Announcements

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").

Contact: Setsuko Nishihara, MDPI Tokyo

The Section “Biobased and Biodegradable Metals” of Metals is recruiting Editorial Board Members. You can check out the existing Editorial Board Members by visiting the following link:

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/metals/sections/biobased_biodegradable_metals.

The main responsibilities of the Section Editorial Board Members are as follows:

• Providing scientific supervision for the Section;
• Inviting distinguished scientists to join the Editorial Board;
• Suggesting hot topics for Special Issues;
• Making decisions about the suitability of a paper to enter the peer review process and about its acceptance at the end of the process;
• Promoting this Section, recommending international conference cooperation, and assisting this Section in holding physical/electronic conferences;
• Providing feedback and suggesting improvements for the journal.

This Section of Metals covers the broad field of biomaterials, focusing on recent biomedical materials, to provide a summary of the latest results in the development and production of modern biomedical materials used in contemporary medicine and dentistry. Biomedical alloys are designed to take a form that can direct, through interactions with living systems, the course of any therapeutic or diagnostic procedure. Metals are currently used for medical devices, and over 70% of medical implants consist of metals, of which over 90% are orthopedic implants. Despite many metallic medical devices being in use today, they are predominantly made up of only a few metals. In this sense, in recent decades, metallic alloys have been used in the biomedical field due to their low elastic modulus, good fatigue strength and formability, and corrosion resistance. In this Section of Metals, we intend to gather the main research results from various areas related to the development, processing, and use of metallic alloys for biomedical applications. Topics of interest comprise the design and processing of biomedical alloys, titanium-based alloys, zirconium-based alloys, biodegradable alloys, porous alloys, mechanical properties of biomedical alloys, corrosion resistance of biomedical alloys, the biocompatibility of biomedical alloys, and characterization techniques.

For more information about this Section and publishing in Metals, please see the Section’s webpage:

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/metals/sections/biobased_biodegradable_metals.

To apply for this position, recommend potential candidates, or request further information, please contact Mr. Humphrey Wu (humphrey.wu@mdpi.com) at the Metals Editorial Office.

The Section “Powder Metallurgy” of Metals is recruiting Editorial Board Members. You can check the existing Editorial Board Members by visiting the following link:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/metals/sectioneditors/powder_metallurgy.

The main responsibilities of the Section Editorial Board Members are as follows:

• Providing scientific supervision for the Section;
• Inviting distinguished scientists to join the Editorial Board;
• Suggesting hot topics for Special Issues;
• Making decisions about the suitability of a paper to enter the peer-review process and about its acceptance at the end of the process;
• Promoting this Section, recommending international conference cooperation, and assisting this Section in holding physical/electronic conferences;
• Providing feedback and suggesting improvements for the journal.

This Section of Metals covers the field of powder metallurgy, focusing on a wider understanding of powder development, characterization, shaping, modeling, and powder metallurgy materials. Powder metallurgy allows for a better microstructural design and control, including the opportunities that the nanoscale field offers, allowing competition with other forming technologies in the development of high-performance materials for applications where extreme conditions can be expected. All metallic materials are considered, as well as metal matrix composites, hard metals, and tailored microstructural materials. Full-density materials, porous materials, and foams developed through specific routes of powder metallurgy are also considered.

The Section will cover any technology that can produce and tailor metallic powders (including atomizing, mechanical alloying, granulation or agglomeration techniques, chemical processes, etc.), conventional powder metallurgy technologies, such as press and sintering, special methods of assisted sintering (liquid phase sintering, microwave sintering, field assisted sintering), metal injection molding, and technologies that provide full-density materials (hot pressing, hot isostatic pressing, powder extrusion, sinter forging, etc.). Powder-based methods for developing materials by additive manufacturing will also be covered in the Section.

For more information about this Section and publishing in Metals, please see the Section’s webpage: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/metals/sections/powder_metallurgy.

To apply for this position, recommend potential candidates, or request further information, please contact Ms. Lyra Xing (lyra.xing@mdpi.com), the Section Managing Editor.

The Section “Corrosion and Protection” of Metals is recruiting Editorial Board Members. You can check the existing Editorial Board Members by visiting the following link:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/metals/sectioneditors/corrosion_protection.

The main responsibilities of the Section Editorial Board Members are as follows:

• Providing scientific supervision for the Section;
• Inviting distinguished scientists to join the Editorial Board;
• Suggesting hot topics for Special Issues;
• Making decisions about the suitability of a paper to enter the peer-review process and about its acceptance at the end of the process;
• Promoting this Section, recommending international conference cooperation, and assisting this Section in holding physical/electronic conferences;
• Providing feedback and suggesting improvements for the journal.

This Section of Metals covers the degradation of materials via corrosion and the methods and mechanisms to protect them. It focuses on the corrosion phenomenon, including advanced mechanisms, efficient testing techniques and the main influencing factors, and finding the most suitable procedures to avoid or slow down its propagation, such as coatings, inhibitors or cathodic protection, among others.

For more information about this Section and publishing in Metals, please see the Section’s webpage: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/metals/sections/corrosion_protection.

To apply for this position, recommend potential candidates, or request further information, please contact Ms. Betty Jin (betty.jin@mdpi.com) from the Metals Editorial Office.

The Section “Extractive Metallurgy” of Metals is recruiting Editorial Board Members. You can check the existing Editorial Board Members by visiting the following link:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/metals/sectioneditors/hydrometallurgy_pyrometallurgy.

The main responsibilities of the Section Editorial Board Members are as follows:

• Providing scientific supervision for the Section;
• Inviting distinguished scientists to join the Editorial Board;
• Suggesting hot topics for Special Issues;
• Taking decisions about the suitability of a paper to enter the peer-review process and about its acceptance at the end of the process;
• Promoting this Section, recommending international conference cooperation, and assisting this Section in holding physical/electronic conferences;
• Providing feedback and suggesting improvements for the journal.

This Section of Metals covers the broad field of metal production and focuses on a deeper understanding of the routes and mechanisms for the extraction of metals from primary raw materials (concentrates, mining, and mineral processing waste) and the recovery of metals from secondary raw materials (scrap, end-of-life products, industrial waste, intermediates) through recycling. The Section also covers not only processes based on reaction chemistries but also processes from the field of special metallurgy, e.g., physical refining.

For more information about this Section and publishing in Metals, please see the Section’s webpage: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/metals/sections/hydrometallurgy_pyrometallurgy.

To apply for this position, recommend potential candidates, or request further information, please contact Mr. Toliver Guo (toliver.guo@mdpi.com) at the Metals Editorial Office.

The Section “Metal Failure Analysis” of Metals is recruiting Editorial Board Members. You can check the existing Editorial Board Members by visiting the following link:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/metals/sectioneditors/metal_failure_analysis.

The main responsibilities of the Section Editorial Board Members are as follows:

• Provide scientific supervision for the Section;
• Invite distinguished scientists to join the Editorial Board;
• Suggest hot topics for Special Issues;
• Make decisions about the suitability of a paper to enter the peer-review process and about its acceptance at the end of the process;
• Promote this Section, recommend international conference cooperation, and assist in holding physical/electronic conferences;
• Provide feedback and suggest improvements for the journal.

This Section of Metals covers the broad field of failure processes. The main focus of this Section is related to the correlation of failure with the structure and the microstructure of metals and metal welds with their properties.

For more information about this Section, or publishing in Metals, please see the Section’s webpage:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/metals/sections/metal_failure_analysis.

To apply for this position, recommend potential candidates, or request further information, please contact Mrs. Sammi Meng (sammi.meng@mdpi.com) from the Metals Editorial Office.

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 are excited to welcome the following recognized researchers, who recently joined the Editorial Board of Metals:

Dr. Steffen Neumeier;

Prof. Dr. Yulong Li;

Prof. Dr. Qiuming Peng;

Prof. Dr. Daniela Sachs;

Dr. Kazunori Sato;

Prof. Dr. Russell Goodall;

Prof. Dr. Liang Huang;

Dr. Jong-Taek Yeom;

Prof. Dr. Ilya Okulov;

Dr. Alexander Kauffmann;

Prof. Dr. Svea Mayer;

Prof. Dr. Zhang Erlin;

Dr. Atef Saad Hamada;

Dr. Leandro Bolzoni;

Prof. Dr. Fahe Cao;

Dr. Sebastian Feliú Jr.;

Prof. Dr. Helmi Attia;

Prof. Dr. Rességuier Thibaut;

Prof. Dr. Rodolphe Bolot;

Prof. Dr. Kenta Yamanaka;

Prof. Igor Yadroitsev;

Prof. Dr. Alfonso Paoletti;

Prof. Dr. Jer-Ren Yang;

Dr. Huaiyu Shao;

Prof. Dr. Noel Jakse;

Prof. Dr. Ehsan Toyserkani;

Dr. Juan Creus;

Dr. Karsten Kunze;

Prof. Dr. Shoujin Sun;

Prof. Dr. Varvara Romanova;

Prof. Dr. Sergey N. Grigoriev;

Prof. Dr. Janez Grum;

Prof. Dr. Alberto Moreira Jorge Junior;

Prof. Dr. Biao Chen;

Dr. Frank Czerwinski;

Prof. Dong-Woo Suh;

Prof. Dr. Andrea Di Schino;

Prof. Dr. Hardy Mohrbacher;

Prof. Dr. Antoni Roca;

Prof. Dr. João Pedro Oliveira;

Prof. Dr. Frank Liou;

Prof. Dr. Frantisek Chmelik;

Dr. Thorsten Michler;

Dr. Norbert Hort;

Prof. Dr. Xudong Qian;

Prof. Dr. Noé Cheung;

Dr. Thorsten Michler;

Prof. Dr. Ruidi Li;

Prof. Dr. Lucien Veleva;

Dr. Lingfeng He;

Prof. Dr. Tomáš Prošek;

Prof. Dr. Alexander L. Kalamkarov;

Prof. Dr. Hauke Springer;

Prof. Dr. Fumihiro Ashida;

Prof. Dr. Mohsen Asle Zaeem;

Prof. Young-Rae Cho.

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.

Selections

In just a matter of a few clicks, all users are now able to assemble books from MDPI articles and receive instantaneous feedback in the form of a fully produced and compiled book (PDF), which can be downloaded or ordered as print copy. Selections can include any paper published with MDPI, picking and combining content from different journals and special issues.

This way, the user may for example choose to compile an ebook focusing around a particular topic, or assemble articles from a group of others.

We invite you to make yourself familiar with the new tool! The Book Builder can be found here: https://www.mdpi.com/books/book_builder.

Special Issue Reprints

The Book Builder allows Guest Editors of MDPI journals to create a reprint from a successfully completed Special Issue or Topical Collection in book format. If you are a Guest Editor for an MDPI journal, you can use the new tool  to create an PDF document which includes all articles published in the Special Issue as well as a book cover and table of contents.

For Special Issues containing a minimum of 5 articles, the Guest Editor can request its publication on the MDPI Book platform. Published reprints are assigned an ISBN and DOI.

In addition to the PDF copy of the Reprint Book, as a token of our gratitude, MDPI offers every Guest Editor one (1) complimentary print copy (via print-on-demand). All contributors benefit from a discount on orders of any additional print copies, to share with colleagues or libraries or others.

Why choose MDPI Books?

In line with our organization's values, MDPI Books publishes all content in open access, promoting the exchange of ideas and knowledge in a globalized world. MDPI Books encompasses all the benefits of open access—high availability and visibility, as well as wide and rapid dissemination. MDPI Books are distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License, meaning as an author you retain the copyright for your work. In addition, with MDPI Books you can complement the digital version of your work with a high-quality printed counterpart.

If you are interested in editing a book volume or series, or have a monograph manuscript to be considered for publication, please submit your proposal online and look at our Information for Authors.

Contact: Laura Wagner, MDPI Books Manager (email)

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.

Today, MDPI is an international organization with over 4,000 employees based on three continents and in ten countries, and ranks among the world's top four academic publishers.

MDPI's mission is to accelerate access to new scientific research, delivering insight faster for researchers worldwide. Read more here about the company's remarkable success story and what the Open Access publishing model can offer the global scientific community.