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9 October 2025
Meet Us at the 3rd International Conference on AI Sensors and Transducers, 2–7 August 2026, Jeju, South Korea


Following from our two previous successful editions, we invite you to submit your abstracts and participate in the 3rd International Conference on AI Sensors and Transducers, taking place from 2 to 7 August 2026 in Jeju, South Korea.

Organized by MDPI and the open access journals Sensors, Micromachines, AI Sensors, Micro and Remote Sensing, this in-person conference will once again bring together experts and participating researchers who will share insights and innovations in sensors, sensing technology, transducers and artificial intelligence.

Start preparing your abstracts:
Don’t miss this opportunity to showcase your work to peers and leading experts in AI-enhanced sensing systems and transducers. We will be announcing the session topics at AIS 2026 soon.

Find out more about the instructions for authors: https://sciforum.net/event/AIS2026?section=#instructions.

Find out more about the publication opportunities available for authors: https://sciforum.net/event/AIS2026?section=#Publicationopportunities.
Please feel free to share the information about this conference to your colleagues and students.

We look forward to welcoming you in Jeju!

The organizing committee of the 3rd International Conference on AI Sensors and Transducers (AIS 2026).

2 July 2026
MDPI INSIGHTS: The CEO’s Letter #36 – Basel Anniversary Summit, 2025 Impact Factors & CiteScores, CSAL Partnership & ncRNA2026

Welcome to the MDPI Insights: The CEO's Letter.

In these monthly letters, I will showcase two key aspects of our work at MDPI: our commitment to empowering researchers and our determination to facilitating open scientific exchange.


Opening Thoughts

Reflections from the MDPI 30th Anniversary Summit in Basel

On 4 June, we welcomed 30 Editors-in-Chief (EiCs) from across Europe, North America, and Asia-Pacific to A 66, MDPI’s former headquarters in Basel, for our 30th Anniversary Summit.

In the middle of the year that we celebrate 30 years since MDPI’s founding in 1996, the Summit provided an opportunity to reflect on our journey and recognize the academic community that has helped shape MDPI over the past three decades.

Designed as a small invitation-only event, the Summit brought together long-standing editorial leaders whose experience and perspectives continue to shape our journals. Throughout the day, one message emerged consistently: strong journals are built together, through partnership between publishers, editors, reviewers, and researchers.

MDPI at 30

During my opening presentation, I reflected on MDPI’s evolution from a single journal (Molecules) to a global Open Access (OA) publisher supporting more than 500 peer-reviewed journals, thousands of editors, and millions of researchers worldwide.

While our growth has been significant, our purpose remains unchanged: to help researchers communicate their work openly, efficiently, and responsibly.

I also took the opportunity to recognize that MDPI’s success has never been achieved alone. It has been built alongside our EiCs, Editorial Board Members, reviewers, authors, institutional partners, and colleagues around the world.

Agenda

The agenda combined moments for reflection, discussion, and direct engagement with our guests. The event was moderated by Damaris Critchlow (Editorial Engagement Manager, MDPI) and the program focused on dialogue rather than presentations alone, combining expert talks, panel discussions, and open forums covering:

  • MDPI at 30: reflections and the road ahead
  • Research integrity and editorial responsibility
  • Partnerships and collaboration in publishing
  • Editorial leadership and journal development
  • Artificial intelligence and the future of scholarly publishing

Research Integrity and Editorial Responsibility

A key theme throughout the summit was the continued importance of research integrity and editorial independence. Tim Tait-Jamieson provided an overview of MDPI’s approach to publication ethics, emerging industry challenges, and ongoing investments in prevention, detection, and post-publication oversight. This was a key topic, as it created discussions on the evolving role of publishers, editors, and institutions in safeguarding the scientific record while maintaining transparency and trust.

Editors Panel: Building Journals and Communities

The EiC panel focused on the role of editorial leadership in developing journals and academic communities. Discussions highlighted the importance of active editorial boards, constructive peer review, community engagement, and maintaining quality as scholarly publishing continues to evolve. Thank you to our panelists: Dr. Ester Ballana (Viruses), Dr. Dilantha Fernando (Plants), and Dr. Ting Chi (Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research).

MDPI Panel: The Future of Scholarly Publishing

We also had a roundtable discussion on the future of scholarly publishing. Topics included:

  • Artificial intelligence and its role in publishing workflows
  • Technology and innovation in scholarly communication
  • Research integrity and quality assurance
  • The future of peer review
  • Open Access and Open Science
  • The evolving expectations of researchers, institutions, and funders

Recognizing Editorial Leadership

A highlight of the Summit was recognizing EiCs whose long-term leadership has helped strengthen both their journals and their research communities.

Through the Decade of Editorial Leadership Award and the Outstanding Editorial Impact Award, we celebrated individuals whose dedication has made a lasting contribution to scientific publishing.

As we look ahead to MDPI’s next chapter, partnerships with our editors and the wider academic community will remain central to everything we do.

Thank You

My sincere thanks to everyone who participated, and to the many colleagues whose planning and commitment made the Summit such a memorable event.

Impactful Research

2025 Impact Factors Released

June marked another important milestone, with the release of the 2025 Journal Citation Reports (JCR).

Learn more: https://www.mdpi.com/about/announcements/17055

This year:

  • 330 MDPI journals received a Journal Impact Factor
  • 254 journals increased their Impact Factor
  • 29 journals received their first Journal Impact Factor
  • 71% of ranked journals are now positioned in Q1 or Q2
  • MDPI publications have now accumulated 25 million citations

While journal metrics should never be viewed as the sole measure of research quality, they remain an important indicator of journal visibility, community engagement, and scientific influence.

These achievements reflect the collective work of our Editors-in-Chief, Editorial Board Members, reviewers, authors, Publishing teams, and everyone involved in developing our journals.

Congratulations to every journal team that contributed to these results.

Inside MDPI

MDPI Journals Receive 2025 CiteScores

In June, Scopus published the 2025 CiteScores, providing another positive indication of the continued development of MDPI journals.

You can find more details about the 2025 CiteScore release here: Open Access, Broadly Recognized: 363 MDPI Journals Receive CiteScores for 2025

This year’s highlights include:

  • 363 journals received a CiteScore
  • 41 journals received a CiteScore for the first time
  • 314 journals (86%) rank in Q1 or Q2
  • 42 journals are now within the top 10% of their subject categories

Although no single metric defines journal quality, these results demonstrate the continued recognition and visibility of our journals across many research disciplines.

Particularly encouraging is the growing number of journals receiving their first CiteScore, reflecting years of sustained editorial development, successful indexing, and close collaboration between our Publishing teams, Indexing team, editors, and academic communities.

Thank you to everyone across MDPI whose daily work contributes to these achievements.

Coming Together for Science

Supporting Open Access in Switzerland: MDPI Renews Agreement with CSAL

I am pleased to share that MDPI has renewed its Open Access (OA) publishing agreement with the Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries (CSAL), extending support for researchers across 24 Swiss institutions through our Institutional Open Access Program (IOAP).

As a Swiss-founded publisher, we are particularly proud to continue supporting Switzerland’s research community through long-term institutional partnerships that improve accessibility to Open Access publishing.

The renewal also coincides with the release of our 2025 Switzerland Country Report, highlighting continued national leadership in Open Science. Between 2021 and 2025, Switzerland maintained an OA publication rate of approximately 65–70%, while more than 14,000 Switzerland-affiliated papers have been published with MDPI since 2021.

“We are particularly proud to continue supporting Switzerland’s research community”

The announcement also received coverage across several leading international publishing and research news platforms, including STM, Research Information, EurekAlert!, Bytes Europe, and EdTech Innovation Hub, helping increase visibility for both the partnership and the broader discussion around OA.

My thanks to our IOAP, External Affairs, Communications, and Publishing teams, whose work continues to strengthen relationships with institutions around the world.

Closing Thoughts

Highlights from MDPI Conference ncRNA2026 in Leuven, Belgium (24–26 June)

From 24–26 June, MDPI hosted the ncRNA2026: From Molecular Mechanisms to Clinical Impact Conference in Leuven, Belgium.

The conference welcomed 125 participants from 22 countries and territories, providing an international forum for exchange across molecular biology, medicine, biotechnology, artificial intelligence, and translational research.

Bringing the Global Research Community Together

Over three days, participants exchanged ideas through:

  • 4 Chair Talks
  • 8 Invited Lectures
  • 29 Selected Oral Presentations
  • 51 Poster Presentations

Sessions covered topics including molecular biology, clinical applications, artificial intelligence, and emerging non-coding RNA research, creating a dynamic forum for scientific exchange.

Beyond the scientific program, the conference created opportunities for researchers, journal teams, sponsors, and academic partners to exchange ideas, build existing relationships, and create new collaborations across the global research community.

Our thanks to Conference Chairs Professors George Calin, Manuela Ferracin, Eleonora Leucci, and Isidore Rigoutsos, together with the invited speakers, for delivering an outstanding scientific program.

“By creating opportunities for researchers to exchange ideas, we continue to support the advancement of research worldwide”

Recognizing the Team

The conference also took place during an exceptional heatwave in Belgium, with temperatures reaching 38°C. Thanks to the excellent planning by the Conference team and collaboration with the venue, additional cooling measures and attendee support ensured that the event ran safely and successfully despite challenging conditions.

It is often these behind-the-scenes efforts that make the greatest difference to the participant experience. Thank you to everyone involved for your professionalism, flexibility, and commitment throughout the event.

Thank You

My sincere thanks to the Conference Chairs, invited speakers, sponsors, Editorial Office, Conference team, Marketing colleagues, volunteers, and everyone who contributed to making ncRNA2026 such a success.

As MDPI celebrates its 30th anniversary, events such as ncRNA2026 remind us that our contribution extends well beyond publishing journals. By creating opportunities for researchers to exchange ideas, establish collaborations, and build scientific communities, we continue to support the advancement of research worldwide.

Thank you for your continued dedication throughout another busy month, and I wish you all an enjoyable July!

Stefan Tochev
Chief Executive Officer
MDPI AG

1 July 2026
Meet Us at the ISPRS 2026 Congress: From Imagery to Understanding, 4–11 July 2026, Toronto, Canada


MDPI will be attending the ISPRS 2026 Conference, from 4 to 11 July 2026, at the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, Canada.

The year 2026 will mark the 116th year of international cooperation in the geospatial sciences since the ISP was founded in 1910.

The congress is being led by volunteers from the Canadian Remote Sensing Society—Société Canadienne de Télédétection. The vision for this congress is made possible by the willingness to share ideas, information and science with which we work on a daily basis across national borders.

We look forward to celebrating the many achievements of the ISPRS and its members and set the stage for the future as we hope that the member organizations of the ISPRS come together in Toronto in 2026.

At the same time, as we look back on the history of our field as we always do at the Congress, we will most definitely be looking to the future. We know that the world of today depends on geospatial information—from economic development to mitigating and responding to climate change.

The information that we develop is critical: our science and technologies underpin much of the world’s economic and environmental activities. The story of imagery to understanding bears telling—and we plan to work with the rest of the world to tell it in Toronto in 2026.

We welcome you to visit the MDPI booth (#210) at Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, Canada (255 Front St W, Toronto, ON M5V 2W6), where you can have face-to-face exchanges with our representatives, learn more about our open access publishing services, and acquire exciting gifts.

The following open access journals will be represented:

If you plan to attend this conference, we invite you to visit our booth and converse with our delegates at the conference. We are excited to meet you in person and address any questions you may have. For further details about the conference, please visit the following website: https://www.isprs2026toronto.com/about.

26 June 2026
Remote Sensing Receives an Updated Impact Factor of 4.3


We are pleased to share that Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292) was awarded an increased Impact Factor of 4.3 in the 2025 Journal Citation Reports™ released by Clarivate™ in June 2026. Remote Sensing ranks in Q1 (57 among 259 titles) in the “Geosciences, Multidisciplinary” category.

The 2025 Journal Impact Factor is calculated by dividing the number of citations received in 2025 to all publications in the journal from 2023 and 2024 by the total number of citable publications from those same years.

To learn more, visit our journal statistics website for detailed metrics.

The support and dedication of all the editors, reviewers, authors, and readers are an integral part of the journal’s performance. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you who have contributed to the journal.

23 June 2026
Welcoming New Early Career Editorial Board Members of Remote Sensing

Remote Sensing (ISSN 2072-4292) is pleased to announce the following 38 researchers, who have been added to our group of 2026 Early Career Editorial Board Members. Please join us in congratulating them on joining the Remote Sensing community!

Name: Dr. Yongsheng Hong
Affiliation: School of Resource and Environmental Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China
Research interests: soil remote sensing; proximal soil sensing; soil ecology mapping

Name: Dr. Nan Xu
Affiliation: School of Architecture & Urban Planning, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China
Research interests: hydrology and coastal remote sensing; multi-source remote sensing data processing

Name: Dr. Mariusz Specht
Affiliation: Department of Transport and Logistics, Gdynia Maritime University, Morska 81-87, 81-225 Gdynia, Poland
Research interests: satellite geodesy; satellite navigation; hydrography

Name: Dr. Chenguang Shi
Affiliation: College of Electronic and Information Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China
Research interests: radar resource-aware management and scheduling; radar waveform optimization and radar signal processing for target detection, tracking, and localization

Name: Dr. Jifang Pei
Affiliation: School of Information and Communication Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 611731, China
Research interests: radar target recognition; microwave remote sensing; machine learning

Name: Dr. Zhetao Zhang
Affiliation: School of Earth Sciences and Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing 211100, China
Research interests: GNSS precise positioning under complex conditions; canyon environment; low-cost receiver; multi-GNSS situation

Name: Prof. Dr. Yanni Dong
Affiliation: School of Resource and Environmental Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China
Research interests: hyperspectral remote sensing image processing; remote sensing intelligent interpretation; target detection; dimensionality reduction; classification; object detection; object tracking; change detection; metric learning; transfer learning; deep learning; lithologic mapping; geological application of remote sensing

Name: Dr. Wenli Huang
Affiliation: School of Resource and Environmental Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, China
Research interests: lidar application; vegetation structure mapping; data fusion; image classification; radiometric normalization

Name: Dr. Tawanda W. Gara
Affiliation: Department of Environmental Science and Management, California State Polytechnic University Humboldt, Arcata, CA 95521, USA
Research interests: geographic information science; remote sensing; natural resources management; vegetation spectroscopy; environmental modelling; species distribution modelling; wildlife movement ecology

Name: Prof. Dr. Xuejia Wang
Affiliation: College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
Research interests: vegetation change; land–atmosphere interactions; model simulation; climate change

Name: Dr. Wenliang Li
Affiliation: Department of Geography, Environment, and Sustainability, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC 27412, USA
Research interests: urban impervious surface; spectral mixing analysis; land use/land change modeling

Name: Dr. Nikolaos L. Tsakiridis
Affiliation: Automation and Robotics Laboratory, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece
Research interests: fuzzy systems; evolutionary algorithms; deep learning; explainable artificial intelligence; big data; spectroscopy; soil science; machine learning

Name: Dr. Xiongxin Xiao
Affiliation: Institute of Geography, University of Bern, CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland
Research interests: snow cover; data fusion; machine learning; remote sensing; cryosphere; climate change

Name: Dr. Shaoguang Huang
Affiliation: School of Computer Science, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China
Research interests: hyperspectral image; image processing; machine learning

Name: Dr. Qian Song
Affiliation: GFZ Helmholtz Centre for Geosciences, Potsdam, Germany
Research interests: forest monitoring; biomass estimation; SAR; deep learning; lidar

Name: Dr. Bowei Chen
Affiliation: Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100094, China
Research interests: LiDAR; coastal zones; sustainable development; forests

Name: Dr. Xiaoji Shen
Affiliation: Yangtze Institute for Conservation and Development, Hohai University, Nanjing 211100, China
Research interests: remote sensing in ecology and hydrology; microwave remote sensing

Name: Dr. André Große-Stoltenberg
Affiliation: Landscape Ecology and Landscape Planning, Institute of Landscape Ecology and Resource Management, Justus Liebig University Gießen (JLU), Heinrich-Buff-Ring 26-32, 35392 Giessen, Germany
Research interests: ecology; remote sensing; biological invasions; ecophysiology; landscape ecology; UAV; hyperspectral; LiDAR

Name: Dr. Jan Komarek
Affiliation: Department of Spatial Sciences, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, 165 00 Prague, Czech Republic
Research interests: environmental remote sensing; drone data uncertainty; vegetation traits

Name: Dr. Chunyu Ding
Affiliation: Institute of Advanced Study, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen 518060, China
Research interests: lunar and planetary radar detection; radar astronomy; astronomical technology and methods; lunar and deep space exploration; lunar and planetary science; evolution of surface processes of solar system objects

Name: Dr. Sheng Chang
Affiliation: Department of Space Microwave Remote Sensing System, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Beijing 100190, China
Research interests: SAR signal processing; intelligent anti-jamming; intelligent SAR image interpretation

Name: Dr. Jianming Hu
Affiliation: School of Astronautics, Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT), Harbin 150001, China
Research interests: optical remote sensing imaging; automatic target detection and recognition; image interpretation application; artificial intelligence

Name: Dr. Haidong Pan
Affiliation: Lab of Marine Science and Numerical Modeling, First Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources, Qingdao 266061, China
Research interests: ocean tides; satellite altimeters; tidal analysis; sea levels; ocean dynamics

Name: Dr. Shouhang Du
Affiliation: College of Geoscience and Surveying Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology (Beijing), Beijing, China
Research interests: urban big data; remote sensing; deep learning; data fusion; environmental monitoring

Name: Dr. Junfeng Xiong

Affiliation: Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
Research interests: remote sensing of water environment; trophic status assessment

Name: Dr. Wei Han

Affiliation: Department of Computer Science, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QE, UK
Research interests: geological environment remote sensing; deep learning; remote sensing foundation models

Name: Dr. Xiongwu Xiao

Affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Information Engineering in Surveying, Mapping and Remote Sensing, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
Research interests: SLAM and real-time photogrammetry; multi-source data fusion; 3D reconstruction; building extraction and intelligent 3D mapping; deep learning

Name: Dr. Minkyu Moon

Affiliation: Department of Environmental Science, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, Republic of Korea
Research interests: vegetation phenology; forests; land–atmosphere interactions; biometeorology

Name: Dr. Hossein M. Rizeei

Affiliation: BioUrbanism Lab, McGregor Coxall Australia Pty Ltd., Sydney, NSW 2095, Australia
Research interests: GeoAI; machine learning; geospatial 3D analysis; geospatial intelligence; airborne/spaceborne image processing; feature extraction; predictive modelling

Name: Dr. Yudi Zhou

Affiliation: College of Optical Science and Engineering, Zhejiang University, Zhejiang 310027, China
Research interests: oceanic lidar; seawater optical property; multiple scattering; phytoplankton

Name: Dr. Zuoya Liu

Affiliation: Finnish Geospatial Research Institute FGI, National Land Survey of Finland, Vuorimiehentie 5, FI-02150 Espoo, Finland
Research interests: remote sensing and photogrammetry; positioning and tracking technologies; signal processing; sensor fusion; acoustics; GNSS; Internet of Things; forestry

Name: Dr. Fu Wang
Affiliations: 1 State Key Laboratory of Severe Weather Meteorological Science and Technology, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing 100081, China 2 CMA Earth System Modeling and Prediction Centre, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing 100081, China 3 Key Laboratory of Earth System Modeling and Prediction, China Meteorological Administration, China Meteorological Administration, Beijing 100081, China
Research interests: satellite data assimilation; AI for atmospheric application; aerosol–cloud interaction; quantum machine learning

Name: Dr. Xin Li
Affiliation: College of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Hohai University, Nanjing 211100, China
Research interests: remote sensing image processing; multimodal fusion; pansharpening; segmentation; object detection; foundation model

Name: Dr. Yuxiang Zhang
Affiliation: School of Geophysics and Geomatics, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan 430074, China
Research interests: hyperspectral image processing; machine learning; disaster monitoring

Name: Dr. Bin Yang
Affiliation: School of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Hunan University, Changsha 410082, China
Research interests: remote sensing; artificial intelligence

Name: Dr. Mengjia Wang
Affiliation: School of Geo-Science and Technology, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China
Research interests: microwave remote sensing; carbon cycle; drought monitoring; downscaling

Name: Dr. Mahdi Panahi
Affiliation: Department of Physical Geography, Stockholm University, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden
Research interests: SAR remote sensing; natural hazard analysis; GIS; disaster management; AI applications in remote sensing

Name: Prof. Dr. Wei Wang
Affiliations: 1 School of Electronic, Electrical and Communication Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China 2 Department of Space Microwave Remote Sensing System, Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
Research interests: spaceborne SAR system design and signal processing; radar waveform design; multichannel and digital beamforming

17 June 2026
2025 Impact Factors Released

Impact Factors measure how often articles in scientific journals are cited—specifically, the average number of citations received in a given year by articles published in that journal over the previous two years, as tracked in the Web of Science. For researchers, the number answers a practical question: how often is work published in this journal being picked up and built upon?

The metric is assigned to the journal as a whole, not to individual articles. A high Impact Factor tells you something useful about a journal's place in its field; it tells you less about any single paper within it.

For a complementary, article-level view, MDPI lists an Altmetric score on each article page. Where the Impact Factor tracks academic citations, the Altmetric score captures broader online attention: how an article is being shared, discussed, and referenced beyond the journal literature. Together, they offer two different ways of asking the same question: is this research reaching people?

With 2025 CiteScores from Scopus published a few weeks ago, Clarivate has now released this year's Journal Impact Factors in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR).

254 MDPI Journals Saw a Rise in Impact Factor

This year's JCR include 330 MDPI journals across a wide range of disciplines. Of these, 231 journals are placed in the top 50% (Q1 or Q2) of their respective subject categories, a result that spans fields as different as materials science, public health, environmental studies, and mathematics. 78 journals hold a top-quartile position (Q1), and 33 journals have a JIF of 5.0 or above.

  • 330 journals earned a Journal Impact Factor (JIF)
  • 29 journals earned a first JIF
  • 254 journals had an increase in JIF
  • 71% of ranked journals are in Q1 or Q2

For the full metrics on any MDPI journal, visit our Web of Science journals overview page or a journal's individual statistics page.

29 MDPI Journals Received Their First Journal Impact Factor

A first Impact Factor is a confirmation for an emerging journal. It marks the point at which a journal has been publishing long enough, and cited broadly enough, to enter the formal record of scientific influence. For the research communities those journals serve, it signals that the work being published is being read and built upon.

This year, 29 MDPI journals received a Journal Impact Factor for the first time, across a range of emerging and established research areas. Each represents years of editorial development and peer review—recognized in 2026 for the first time in the JCR.

This is also part of a longer shift in how science gets indexed. When the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) launched in 2016, 24 MDPI journals were included. By 2024 that number had grown to over 200, reflecting a broader change in the visibility of open access publishing within major citation tracking systems, not just at MDPI but across the sector.

Open Access with Impact

MDPI journals have received a total of 25.2 million citations in Web of Science. That figure matters less as a measure of MDPI's reach and more as a measure of what happens when research is freely available: it gets found, read, and used. Open access is only meaningful if the work actually travels and citations are one indicator that it does.

More than 4.6 million authors have published with MDPI. That breadth, across disciplines, institutions, and geographies, is what makes open access at this scale worth doing.

Thank You to the MDPI Scholarly Community

These results belong to the people who do the actual work: the Editors-in-Chief who set the standards, the Editorial Board Members and reviewers who hold them, and the authors who choose open access for their research. The numbers in the Journal Citation Reports are the downstream effect of decisions made at the desk, in the review, and at submission. Thank you for making them.

Data: 2025 Journal Impact Factors, Journal Citation Reports™ (Clarivate, 2026)

17 June 2026
Remote Sensing Receives an Increased CiteScore of 9.4


We are pleased to share that Remote Sensing (ISSN: 2072-4292) has received an increased CiteScore of 9.4 in June 2026. The CiteScore ranks the journal 13 out of 201 titles (Q1) in the “General Earth and Planetary Sciences” category, an impressive achievement for a journal running in Volume 18.

 You can find more statistics on our website.

The current CiteScores measure the average number of citations within a journal over a four-year window (2022–2025). The Scopus database provides a comprehensive suite of metrics that support informed publishing strategies, research evaluation and enable benchmarking of journal performance.

This achievement reflects the collective efforts of our authors, reviewers, and editors. Together we will continue to track the progress of Remote Sensing and its growing impact in the field of remote sensing.

11 June 2026
Topics Webinar | GeoAI - Prospects and Challenges, 30 June 2026


A message from the webinar Chair:

This webinar series represents a collection of online presentations that brings together scholars from around the world with expertise in the field of Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (GeoAI) and its diverse range of applications. The talks will provide an opportunity to share knowledge, exchange research ideas and discuss the emerging opportunities and challenges that GeoAI presents across different geospatial fields and application domains. Invited leading scholars will communicate their research results and share their perspectives and experiences on the current state and future directions of GeoAI.

MDPI has successfully hosted several well-received webinars in the Earth Observation & Geosciences (EOGEO) series, attracting thousands of researchers worldwide. Building on this momentum, we continue to collaborate with MDPI journals such as IJGI, Geomatics, Remote Sensing, Drones, Land, Fire, and Applied Sciences, to name a few, to promote high-quality academic exchanges in the fast-growing field of GeoAI.

Date: 30 June 2026
Time: 9:00 a.m. to 10:10 a.m. PDT | 12:00 p.m. to 1:10 p.m. EDT
Webinar ID: 831 3524 3925
Webinar Secretariat: journal.webinar@mdpi.com
Webinar announcement: https://sciforum.net/event/Topics-50?subscribe

Register now for free!

Program:

Speaker/Presentation Time in PDT Time in EDT
Prof. Dr. Suzana Dragićević (Chair)
Chair Introduction		 9:00–9:10 a.m. 12:00–12:10 p.m.
Dr. Levente Juhász
Discrete Global Grid Systems (DGGS) as the Foundation for Planetary Scale GeoAI		 9:10–9:30 a.m. 12:10–12:30 p.m.
Dr. Junghwan Kim
The Uneven Geography of Generative AI’s Capabilities: Implications for Urban Analytics Research and Policy 		 9:30–9:50 a.m. 12:30–12:50 p.m.
Q&A Session 9:50–10:05 a.m. 12:50–1:05 p.m.
Prof. Dr. Suzana Dragićević
Closing of Webinar		 10:05–10:10 a.m. 1:05–1:10 p.m.

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email with information on how to join the webinar. Registrations with academic or institutional email addresses will be prioritized. 

Unable to attend? Feel free to register anyway, and we will inform you when the recording is available.

Webinar Chair and Keynote Speakers:

  • Prof. Dr. Suzana Dragićević, Geography Department, Simon Fraser University, Canada;
  • Dr. Levente Juhász, Geographic Analytics, Technology and Open Research (GATOR) Lab; Geomatics Sciences, Fort Lauderdale Research and Education Center; University of Florida, USA;
  • Dr. Junghwan Kim, Director, Smart Cities for Good (SCG); Affiliated Faculty, School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA), Virginia Tech; Faculty Affiliate, Center for Human-Computer Interaction (CHCI), Virginia Tech; Department of Geography, Virginia Tech, USA.

4 June 2026
Open Access, Broadly Recognized: 363 MDPI Journals Receive CiteScores for 2025

The 2025 CiteScore metrics have been officially released by Scopus, and the results confirm what has become a consistent pattern for MDPI's journal portfolio: broad recognition across disciplines, steady improvement across the majority of ranked titles, and a growing presence at the top of subject category rankings.

CiteScore, published annually by Elsevier's Scopus database, measures the average citations received by articles published in a journal over a four-year window. As a complement to the Journal Impact Factor, which uses a two-year window based on the Web of Science database, CiteScore provides an alternative, long-term perspective on citation performance.

The 365 MDPI journals in Scopus (as of May 2026) are indexed across a wide range of subject categories, ensuring that open access research remains highly discoverable to a global readership through one of the most widely used platforms in academic publishing.

Data Summary (2025 CiteScores)

  • New Additions: 41 MDPI journals received a CiteScore for the first time.
  • Trending Upward: 234 of 322 previously ranked journals (73%) saw an increase in their CiteScore compared to last year.
  • High Visibility: 314 journals (86%) rank in Q1 or Q2 in at least one subject category.
  • Elite Performance: 42 journals rank in the top 10% of their subject categories.

Portfolio Performance

Among the 322 journals that held a CiteScore in 2024, 234 saw an increase this year. Quartile improvements outnumbered declines across the portfolio, with 52 journals moving to a higher quartile and only 20 seeing a decline. Furthermore, no previously ranked journals were removed. The 42 journals now ranked in the top 10% of their subject categories are drawn from a strong foundation of 178 journals holding a Q1 position.

With the large majority of our indexed portfolio ranked in the top half of research fields, researchers can confidently choose MDPI to meet funder mandates for high-quality, fully compliant Open Access publishing.

Exceptional Achievements for Foods and Life

Notably, both Foods and Life achieved a 99th percentile ranking in their respective subject categories for the 2025 CiteScores. This outstanding placement positions them as leading journals in their fields and highlights the high visibility and global impact of the open access research they publish.

Journal Metrics and Beyond

Journal-level metrics describe outlets, not individual articles. An increasing number of funders and institutions—including signatories of DORA and the Coalition for Advancing Research Assessment—now explicitly encourage evaluation at the article level rather than by the journal in which research appears. MDPI supports this direction: we report CiteScore alongside the Journal Impact Factor, Journal Citation Indicator, and article-level usage data because no single number captures the full reach and contribution of published research.

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These results reflect the sustained effort of thousands of editors-in-chief, editorial board members, reviewers, and authors across every field MDPI serves. The metrics are the outcome; the work is yours.

To explore the specific 2025 CiteScore, Impact Factor, and indexing details for your field's journal, please visit the Scopus journals list and go to a journal's Statistics page.

3 June 2026
Remote Sensing Now Officially on Bluesky


We are pleased to announce that Remote Sensing (ISSN: 2072-4292) has expanded its social media presence with the launch of its official Bluesky account: https://bsky.app/profile/mdpiremotesensing.bsky.social.

In addition to our existing LinkedIn, X, and Facebook accounts, the new Bluesky account will provide another channel for sharing journal updates, Special Issue information, and research highlights across the field of remote sensing.

Remote Sensing publishes peer-reviewed, open access research about the science and application of remote sensing technology. Through our social media channels, we aim to help readers follow recent developments in the field and stay informed about journal activities.

We welcome researchers, authors, reviewers, editors, and readers interested in remote sensing research to follow our Bluesky account and share it with colleagues who may find it useful.

Remote Sensing Editorial Office


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