Announcements

The 2022 citation metrics have been released in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR), and we’re pleased to announce the following results for MDPI journals:

We are thrilled to announce that 90% of our ranked MDPI journals, specifically 86 out of 96 (captured in the table below), are performing above average in Q1 or Q2. This year, Clarivate has expanded its Impact Factor (IF) awards to include journals in the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) and the Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI), providing greater transparency for the full set of journals indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection. As a result, 111 of MDPI journals have received their first IF in 2023, with 37 journals surpassing an IF of 3.0. In total, 208 MDPI journals have been honored with an IF.

Clarivate explains that by "expanding the coverage but holding to highly selective standards, the [Impact Factor] is now a reliable indicator of trustworthiness, as well as a measure of scholarly impact, at the journal level."

Please visit our blog post where we discuss the release of the latest citation metrics with our Indexing Manager, Dr. Constanze Schelhorn, to find out what's different this time around and how to make use of different metrics available.

Note: The Journal of Personalized Medicine's Impact Factor was omitted in the original release and will be assigned separately. Please find the data on the journal webpage in due course.

Source: 2022 Journal Impact Factors, Journal Citation Reports ^TM (Clarivate, 2023)

Conference: 2023 Chinese Biophysics Congress
Date: 19–23 July 2023
Place: Changsha, China

MDPI will be attending the 2023 Chinese Biophysics Congress, which will be held from 19 to 23 July 2023 in Changsha, China.

The Chinese Biophysics Congress is the largest and most developed academic event in the field of biophysics in China. Prof. Tao Xu, the chairman of the Chinese Society of Biophysics, will be the chair of the organizing committee. The main theme is Biophysics and Human Health, focusing on the latest research progress and development trend of biophysics and related research fields.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• IJMS;
• Biophysica;
• Biomedicines;
• Physics;
• CIMB;
• Bioengineering;
• Biomolecules.

Please do not hesitate to reach out (ijms@mdpi.com) if you plan on attending this conference. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person and answering any questions that you might have. For more information about the conference, please visit the following website: https://www.bsc.org.cn/2023/.

Conference: 25th Chinese Astronomical Society Guoshoujing Symposium on Galaxies and Cosmology
Date: 19–22 May 2023
Place: Huangshan, Anhui, China

MDPI will be attending the 25th Chinese Astronomical Society Guoshoujing Symposium on Galaxies and Cosmology, held in Huangshan, China, from 19 to 22 May 2023. The purpose of the conference is to promote in-depth exchanges between relevant researchers and teams at home and abroad on the important progress and achievements in the field of galaxy cosmology research, and to promote the cultivation of young talents. During this conference, MDPI will welcome researchers from different backgrounds to visit and to share their latest inspirations with us.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Universe;
• Galaxies;
• Atoms;
• Astronomy;
• Symmetry;
• Particles;
• Physics.

If you are attending this conference, please feel free to start a conversation with us. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person and answering any questions that you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit https://conferences.koushare.com/gsj2023.

A range of MDPI journals will be attending the 9th National Conference on Luminescent Properties of Doped Nanomaterials (NMLP 2023) as exhibitors. This meeting will be held in Nanning, Guangxi, China, from 19 to 22 May 2023.

Guangxi University was established by the State Key Laboratory of Lifetime Safety of Special Metal Materials and Composite Structures and was jointly built by the province and the ministry. This is a grand meeting for scholars in the field of luminescence. It will comprehensively display the latest progress and achievements of basic research and applied research in the fields of doped nano-luminescent materials, optoelectronic materials, micro-nano devices, and related applications, and will discuss the latest developments related to disciplines. The topic of this conference is "Luminescent Properties of Doped Nanomaterials", and the topics covered include: perovskite materials and applications, rare earth luminescent materials and applications, quantum dot luminescent materials and devices, biomedical photonics and optical information processing, micro-/nanofiber optics, devices and sensors, energy materials, and micro-/nano-optoelectronic devices. These topics will be presented in the form of invited reports of the conference, invited reports of branch sessions, oral reports, and posters.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Applied Sciences;
• Physics;
• Optics;
• Inorganics.

If you are attending this conference, please feel free to start a conversation with us at our booth. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person and answering any questions that you may have.

For more information about the conference, please visit https://www.bagevent.com/event/NMLP2023/p/510700, or contact the Applied Sciences Editorial Office at applsci@mdpi.com.

As a leading open access publisher, MDPI provides scholars with a high-quality and rich academic exchange platform by continuously expanding into new and exciting research areas.

In December 2022, MDPI launched five new journals, covering multiple subjects such as life sciences, biology, medicine and pharmacology, social sciences and humanities. These new journals are being edited by established scholars across the world.

If you are interested in creating more open access journals with us to publish cutting-edge research, please send your journal proposal application to newjournal-committee@mdpi.com.

MDPI is pleased to announce that we now display the co-authors’ email addresses in addition to the corresponding author’s email address on the webpage of published papers, protected by Captcha. For more information about this change, please visit the journal’s instructions for authors page. 

We believe this change will facilitate academic discussions and advance our cause of open science and research. The corresponding authors are responsible for communicating with their co-authors and indicating in our system (https://susy.mdpi.com/) if co-authors would prefer for their email addresses not to be displayed.

On 9 February 2023, Clarivate, a global leader in providing trusted insights and analytics, added the Preprint Citation Index to the Web of Science platform, streamlining the research process by allowing researchers to locate and link to preprints alongside other trusted content in the database.

The Preprint Citation Index will act as a bridge to connect cutting-edge preprints with peer-reviewed journal articles published within the Web of Science Core Collection. Alerts can be easily set to monitor new research across several repositories and authors will also be able to include preprints on their Web of Science Research Profile to more accurately display their various research outputs.

As of its launch, the Preprint Citation Index will provide nearly two million preprints from various repositories, including MDPI’s own Preprints.org.

MDPI's Preprints Platform – Preprints.org

To advance Open Science and the fast dissemination of research, MDPI offers researchers a free multidisciplinary preprint platform. Preprints.org accepts submissions from all research areas and offers authors high visibility, permanent archiving, article-level Metrics and immediately citable content by assigning a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) to all preprints.

During submission to any MDPI journal, authors have the option to share their research as a preprint. After an initial screening, the manuscript is available online in 48 hours or less. Once online, preprints can be downloaded, shared, commented on, and cited, providing authors maximum visibility.

We invite you to join the ranks of the over 100k researchers using Preprints.org and share your research.

For more information, please visit Preprints.org.

1. “Fifty Years of the Dynamical Casimir Effect”
by Viktor Dodonov
Physics 2020, 2(1), 67-104; https://doi.org/10.3390/physics2010007
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2624-8174/2/1/7

2. “Tsallis Statistics in High Energy Physics: Chemical and Thermal Freeze-Outs”
by Jean Cleymans and Masimba Wellington Paradza
Physics 2020, 2(4), 654-664; https://doi.org/10.3390/physics2040038
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2624-8174/2/4/38

3. “Fractal Structures of Yang–Mills Fields and Non-Extensive Statistics: Applications to High Energy Physics”
by Airton Deppman, Eugenio Megías and Débora P. Menezes
Physics 2020, 2(3), 455-480; https://doi.org/10.3390/physics2030026
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2624-8174/2/3/26

4. “Kinetic Freeze-Out Properties from Transverse Momentum Spectra of Pions in High Energy Proton-Proton Collisions”
by Li-Li Li and Fu-Hu Liu
Physics 2020, 2(2), 277-308; https://doi.org/10.3390/physics2020015
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2624-8174/2/2/15

5. “The Dynamical Casimir Effect in a Dissipative Optomechanical Cavity Interacting with Photonic Crystal”
by Satoshi Tanaka and Kazuki Kanki
Physics 2020, 2(1), 34-48; https://doi.org/10.3390/physics2010005
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2624-8174/2/1/5

6. “The Higgs Field and Early Universe Cosmology: A (Brief) Review”
by Bart Horn
Physics 2020, 2(3), 503-520; https://doi.org/10.3390/physics2030028
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2624-8174/2/3/28

7. “A Baseline Study of the Event-Shape and Multiplicity Dependence of Chemical Freeze-Out Parameters in Proton-Proton Collisions at√s = 13 TeV Using PYTHIA8”
by Rutuparna Rath, Arvind Khuntia, Sushanta Tripathy and Raghunath Sahoo
Physics 2020, 2(4), 679-694; https://doi.org/10.3390/physics2040040
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2624-8174/2/4/40

8. “History and Some Aspects of the Lamb Shift”
by G. Jordan Maclay
Physics 2020, 2(2), 105-149; https://doi.org/10.3390/physics2020008
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2624-8174/2/2/8

9. “Antimatter Gravity: Second Quantization and Lagrangian Formalism”
by Ulrich D. Jentschura
Physics 2020, 2(3), 397-411; https://doi.org/10.3390/physics2030022
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2624-8174/2/3/22

10. “QED Response of the Vacuum”
by Gerd Leuchs, Margaret Hawton and Luis L. Sánchez-Soto
Physics 2020, 2(1), 14-21; https://doi.org/10.3390/physics2010002
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2624-8174/2/1/2

MDPI will be attending the XII Reunión del grupo de física de la materia condensada de la RSEF (GEFES 2023) in Salamanca, Spain, which will take place from 1 to 3 February 2023. The GEFES 2023 is the annual meeting of GEFES, the Condensed Matter Physics Division of the Spanish Royal Physics Society. The theme of GEFES 2023 is to review the condensed matter physics research achievements of the society in the past year and discuss the opportunities and challenges in the field.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Electronics;
• Nanomaterials;
• Energies;
• Materials;
• Symmetry;
• Electronic Materials;
• Physics;
• Condensed Matter.

If you are attending this conference, please visit our booth. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person and answering any questions that you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit the following link: https://gefes2023.es/.

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.