The 2021 citation metrics have been released in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR), and we’re pleased to announce the following results for MDPI journals:

For more information on Impact Factors and what it means to index academic journals, please visit our related blog posts.

* Journals given their first Impact Factor in 2022

Source: 2021 Journal Impact Factors, Journal Citation Reports ® (Clarivate, 2022)

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Alexander Kokhanovsky has been appointed Editor-in-Chief of the Section “Atmosphere Remote Sensing” of Remote Sensing (ISSN: 2072-4292). 

Dr. Alexander Kokhanovsky graduated from the Physical Department of the Belarusian State University, Minsk, Belarus, in 1983. His Ph.D. research at the Institute of Physics (in Minsk, Belarus, 1991) was devoted to studies on the light scattering properties of atmospheric aerosols and whitecaps. Dr. Kokhanovsky’s habilitation work at the Main Geophysical Observatory (in St. Petersburg, Russia, 2011) aimed at cloud and snow remote sensing from space. He was a member of the atmospheric optics group at the Laboratory of Light Scattering Media Optics at Institute of Physics (in Minsk, Belarus, 1983–2004), and the SCIAMACHY/ENVISAT satellite aerosol and cloud retrieval algorithms development team at the Institute of Environmental Physics, University of Bremen (in Bremen, Germany, 2001–2013). Dr. Kokhanovsky has designed aerosol and cloud remote sensing algorithms for the imaging polarimeter (3MI) on board EUMETSAT Polar System-Second Generation (EPS-SG) while working at EUMETSAT (in Darmstadt, Germany, 2014–2017). Currently, his research interests are directed toward studies of light propagation and scattering in the terrestrial atmosphere and surfaces, including ice and snow. He is the author of the following books: Light Scattering Media Optics: Problems and Solutions (Chichester: Springer-Praxis, 1999, 2001, 2004), Polarization Optics of Random Media (Berlin: Springer-Praxis, 2003), Cloud Optics (Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2006), Aerosol Optics (Berlin: Springer-Praxis, 2008), Foundations of Remote Sensing (Berlin: Springer, 2021, with D. Efremenko), and Snow Optics (Berlin: Springer, 2021). Dr. Kokhanovsky published around 250 papers in the field of environmental and atmospheric optics, radiative transfer, remote sensing, and light scattering. 

The following is a short Q&A with Dr. Alexander Kokhanovsky, who shared his vision for the Section with us as well as his views on the research area. 

This journal focuses on remote sensing of the terrestrial atmosphere. This subject is of great importance for atmospheric pollution, weather, and climate change studies (e.g., global temperature increase and the Earth’s energy imbalance). These topics are among the most important scientific topics to be considered. 

Satellite remote sensing is of special importance for monitoring of the terrestrial atmosphere. Spaceborne atmospheric remote sensing using various instruments operating in a broad spectral range will enable us to monitor the atmospheric state with high precision as well as high spatial resolution and with high frequency. 

I fully support open access in the publishing field. Open access accelerates information exchange and leads to rapid progress in various research fields. 

Papers on various aspects of atmospheric remote sensing (ground-based, satellite, and airborne observations) are particularly welcome. Both experimental and theoretical high-quality research must be covered in this Section. 

We warmly welcome Dr. Alexander Kokhanovsky as he starts his new role as Section Editor-in-Chief, and we look forward to him leading Remote Sensing to achieve many more milestones. 

Remote Sensing Editorial Office

MDPI’s Young Investigator Awards recognize promising junior researchers, acknowledge their contributions, and enhance communication among scientists. We are proud to present the winners for the year 2021 in the “Environmental & Earth Sciences” category. The winners were selected by the journals’ editors.

We warmly congratulate the awarded young investigators for their outstanding contributions. MDPI will continue to provide support and recognition to the academic community.

Atmosphere:

• Shaojie Song, Harvard University, USA

Clean Technologies:

• Francesco Galiano, Institute on Membrane Technology of the National Research Council, Italy

Energies:

• Qilin Wang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
• Christopher H. T. Lee, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health:

• Grace Vincent, Central Queensland University, Australia

Minerals:

• Antony Burnham, Australian National University, Australia

Remote Sensing:

• Celso Henrique Leite Silva Junior, National Institute for Space Research – INPE, Brasil; Agricultural Engineering Department of the State University of Maranhão – UEMA, Brazil

Sustainability:

• Baojie He, Chongqing University, China

Water:

• Stefanos Giannakis, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain

In order to acknowledge our reviewers, who so generously dedicate their time to reviewing papers and demonstrate diligence, professionalism, and timeliness when reviewing manuscripts, MDPI journals regularly offer outstanding reviewer awards to scholars who participate in the peer-review process.

We are proud to recognize winners for the year 2021 in the “Environmental & Earth Sciences” category for their outstanding contributions among extensive competition by presenting them with an Outstanding Reviewer Award.

We would like to take this opportunity to congratulate all the winners on their achievement. MDPI will continue to provide support and recognition to the academic community.

Atmosphere:

• Hristo Chervenkov, National Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology, Bulgaria
• Jouni Räisänen, University of Helsinki, Finland

Climate:

• Piotr F. Borowski, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Poland

Energies:

• Elena Lucchi, Institute for Renewable Energy, Italy
• Marcin Dębowski, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland
• Miroslav Variny, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia
• Piotr F. Borowski, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Poland
• Vedran Mrzljak, University of Rijeka, Croatia

Forests:

• Tomasz Oszako, Forest Research Institute, Poland
• Stelian Alexandru Borz, Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania
• Maricar Aguilos, North Carolina State University, USA
• Narayan Bhusal, Seoul National University, South Korea

Geosciences:

• Dave Waters, University of Oxford, UK

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health:

• Anuli Njoku, Southern Connecticut State University, USA
• Haruna Musa Moda, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
• Jesús Molina-Mula, University of BalearicIsland, Spain
• Katharina Diehl, Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
• Katarzyna Tomaszek, Pedagogical University of Kracow, Poland
• Matteo Nioi, University of Cagliari, Italy
• Pablo A. Cantero-Garlito, Universidad de Castilla La Mancha, Spain
• Seoyong Kim, Ajou University, South Korea
• Andrzej Adamski, University of Information Technology and Management, Poland
• Adrian Curto, Faculty of Medicine, University of Salamanca, Spain
• Arkaitz Castañeda Babarro, University of Deusto, Spain
• Álvaro Francisco Lopes De Sousa, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
• Agata Gabryelska, Medical University of Lodz, Poland
• Ana Reyes Menéndez, Rey Juan Carlos University, Spain
• Bartosz Dalewski, Pomeranian Medical University in Szczecin, Poland
• Chong Chen, Yamaguchi University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan
• Carla Maria Batista Ferreira Pires, CBIOS-Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias-Escola de Ciências e Tecnologias da Saúde, Portugal
• Claudia Pisanu, University of Cagliari, Italy
• Emmanuel Obeng-Gyasi, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, USA
• Faisal F. Hakeem, King’s College London, UK
• Francisco Javier Fernández Carrasco, Punta de Europa Hospital, Spain
• Haewon Byeon, Inje University, South Korea
• HuiJun Chih, Curtin University, Australia
• Jerónimo Aragón Vela, University of Granada, Spain
• Joana Costa, University of Aveiro, Portugal,
• Joanne Lloyd, University of Wolverhampton, UK
• José Luis Romero-Bejar, University of Granada, Spain
• Laura Nathans, Human Development and Family Studies, Penn State Scranton, USA
• Mateusz Jankowski, Centre of Postgraduate Medical Education, Poland
• Matteo Riccò, Azienda USL-IRCCS di Reggio Emilia, Italy
• Nicola Döring, Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany
• Nora Suleiman-Martos, University of Granada, Spain
• Russell Kabir, Anglia Ruskin University, UK
• Roy McConkey, University of Ulster, UK
• Sunhee Kim, Ajou University, South Korea
• Sol García-Germán, Centro de Estudios e Investigación para la Gestión de Riesgos Agrarios y Medioambientalesdisabled, Spain
• Sebastian Rutkowski, Opole University of Technology, Poland
• Tamás Berki, University of Szeged, Hungary
• Terence Moriarty, University of Northern Iowa, USA
• Pedro Antonio Martín Cervantes, University of Almería, La Cañada de San Urbano, Spain

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information:

• Lemenkova Polina, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
• Andrew Newton, Nottingham Trent University, UK
• Dennis Edler, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
• Lukáš Herman, Masaryk University, Czech Republic
• Marcela Bindzarova Gergelova, Technical University of Kosice, Slovakia

Land:

• Rahul Datta, Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic
• Dirk H.R. Spennemann, Charles Sturt University, Australia
• Raimundo Jimenez-Ballesta, (Retired recently) Autonoma University of Madrid, Spain

Remote Sensing:

• Veraldo Liesenberg, Santa Catarina State University, Brazil
• Yady Tatiana Solano-Correa, University of Cauca, Colombia
• Francesco Marinello, University of Padova, Italy
• Pedro Melo-Pinto, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal
• Ignacio Bosch, Universitat Politènica de València, Spain
• Juan Soria, University of Valencia, Spain
• Chiman Kwan, Signal Processing, Inc., USA
• Benoit Vozel, University of Rennes, France
• Giuseppe Casula, National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology Unit of Bologna, Italy
• Simone Cosoli, The University of Western Australia, Australia

Resources:

• Maria Economou-Eliopoulos, University of Athens, Greece

Toxics:

• Cynthia Rider, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, USA

We are proud to recognize the winners of MDPI’s 2021 Travel Awards in the “Environmental & Earth Sciences” category for their outstanding presentations and to present them with the prize.

MDPI journals regularly offer travel awards to encourage talented junior scientists to present their latest research at academic conferences in specific fields, which helps to increase their influence.

The winners mentioned below were carefully selected by the journal editors based on an outline of their research and the work to be presented at an academic conference.

We would like to warmly congratulate the Travel Awards winners for the year 2021 and wish them the greatest success with their future research endeavors. MDPI will continue to enhance communication among scientists.

Atmosphere:

• Charbel Harb, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Virginia Tech, USA
• Jibran Khan, Aarhus University, Roskilde, Denmark

Climate:

• Agostino Niyonkuru Meroni, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• Platon Patlakas, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece

Energies:

• Nnaemeka Vincent Emodi, University of Tasmania, Australia
• Irene Poza-Casado, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain

Forests:

• Pipiet Larasatie, Oregon State University, USA
• Tania L. Maxwell, French National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE), France

Hydrology:

• Georgia Papacharalampous, Roma Tre University, Italy
• Mattei Alexandra, University of Corsica, France

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health:

• Danila Azzolina, University of Eastern Piedmont, Italy
• Kelvin Fong, Yale University, USA
• Levi Frehlich, University of Calgary, Canada‎
• Garyfallos Konstantinoudis, Imperial College London, UK

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information:

• Junghwan Kim, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
• Xuke Hu, Institute of Data Science, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany

Land:

• Álvaro Castilla Beltrán, University of La Laguna, Spain
• Lauren Nerfa, University of Hawaiʻi, USA

Remote Sensing:

• Amen Al-Yaari, Sorbonne University, France
• Meng Lu, Utrecht University, Netherlands

Resources:

• Alessandro Lenci, University of Bologna, Italy
• Evangelia Georgantzia, Liverpool John Moores University, UK

Sustainability:

• Sayyed Rasoul Khayyam Nekouei, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia
• Georgia A. Papacharalampous, Roma Tre University, Italy
• Raquel Filipa da Costa Viveiros, NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal
• Rajesh Pathak, South Dakota State University, USA

Water:

• Nnanake-Abasi Okon Offiong, University of Uyo, Nigeria
• Tonni Agustiono Kurniawan, Polytechnic of Health, Indonesia
• Shawna Andrea Foo, Arizona State University, USA

The purpose of our Best Paper Awards is to promote and recognize the most impactful contributions published within MDPI journals.

The editors of each journal carefully selected reviews and research papers through a rigorous judging process based on criteria such as the scientific merit, overall impact, and the quality of presentation of the papers published in the journal last year.

We are honored to present the winners in the subject areas of “Environmental & Earth Sciences”, who were selected amongst extensive competition, and congratulate the authors for their outstanding scientific publications.

MDPI will continue to provide support and recognition to the academic community.

Geosciences:

• “Distinguishing between Deep-Water Sediment Facies: Turbidites, Contourites and Hemipelagites”
  by Dorrik Stow and Zeinab Smillie
  Geosciences 2020, 10(2), 68. https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences10020068
• “Review of Explosive Hydrovolcanism”
  by Károly Németh and Szabolcs Kósiks
  Geosciences 2020, 10(2), 44. https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences10020044

Remote Sensing:

• “A Review on Deep Learning Techniques for 3D Sensed Data Classification”
  by David Griffiths and Jan Boehm
  Remote Sens. 2019, 11(12), 1499. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11121499
• “Satellite Remote Sensing of Precipitation and the Terrestrial Water Cycle in a Changing Climate”
  by Vincenzo Levizzani and Elsa Cattani
  Remote Sens. 2019, 11(19), 2301. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11192301
• “Evaluation of Different Machine Learning Methods and Deep-Learning Convolutional Neural Networks for Landslide Detection”
  by Omid Ghorbanzadeh, Thomas Blaschke, Khalil Gholamnia, Sansar Raj Meena, Dirk Tiede and Jagannath Aryal
  Remote Sens. 2019, 11(2), 196. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11020196
• “An Integrated View of Greenland Ice Sheet Mass Changes Based on Models and Satellite Observations”
  by Ruth Mottram, Sebastian B. Simonsen, Synne Høyer Svendsen, Valentina R. Barletta, Louise Sandberg Sørensen, Thomas Nagler, Jan Wuite, Andreas Groh, Martin Horwath, Job Rosier, Anne Solgaard, Christine S. Hvidberg and Rene Forsberg
  Remote Sens. 2019, 11(12), 1407. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11121407
• “UAV-Based High Resolution Thermal Imaging for Vegetation Monitoring, and Plant Phenotyping Using ICI 8640 P, FLIR Vue Pro R 640, and thermoMap Cameras”
  by Vasit Sagan, Maitiniyazi Maimaitijiang, Paheding Sidike, Kevin Eblimit, Kyle T. Peterson, Sean Hartling, Flavio Esposito, Kapil Khanal, Maria Newcomb, Duke Pauli, Rick Ward, Felix Fritschi, Nadia Shakoor and Todd Mockler
  Remote Sens. 2019, 11(3), 330. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs11030330

Toxics:

• “A Review of Biomonitoring of Phthalate Exposures”
  by Wang, Yu, Hongkai Zhu and Kurunthachalam Kannan
  Toxics 2019, 7(2), 21; https://doi.org/10.3390/toxics7020021
• “Trace Element Uptake by Herbaceous Plants from the Soils at a Multiple Trace Element-Contaminated Site”
  by Nworie, Obinna E., Junhao Qin and Chuxia Lin
  Toxics 2019, 7(1), 3; https://doi.org/10.3390/toxics7010003

Water:

• “Water Quality Indices: Challenges and Application Limits in the Literature”
  by Moez Kachroud, Fabienne Trolard, Mohamed Kefi, Sihem Jebari and Guilhem Bourrié
  Water 2019, 11(2), 361. https://doi.org/10.3390/w11020361
• “A Brief Review of Random Forests for Water Scientists and Practitioners and Their Recent History in Water Resources”
  by Hristos Tyralis, Georgia Papacharalampous and Andreas Langousis
  Water 2019, 11(5), 910. https://doi.org/10.3390/w11050910
• “The Use of Non-Conventional Water Resources as a Means of Adaptation to Drought and Climate Change in Semi-Arid Regions: South-Eastern Spain”
  by Álvaro-Francisco Morote, Jorge Olcina and María Hernández
  Water 2019, 11(1), 93. https://doi.org/10.3390/w11010093
• “Hydrological Effectiveness of an Extensive Green Roof in Mediterranean Climate” 
  by Stefania Anna Palermo, Michele Turco, Francesca Principato and Patrizia Piro
  Water 2019, 11(7), 1378. https://doi.org/10.3390/w11071378
• “Forecasting Groundwater Table in a Flood Prone Coastal City with Long Short-term Memory and Recurrent Neural Networks”
  by Benjamin D. Bowes, Jeffrey M. Sadler, Mohamed M. Morsy, Madhur Behl and Jonathan L. Goodall
  Water 2019, 11(5), 1098. https://doi.org/10.3390/w11051098
• “Effectiveness of Rainwater Harvesting Systems for Flood Reduction in Residential Urban Areas”
  by Gabriele Frenib and Lorena Liuzzo
  Water 2019, 11(7), 1389. https://doi.org/10.3390/w11071389

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:

Source: 2021 CiteScores™ (Elsevier)

We are pleased to announce that we have established a partnership with the Remote Sensing Society of Japan (RSSJ) that organizes the International Symposium on Remote Sensing (ISRS) 2022, a virtual conference to be held from 16 to 18 May 2022 on our Sciforum platform.

ISRS was first organized in 1994 by the Standing Committee of Environmental Monitoring from Space of East Asia (EMSEA). Since 2012, ISRS has been co-organized annually by three major societies—RSSJ, the Chinese Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (CSPRS), and the Korean Society of Remote Sensing (KSRS)—and has become a leading symposium in the field of remote sensing in East Asia.

There are eight sessions at this conference:

• Sensors and Platforms;
• Remote Sensing Applications;
• Method Development and Image Processing;
• New Technology;
• Geographical Information Sciences (GIS);
• Mapping;
• Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS);
• Education.

If you are interested in participating, please register at: https://isrs2022.sciforum.net/. Many thanks for your support.

Peer review constitutes an essential part of the publication process, ensuring that Remote Sensing (ISSN: 2072-4292) maintains its high standards for the quality of its published papers. We are looking to recruit expert reviewers to help uphold the quality and efficiency of Remote Sensing.

To qualify as a reviewer, applicants must have published around 8 papers related to remote sensing in the last 5 years and hold a Ph.D. degree.

We will extend the following benefits to reviewers:

• Reviewers will receive a discount voucher code based on the review quality;
• Reviewers will be included in the journal’s annual acknowledgment of reviewers; more details can be found at https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/14/3/673;
• Reviewers will be considered for the journal’s outstanding reviewer award; details can be found at https://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing/awards;
• Reviewers may be invited to join the Reviewer Board; see https://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing/submission_reviewers for more information;
• Reviewers can build their profile on Publons and have their reviewing activity automatically added for participating journals. Publons profiles can also be integrated into ORCID.

For more information about the role, please visit: https://www.mdpi.com/reviewers.

If you are interested in this position, please submit your application at https://susy.mdpi.com/volunteer/journals/review. We hope you will join us on our team of reviewers.

After your registration has been approved, you will be able to see a list of manuscripts for which reviewers are needed. 

If you have any other questions, please contact the Remote Sensing Editorial Office ([email protected]). We look forward to hearing from you.

The journal Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292) is launching a new position: Topical Advisory Panel Member. The main responsibility of the new members of the Topical Advisory Panel is to provide support to Guest Editors and Section Board Members regularly. For more details, please visit: https://www.mdpi.com/editors.

Remote Sensing is a peer-reviewed, open access journal concerned with the science and application of remote sensing technology, and is published semimonthly online by MDPI. The Remote Sensing Society of Japan (RSSJ) and the Japan Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (JSPRS) are affiliated with Remote Sensing. The aims and scope of the journal can be found at the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing/about.

Each year, the members’ performance is 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 a field related to the journal;
• Be within approximately 10 years of receiving a Ph.D.;
• 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 position, please apply here, or send an email to [email protected] with your academic CV.

We look forward to hearing from you.

We are glad to announce that we have established a new Section "Earth Observation Data" in Remote Sensing (ISSN: 2072-4292). The Section is currently recruiting a Section Editor-in-Chief. 

This Section, “Earth Observation Data”, aims to publish articles on original research based on Earth observation datasets; descriptions of valuable/reference datasets used to classify or validate current products; and methods for collecting, processing, managing, and analyzing these data. The main aim of “Earth Observation Data” is to facilitate the sharing and reuse of high-quality datasets, furthering the cognition revolution of Earth observation and remote sensing. Further information about the Section may be found at the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing/sections/earth_observation_data. 

The Section Editor-in-Chief is responsible for the following:

• Defining the aims and scope of the Section;
• Advising on the strategic development of the Section;
• Ensuring the high quality of published content;
• Nominating/inviting Guest Editors and optionally providing them with the authority to make final acceptance decisions about submitted articles;
• Nominating/inviting contributors;
• Nominating and leading the Section Editorial Board;
• Promoting the journal at scientific conferences or through other venues;
• Conducting preliminary checks of submissions and making the final decision as to whether a paper can be accepted for publication following peer review and author revisions (when it suits your schedule). 

The Section Editor-in-Chief is entitled to publish one paper free of charge in Remote Sensing each year. 

To apply for this position, please contact the Remote Sensing Editorial Office ([email protected]) with the two files below attached.

• A full academic CV;
• A short cover letter that details your interest and enthusiasm for the position.

Remote Sensing Editorial Office

Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292) is a leading international, peer-reviewed, open access journal covering the science and the application of remote sensing technology. Its 2020 impact factor is 4.848. The website of Remote Sensing can be accessed at the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing.

We are currently recruiting prestigious scholars from around the world to join our Editorial Board for the following 17 Sections:

• Atmosphere Remote Sensing;
• Remote Sensing in Geology, Geomorphology and Hydrology;
• Ocean Remote Sensing;
• Forest Remote Sensing;
• Remote Sensing in Agriculture and Vegetation;
• Remote Sensing Image Processing;
• Biogeosciences Remote Sensing;
• Urban Remote Sensing;
• Environmental Remote Sensing;
• Coral Reefs Remote Sensing;
• Engineering Remote Sensing;
• Remote Sensing Letter;
• AI Remote Sensing;
• Satellite Missions for Earth and Planetary Exploration;
• Ecological Remote Sensing;
• Earth Observation Data;
• Earth Observation for Emergency Management.

The main responsibilities of Editorial Board Members are as follows:

• Pre-checking and making decisions for several manuscripts, based on your area of expertise;
• Acting as, or recommending, a Guest Editor for a Special Issue on a topic related to your research interests;
• Promoting Remote Sensing and increasing its visibility on related academic social media. 

The benefits of becoming an Editorial Board Member (EBM) include the following:

• The opportunity to publish one paper free of charge per year in Remote Sensing, as well as certain discounts for papers invited from your scientific network;
• A certificate recognizing you as an Editorial Board Member of Remote Sensing;
• Remote Sensing may offer sponsorship for conferences organized by you;
• Remote Sensing may offer travel grants of CHF 300–500 per year for conferences that you attend or organize. 

To apply for this position (in one of our Sections), recommend potential candidates, or request further information, please contact the Remote Sensing Editorial Office ([email protected]) with the following two files attached:

• A full academic CV;
• A short cover letter that details your interest and enthusiasm for the position. 

Remote Sensing Editorial Office

We are pleased to announce the launch of a new initiative, the Remote Sensing 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 Remote Sensing Special Issues will act as Guest Editors under the mentorship of an experienced scientist; this mentor could be a member of the Editorial Board of Remote Sensing (ISSN: 2072-4292), from other well-established research institutes or laboratories, etc.

Early Career Scientist’s Responsibilities:

• Providing a CV, including a list of publications;
• Proposing a Special Issue title and a short introduction;
• Writing a brief promotion plan for the Special Issue;
• Writing an editorial for the online Special Issue;
• Reviewing and making decisions for submissions under the mentorship of our Editorial Board Members.

Mentor’s Responsibilities:

• Conducting a final check before the Special Issue is published online;
• Co-editing the Special Issue with younger scholars and performing quality control of the publications in the SI;
• Providing suggestions to younger scholars if they have doubts or concerns regarding submissions;
• Organizing video calls with young scholars and the office regularly to discuss problems and improvement suggestions for the Special Issue.

Certificates and Awards:

When the Special Issue is closed, the Editorial Office will provide official certificates for all the mentors. The younger scholars will be prioritized as candidates for Remote Sensing Young Investigator Awards in future editions.

If you are interested in this opportunity, please send your Special Issue proposal to the Remote Sensing Editorial Office ([email protected]), and we will discuss the process (mentor collaboration, Special Issue topic feasibility analysis, etc.) in further detail.

In addition to the new Special Issue Mentor Program, Remote Sensing will continually welcome all Special Issue proposals based on hot research topics as usual.

Remote Sensing Editorial Office

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

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We are pleased to announce that Prof. Dr. Fumio Yamazaki has been appointed Editor-in-Chief of the Section “Earth Observation for Emergency Management” in Remote Sensing (ISSN: 2072-4292).

Prof. Dr. Fumio Yamazaki holds M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in civil engineering, both obtained at the University of Tokyo in 1978 and 1987, respectively. From 2003 to 2019, he was a professor in the Graduate School of Engineering at Chiba University. At present, he is the professor emeritus of Chiba University and a research fellow of the National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention. He is a co-author of more than 200 papers published in technical journals and conference proceedings.

The following is a short Q&A with Prof. Dr. Fumio Yamazaki, who shared his vision for the journal with us, as well as his views of the research area and open access publishing:

1. What appealed to you about the journal that made you want to take on the role of Section Editor-in-Chief?

I have been working on the use of remote sensing technology for natural hazards and disaster mitigation for more than twenty years. The Remote Sensing journal is one of the best opportunities to present our research outcomes worldwide. To promote the remote sensing applications to disaster management, I decided to take the role of the Section Editor-in-Chief.

2. What is your vision for the journal?

Remote sensing is the research field which aims to acquire spatial data from various sensors and to utilize them to solve environmental/social problems. In this regard, Remote Sensing should accept not only methodology oriented papers but also application oriented papers, especially those with ground truth data. The value of validation data is crucial especially for natural hazards and emergency management.

3. What does the future of this field of research look like?

Remote sensing is one of the most promising interdisciplinary research fields in science and engineering. From various remote sensing technologies, people can get information on the earth’s surface, atmosphere, ocean, and human settlements without visiting those places, and without time constraints. The development of new sensors and platforms will help us to acquire spatial data, aiming to make the earth and our society more sustainable.

4. What do you think of the development of open access in publishing?

Open access is good for almost everybody even though the article processing charge (APC) is rather high. If you do not belong to large research institutes or universities, it is not so easy to access electronic journals in a timely manner. I believe that open access publishing is becoming more and more important and popular.

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 Researchers^TM 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.

The full list of 2021 Highly Cited Researchers  can be accessed at the following webpage in the Web of Science^TM https://recognition.webofscience.com/awards/highly-cited/2021/.

--- Highly Cited Researchers (HCR) is a Clarivate product.

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.

MDPI will be attending the 11^th International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation, which will be held from 29 November to 2 December 2021, in Lloret de Mar, Spain.

The conference will be focused on the following topics: algorithms for wireless sensor networks; applications of location awareness and context detection; benchmarking, assessment, evaluation, standards; health and wellness applications; human motion monitoring and modeling; indoor maps, indoor spatial data models and indoor mobile mapping, and 3D building models; indoor positioning, navigation, and tracking methods; innovative systems; location-based services and applications; privacy and security for ILS; robotics and UAV; seamless systems; self-contained sensors; user requirements for location-based systems; wearable and multi-sensor systems, etc.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Sensors (ISSN: 1424-8220);
• Remote Sensing (ISSN: 1424-8220);
• Drones (ISSN: 2504-446X);
• ASI (ISSN: 2571-5577);
• Systems (ISSN: 2079-8954).

If you are also attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person to answer any questions you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit: https://ipin-conference.org/2021/index.html.

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.

Read our anniversary blog post: "Sharing 'Collective Human Knowledge': The Benefits of Open Access Publication"

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.

We are pleased to announce that Prof. Dr. Fumio Yamazaki, Prof. Dr. Stuart Phinn, Dr. Chris Roelfsema and Prof. Dr. Lefei Zhang have been appointed Section Editors-in-Chief of the Sections “Earth Observation for Emergency Management”, “Ecological Remote Sensing”, “Coral Reefs Remote Sensing” and “AI Remote Sensing” in Remote Sensing (ISSN: 2072-4292).

Name: Prof. Dr. Fumio Yamazaki

Affiliation: National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Resilience, Tsukuba, Japan

Interests: Natural hazards, disaster monitoring, damage assessment, SAR and earthquakes

Name: Prof. Dr. Stuart Phinn

Affiliation: School of SEES, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Brisbane 4072, Australia

Interests: Remote sensing

Name: Dr. Chris Roelfsema

Affiliation: Remote Sensing Research Centre, School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia

Interests: Remote sensing of coastal and marine environments, conservation and management of coral reef and seagrass ecosystems and improving marine field calibration and validation approaches of remote sensing imagery

Name: Prof. Dr. Lefei Zhang

Affiliation: School of Computer Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China

Interests: Pattern recognition, machine learning, image processing and remote sensing

We warmly welcome Prof. Dr. Fumio Yamazaki, Prof. Dr. Stuart Phinn, Dr. Chris Roelfsema and Prof. Dr. Lefei Zhang as they start their new roles as Section Editors-in-Chief and we look forward to them leading Remote Sensing to achieve many more milestones.

Remote Sensing Editorial Office

Rigorous peer-review is the cornerstone of high-quality academic publishing. Over 369,916 scholars served as reviewers for MDPI journals in 2020. We are extremely appreciative of all those who made a contribution to the editorial process in this capacity. At the beginning of every year, journal editorial offices publish a list of all reviewers’ names to express our gratitude. In addition, this year, the MDPI Top Reviewer Award was announced, to recognize the very best reviewers for their expertise and dedication, and their high-quality, and timely review reports. We are pleased to announce the following winners of the 2020 MDPI Top Reviewer Award:

• Adriana Burlea-Schiopoiu;
• Alban Kuriqi;
• Álvaro González-Vila;
• Alessandro Alaimo;
• Alexey Beskopylny;
• Alexander Yu Churyumov;
• Alberto Fernández-Isabel;
• Andrea Mastinu;
• Antonios N. Papadopoulos;
• Anton Rassõlkin;
• Antonio Humberto Hamad Minervino;
• Arkadiusz Matwijczuk;
• Artur Słomka;
• Baojie He;
• Bartłomiej Potaniec;
• Bojan Đurin;
• Camilo Arturo Rodriguez Diaz;
• Carmelo Maria Musarella;
• Chiachung Chen;
• Chiman Kwan;
• Cristian Busu;
• Danil Pimenov;
• Dan-Cristian Dabija;
• Delfín Ortega-Sánchez;
• Demetrio Antonio Zema;
• Denis Butusov;
• Elena Lucchi;
• Gaurab Dutta;
• Livia Anastasiu;
• M. R. Safaei.

For more information about how to become a reviewer of MDPI journals, please see: www.mdpi.com/reviewers.

UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all. In 2020 the SDG Publishers Compact was launched, aimed to inspire publishers and accelerate progress to achieve the 17 goals by 2030. Members of the programme are committed to support the publication of materials that will promote and inspire actions towards SDGs.

MDPI is an eager advocate of SDGs and has already been supporting the programme by creating Special Issues and publishing a series of books on SDGs prior to joining the Compact in 2021. MDPI's Sustainability Foundation initiated the World Sustainability Awards in 2016. We fully support UN's goals to promote sustainable actions that make the world a better place for all and, as part of its commitment, we will focus our actions on SDG10: Reduced Inequalities whilst promoting all 17 SDGs. For more details, please visit the programme’s website: https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sdg-publishers-compact/.

Joining this initiative was a unanimous decision. MDPI has in its core values the dissemination of science for all, breaking the wall between research access and under-represented members of the scientific community and the general population. To support this initiative further and continue to support under-represented scientists, MDPI will take a series of actions that will be announced once ready.

The first action MDPI takes is to nominate Dr. Liliane Auwerter as the coordinator of the programme. Dr. Auwerter studied Environmental Process Technology (UTFPR, Brazil), obtained her MSc degree in Water and Environmental Engineering (University of Surrey, UK) and in 2020 completed her PhD in self-healing low-friction materials for water transport (Imperial College London, UK), always focusing on diverse scientific projects that would potentially bring sustainability to industrial processes. As a student in Brazil, she engaged in volunteering activities focused on environmental education and took part in the Millennial Development Goals meetings held at the university.

For more information, please contact:
Dr. Liliane Auwerter
Scientific Officer
[email protected]

MDPI will be attending the 6th Optoelectronics Global Conference (OGC 2021), hosted by the IEEE Photonics Society, Guangzhou Photonics Chapter, and Southern University of Science and Technology, which will be held from Wednesday, 15 September, until Saturday, 18 September, 2021, at the Shenzhen World Exhibition & Convention Center, China.

OGC aims to promote the interaction and exchange of various disciplines among professionals in academia and industry at home and abroad. In addition, it also serves to turn technologies into industrial applications. OGC will be an ideal platform for scholars, researchers and professionals to exchange insights and discuss the development of the optoelectronics industry. It will be a perfect gathering to learn about new perspectives, technologies and trends which might push the boundaries of technology and eventually create a broader future for optoelectronics applications.

The topics covered will include precision optics, optical communications, lasers, infrared applications, and fiber sensors.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Photonics
• Nanomaterials
• Electronics
• Remote Sensing

If you are also attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person to answer any questions you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit http://www.ipsogc.org/index.html.

It is very important to us to grant Remote Sensing Outstanding Contribution Series Awards to papers published in our journal. The first winners are listed as below.

• “Transferring Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for the Scene Classification of High-Resolution Remote Sensing Imagery” (3390/rs71114680)
  by Fan Hu, Gui-Song Xia, Jingwen Hu and Liangpei Zhang

• “A Non-Stationary 1981–2012 AVHRR NDVI_3gTime Series” (3390/rs6086929)
  by Jorge E. Pinzon and Compton J. Tucker

We believe that these two papers have contributed greatly to the field of remote sensing. To expand the influence of these awards and to select winning papers based on more scientific data, we have decided to change the regulations, and give out the awards every four years. This means that the next edition will be in 2024, and the candidate articles were published in 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019.

We hope that we can support authors in the field of remote sensing by granting these awards. 

Remote Sensing Editorial Office

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

We are pleased to inform you that with the support of our authors, editors, and reviewers, Remote Sensing received an increased Journal Impact Factor of 4.848 and a 5-Year Impact Factor of 5.353. This was released in the recent Journal Citation Reports®.

Remote Sensing has achieved six consecutive years of growth in its Impact Factor. We are grateful to all the scholars who have witnessed the journal’s growth with us.

Given the rank ordered by the Journal Citation Indicator (JCI)*, Remote Sensing now ranks 9/50 (Q1) in the “Remote Sensing” category, 7/31 (Q1) in the “Imaging Science & Photographic Technology” category, 53/302 (Q1) in the “Environmental Sciences” category and 43/235 (Q1) in the “Geosciences, Multidisciplinary” category.

In the rank ordered by Journal Impact Factor, Remote Sensing ranks 27/199 (Q1) in the “Geosciences, Multidisciplinary” category, 10/32 (Q2) in the “Remote Sensing” category, 8/29 (Q2) in the “Imaging Science & Photographic Technology” category, and 76/274 (Q2) in the “Environmental Sciences” category.

Thank you for your continuous support of Remote Sensing!

*The Journal Citation Indicator (JCI) is the average Category Normalized Citation Impact (CNCI) of citable items (articles & reviews) published by a journal over a recent three-year period. The average JCI in a category is 1. Journals with a JCI of 1.5 have 50% more citation impact than the average in that category. It may be used alongside other metrics to help you evaluate journals.

We are delighted to announce that our journal Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292) has been approved for coverage within three new categories of the Journal Citation Reports (JCR): “Environmental Sciences”, “Geosciences Multidisciplinary”, and “Imaging Science & Photographic Technology”.

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)

MDPI will be attending IGARSS 2021, to be held in virtual form from 12th to 16th of July 2021.

IGARSS 2021, which will take place from 12 to 16 July 2021, is a joint effort of the Low Countries, the Netherlands and Belgium, and they have chosen Crossing Borders as the overall theme of the conference:

• Between countries and research institutes;
• Between types of platforms (from satellites to drones);
• Between data sources;
• Between disciplines.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Remote Sensing
• Atmosphere
• Water
• Sustainability
• Data
• Soil Systems
• IJGI
• Drones

If you are attending this conference, please feel free to start an online conversation with us. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person and answering any questions you may have. For more information about the conference and our virtual booth, please visit: https://igarss2021.com/default.asp.

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.

Since it was established, “Editor’s Choice” has always been welcomed by researchers. Editors-in-Chief have selected about 300 papers to display here. All of them have gained significant influence.

In April 2021, the Editorial Office selected another 15 papers among the most downloaded publications. The following is the paper list.

 We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the research groups of the exceptional papers for their contributions to Remote Sensing. We would appreciate it if you would circulate this document among your colleagues or through your network. 

If you want to learn more about the contributions published in “Editor’s Choice”, please read here.

Since it was established, “Editor’s Choice” has always been welcomed by researchers. Our Editors-in-Chief have selected more than 200 papers to display here. All of them have gained significant influence.

Recently, the Editorial Office selected the following papers among the most downloaded publications from Volume 12, Issues 9–14. The following is the paper list.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the research groups behind these exceptional papers for their contributions to Remote Sensing. We would appreciate it if you would circulate this document among your colleagues or through your network.

If you want to learn more about the contributions published in “Editor’s Choice”, please read here.

At MDPI, we strive to make your online publication process seamless and efficient. To achieve this, our team is continuously developing tools and features to make the user experience useful and convenient.

As the number of academic papers continues to grow, so does the need to analyze and work with them on a large scale. This prompted us to design a new feature aimed at helping researchers find journals that are relevant to their publication by matching their abstract topic. In this regard, we designed a similarity model that automatically identifies the most suitable academic journals for your paper.

We are pleased to introduce Journal Selector, a new feature that measures similarity in academic contexts. By simply entering the title and/or abstract into our Journal Selector, the author will see a list of the most related scientific journals published by MDPI. This method helps authors select the correct journals for their papers, highlighting the time of publication and citability.

The methodology is known as representation learning, where words are represented as vectors in hyperspace. Representation helps us differentiate between different concepts within articles, and in turn, helps us identify similarities between them.

We used an advanced machine learning model to better capture the semantic meanings of words. This helps the algorithm make better predictions by leveraging scientific text representation. In turn, this ensures high precision, helping authors decide which journal they should submit their paper to.

The goal is to support authors to publish their work in the most suitable journal for their research, as fast as possible, accelerating their career progress.

Contact: Andrea Perlato, Head of Data Analytics, MDPI (email)

We are pleased to announce that the First Photographic Exhibition is open for application for authors that have papers published in Remote Sensing. You can apply to exhibit a striking picture to summarize the content of your publication and represent the topic of the article in an attention-grabbing way, or an introduction video to show your published research. We believe that the exhibition will establish further communications between authors and readers.

The details about the application can be found below. If your pictures/videos are selected to be posted online, it will be available for all scholars within two months.

Website Link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing/photography_exhibition

Please see below for instructions on application steps.

Step 1: Click the “Submit Your Image/Video”. If you have not registered an account with MDPI, you will be asked to register one.

Step 2: Select one article you have published in Remote Sensing and select which type you want to submit, then click “Submit”.

Step 3: We will explain what information you need to provide and which requirements you need to be aware of, based on three types.

1. Picture
   Title (it will be displayed to the public)
   Image (jpeg, png), minimum size: 250px*166px
   Copyright holder (please state who owns the copyright of your item(s).)

2. Video with a cover
   Title (it will be displayed to the public)
   Video (mp4), (1–4 minutes, maximum: 200 MB)
   Cover image (jpeg, png), minimum size: 250px*166px
   Copyright holder (please state who owns the copyright of your item(s).)

3. Picture with a story or introduction
   Title (it will be displayed to the public)
   Image (jpeg, png), Minimum Size: 250px*166px
   Description, maximum: 500 characters with space
   Copyright holder (please state who owns the copyright of your item(s).)

Step 4: When you finish uploading the files, please click “Submit” and there will be preview data if you submit your application successfully.

Once your application is submitted, you will receive an email alert after it has been approved or rejected.

If you are interested in the exhibition, please do not miss this chance to share your research results with us.

Remote Sensing Editorial Office

MDPI is proud to adopt the principles of the Coalition for Diversity & Inclusion in Scholarly Communications (C4DISC) to support building equity, inclusion, diversity, and accessibility in scholarly communications.

The C4DISC represents organizations and individuals working in scholarly communications and is focused on addressing issues of diversity and inclusion within the publishing industry.

MDPI’s Managing Editors encourage the Editors-in-Chief and Associate Editors to appoint diverse expert Editorial Boards. This is also reflective in our multi-national and inclusive workplace. We are proud to create equal opportunities without regard to gender, ethnicity, geographic location, sexual orientation, age, disability, political beliefs, religion, or socio-economic status. There is no place for discrimination in our workplace and editors of MDPI journals are to uphold these principles in high regard.

Representatives from C4DISC meet monthly, and have started to implement initiatives to shed light and improve on the lack of diversity in scholarly communications. Some of the initiatives include developing a joint statement of principles; conducting market research; providing training resources, best practices, toolkits, and documentation for our collective memberships; and establishing outreach programs, curricula, events, and publications.

The Coalition is committed to:

• eliminating barriers to participation, extending equitable opportunities across all stakeholders, and ensuring that our practices and policies promote equitable treatment and do not allow, condone, or result in discrimination;
• creating and maintaining an environment that respects diverse traditions, heritages, and experiences;
• promoting diversity in all staff, volunteers, and audiences, including full participation in programs, policy formulation, and decision-making;
• raising awareness about career opportunities in our industries to groups who are currently underrepresented in the workforce;
• supporting our members in achieving diversity and inclusion within their organizations.

At MDPI we have slightly revised the layout for articles to be published in the 2021 Volume, starting at the end of December 2020. As of today, the article templates available for download on ‘Instructions for Authors’ pages have been updated.

The most noticeable change can be found on the first page of the article, where a left-hand column has been created to include the following front matter elements: (i) the recommended citation style for the article, (ii) the publishing history, (iii) as well as the Creative Commons Attribution license used (iv) a standard note regarding affiliations. At the same time, the extra spacing on the left means the authors’ affiliations are now more clearly set apart than before. Other front matter key elements such as journal logo, article type, article title, authors, abstract and keywords remain unchanged.

The blank column on the left runs through all pages in an article; as a result, the main text is slightly more condensed, which improve reader friendliness for smaller screens. Small figures/tables are aligned on the left with standard indenture, while large figures/tables are centered and covering the full width of the page. The revised layout was applied in the article pictured below, to serve as an example:

1) Information is displayed in the left information bar.

2) In the main text, there is a blank column on the left.

3) Small tables/figures are aligned on the left, large tables/figures are centered.

We are pleased to acknowledge that many academic editors who have made an impact on MDPI journals as editorial board members, editors-in-chief, or section editors, are recognized as 2020 Highly Cited Researchers by Clarivate.

Highly Cited Researchers highlights the top 1% of researchers, by citations, in one or more of the 22 fields used in Clarivate Analytics Essential Science Indicators. We offer our congratulations to 279 academic editors of MDPI journals who were recognized as the most influential scholars in their fields in 2020.

The full list of 2020 Highly Cited Researchers  can be accessed on https://recognition.webofsciencegroup.com/awards/highly-cited/2020/

--- Highly Cited Researchers (HCR) is a Clarivate product.

The article entitled "A Satellite-Based Spatio-Temporal Machine Learning Model to Reconstruct Daily PM_2.5 Concentrations across Great Britain", co-authored by Guest Editor Dr Itai Kloog, was published in the Remote Sensing Special Issue The Use of Earth Observations for Exposure Assessment in Epidemiological Studies has been discussed in various media outlets. Dr Rochelle Schneider and her team aimed to develop a multi-stage satellite-based technique that uses artificial intelligence to estimate daily fine particulate matter (PM_2.5) levels across Great Britain during 2008–2018.

In their press release entitled "AI-driven map could link UK air quality to health”, The Engineer declared that "the output reveals the shifting patterns of air pollution across Great Britain and in time with extraordinary detail. We now hope to use this information to better understand how pollution is affecting the nation’s health, so we can take steps to minimize the risk. The vast amount of data produced will provide a vital tool for public health researchers investigating the effects of air pollution". As first author of the article, Dr Rochelle Schneider said in the interview, "this research uses the power of artificial intelligence to advance environmental modelling and address public health challenges".

"This study demonstrates how cutting-edge techniques based on artificial intelligence and satellite technologies can benefit public health research," according to Antonio Gasparrini, Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at LSHTM and senior author of the study.

Mirage News announced it as "a novel method that combines artificial intelligence with remote sensing satellite technologies has produced the most detailed coverage of air pollution in Britain to date." (https://www.miragenews.com/artificial-intelligence-and-satellite-technologies-reveal-detailed-map-of-air-pollution-across-great-britain/)

The report included an interview with Dr Vincent-Henri Peuch, Director of Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) at European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), who declared “this innovative method has combined the strengths of different data sources to give accurate and comprehensive estimates of air pollution exposure, including ground-based sensors, satellite data, and model reanalyses developed by ECMWF as part of the EU Copernicus programme. Dr Schneider and co-authors convincingly demonstrate its performance over Great Britain, paving the way for many future studies into the health effects of air pollution”.

Dr Pierre-Philippe Mathieu, Head of the Phi-lab Explore Office at the European Space Agency (ESA), said "it’s exciting to see data from Earth observation satellites being used in public health research to advance our understanding of the intricate relationship between health and air quality, improving lives in Great Britain, Europe and the rest of the world".

Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292, IF 4.509) is a peer-reviewed open access journal on the science and application of remote sensing technology, and is published semi-monthly online by MDPI. Remote Sensing publishes regular research papers, reviews, letters, and communications covering all aspects of remote sensing science, from sensor design and validation/calibration to its application in geosciences, environmental sciences, ecology, and civil engineering. Its aim is to publish novel/improved methods/approaches and/or algorithms of remote sensing to benefit the community, open to anyone in need of them.

An article entitled “A Satellite-Based Spatio-Temporal Machine Learning Model to Reconstruct Daily PM_2.5 Concentrations across Great Britain”, co-authored by Guest Editor Dr Itai Kloog, was published in the Remote Sensing Special Issue The Use of Earth Observations for Exposure Assessment in Epidemiological Studies on November 20, 2020, and has already been shared by numerous media outlets.

Dr Rochelle Schneider and her team aimed to develop a multi-stage satellite-based technique that uses artificial intelligence to estimate daily fine particulate matter (PM_2.5) levels across Great Britain during 2008–2018.

In their press release entitled “AI-driven map could link UK air quality to health”, published on the same day as the article, The Engineer declared that “the output reveals the shifting patterns of air pollution across Great Britain and in time with extraordinary detail. We now hope to use this information to better understand how pollution is affecting the nation’s health, so we can take steps to minimize the risk. The vast amount of data produced will provide a vital tool for public health researchers investigating the effects of air pollution”.

As first author of the article, Dr Rochelle Schneider said in the interview, “this research uses the power of artificial intelligence to advance environmental modelling and address public health challenges”.

“This study demonstrates how cutting-edge techniques based on artificial intelligence and satellite technologies can benefit public health research,” according to Antonio Gasparrini, Professor of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at LSHTM and senior author of the study.

Mirage News announced it as “a novel method that combines artificial intelligence with remote sensing satellite technologies has produced the most detailed coverage of air pollution in Britain to date.” (https://www.miragenews.com/artificial-intelligence-and-satellite-technologies-reveal-detailed-map-of-air-pollution-across-great-britain/)

The report included an interview with Dr Vincent-Henri Peuch, Director of Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) at European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), who declared “this innovative method has combined the strengths of different data sources to give accurate and comprehensive estimates of air pollution exposure, including ground-based sensors, satellite data, and model reanalyses developed by ECMWF as part of the EU Copernicus programme. Dr Schneider and co-authors convincingly demonstrate its performance over Great Britain, paving the way for many future studies into the health effects of air pollution”.

Dr Pierre-Philippe Mathieu, Head of the Phi-lab Explore Office at the European Space Agency (ESA), said “it’s exciting to see data from Earth observation satellites being used in public health research to advance our understanding of the intricate relationship between health and air quality, improving lives in Great Britain, Europe and the rest of the world”.

Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292, IF 4.509) is a peer-reviewed open access journal on the science and application of remote sensing technology, and is published semi-monthly online by MDPI. Remote Sensing publishes regular research papers, reviews, letters, and communications covering all aspects of remote sensing science, from sensor design and validation/calibration to its application in geosciences, environmental sciences, ecology, and civil engineering. Its aim is to publish novel/improved methods/approaches and/or algorithms of remote sensing to benefit the community, open to anyone in need of them.

Since it was established, “Editor’s Choice” has always been welcomed by reseachers. Editors-in-Chief have selected more than 200 papers to display here. All of them have gained significant influence.

In Novemeber 2020, the Editorial Office selectd 15 papers amoung the most downloaded publications. The following is the paper list.

We would like to take this opportunity to thank all the research groups of the exceptional papers for their contributions to Remote Sensing. We would appreciate it if you would circulate this document among your colleagues or through your network.

If you want to learn more about the contributions published in “Editors’s Choice”, please read here.

Agriculture comprises vital economic sectors producing food, agro-industrial feedstock, and energy and provides environmental services through managing soil, water, air and biodiversity holistically. Agriculture and forestry also contribute to managing and reducing risks from natural disasters such as floods, droughts, mudslides and avalanches. Farming with its close contact to nature provides the socio-economic infrastructure to maintain cultural heritage. Farmers are also conservers of forests, pastures, fallow lands and their natural resources and, in turn, of the environment. Agriculture today is a composite activity involving many actors and stakeholders in agri-food chains that produce and provide food and agricultural commodities to consumers. In addition to farmers there are farm input suppliers, processors, transporters and market intermediaries each playing their roles to make these chains efficient.

The agriculture sector is under the strong influence of a number of different external drivers, which will have more and more influence on all agriculture and food sectors. As main drivers for changes in the agriculture sector the following factors were recognised – climate changes, demographic (growing population, urbanisation and land abandonment), energy cost, new demands on food quality (food quality and safety, aging population and health problems, ethnic and cultural changes), innovative drivers (knowledge based bio economy, research and development, information and communication, education, investment), – policies (subsidies, standardisation and regulation, national strategies for rural development), economy (economical instruments, partnerships, cooperation and integration and voluntary agreements), sustainability and environmental issue (valuation of ecological performances, development of sustainable agriculture), public opinion (press, international organisation, politicians).

These changes are inevitable and many forces conspire to bring them about. The common and future position of each important driver can be different in reality. In many cases, two drivers can stand against each other and their future influence on the agri-production and food market depends on regulations and a common policy.

These topics have become more relevant which is confirmed by the fact that they are strongly addressed in the European Green Deal and in the global scale by the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations.

The European Green Deal is a package of European Commission’s measures announced on 11th December 2019 that should ensure citizens and companies in the European Union the transition to a more sustainable and greener economy by 2050.

The Green Deal consists of a set of measures that enhances resource efficiency through the transition to a clean circular economy, prevents biodiversity loss and reduces pollution. These measures are related to following policy areas:

Similarly, this is related to a number of SGD goals of the UN:

Together with publishing the European Green Deal, the Commission is adopting  the EU industrial strategy to address the twin challenge of the green and the digital transformation.  The goal is to use the potential of the digital transformation, to be a key enabler for reaching the Green Deal objectives. The Commission is planning to initiate a ‘GreenData4All’, with focus on reviewing the Directive establishing an Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the EU (INSPIRE and combining it with the access to the Environment Information Directive). As part of this will be the ‘Destination Earth’ initiative. 

“The ‘Destination Earth’ initiative will bring together European scientific and industrial excellence to develop a very high precision digital model of the Earth. This ground-breaking initiative will offer a digital modelling platform to visualize, monitor and forecast natural and human activity on the planet in support of sustainable development thus supporting Europe’s efforts for a better environment as set out in the Green Deal. The digital twin of the Earth will be constructed progressively, starting in 2021”.

EUXDAT deployed a state of the art, big data and hybrid HPC/Cloud, data exploitation platform on top of the existing partners’ infrastructures. This EUXDATA e-Infrastructure enables users with different profiles (agriculture scientist and practices, planers, decision makers) to fully benefit from the underlying high processing capacities to explore new methods, build new innovative services and to perform predictions and simulations with extremely large and heterogeneous datasets.

The EUXDAT consortium could provide a follow up proposal and the EUXDAT results would fit into this Green Deal initiative, Destination Earth and SGD goals.

The EUXDAT team prepared for you a series of webinars at the end of October 2020, where all achievements in both the e-Infrastructure and also in different pilot implementations will be demonstrated.

Please register yourself for webinars of your interest and start discussing the topic of sustainable agriculture.

REGISTRATION FORM: https://forms.gle/ybqyRMTDKM6FbZhD7

Programme

REGISTRATION FORM: https://forms.gle/ybqyRMTDKM6FbZhD7

Learn more about EUXDAT project at https://www.euxdat.eu/

The COVID19 INSPIRE Hackathon 2020 organized by Plan4all and Czech Center for Science and Society offers to its participants a wide range of challenges aiming to help the agri-food economy to recover from COVID19 crisis. In the following paragraphs, we would like to introduce you to three of the total of 13 challenges of this hackathon.

The first mentioned challenge called Citizen Science Network for Peer to Peer MapsSharing deals with the missing mechanism for sharing complex map compositions that combine data sharing services, cartography, visualizations and geospatial markup. There are a number of people producing „maps “ using desktop GI tools. However, limited skills, technologies, and infrastructure do not allow them to share the data with others. This challenge will support users of QGIS (Open Source GI desktop tool) to publish their data and share it with others including sharing on social media. It could be useful for students, local policymakers, companies in agriculture, and forestry. This challenge offers several portals for maps publishing and sharing. In addition to that, it provides also a full infrastructure that could be used regionally afterwards. We are looking for testers, users as well as people from the business sector.

The second challenge WhiteBoard – Future Collaborative Maps is the most innovative of all and offers unique technologies for collaborative working with maps. It is a real solution for the COVID 19 period as it allows common problems to be solved interactively. This is a new solution and we are also looking for adopters in various areas of activities.

The last highlighted challenge is dedicated to earth observation. The goal of the challenge no. 11 is to analyze how different climatic changes influence production in different years. The potential key for this analysis is the combination of long time trends in the fields, specifically a yield potential with multitemporal seasonal analysis, soil moisture data and climatic data. The aim of this challenge is also to integrate yield maps.

If you are interested in any of the challenges and you would like to participate in the hackathon, please register at https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfBWFdIErX0BpjxJjz1945IBGiqFAnyTQc5bA_avtt5RHU3OQ/viewform and follow the www.plan4all.eu websites. 

We hope to call upon your expertise as a reviewer to help maintain the quality and efficiency of Remote Sensing.

We are particularly interested in recruiting reviewers in the following fields related to remote sensing. In recent decades, this area has attracted a lot of research interest, and significant progress has been made. We welcome scholars with research experience in topics including but not limited to the following:

• Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR);
• Glaciology, radar altimetry in the arctic, and the cryosphere;
• Artificial impervious surface percentage (AISP), feature fusion, and urban heat islands;
• Plant disease detection and vegetation dynamics;
• Satellite ocean color and total suspended matter;
• Image segmentation/processing, target detection, and data fusion;
• Sonar;
• Precipitation, rainfall, and cloud retrieval;
• Imagery and validation;
• CryoSat and ICESat-2;
• GEE.

We will extend the following benefits to reviewers:

1. The Remote Sensing Editorial Board will acknowledge all reviewers in its annual reviewer list through a publication/announcement in the "Acknowledgement to Reviewers of Remote Sensing" editorial on the journal website.
2. Reviewer members who provide prompt, thorough, rigorous peer-review reports will receive a voucher that can be applied to reduce the cost of their next publication in an MDPI journal.
3. We hold an “outstanding reviewer award” yearly to acknowledge our reviewers who so generously give their time to review papers for the journal. There would be a chance for you to be awarded. Details can be found at https://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing/awards/910.
4. Reviewers may be presented with the possibility to join the Editorial Board of the journal (subject to the approval of the Editor-in-Chief).

If you are interested in this work, please submit your information at https://susy.mdpi.com/volunteer/profile/edit. We would greatly appreciate your support. We hope you will join us on our team of reviewers!

Remote Sensing Editorial Office

We are glad to announce that we have established a new section "Satellite Missions" in Remote Sensing. This will enable more specific categorization of published papers according to its subject.

Satellite Missions

If you are an active researcher in a possibly related field, such as satellite systems, components, instruments, calibration and validation, data, etc., and are passionate about participating in the publication of cutting-edge research, please do not hesitate to get in touch about joining the Editorial Board. Editorial Board Members have the following responsibilities:

1. Conducting preliminary checks of submissions and making the final decision as to whether a paper can be accepted for publications following peer review and author revisions (when it suits your schedule);
2. To serve as Guest Editor of a Special Issue on the topic related to your research;
3. To review a couple of manuscripts per year.

Editorial Board Members are entitled to publish one paper free of charge in Remote Sensing each year. Further information about the Editorial Board may be found at https://www.mdpi.com/journal/remotesensing/sectioneditors/satellite_missions. If you are interested in becoming an Editorial Board Member for Remote Sensing, please send the following files to our section managing editor Aurora Wang ([email protected]).

• A full academic CV;
• A short cover letter that details your interest and enthusiasm for the position.

Remote Sensing Editorial Office

Published in Remote Sensing, the paper by Rudiyanto et al. forms the basis of Paddy Watch, a project that won funding from the Group on Earth Observations and Google Earth Engine. Paddy Watch will develop the world’s first real-time monitoring platform for rice fields globally. This ambitious project will help realise the Zero Hunger target of the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals.

We gladly invite you to read this article:

Automated Near-Real-Time Mapping and Monitoring of Rice Extent, Cropping Patterns, and Growth Stages in Southeast Asia Using Sentinel-1 Time Series on a Google Earth Engine Platform

by Rudiyanto, Budiman Minasny, Ramisah M. Shah, Norhidayah Che Soh, Chusnul Arif, and Budi Indra Setiawan.

The authors said:

“Accurate and up-to-date information on how much rice has been planted and how much harvest can be achieved is crucial to achieving global food and water security Working with our partners (Sydney Institute of Agriculture, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, IADA Ketara Malaysia, Indonesian Center for Agricultural Land Resources Research and Development, The Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences,  Indian Agricultural Research Institute, and Remote sensing-based Information and Insurance for Crops in Emerging Countries Vietnam), we will use the Google Earth Engine to build the first real-time mobile application that will allow farmers, agricultural scientists, non-government organisations and government planners to manage land use to ensure food security in the world’s rice bowls.”

If you would like to learn more about this award, please click here: https://www.earthobservations.org/article.php?id=447

Top row, left to right: Researchers: Budiman Minasny (Sydney Institute of Agriculture), Rudiyanto (Universiti Malaysia Terengganu), and Jose Padarian (Sydney University).

Bottom row, left to right: Field validation team: Ramisah Mond Sah and Norhidayah Che Soh (Universiti Malaysia Terengganu), and Shukran Abdul Rahman and Mohd Rosmaini Bin Mat Nawi (IADA Ketara, Malaysia).

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The updated citation metrics have been released in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR), published by Clarivate. The recent release of the JCR includes seventy-one MDPI titles. Out of these, 18 titles are newcomers, receiving a first Journal Impact Factor which is based on citation activity in 2019: Actuators, Agriculture, Biology, Biomedicines, Biosensors, Chemosensors, Children, Healthcare, Journal of Fungi, Journal of Personalized Medicine (JPM), Land, Life, Magnetochemistry, Membranes, Pharmaceuticals, Photonics, Separations and Toxics.

• Out of the previously listed journals, a total of 72 percent boast an increased Impact Factor.
• 25 journals are ranked among the top 25% of journals in at least one of the categories they are ranked for.
• Articles published in 2019 in MDPI journals account for approximately 17 percent of of articles published in gold Open Access journals covered in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) and Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI).
  
  

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