prof. Walter Wahli |
Nanyang Technological University |
Dr. Wen Liu |
Huazhong Agricultural University |
Dr. Wolfgang Bogner |
Medical University Vienna |
Prof. Wolfgang Eisenreich |
Technische Universität München |
Dr. Xianlin Han |
Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies |
Dr. Xiaoxiao Ma |
Tsinghua University |
Prof. Yazen Alnouti |
University of Nebraska Medical Center |
Prof. Yehia Mechref |
Texas Tech University |
Prof. Yoshiya Oda |
The University of Tokyo |
Prof. Youfei Guan |
Dalian Medical University |
Dr. Yueming Jiang |
Chinese Academy of Sciences |
Dr. Nehal Elsherbiny |
Mansoura University |
Prof. Dr. Matej Orešič |
Örebro University |
The latest Stanford rankings reflect the significant influence and research excellence of the scientists, who are committed to furthering their knowledge for the benefit of the world.
We would like to congratulate our Editorial Board Members on their excellent achievement and thank them for their immense contribution to the scientific progression and development of Metabolites.
4 November 2022
Meet Us at the 27th Congress of the Chinese Pediatric Society, 15–18 December 2022, Changsha, China
MDPI will be attending the 27th Congress of the Chinese Pediatric Society, held in Changsha, China, from 15–18 December 2022.
The following MDPI journals will be represented:
- Children (leading journal);
- JPM;
- Medicina;
- Audiology Research;
- JCM;
- Healthcare;
- Diagnostics;
- Metabolites;
- Cancers;
- Nutrients.
If you plan on attending this conference, feel free to stop by our booth: #B67. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person to answer any questions that you may have.
For more information about the conference, please see the following link: https://nccps2022.tiemeeting.com/CN.
28 September 2022
Peer Review Week 2022 – Research Integrity: Creating and Supporting Trust in Research

Peer Review Week began 19 September 2022 under the theme of “Research Integrity: Creating and Supporting Trust in Research”. Through various blog articles, podcast, and webinar, we discussed this crucial subject throughout the week, celebrating the essential role peer review plays in maintaining research quality.
To begin, we held a Webinar on the topic. Professor Peter W. Choate and Dr. Emmanuel Obeng-Gyasi joined Dr. Ioana Craciun, one of MDPI’s scientific officers, for an in-depth discussion.
We invite you to view the event recording:
During the week, the MDPI Blog in a series articles highlighted how good Peer Review safeguards research integrity. The following topics were covered:
- Peer Review Week 2022
- Research Integrity
- What We’ve Learned About Peer Review Reports
- 4 Steps to the Perfect Peer Review Report
- How to Write the Perfect Peer Review Report: An Interview
- Inviting Great Peer Reviewers
In a new edition of Insight Faster, an MDPI podcast, we were delighted to talk to the co-chairs of the Peer Review Week committee, Jayashree Rajagopalan (Senior Manager of Global Community Engagement for CACTUS) and Danielle Padula (Head of Marketing and Community Development at Scholastica) to get their take on this year’s event and its related topics.
You can find the Podcast here.
We hope you enjoy the contents!
7 September 2022
Meet Us at the ASHG Annual Meeting 2022 (ASHG 2022), 25–29 October 2022, Los Angeles, USA

MDPI will be attending ASHG 2022, held in Los Angeles, USA, from 25 to 29 October 2022.
The following MDPI journals will be represented:
- Genes;
- JPM;
- Biomedicines;
- Biomolecules;
- Cardiogenetics;
- Cancers;
- Brain Science;
- Symmetry;
- Diagnostics;
- Metabolites;
- Cells;
- Biology;
- Humans;
- DNA.
If you plan on attending this conference, feel free to stop by our booth: #1844. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person to answer any questions you may have.
For more information about the conference, please see the following link: