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20 June 2022
Photonics | Special Issue Mentor Program
We are pleased to announce the launch of a new initiative—the Photonics Special Issue Mentor Program.
This program intends to provide an opportunity for early career scientists to enhance their editing, networking, and organizational skills and to work closely with our journal to gain more editorial experience. Early career scientists who have novel ideas for new Special Issues of Photonics (ISSN: 2304-6732) will act as Guest Editors under the mentorship of an experienced scientist; this mentor could be a member of the Photonics Editorial Board or may be from other well-established research institutes or laboratories, etc.
If you are interested in this opportunity, please send your Special Issue proposal to the Photonics Editorial Office (photonics@mdpi.com), and we will discuss the process (i.e., mentor collaboration, Special Issue topic feasibility analysis, etc.) in further detail. When the Special Issue is closed, our office will provide certificates to all the mentors and to those who complete the program. Younger scholars will be prioritized as candidates for our journal award.
In addition to the new Special Issue Mentor Program, Photonics continues to welcome all Special Issue proposals based on hot research topics in the field as usual.
Photonics Editorial Office
9 June 2022
2021 CiteScores - Released

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:
Journal |
CiteScore |
Quartile |
Category |
10.1 |
Q1 |
Genetics |
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10.0 |
Q1 |
Biomedical Engineering |
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8.1 |
Q1 |
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics (miscellaneous) |
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7.9 |
Q1 |
Electrical and Electronic Engineering |
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7.9 |
Q1 |
Nutrition and Dietetics |
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7.4 |
Q1 |
General Earth and Planetary Sciences |
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7.2 |
Q1 |
Computer Science Applications |
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6.9 |
Q1 |
Inorganic Chemistry |
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6.9 |
Q1 |
Computer Networks and Communications |
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6.7 |
Q1 |
General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology |
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6.6 |
Q1 |
General Chemical Engineering |
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6.6 |
Q1 |
Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis |
|
6.6 |
Q1 |
Infectious Diseases |
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6.5 |
Q1 |
Food Science |
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6.5 |
Q1 |
Civil and Structural Engineering |
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6.4 |
Q1 |
Nature and Landscape Conservation |
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6.4 |
Q1 |
Instrumentation |
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6.1 |
Q1 |
Management Information Systems |
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5.9 |
Q1 |
Chemistry (miscellaneous) |
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5.7 |
Q1 |
Polymers and Plastics |
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5.6 |
Q1 |
Engineering (miscellaneous) |
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5.5 |
Q1 |
General Environmental Science |
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5.5 |
Q1 |
Urban Studies |
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5.4 |
Q2 |
Computer Networks and Communications |
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5.3 |
Q1 |
Food Science |
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5.3 |
Q1 |
Plant Science |
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5.2 |
Q1 |
Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics |
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5.2 |
Q1 |
General Engineering |
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Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity |
5.1 |
Q1 |
Development |
5.0 |
Q1 |
Chemistry (miscellaneous) |
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5.0 |
Q1 |
Control and Optimization |
|
5.0 |
Q1 |
Geography, Planning and Development |
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5.0 |
Q1 |
Geography, Planning and Development |
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4.9 |
Q1 |
Forestry |
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4.9 |
Q1 |
Control and Optimization |
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4.9 |
Q1 |
Soil Science |
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4.8 |
Q1 |
General Earth and Planetary Sciences |
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4.8 |
Q1 |
Mechanical Engineering |
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4.8 |
Q1 |
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health |
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4.8 |
Q1 |
Geography, Planning and Development |
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International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health |
4.5 |
Q1 |
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health |
4.5 |
Q1 |
Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation |
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4.4 |
Q1 |
Mathematical Physics |
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4.4 |
Q1 |
General Medicine |
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4.3 |
Q1 |
General Mathematics |
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4.2 |
Q1 |
Surgery |
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4.1 |
Q1 |
Health Professions (miscellaneous) |
|
4.1 |
Q1 |
Plant Science |
|
4.0 |
Q1 |
General Engineering |
|
4.0 |
Q1 |
Forestry |
|
4.0 |
Q1 |
Education |
|
3.9 |
Q1 |
General Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics |
|
3.9 |
Q1 |
Applied Mathematics |
|
3.8 |
Q1 |
Development |
|
3.8 |
Q1 |
Architecture |
|
3.8 |
Q1 |
Metals and Alloys |
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3.5 |
Q1 |
Communication |
|
3.4 |
Q1 |
General Social Sciences |
|
2.9 |
Q1 |
General Mathematics |
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2.8 |
Q1 |
Analysis |
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2.7 |
Q1 |
General Veterinary |
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2.6 |
Q1 |
Algebra and Number Theory |
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1.8 |
Q1 |
Conservation |
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1.0 |
Q1 |
Religious Studies |
|
0.9 |
Q1 |
Philosophy |
Source: 2021 CiteScores™ (Elsevier)
23 March 2022
Recruiting Section Editors-in-Chief for Photonics
Photonics is currently recruiting Editors-in-Chief for the following Sections:
- “Optical Communication and Network” (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/photonics/sectioneditors/Optical_Communication_Network);
- “Optoelectronics and Optical Materials” (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/photonics/sectioneditors/Optoelectronics_Optical_Materials);
- “Optical Interaction Science” (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/photonics/sectioneditors/Optical_Interaction_Science);
- “Data-Science Based Techniques in Photonics” (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/photonics/sectioneditors/data-science_based_techniques_in_photonics);
- “New Applications Enabled by Photonics Technologies and Systems” (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/photonics/sections/new_applications_enabled_by_photonics_technologies_and_systems).
Photonics (ISSN: 2304-6732, IF 2.676) is an international scientific, peer-reviewed, open access journal on the science and technology of optics and photonics, published monthly online by MDPI.
The Section Editor-in-Chief is a leader in their particular field of research and is responsible for maintaining the scientific quality of a particular section of a journal. The Section Editor-in-Chief is expected to oversee the growth and development of the journal Sections and its board members. The initial term is for 2 years and entails the following:
- Acting as an ambassador for the journal, MDPI, and open access publishing;
- Making scientific decisions about the scope of the Section;
- Inviting distinguished scientists to join the Editorial Board;
- Suggesting topics for Special Issues;
- Providing support and guidance to Editorial Board Members and editorial staff when required;
- Maintaining oversight of the editorial process for individual manuscripts in the Section (mainly by making the final decision regarding whether or not a paper can be published after peer review and revisions);
- Understanding, leading, and upholding MDPI’s peer review guidelines and ethics guidelines.
To apply for this position (in one of our sections), recommend potential candidates, or request further information, please contact the Photonics Editorial Office (photonics@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.
Photonics Editorial Office
21 January 2022
Meet Us at the 9th International Symposium on Sensor Science (I3S 2022), 20–22 June 2022, Warsaw, Poland

Conference name: 9th International Symposium on Sensor Science (I3S 2022)
Conference website: https://i3s2022warsaw.sciforum.net/
Date: 20–22 June 2022
Place: Warsaw, Poland
It is with great pleasure that we announce the 9th International Symposium on Sensor Science, to be held in Warsaw, Poland, from 20 to 22 June 2022.
Sensor technology has been shown to be suitable for applications in many important fields, including industrial applications, security medical diagnostics, and environmental monitoring. This international conference, supported by the Photonics Society of Poland, Warsaw University of Technology, as well as MDPI’s Sensors (ISSN: 1424-8220), will bring together scientists from different areas to discuss important recent developments in sensor technology. It will represent a great opportunity for an in-person meeting of an interdisciplinary community aiming to discuss important breakthroughs in sensor technology and its related fields.
The main topics of the conference include:
- Chemical sensors;
- Biosensors;
- Physical sensors;
- Optical/photonic sensors;
- Sensor applications;
- Specialty optical fibers for sensing;
- Materials, microfluidics, configurations and strategies for sensing;
- Distributed sensing in optical fibers;
- Amorphous materials for sensor applications.
We look forward to your participation in this exciting event.
Dr. Piotr Lesiak, Prof. Tomasz Woliński and Prof. Leszek Jaroszewicz
I3S 2022 Conference Chairs
Follow the conversation on Twitter with #I3S2022
21 January 2022
Photonics | Seeking Cooperation with Academic Conferences
Photonics (ISSN: 2304-6732) released its inaugural issue in 2014 and is now published monthly. From the very start, Photonics has aimed to provide a professional publishing service to the scientific community and has strived toward the effective dissemination of high-quality scientific work.
In order to support the scientific community and contribute to the faster distribution of important scientific research, Photonics has cooperated with various academic conferences. For more details, please visit the following events website: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/photonics/events.
Photonics is now seeking cooperation with additional academic conferences and is open to a diverse range of collaborations, such as media partnerships, awards, exhibitions, and publications, among others.
Photonics is an international, scientific, peer-reviewed, open access journal based on research on the science and technology of optics and photonics, published monthly online by MDPI, indexed within Scopus, SCIE (Web of Science), Inspec, CAPlus/SciFinder, and many other databases. The new impact factor of Photonics has increased to 2.676. On the Web of Science, Photonics ranks 37th out of 99 (Q2) in the category “Optics”.
The scope of Photonics includes but is not limited to the following:
- Biophotonics, biomedical optics, and medical optics;
- Semiconductor photonics and optoelectronics;
- Nanotechnology and nanostructures in optics;
- Quantum optics, quantum computing, and applications;
- Photonic materials and technology;
- Metamaterials, plasmonics, and nanophotonics;
- Integrated optoelectronics and integrated optics;
- Photonics device and technologies;
- Optical communications and systems;
- Nonlinear and ultrafast optics;
- Imaging systems and holography;
- Computational photonics and nanostructures;
- Photonics for energy and green technologies;
- Fundamentals and applications of photonics/optics;
- Photon–electron–phonon interaction in nanostructures;
- Physics and simulation: material properties, device technologies, and integrated systems.
We welcome consultations with any conferences related to optics and photonics. If you are interested in collaborating with Photonics, please contact us at photonics@mdpi.com.
8 December 2021
Recruiting Topical Advisory Panel Members for Photonics

The journal Photonics (ISSN 2304-6732) is currently recruiting Topical Advisory Panel Members. The Topical Advisory Panel comprises Early Career Researchers, eager to gain experience in editorial work. Early career researchers that currently hold an independent research position in academia or government institute are invited to apply to join the Topical Advisory Panel, where they will provide support to Guest Editors, Topic Editors, and Section Board Members. Each year, the member’s performance is evaluated, and outstanding members will be promoted to the Editorial Board by the Editor in Chief.
You can check the detailed Topical Advisory Panel Responsibilities at the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/editors#Supporting_Editor_Responsibilities.
If you are interested in this position, please submit your application at the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/photonics/topical_advisory_panel_application.
Photonics is an international, scientific, peer-reviewed, open access journal based on research on the science and technology of optics and photonics, published monthly online by MDPI, indexed within Scopus, SCIE (Web of Science), Inspec, CAPlus/SciFinder, and many other databases. The new impact factor of Photonics has increased to 2.676. On the Web of Science, Photonics ranks 37th out of 99 (Q2) in the category “Optics”. The aims and scope of the journal can be found in the Aims and Scope Section on the following website: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/photonics/about.
8 December 2021
Welcoming New Editorial Board Members of Photonics
We are pleased to announce that the following eight new scholars have recently been appointed Editorial Board Members for the journal Photonics (ISSN 2304-6732):
Prof. Dr. Daomu Zhao (Zhejiang University, China);
Prof. Dr. Chi-Wai Chow (National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan);
Dr. Val Vullev ( University of California, USA);
Dr. Mingxing Li (Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA);
Prof. Dr. Bao-Sen Shi (University of Science and Technology of China, China);
Prof. Dr. Adolfo Cartaxo (University Institute of Lisbon, Portugal);
Dr. Adrian Bradu (University of Kent, UK);
Prof. Dr. Sergei P. Roshchupkin (Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, Russia).
We wish them every success in both their research and the development of the journal.
Further details about the Editorial Board can be found at the following website: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/photonics/editors.
22 November 2021
722 MDPI Editorial Board Members Receiving "2021 Highly Cited Researchers" Distinction
It is our great honor to congratulate the Editorial Board Members and Editors in MDPI's journals who have been distinguished as 2021 Highly Cited Researchers by Clarivate, according to Web of Science data. We herewith express our gratitude for the immense impact the named researchers continue to make on scientific progress and on our journals' development.
Clarivate's annual list of Highly Cited ResearchersTM identifies the most highly cited scientists for the past decade. Their impactful papers are among the top 1 per cent in the citation distribution of one or more of 22 fields analyzed in the "Essential Science Indicators", distinguishing them as hugely influential among their peers.
Abate, Antonio Abatzoglou, John T. Abbaszadeh, Mostafa Acharya, U. Rajendra Acharya, Viral V. Agarwal, Ravi P. Ahn, Myung-Ju Airoldi, Laura Ali, Imran Allakhverdiev, Suleyman I. Aluko, Rotimi E. Anasori, Babak Andersson, Dan I. Andes, David Anker, Stefan D. Apergis, Nicholas Ariga, Katsuhiko Arqub, Omar Abu Aschner, Michael Assaraf, Yehuda G. Astruc, Didier Atala, Anthony Atanasov, Atanas G. Atangana, Abdon Bahram, Mohammad Bakris, George L. Balandin, Alexander A. Baleanu, Dumitru Balsamo, Gianpaolo Bando, Yoshio Banks, William A. Bansal-Travers, Maansi Barba, Francisco J. Barros, Lillian Basit, Abdul W. Baskonus, Haci Mehmet Bassetti, Matteo Battino, Maurizio Bell, Jordana T. Bellomo, Nicola Benediktsson, Jon Atli Benelli, Giovanni Benjakul, Soottawat Bhatnagar, Amit Biddle, Stuart J. H. Biondi, Antonio Biondi-Zoccai, Giuseppe Bjarnsholt, Thomas Blaabjerg, Frede Blaschke, Thomas Blay, Jean-Yves Blumwald, Eduardo Blunt, John W. Boffetta, Paolo Bogers, Marcel Bonomo, Robert A. Bowman, David M.J.S. Boyer, Cyrille Brestic, Marian Brevik, Eric C. Buhalis, Dimitrios Burdick, Jason A. Byrd, John C. Cabeza, Luisa F. Cai, Xingjuan Cai, Jianchao Calhoun, Vince D. Calin, George Cao, Jinde Cao, Guozhong Carvalho, Andre F. Castellanos-Gomez, Andres Cerqueira, Miguel Ângelo Parente Ribeiro Chang, Jo-Shu Chang, Chih-Hao Chastin, Sebastien Chau, Kwok-wing Chemat, Farid Chen, Xiaobo Chen, YangQuan Chen, Jianmin Chen, Chaoji Chen, Min Chen, Qi Chen, Jun Chen, Xi Chen, Peng Chen, Yulin Chen, Bo Chen, Chen Chen, Zhi-Gang Chen, Wei-Hsin Chen, Gang Chen, Yongsheng Chen, Xiang Chen, Yimin Chen, Runsheng Chen, Lidong Chen, Shaowei Chen, Qian Chen, Yu Chen, Shuangming Chiclana, Francisco Cho, Sun Young Choi, Wonyong Chowdhary, Anuradha Choyke, Peter L. Cichocki, Andrzej Corella, Dolores Corma, Avelino Cortes, Javier Cortes, Jorge Costanza, Robert Crommie, Michael F. Cui, Yi Cui, Haiying Cui, Qinghua Cummings, Kenneth Michael Dai, Shifeng Dai, Sheng Daiber, Andreas Davis, Steven J. Dawson, Ted M. de la Fuente-Nunez, Cesar Decker, Eric Andrew Dekel, Avishai Demaria, Marco Deng, Yong Deng, Xiangzheng DePinho, Ronald A. Desneux, Nicolas Dimopoulos, Meletios-Athanasios Ding, Aijun Dionysiou, Dionysios D. Dokmeci, Mehmet Remzi Dolgui, Alexandre Dong, Fan Dou, Shi Xue Dou, Letian Du, Qian Du, Bo Dube, Shanta Rishi Dufresne, Alain Dummer, Reinhard Dupont, Didier Edwards, David Elaissari, Abdelhamid Elhoseny, Mohamed Ellahi, Rahmat Ellis, Erle C. ElMasry, Gamal Esteller, Manel Estévez, Mario Fabbro, Doriano Facchetti, Antonio Fan, Zhanxi Fang, Chuanglin Fasano, Alessio Fečkan, Michal Felser, Claudia Feng, Liangzhu Fensholt, Rasmus Ferdinandy, Péter Fernandez-Lafuente, Roberto Ferreira, Isabel C. F. R. Filippi, Massimo Fisher, Helen Fortino, Giancarlo Fosso Wamba, Samuel Franceschi, Claudio Fujita, Hamido Fujita, Masayuki Gai, Francesco Gaisford, Simon Galanakis, Charis M. Galluzzi, Lorenzo Galvano, Fabio Gan, Ren-You Gan, Lihua Gandomi, Amir H. Gao, Bin Gao, Feng Gao, Minrui Gao, Huijun Gao, Wei Gao, Huile Garbe, Claus Garcia, Hermenegildo Gasbarrini, Antonio Gasco, Laura Gautret, Philippe Geng, Yong Gerdts, Gunnar Geschwind, Daniel H. Ghadimi, Noradin Ghaffari, Roozbeh Ghamisi, Pedram Giampieri, Francesca Glick, Bernard R. Gnant, Michael Goel, Ajay Gogotsi, Yury Goldewijk, Kees Klein Gong, Jinlong Gong, Yongji Govindan, Kannan Granato, Daniel Grancini, Giulia Green, Douglas R. Grosso, Giuseppe Gu, Ke Guan, Cao Guastella, Adam J. Guerrero, Josep M. Gui, Guan Guizani, Mohsen Guo, Zaiping Gupta, Rangan Gutzmer, Ralf Haase, Dagmar Habibi-Yangjeh, Aziz Hagemann, Stefan Hagger, Martin Hamblin, Michael R. Hammoudeh, Shawkat Han, Heesup Hanes, Justin Harrison, Roy M. Hartung, Hans-Peter Hasanuzzaman, Mirza He, Jr-Hau He, Hongwen He, Jiaqing He, Debiao Henseler, Jörg Herrera, Francisco Herrera-Viedma, Enrique Hetz, Claudio Ho Kim, Jung Holmes, Elaine Hossain, Ekram Hsueh, Po-Ren Hu, Xiaosong Hu, Wenbin Huang, Jianping Huang, Hongwei Huang, Yu Huang, Jianying Huang, Peng Huang, Baibiao Huang, Shaoming Hubacek, Klaus |
Iqbal, Hafiz M. N. |
Saad, Fred |
The full list of 2021 Highly Cited Researchers can be accessed at the following webpage in the Web of ScienceTM https://recognition.webofscience.com/awards/highly-cited/2021/.
--- Highly Cited Researchers (HCR) is a Clarivate product.
16 November 2021
Topical Advisory Panel Established to Support Editorial Board
Academic editors play a crucial role in leading our journals and ensuring that each article undergoes a robust and timely peer-review. With the launch of Topics this year and addition of Topic Editors to our family of academic editors, we decided it would be a good time to restructure our academic boards, thus providing more clarity and support for each role. MDPI is pleased to announce the launch of a new position—Topical Advisory Panel Member, that will replace the previous position of Topics Board Member. The Topical Advisory Panel will be comprised of early career researchers eager to gain experience in editorial work.
The main responsibility of the new members of the Topical Advisory Panel is to regularly provide support to Guest Editors, Topic Editors, and Section Board Members. The responsibilities of the Topical Advisory Panel are available here: https://www.mdpi.com/editors.
Each year, the members’ performances are evaluated, and outstanding members are promoted to the Editorial Board by the Editor-in-Chief.
To qualify as a Topical Advisory Panel Member, applicants must:
- Have expertise and experience in the field related to the journal;
- Have received a Ph.D. in the last 10 years, approximately;
- Have at least 6-8 published papers in the last 5 years as first author or corresponding author;
- Currently hold an independent research position in academia or a government institute.
If you are interested in this role, please contact the editorial office by email.
We look forward to hearing from you soon.
25 October 2021
Open Access Week 2021 | It Matters How We Open Knowledge: Building Structural Equity, 25–31 October
Founded in 1996, MDPI was one of the first fully Open Access publisher. Over 25 years MDPI has grown to become the largest Open Access publisher globally, publishing over 160,000 articles across more than 350 journals in 2020. At the core, MDPI was founded in response to a pressing need of fast publication and inclusion. The scholar was set at the centre of the publication process for the first time. Acting as a service provider, rather than a product provider, MDPI exists to help scientists achive their objective to disseminate research results. At MDPI, we believe scientists deserve a better service from the publishing world.
The International Open Access Week (Open Access Week), founded by the SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) Alliance and student partners in 2008, has been successfully running for 13 years. As an advocate and pioneer of open access publishing, MDPI actively responds to the call of International Open Access Week. This year’s theme of “It Matters How We Open Knowledge: Building Structural Equity” highlights the Recommendation’s call for equitable participation from all authors and readers.
For the last 25 years, MDPI has been committed to disseminating open research. Here is a video showing MDPI’s Commitment to Equity, Inclusion and Diversity for More than 25 Years.
International Open Access Week is an important opportunity to catalyze new conversations, create connections across and between communities that can facilitate this co-design, and advance progress in the building of more equitable foundations for opening knowledge—discussions and actions that need to be continued, year in and year out. MDPI has always aimed to provide professional and efficient publishing services to scholars around the world.
Our mission is to make scientific research accessible to everyone; this year, we interview and hold discussions with open science ambassadors on how to build an equal and inclusive environment for open science. Academic editors help us collaborate with more institutions to advocate for open access ideas.
Besides this, our scientific community is a key driver of our success and MDPI’s remarkable growth. Despite the pandemic, we have prepared online conferences and workshops to gather scholars from different communities.
The Basel Sustainable Publishing online forum provides an equal opportunity for stakeholders and researchers from multi-cultural environments to exchange ideas and eliminate barriers to participation.
Conference date: 25 October 2021, online
Conference website: https://bspf2021.sciforum.net/
Main topics: MDPI discusses the current dilemma of open access science from various perspectives such as governments, libraries, and publishers, and related measures on how to change the status quo of discrimination from a global perspective.
We aim to support equality, inclusion, diversity, and accessibility in scholarly communications. We collaborate with universities and key laboratories and have scholarly communications with researchers, teachers, and students on open access workshops.
- 25 October 2021
Energies journal and Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- 28 October 2021
Machines journal and State Key Laboratory of Traction Power, Southwest Jiaotong University
- 29 October 2021
Processes journal and Beijing Institute of Technology
- 29 October 2021
Coatings journal and Wuhan University of Technology
MDPI is committed to providing open access and high-quality publishing services for scholars and promoting rapid dissemination of academic achievements. We hope to promote the practices and policies of open access publishing and diversify the dissemination of academic achievements.