Announcements
5 October 2015
2015 Nobel Prize for Medicine Awarded to Professor Youyou Tu
We congratulate Prof. Youyou Tu on receiving the 2015 Nobel Prize for Medicine. Her work was celebrated in a Special Issue of Molecules on the occasion of her 80th birthday. We are delighted that she has received such an accolade for her truly special and groundbreaking work: in discovering Artemisinin Prof. Tu has played a crucial role in saving countless people from malaria. We also offer our congratulations to Prof. William C. Cambell and Prof. Satoshi Omura who share the prize with Prof. Tu.
MDPI staff were delighted to have the opportunity to visit Prof. Tu and congratulate her in person.
Left to right: Leo Jiang (Managing Editor of Materials), Ran Dang (Managing Editor of Molecules), Kathy Lai (CEO, China), Prof. Youyou Tu, Prof. Liangren Zhang (Assistant Dean, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking University), Dr. Shu-Kun Lin (President of MDPI).
Left: Prof. Youyou Tu, Right: Dr. Shu-Kun Lin (President of MDPI).
2 October 2015
Membership Established with the University of Freiburg and the University of Regensburg
We are pleased to announce that the following universities have joined MDPI's institutional membership program:
University of Freiburg, Germany
University of Regensburg, Germany
Primary authors from the University of Freiburg and the University of Regensburg will benefit from a 10% discount on the article processing charges as of 1 October 2015 and 1 November 2015.
Additional details can be found on our institutional membership page.
19 June 2015
Updated Impact Factor for Molecules – 2.416
We are pleased to report the 2014 Impact Factor for Molecules . According to the 2015 release of the Journal Citation Reports® Science Edition (published by Thomson Reuters in June 2015), the updated Impact Factor for Molecules is 2.416. It has risen from 2.095 in the previous year (+15%), as illustrated in the figure below. The 5-Year Impact Factor is 2.791. Molecules now ranks 21/57 (Q2) in the category ‘Chemistry, Organic’.
Evolution of the Molecules Impact Factor:
Evolution of citations to Molecules:
