Announcements

We are pleased to announce the Proteomes 2022 Best Paper Award, on the occasion of the journal’s 10^th anniversary, for research and review articles published in 2022. One paper will receive the award. The paper will be selected after a thorough evaluation by the journal’s Award Committee, led by its Editors-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Jens R. Coorssen and Dr. Matthew P. Padula.

Eligibility for the award:

• Papers published in Proteomes in 2022;
• Open to all career levels;
• Both regular and Special Issue submissions will be considered.

Selection criteria:

• Scientific merit and broad impact;
• Originality of the research objectives and/or the ideas presented;
• Creativity of the study design or uniqueness of the approaches and concepts;
• Clarity of presentation;
• Citations and downloads.

Prize:

• CHF 500;
• A chance to publish a paper free of charge in Proteomes in 2024 after peer review;
• A certificate.

The winner will be announced on the journal’s website by the end of April 2024.

Proteomes Editorial Office

MDPI will be attending the 11^th AOHUPO and 7^th AOAPO Congress, hosted by the SSMS and the Malaysian Proteomics Society (MAPS), which will be held from 8 to 10 May 2023, in Singapore. The 3-day face-to-face joint congress will feature distinguished invited speakers in 5 plenary sessions and 27 concurrent sessions, covering broad topics of proteomics and mass spectrometry technologies and applications in health/biomedical research, agriculture/aquaculture, food, and environmental sciences. Congress participants will have the opportunity to submit abstracts for oral and poster presentations. In addition, the organizers have also planned to hold a Young Scientist Forum (YSF) for young scientists as a preconference activity.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• IJMS;
• Agriculture;
• Nutrients;
• Foods;
• Proteomes;
• BioTech.

If you plan on attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth (#A15) and 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 the following link: https://www.aohupo-aoapo-2023.org/.

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. “Survey of Anti-Pathogen Antibody Levels in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome”
by Adam J. O'Neal, Katherine A. Glass, Christopher J. Emig, Adela A. Vitug, Steven J. Henry, Dikoma C. Shungu, Xiangling Mao, Susan M. Levine and Maureen R. Hanson
Proteomes 2022, 10(2), 21; https://doi.org/10.3390/proteomes10020021
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7382/10/2/21 

2. “Potential Tear Biomarkers for the Diagnosis of Parkinson’s Disease—A Pilot Study”
by Arantxa Acera, Juan Carlos Gómez-Esteban, Ane Murueta-Goyena, Marta Galdos, Mikel Azkargorta, Felix Elortza, Noelia Ruzafa, Oliver Ibarrondo, Xandra Pereiro and Elena Vecino
Proteomes 2022, 10(1), 4; https://doi.org/10.3390/proteomes10010004
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7382/10/1/4 

3. “Shotgun Proteomics as a Powerful Tool for the Study of the Proteomes of Plants, Their Pathogens, and Plant–Pathogen Interactions”
by Sadegh Balotf, Richard Wilson, Robert S. Tegg, David S. Nichols and Calum R. Wilson
Proteomes 2022, 10(1), 5; https://doi.org/10.3390/proteomes10010005
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7382/10/1/5 

4. “Wheat Proteomics for Abiotic Stress Tolerance and Root System Architecture: Current Status and Future Prospects”
by Tanushree Halder, Mukesh Choudhary, Hui Liu, Yinglong Chen, Guijun Yan and Kadambot H. M. Siddique
Proteomes 2022, 10(2), 17; https://doi.org/10.3390/proteomes10020017
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7382/10/2/17 

5. “Insights on Proteomics-Driven Body Fluid-Based Biomarkers of Cervical Cancer”
by Amrita Mukherjee, Chinmayi Bhagwan Pednekar, Siddhant Sujit Kolke, Megha Kattimani, Subhiksha Duraisamy, Ananya Raghu Burli, Sudeep Gupta and Sanjeeva Srivastava
Proteomes 2022, 10(2), 13; https://doi.org/10.3390/proteomes10020013
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7382/10/2/13 

6. “Multi-Omics Integrative Approach of Extracellular Vesicles: A Future Challenging Milestone”
by Enxhi Shaba, Lorenza Vantaggiato, Laura Governini, Alesandro Haxhiu, Guido Sebastiani, Daniela Fignani, Giuseppina Emanuela Grieco, Laura Bergantini, Luca Bini and Claudia Landi
Proteomes 2022, 10(2), 12; https://doi.org/10.3390/proteomes10020012
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7382/10/2/12 

7. “Data-Independent Acquisition Enables Robust Quantification of 400 Proteins in Non-Depleted Canine Plasma”
by Halley Gora Ravuri, Zainab Noor, Paul C Mills, Nana Satake and Pawel Sadowski
Proteomes 2022, 10(1), 9; https://doi.org/10.3390/proteomes10010009
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7382/10/1/9 

8. “Comparison of Different Label-Free Techniques for the Semi-Absolute Quantification of Protein Abundance”
by Aarón Millán-Oropeza, Mélisande Blein-Nicolas, Véronique Monnet, Michel Zivy and Céline Henry
Proteomes 2022, 10(1), 2; https://doi.org/10.3390/proteomes10010002
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7382/10/1/2 

9. “Applications of Proteomics in Ovarian Cancer: Dawn of a New Era”
by Aruni Ghos, Sri Vidya Niharika Gullapalli, Naila Chohan, Anita Bolina, Michele Moschetta, Elie Rassy and Stergios Boussios
Proteomes 2022, 10(2), 16; https://doi.org/10.3390/proteomes10020016
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7382/10/2/16 

10. “Standard Flow Multiplexed Proteomics (SFloMPro)—An Accessible Alternative to NanoFlow Based Shotgun Proteomics”
by Benjamin C. Orsburn, Sierra D. Miller and Conor J. Jenkins
Proteomes 2022, 10(1), 3; https://doi.org/10.3390/proteomes10010003
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7382/10/1/3 

11. “A Comparison of Blood Plasma Small Extracellular Vesicle Enrichment Strategies for Proteomic Analysis”
by Natalie P. Turner, Pevindu Abeysinghe, Keith A. Kwan Cheung, Kanchan Vaswani, Jayden Logan, Pawel Sadowski and Murray D. Mitchell
Proteomes 2022, 10(2), 19; https://doi.org/10.3390/proteomes10020019
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7382/10/2/19 

12. “Molecular Dynamics Study of Citrullinated Proteins Associated with the Development of Rheumatoid Arthritis”
by Amir Taldaev, Vladimir Rudnev, Liudmila Kulikova, Kirill Nikolsky, Alexander Efimov, Kristina Malsagova and Anna Kaysheva
Proteomes 2022, 10(1), 8; https://doi.org/10.3390/proteomes10010008
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7382/10/1/8 

13. “Quantitative Proteogenomic Characterization of Inflamed Murine Colon Tissue Using an Integrated Discovery, Verification, and Validation Proteogenomic Workflow”
by Andrew T. Rajczewski, Qiyuan Han, Subina Mehta, Praveen Kumar, Pratik D. Jagtap, Charles G. Knutson, James G. Fox, Natalia Y. Tretyakova and Timothy J. Griffin
Proteomes 2022, 10(2), 11; https://doi.org/10.3390/proteomes10020011
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7382/10/2/11 

14. “Pattern Analysis of Organellar Maps for Interpretation of Proteomic Data”
by Jordan B. Burton, Nicholas J. Carruthers, Zhanjun Hou, Larry H. Matherly and Paul M. Stemmer
Proteomes 2022, 10(2), 18; https://doi.org/10.3390/proteomes10020018
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7382/10/2/18 

15. “Bovine Peripheral Blood Derived Lymphocyte Proteome and Secretome Show Divergent Reaction of Bovine Immune Phenotypes after Stimulation with Pokeweed Mitogen”
by Kristina J. H. Kleinwort, Roxane L. Degroote, Sieglinde Hirmer, Lucia Korbonits, Lea Lorenz, Armin M. Scholz, Stefanie M. Hauck and Cornelia A. Deeg
Proteomes 2022, 10(1), 7; https://doi.org/10.3390/proteomes10010007
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7382/10/1/7 

16. “Proteomes of Uropathogenic Escherichia coli Growing in Human Urine and in J82 Urinary Bladder Cells”
by Sisse Andersen, Arkadiusz Nawrocki, Andreas Eske Johansen, Ana Herrero-Fresno, Vanesa García Menéndez, Jakob Møller-Jensen and John Elmerdahl Olsen
Proteomes 2022, 10(2), 15; https://doi.org/10.3390/proteomes10020015
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7382/10/2/15 

17. “Proteomic Discovery and Validation of Novel Fluid Biomarkers for Improved Patient Selection and Prediction of Clinical Outcomes in Alzheimer’s Disease Patient Cohorts”
by Shivangi Awasthi, Daniel S. Spellman and Nathan G. Hatcher
Proteomes 2022, 10(3), 26; https://doi.org/10.3390/proteomes10030026
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7382/10/3/26 

18. “Transcriptional and Epigenetic Factors Associated with Early Thrombosis of Femoral Artery Involved in Arteriovenous Fistula”
by Vikrant Rai and Devendra K. Agrawal
Proteomes 2022, 10(2), 14; https://doi.org/10.3390/proteomes10020014
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7382/10/2/14 

19. “Integrative Proteomic and Phosphoproteomic Analyses of Hypoxia-Treated Pulmonary Artery Smooth Muscle Cells”
by Ang Luo, Rongrong Hao, Xia Zhou, Yangfan Jia and Haiyang Tang
Proteomes 2022, 10(3), 23; https://doi.org/10.3390/proteomes10030023
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7382/10/3/23 

20. “Potential Satellite Cell-Linked Biomarkers in Aging Skeletal Muscle Tissue: Proteomics and Proteogenomics to Monitor Sarcopenia”
by Diego Fernández-Lázaro, Evelina Garrosa, Jesús Seco-Calvo and Manuel Garrosa
Proteomes 2022, 10(3), 29; https://doi.org/10.3390/proteomes10030029
Available online: https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7382/10/3/29

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.

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!

We are currently recruiting Editorial Board Members (EBMs) for MDPI journals indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) in Web of Science. In particular, we are looking for experts who are interested in aiding in the development of our journals and safeguarding the scientific quality of the published findings.

Journals currently listed in the ESCI will receive an Impact Factor in June 2023, according to the changes announced by Web of Science (Clarivate). Therefore, this is an excellent time to become an Editorial Board Member for one of these fast-developing journals.

If you are interested in sharing your expertise in one of the journals listed below, please send us an application using this link.

The Editorial Office of the journal will contact you once the application has been approved.
Editorial Board Members are responsible for academic decisions on manuscripts in their field of expertise, will edit Special Issues, and may be invited to review manuscripts. The initial term lasts for two years, after which it can be renewed, and entails the following:

• Prescreening and making decisions on new submissions related to your research interests;
• Setting up at least one Special Issue during your term on a topic related to your research interests (or supervising Special Issues related to your research field);
• Providing input or feedback regarding journal policies;
• Helping to promote the journal among your peers or at conferences;
• Attending Board meetings to suggest journal development strategies;
• Reviewing manuscripts.

Editorial Board Members are entitled to a full waiver on one publication per year in the journal that they serve and need to be experts in their fields.

The list of ESCI journals can be found here: https://www.mdpi.com/about/journals/esci.

Please find the list of ESCI journals, categorized by subject, for which we are recruiting Editorial Board Members below.

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.