We are pleased to announce that Prof. Dr. Youfan Hu has been appointed as Section Editor-in-Chief of the “Electronic Sensors” Section of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220).

Name: Youfan Hu

Email: [email protected]

Affiliation: Department of Electronics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China

Homepage: http://scholar.pku.edu.cn/youfanhu/home

Research Keywords: nanosensors; flexible integrated circuits; energy harvesting technology; integrated smart sensor systems

Prof. Dr. Youfan Hu received her Ph.D. degree in Physical Electronics from Peking University, Beijing, China, in 2008. She is currently a Professor in the Department of Electronics at Peking University. Before joining Peking University, she worked as a post-doctoral fellow and research scientist in Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA. Her research interests include high performance nanosensors, carbon nanotube-based integrated circuits, energy harvesting technology, and integrated smart sensor system. Dr. Hu has published over 60 peer-reviewed journal articles with a citation exceeding 8000. Most of her work is published in top journals, such as Advanced Materials, Nano Letters, ACS Nano, Advanced Functional Materials and Nano Energy.

We warmly welcome Prof. Dr. Youfan Hu in her role as Section Editor-in-Chief, and we look forward to her leading Sensors to achieving more milestones.

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We are pleased to announce that Dr. Edgar Muñoz has been appointed Section Editor-in-Chief of “Nanosensors” in Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220).

Edgar Muñoz earned a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Zaragoza in 2000 for his pioneering work in the laser ablation production of carbon nanotubes carried out at the Instituto de Carboquímica ICB-CSIC (Spanish National Research Council CSIC). From 2000 to 2003, he worked in Ray H. Baughman’s group, first at Honeywell Int. (Morristown, NJ), and later at the UTD NanoTech Institute of the University of Texas in Dallas, where he published seminal papers in Nature, Nature Materials, and the Journal of the American Chemical Society and Advanced Materials. Dr. Edgar Muñoz has been a CSIC staff research scientist since 2005. His primary research interests are in the fabrication of nanocarbon-based multifunctional materials for gas sensor applications, and on supramolecular peptide self-assemblies and nanocomposite materials for optoelectronics (transparent electrodes and fluorescent probes), sensor, nanocarrier (theranostics, drug delivery), and smart textile applications.

We warmly welcome Dr. Edgar Muñoz in his role as Editor-in-Chief of the “Nanosensors” Section, and we look forward to him leading Sensors towards achieving more milestones.

Name: Dr. Edgar Muñoz
Affiliation: Instituto de Carboquímica ICB-CSIC, Miguel Luesma Castán 4, 50018 Zaragoza, Spain
Website: http://www.ibernam.net/miembros.php?lang=spa&cat=1&id=55
Email: [email protected]
Interests: carbon nanomaterials; 2D nanomaterials; nanocomposite materials and fibers; bio-nanocomposite materials; sensors

We are pleased to announce that Prof. Dr. Sylvain Girard has been appointed as Section Editor-in-Chief of the “Sensing and Imaging” Section in Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220).

Prof. Dr. Sylvain Girard is a Full Professor at the Laboratoire Hubert Curien of the University Jean Monnet of Saint-Etienne. He received his Ph.D. in Optics and Photonics from the University of Saint-Etienne in 2003. He is a recipient of the IEEE NPSS Early Achievement Award and of the IEEE SEE Léon-Nicolas Brillouin Award. His research focuses on developing innovative photonic technologies, with particular interest in optical fibers, fiber-based sensors and image sensors, for operation in radiation-rich environments such as the ones encountered in space, medicine, nuclear industry, high energy physics or fusion-devoted facilities. Today, he is leading the Materials for Optics and Photonics in Extreme Radiation Environments (MOPERE) research team and is one of the founders of the LabH6, a joint research lab between University Jean Monnet, CNRS and the industrial iXblue. He has co-authored more than 230 peer-reviewed journal publications, which have been cited more than 5300 times (h-index of 39).

We warmly welcome Prof. Dr. Sylvain Girard in taking up his role as Section Editor-in-Chief, and we look forward to him leading Sensors to achieving many more milestones.

Name: Prof. Dr. Sylvain Girard

Email: [email protected]

Affiliation: Laboratoire Hubert Curien, CNRS UMR 5516, Université Jean Monnet, 42000 Saint-Étienne, France

Interests: fiber sensors; optical sensors; image sensors; optical materials; radiation effects

Homepage: https://laboratoirehubertcurien.univ-st-etienne.fr/en/teams/materials-for-optics-and-photonics-in-extreme-radiation-environments.html

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.

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We are pleased to announce that Prof. Dr. Mengdao Xing has been appointed as Section Editor-in-Chief of the “Radar Sensors” Section of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220).

Dr. Mengdao Xing received B.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Xidian University, China in 1997 and 2002, respectively. He is currently a Full Professor at the National Laboratory of Radar Signal Processing, Xidian University. He is also the Deputy Dean of the Academy of Advanced Interdisciplinary Research, Xidian University. His current research interests are synthetic aperture radar (SAR), inversed synthetic aperture radar (ISAR), sparse signal processing and microwave remote sensing. He has written or co-written more than 200 peer reviewed scientific journal papers. He also has authored or co-authored two books about SAR signal processing. His research has received 8660 citations and an H-index of 46. He has achieved over 40 authorized China patents. He is an IEEE Fellow.

We warmly welcome Prof. Dr. Mengdao Xing in taking up his role as Section Editor-in-Chief, and we look forward to him leading Sensors to achieve many more milestones.

Name: Prof. Dr. Mengdao Xing

Email: [email protected]

Affiliation: National Laboratory of Radar Signal Processing, Xidian University, Xi’an 710071, China

Interests: synthetic radar radar (SAR) imaging; inverse synthetic radar radar (SAR) imaging; interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) imaging; ground moving target detection and imaging; bistatic synthetic aperture radar (BiSAR) imaging; polarization synthetic aperture radar (POL-SAR) imaging; micro- and nano-synthetic aperture radars (MiniSAR and NanoSAR); synthetic aperture imaging lidar (SAIL); high-speed radar imaging data acquisition system; real-time radar imaging processor

Homepage: https://mobile.xidian.edu.cn/info/1377/5123.htm

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Hyungsoon Im has been appointed Editor-in-Chief of the ”Biomedical Sensors“ Section in Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220).

Dr. Hyungsoon Im

Affiliation: Center for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA

Website: https://csb.mgh.harvard.edu/hyungsoon_im

Email: [email protected]

Interests: diagnostics; biosensors; plasmonics; point-of-care; cancers; extracellular vesicles; analytical chemistry

Dr. Hyungsoon Im is an Assistant Professor at the Center for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota in 2011. He is a recipient of the NIH Pathway to Independence Award and NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award Fellowship from the National Cancer Institute. His research focuses on developing next-generation sensing technologies to better understand the make-up of human diseases and changes associated with disease progression and therapy. His laboratory exploits have uniquely designed nanomaterials and sensors to quantitatively analyze biomarkers and overcome clinical unmet needs. He has co-authored more than 50 peer-reviewed journal publications, which have been cited more than 6000 times (h-index of 32).

We warmly welcome Dr. Hyungsoon Im in his role as Editor-in-Chief of the “Biomedical Sensors” Section, and we look forward to him leading Sensors towards achieving more milestones.

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In November 2020, the Spanish Society of Biomedical Engineering (SEIB) became affiliated to Sensors and Entropy. As part of this collaboration, all members of SEIB enjoy a discount on the article processing charges (APC) when submitting articles to the journals.

The Spanish Society of Biomedical Engineering (SEIB) is a non-profit organization representing the biomedical engineering community in Spain. Its mission is to improve the health, wealth, and wellbeing of Spanish citizens through the application of biomedical engineering (BME).

SEIB is a professional organization whose functions are highly relevant to the scope of Sensors and Entropy. We look forward to collaborating with SEIB and publishing state-of-the-art research from its members in this field.

The year 2020 marks the 20th anniversary of Sensors. Sensors has published more than 30,000 papers from more than 100,900 authors. To celebrate this 20th anniversary, we have arranged a series of special content and events. We hope you can join us to celebrate this milestone of our journal and enjoy the collection below.

The year 2020 was a year of growth for Sensors. The journal received 17,136 submissions and published 7255 articles from 30,084 international authors. More than 49,000 experts were involved in reviewing articles for Sensors during 2020 and involved in the peer review process of the journal. Moreover, 554 academic editors joined the Editorial Board in 2020. Sensors’ articles were cited 12,703 times in 2020 and the impact factor (IF) increased from 3.031 to 3.275. Thanks to the commitment and dedication of the editorial staff, the median time between submission and publication is around 39 days.

The journal established the following six new sections: “Communications”, “Fault Diagnosis & Sensors”, “Wearables”, “Nanosensors”, “Sensing and Imaging” and “Sensors and Robotics”.

The E-conference organized by Sensors, the 7th International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications (ECSA-7), has been closed successfully with 115 accepted proceedings and 6 live sessions. We would like to take this opportunity to express our appreciations to all the participants for their contributions and all the chairs and committee members for their excellent work.

Moreover, Sensors became an affiliated journal of the Spanish Society of Biomedical Engineering (SEIB).

High Altmetrics Papers

Physical Sensors
Vacuum Ultraviolet Absorption Spectroscopy Analysis of Breath Acetone Using a Hollow Optical Fiber Gas Cell
Yudai Kudo et al.

Chemical Sensors
Photometric Sensing of Active Chlorine, Total Chlorine, and pH on a Microfluidic Chip for Online Swimming Pool Monitoring
Sait Elmas et al.

Physical Sensors
Wildfire Smoke Adjustment Factors for Low-Cost and Professional PM_2.5 Monitors with Optical Sensors
William W. Delp et al.

Biosensors
An Optical Urate Biosensor Based on Urate Oxidase and Long-Lifetime Metalloporphyrins
Tokunbo Falohun et al.

Chemical Sensors
A ppm Ethanol Sensor Based on Fabry–Perot Interferometric Surface Stress Transducer at Room Temperature
Toshiaki Takahashi et al.

Sensor Networks
Discovering Suspicious APT Behaviors by Analyzing DNS Activities
Guanghua Yan et al.

Hot Special Issues

Intelligent Vehicles
Sensors and Robot Control
Advanced Sensors and Signal Processing of Sensor Data: Recent Advances and Applications
Sensors for Biomechanics Application
Emotion and Stress Recognition Related Sensors and Machine Learning Technologies

Sensors runs Special Issues to create collections of articles on specific topics with the aim of building a community of authors and readers to discuss the latest research and develop new ideas and research directions.

Open Calls

Sensors for Gait, Human Movement Analysis, and Health Monitoring
edited by Marco Iosa
submission deadline 31 March 2021

Internet of Things for Smart Homes and Industrial Application
edited by Tiago M. Fernández-Caramés and Paula Fraga-Lamas
submission deadline 18 June 2021

Sensing Technologies for Agricultural Automation and Robotics
edited by Manoj Karkee
submission deadline 30 June 2021

Please find the full list of topics and calls for papers via the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues.

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In 2021, Sensors will continue to contribute to academic exchange and sharing of knowledge.

We are pleased to announce that Prof. Dr. Xianbin Wang has been appointed as Section Editor-in-Chief of the “Communications” Section of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220).

Dr. Xianbin Wang is a Full Professor and Tier-1 Canada Research Chair in 5G and Wireless IoT Communications at the Western University (The University of Western Ontario), Canada. His current research interests are focused on 5G and beyond/6G, intelligent wireless communications, wireless security, machine-learning, and the Internet-of-Things. The activities of his research team have led to the publication of more than 400 highly cited publications and over 30 patents.

Dr. Wang is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering, the Engineering Institute of Canada, and the of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He has served as Editor/Associate Editor/Guest Editor for over ten journals, including IEEE Transactions on Communications, IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting and IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. He was involved in numerous conferences including IEEE ICC, GLOBECOM, WCNC, VTC, CCECE, CWIT and PIMRC, assuming roles such as the technical program co-chair, symposium chair, track chair, tutorial instructor, session chair and keynote speaker. Dr. Wang has been nominated as an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer several times during the last ten years.

We warmly welcome Prof. Dr. Xianbin Wang in taking up his role as Section Editor-in-Chief and we look forward to him leading Sensors to achieve many more milestones.

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Name: Prof. Xianbin Wang

Email: [email protected]

Affiliation: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Western University, London, Ontario CANADA N6A 5B9

Interests: 5G/6G; IoT; intelligent wireless communications; communication security; AI/machine learning; NOMA/MIMO/OFDM; locationing technologies; collaborative computing

Homepage: https://www.eng.uwo.ca/electrical/faculty/wang_x/index.html

We are pleased to announce that Prof. Dr. Roozbeh Ghaffari has been appointed as Section Editor-in-Chief of the “Wearables” Section in Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220).

Prof. Dr. Roozbeh Ghaffari obtained his BS and MEng degrees in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2001 and 2003. He received his PhD degree in biomedical engineering from the Harvard Medical School-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology in 2008. He joined the Center for Bio-Integrated Electronics (CBIE) at Northwestern University in May 2017, where he is currently the Director of Translational Research and Research Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering.

Prof. Dr. Ghaffari has published over 100 academic papers and is inventor of over 50 patents issued. His research focus is at the intersection between soft bioelectronics, micro/nano-scale systems, and neuroscience.

We warmly welcome Prof. Dr. Roozbeh Ghaffari in his role as Section Editor-in-Chief and we look forward to him leading Sensors to achieve more milestones.

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Name: Roozbeh Ghaffari

Email: [email protected]

Affiliation: Querrey Simpson Institute for Bioelectronics, Department of

Biomedical Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA

Homepage: https://bioelectronics.northwestern.edu/people/ghaffari-roozbeh.html

Research Keywords: flexible electronics; biosensors; wearable computing; MEMS; neuroscience, microfluidics

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We are pleased to announce that Prof. Dr. Xue Wang has been appointed as Section Associate Editor of the Physical Sensors Section in Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). He joined Sensors in 2008 and has made great contributions to our growth and development.

Xue Wang is a professor of the Department of Precision Instruments at Tsinghua University. He is the current Vice Dean of the Department of Precision Instrument and the State Key Laboratory of Precision Measurements Technology and Instruments. He has been on the Elsevier China Highly Cited Scholars List in 2014, 2015, and 2016; he served as the standing director of the Chinese Instrument and Control Society, the standing director of the Chinese Society for Measurement, and the vice-chairman of the China Computer Federation TC IoT.

Xue Wang received his M.S. degree in measurement and instrument from the Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China, in 1991 and his Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, in 1994. He was a Post-Doctoral Fellow of electrical power system with the Huazhong University of Science and Technology from 1994 to 1996. He then joined the Department of Precision Instrument, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, where he is currently a Professor and the Vice Dean of Department of Precision Instrument. From 2001 to 2002, he was a Visiting Professor with the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Wisconsin–Madison.

His research interests include topics in wireless sensor networks, cyber-physical systems, intelligent biosignal processing, medical image processing, and smart energy utilization. Prof. Wang is a Senior Member of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society, Computer Society, Computational Intelligence Society, and Communications Society.

We warmly welcome Prof. Dr. Xue Wang in his role as Section Associate Editor and we look forward to him leading Sensors to achieve more milestones.

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Prof. Dr. Xue Wang

Website: http://www.dpi.tsinghua.edu.cn/publish/dpi/5109/2011/20110119091518325673772/20110119091518325673772_.html
Email: [email protected]
Affiliation: Department of Precision Instrument, Tsinghua University, 100084 Beijing, China
Interests: intelligent sensors; sensors networks; remote sensing; intelligent signal processing; Kalman filtering; multisensor fusion; intelligent maintenance and fault prognosis; measurement instrumentation; robust and optimal control

We are inviting applications for the following seven section travel awards for jounior scientists. The winners will be awarded 500 CHF each and a certificate. The applications will be assessed by an Evaluation Committee consisting of senior scholars in the field.

Sensors 2021 Travel Award in Physical Sensors
Sensors 2021 Travel Award in Intelligent Sensors
Sensors 2021 Travel Award in Chemical Sensors
Sensors 2021 Travel Award in Remote Sensors
Sensors 2021 Travel Award in Sensors Networks
Sensors 2021 Travel Award in Biosensors
Sensors 2021 Travel Award for Women

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It is our great pleasure to announce that Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220; CODEN: SENSC9) has received an increased Citescore (2019 Scopus data) of 5.0 for the year 2019, which equals the rank of 17/129 (Q1) in ‘’Physics and Astronomy: Instrumentation’’, the rank of 147/670 (Q1) in ‘’Electrical and Electronic Engineering’’, and the rank of 35/119 (Q2) in ‘’Analytical Chemistry’’.

We would like to extend our sincerest gratitude to all authors, reviewers, and editors who have contributed to the journal and enabled this next big step!

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Hyungsoon Im has been appointed Associate Editor for Biomedical Sensors Section in Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220).

Dr. Hyungsoon Im

Affiliation: Center for Systems Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

Website: https://csb.mgh.harvard.edu/hyungsoon_im

Email: [email protected]

Interests: Plasmonics, biosensors, diagnostic systems, computational imaging, extracellular vesicles, cancers

Dr. Hyungsoon Im is a principal investigator at the Center for Systems Biology at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota, Twin-Cities in 2011.

His research focuses on developing next-generation sensing technologies to better understand the make-up of human diseases and the changes associated with disease progression and therapy. His research group exploits uniquely designed nanomaterials and sensors to quantitatively analyze biomarkers and overcome clinical unmet needs. He has co-authored more than 50 peer-reviewed journal publications, which have been cited more than 5000 times (h-index of 31).

We warmly welcome Dr. Hyungsoon Im in his role as Associate Editor for the Biomedical Sensors Section, and we look forward to him leading Sensors to achieve more milestones.

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).
  
  

First Impact Factors

Journal	Impact Factor	Rank	Category	Details
Actuators	1.957	31/64 (Q2)	• Instruments & Instrumentation	Link
Agriculture	2.072	25/91 (Q2)	• Agronomy	Link
Biology	3.796	19/93 (Q1)	• Biology	Link
Biomedicines	4.717	30/138 (Q1) 36/270 (Q1)	• Medicine, Research & Experimental • Pharmacology & Pharmacy	Link
Biosensors	3.240	24/86 (Q2)	• Chemistry, Analytical	Link
Chemosensors	3.108	16/64 (Q1) 27/86 (Q2) 13/27 (Q2)	• Instruments & Instrumentation • Chemistry, Analytical • Electrochemistry	Link
Children	2.078	50/128 (Q2)	• Pediatrics	Link
Healthcare	1.916	62/102 (Q3) 45/87 (Q3)	• Health Care Sciences & Services (SCIE) • Health Policy & Services (SSCI)	Link
Journal of Fungi	4.621	5/29 (Q1) 31/135 (Q1)	• Mycology • Microbiology	Link
Journal of Personalized Medicine	4.433	24/165 (Q1) 10/102 (Q1)	• Medicine, General & Internal • Health Care Sciences & Services	Link
Land	2.429	58/123 (Q2)	• Environmental Studies (SSCI)	Link
Life	2.991	26/93 (Q2) 109/267 (Q2)	• Biology • Microbiology	Link
Magnetochemistry	1.947	22/45 (Q2) 109/159 (Q3) 201/314 (Q3)	• Chemistry, Inorganic & Nuclear • Chemistry, Physical • Materials Science, Multidisciplinary	Link
Membranes	3.094	53/143 (Q2) 129/314 (Q2) 23/89 (Q2)	• Engineering, Chemical • Materials Science, Multidisciplinary • Polymer Science	Link
Pharmaceuticals	4.286	49/270 (Q1)	• Pharmacology & Pharmacy	Link
Photonics	2.140	48/97 (Q2)	• Optics	Link
Separations	1.900	53/86 (Q3)	• Chemistry, Analytical	Link
Toxics	3.271	32/92 (Q2) 92/265 (Q2)	• Toxicology • Environmental Sciences	Link

Updated Impact Factors

Journal	Impact Factor	Rank	Category	Details
Agronomy	2.603	18/91 (Q1) 65/234 (Q2)	• Agronomy • Plant Sciences	Link
Animals	2.323	10/63 (Q1) 14/142 (Q1)	• Agriculture, Dairy & Animal Science • Veterinary Sciences	Link
Antibiotics	3.893	23/93 (Q1) 64/270 (Q1)	• Infectious Diseases • Pharmacology & Pharmacy	Link
Antioxidants	5.014	10/139 (Q1) 56/297 (Q1) 7/61 (Q1)	• Food Science & Technology • Biochemistry & Molecular Biology • Chemistry, Medicinal	Link
Applied Sciences	2.474	161/314 (Q3) 32/91 (Q2) 88/177 (Q2) 62/154 (Q2)	• Materials Science, Multidisciplinary • Engineering, Multidisciplinary • Chemistry, Multidisciplinary • Physics, Applied	Link
Atmosphere	2.397	48/93 (Q3)	• Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences	Link
Biomolecules	4.082	98/297 (Q2)	• Biochemistry & Molecular Biology	Link
Brain Sciences	3.332	113/271 (Q2)	• Neurosciences	Link
Cancers	6.126	37/244 (Q1)	• Oncology	Link
Catalysts	3.520	65/159 (Q2)	• Chemistry, Physical	Link
Cells	4.366	70/195 (Q2)	• Cell Biology	Link
Coatings	2.436	10/21 (Q2)	• Materials Science, Coatings & Films	Link
Crystals	2.404	10/26 (Q2) 165/314 (Q3)	• Crystallography • Materials Science, Multidisciplinary	Link
Diagnostics	3.110	39/165 (Q1)	• Medicine, General & Internal	Link
Diversity	1.402	119/168 (Q3)	• Ecology	Link
Electronics	2.412	125/266 (Q2)	• Engineering, Electrical & Electronic	Link
Energies	2.702	63/112 (Q3)	• Energy & Fuels	Link
Entropy	2.494	33/85 (Q2)	• Physics, Multidisciplinary	Link
Foods	4.092	27/139 (Q1)	• Food Science & Technology	Link
Forests	2.221	17/68 (Q1)	• Forestry	Link
Genes	3.759	53/177 (Q2)	• Genetics & Heredity	Link
Insects	2.220	18/101 (Q1)	• Entomology	Link
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH)	2.849	58/193 (Q2) 32/170 (Q1) 105/265 (Q2)	• Public, Environmental & Occupational Health (SCIE) • Public, Environmental & Occupational Health (SSCI) • Environmental Sciences (SCIE)	Link
International Journal of Molecular Sciences (IJMS)	4.556	74/297 (Q1) 48/177 (Q2)	• Biochemistry & Molecular Biology • Chemistry, Multidisciplinary	Link
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (IJGI)	2.239	31/50 (Q3) 18/30 (Q3)	• Geography, Physical • Remote Sensing	Link
Journal of Clinical Medicine	3.303	36/165 (Q1)	• Medicine, General & Internal	Link
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering	2.033	31/66 (Q2)	• Oceanography	Link
Marine Drugs	4.073	16/61 (Q2)	• Chemistry, Medicinal	Link
Materials	3.057	132/314 (Q2)	• Materials Science, Multidisciplinary	Link
Mathematics	1.747	28/324 (Q1)	• Mathematics	Link
Medicina	1.205	107/165 (Q3)	• Medicine, General & Internal	Link
Metabolites	4.097	95/297 (Q2)	• Biochemistry & Molecular Biology	Link
Metals	2.117	18/79 (Q1) 185/314 (Q3)	• Metallurgy & Metallurgical Engineering • Materials Science, Multidisciplinary	Link
Micromachines	2.523	56/92 (Q3) 23/64 (Q2)	• Nanoscience & Nanotechnology • Instruments & Instrumentation	Link
Microorganisms	4.152	37/135 (Q2)	• Microbiology	Link
Minerals	2.380	6/21 (Q2) 11/30 (Q2)	• Mining & Mineral Processing • Mineralogy	Link
Molecules	3.267	70/177 (Q2) 141/297 (Q2)	• Chemistry, Multidisciplinary • Biochemistry & Molecular Biology	Link
Nanomaterials	4.324	89/314 (Q2) 42/103 (Q2)	• Materials Science, Multidisciplinary • Nanoscience & Nanotechnology	Link
Nutrients	4.546	17/89 (Q1)	• Nutrition & Dietetics	Link
Pathogens	3.018	65/135 (Q2)	• Microbiology	Link
Pharmaceutics	4.421	44/270 (Q1)	• Pharmacology & Pharmacy	Link
Plants	2.762	58/234 (Q1)	• Plant Sciences	Link
Polymers	3.426	16/89 (Q1)	• Polymer Science	Link
Processes	2.753	59/143 (Q2)	• Engineering, Chemical	Link
Remote Sensing	4.509	9/30 (Q2)	• Remote Sensing	Link
Sensors	3.275	22/86 (Q2) 77/266 (Q2) 15/64 (Q1)	• Chemistry, Analytical • Engineering, Electrical & Electronic • Instruments & Instrumentation	Link
Sustainability	2.576	120/265 (Q2) 26/41 (Q3) 53/123 (Q2) 6/8 (Q3)	• Environmental Sciences (SCIE) • Green & Sustainable Science & Technology (SCIE) • Environmental Studies (SSCI) • Green & Sustainable Science & Technology (SSCI)	Link
Symmetry	2.645	29/71 (Q2)	• Multidisciplinary Sciences	Link
Toxins	3.531	21/92 (Q1) 34/139 (Q1)	• Toxicology • Food Science & Technology	Link
Universe	1.752	18/29 (Q3) 42/68 (Q3)	• Physics, Particles & Fields • Astronomy & Astrophysics	Link
Vaccines	4.086	57/158 (Q2) 50/138 (Q2)	• Immunology • Medicine, Research & Experimental	Link
Viruses	3.816	12/37 (Q2)	• Virology	Link
Water	2.544	31/94 (Q2)	• Water Resources	Link

Source: Clarivate 2020, InCites Journal Citation Reports®.

In April 2020, the Japan Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (JSPRS) became affiliated to Sensors and Remote Sensing. As part of this collaboration, all members of JSPRS enjoy a discount on the article processing charges (APC) when submitting articles to these two journals.

The Japan Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing was founded in 1962 and is a non-governmental organization devoted to the development of cooperation for the advancement of photogrammetry and remote sensing, as well as their applications.

JSPRS is a professional organization whose functions are highly relevant to the scope of Sensors and Remote Sensing. We look forward to collaborating with JSPRS and publishing state-of-the-art research from its members in this field.

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Davide Brunelli has been appointed Section Editor-in-Chief of the section ‘’Sensor Networks’’ in the journal Sensors.

Affiliation: DII, University of Trento, I-38123 Trento, Italy
Interests: energy harvesting; ultra-low-power sensors; IoT; energy-neutral devices

Website: https://webapps.unitn.it/du/en/Persona/PER0061723/Curriculum

Online Special Issues: "Intelligent Energy Management for Wireless Sensor Networks and Internet of Things"

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/energy_sensors

 

 

Dr. Davide Brunelli was born on March 1977. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. in University of Bologna, Italy, in 2002 and 2007, respectively.

Dr. Davide Brunelli worked in top research groups and was an independent scientist and educator for 10 years before he moved to University of Trento as an Assistant Professor. Dr. Davide Brunelli’s research interests are in computing systems architecture, with a special emphasis on low-power applications and embedded systems. He is also active in the design of energy-efficient ambient intelligence systems, sensors, and sensor networks. Dr. Davide Brunelli lead a research group with six staff members (post-docs and PhDs) in university of Trento (UNITN). With his collaborators, Dr. Davide Brunelli made several contributions to the field of runtime power management, as well as integrated micro-sensors and energy-neutral, autonomous distributed sensing systems. On these topics, Dr. Davide Brunelli coauthored more than 190 peer-reviewed papers. Dr. Davide Brunelli strongly believes in collaborative, multidisciplinary research: his scientific career has an extensive track record of international cooperation with top institutions like ETHZ, EPFL, U. Southampton, Tyndall Inst., Imperial College, University of Zagreb, and Georgia Tech U.

We warmly welcome Dr. Davide Brunelli in his role as Editor-in-Chief of the section “Sensor Networks”, and we look forward to him leading Sensors to achieve more milestones.

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We are pleased to announce that Dr. Francesco De Leonardis has been appointed Associate Editor for Optical Sensors Section in Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). He joined in Sensors in 2014 and has made a great contribution to our growth and development.

Website: https://www.poliba.it/amministrazione-e-servizi/amministrazione?empid=a04d56d981c615ad30974e092b78f8bfbbf13d87

Email: [email protected]

Interests: photonic devices; non linear integrated optics; nonlinear photonic sensors; nanophotonic integrated sensors; semiconductor lasers; optical sensors for gyros
Affiliation: Department of Electrical and Information Engineering Polytechnic University of Bari, Via Edoardo Orabona n. 4, 70125 Bari, Italy

Dr. Francesco De Leonardis was born in Taranto, Italy, on October 1971. He received his Laurea degree and Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering from Politecnico di Bari in 1999 and 2003, respectively. He is currently a researcher in Electronic Engineering at the II Faculty of Engineering of Politecnico di Bari, in Taranto, Italy. His research interests are in the fields of MQW ring laser, photonic bandgap crystals devices, integrated optical sensors and nonlinear photonic devices. He is author or co-author of about 150 papers published in international journals and conference presentations and 1 international patent. He is a member of the Italian Society of Optics and Photonics and an associate member of National University Consortium of Matter Structure (CNISM).

We warmly welcome Dr. Francesco De Leonardis in his role as Associate Editor for Optical Sensors Section, and we look forward to him leading Sensors to achieve more milestones.

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Sensors is holding the 7th International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications (15–30 November 2020) and will organize the 8th International Symposium on Sensor Science (I3S 2021) in Dresden, Germany on 26–28 May 2021. We sponsored 8 booths and collaborated with approximately 100 conferences in 2019. The current Impact Factor is 3.275.

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We are pleased to announce that Encyclopedia will be awarding five Outstanding Contributor Awards for researchers in 2020. The nominations and applications will be assessed by an Evaluation Committee consisting of senior scholars from the Encyclopedia Editorial Board.

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We are pleased to announce that Prof. Dr. James F. Rusling has been appointed Associate Editor-in-Chief for Biomedical Sensors section in Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220).

Prof. Dr. James F. Rusling
Affiliation: Department of Chemistry, U-60 and Department of Surgery and Neag Cancer Center (Health Center) 55 N. Eagleville Rd., University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT 06269-3060, USA
Website: https://rusling.research.uconn.edu/
Email: [email protected]
Interests: biomedical diagnostics; bioelectrochemistry; bioanalytical chemistry; biosensors and arrays; genotoxicity analysis; electrochemical catalysis; computer data analysis; automation

Prof. Dr. James F. Rusling was awarded a B.Sc. in Chemistry from Drexel University in 1969, and a Ph.D. from Clarkson University in 1979. He is a Paul Krenicki Chaired Professor of Chemistry at the University of Connecticut (Storrs, CT), and Professor of Surgery and member of the Neag Cancer Center at UConn Health Center, as well as adjunct Professor of Physical Chemistry at National Univ. of Ireland, Galway. His current research includes developing new ultrasensitive cancer diagnostic devices for the detection of biomarker proteins and peptides, low-cost 3D printed immunoarrays for point-of-care diagnostics, electrochemical and mass spectrometric arrays for toxicity screening, tumor suppressor gene damage, and fundamental bioelectrochemistry. He has authored over 430 research papers and several books. He is an also an accomplished musician who plays banjo, accordion, harmonica, tinwhistle, and guitar, and is interested in Irish and American folk styles.

We warmly welcome Prof. Dr. James F. Rusling in his role as Associate Editor-in-Chief for the Biomedical Sensors Section, and we look forward to him leading Sensors in achieving more milestones.

We are pleased to announce that Prof. Dr. Janos Abonyi has been appointed Associate Editor-in-Chief of the Intelligent Sensors Section in Sensors ((ISSN 1424-8220, IF: 3.031 (2018)).

Prof. Dr. Janos Abonyi is working at the MTA-PE Lendület Complex Systems Monitoring Research Group in University of Pannonia, Hungary. His research interests include smart sensors and actuators; software sensors; soft computing; intelligent systems; optimization; machine learning; data science; artificial intelligence; big data; evolutionary computation; metaheuristics; bioinspired techniques; neural networks; multiobjective, signal, and image processing; pattern recognition; network science; process and chemical engineering; and industry 4.0.

We warmly welcome Prof. Dr. Janos Abonyi in his role as Associate Editor-in-Chief and we look forward to his contributions to the Intelligent Sensors Section.

MDPI will be attending the IGARSS 2020, to be held in Hawaii, USA, 19–24 July 2020

Hosted by the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society, the 2020 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2020) will be held Sunday, 19 July through Friday, 24 July, 2020 at the Hilton Waikoloa Village in Waikoloa, Hawaii, USA. The main theme of the 2020 symposium is "Remote Sensing: Global Perspectives for Local Solutions".

GARSS 2020 is offering unique perspectives, discussions, research, solutions, and an opportunity to network in a beautiful environment.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

Remote Sensing

Atmosphere

Land

Sustainability

Drones

IJGI

Sensors

Geosciences

Hydrology

Applied Sciences

If you are also attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth (Booth # 82). 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://igarss2020.org/default.asp.

MDPI will be attending the AAG annual meeting, to be held in Denver, USA, from 6–10 April 2020

The AAG 2020 is joined by fellow geographers, GIS specialists, environmental scientists, and other leaders for the latest in research and applications in geography, sustainability, and GIScience. The meeting will be held from Monday, April 6 - Friday, April 10, 2020, and will feature over 6,900 presentations, posters, workshops, and field trips by leading scholars, experts, and researchers.

The Annual Meeting of the AAG is quite possibly the largest geography conference in the world, with over 8,500 geographers converging from the U.S., Canada, and nearly 60 other countries in a typical year. With thousands of different papers and presentations scheduled throughout the conference, you’ll find no shortage of activities that reflect your specific interests within the field of geography.

The 2020 Annual Meeting will be held at the Hyatt Regency – Denver at Colorado Convention Center and the Sheraton Denver Downtown Hotel in Downtown Denver, Colorado. For more information, visit https://www2.aag.org/aagannualmeeting/.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information

Remote Sensing

Land

Sustainability

Sensors

Water

Urban Science

Climate

If you are also attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth (Booth #415). 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://www2.aag.org/aagannualmeeting/.

Dr. Guillermo Villanueva Appointed Editor-in-Chief for Physical Sensors Section in Sensors

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Guillermo Villanueva has been appointed Editor-in-Chief for Physical Sensors Section in Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). He joined in Sensors in 2016 and has made a great contribution to our growth and development.

Website: https://people.epfl.ch/guillermo.villanueva
Email: [email protected]

Interests: MEMS/NEMS—design, analysis, fabrication, and characterization; sensors, oscillators; nonlinear and coupled dynamics; fundamental noise processes
Affiliation: École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Route Cantonale, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland

Guillermo Villanueva is a Tenure Track Assistant Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausane (EPFL), Switzerland in the Mechanical Engineering Institute (IGM). Before joining EPFL, he was a Marie Curie post-doctoral scholar at DTU (Denmark) and Caltech (California, US). Before a post-doc at EPFL-LMIS1, he received his M.Sc. in Physics in Zaragoza (Spain) and his PhD from the UAB in Barcelona (Spain).

Since starting of his PhD (2002), Dr. Villanueva has been active in the fields of NEMS/MEMS for sensing, having expertise ranging from design and fabrication to characterization and applicability. He has co-authored more than 75 papers in peer-reviewed journals (h-index of 24 WoK, 32 GoS) and more than 100 contributions to international conferences.

We warmly welcome Dr. Guillermo Villanueva in his role as Editor-in-Chief for Physical Sensors Section, and we look forward to him leading Sensors to achieve more milestones.

MDPI is pleased to announce the release of SciProfiles, its social network platform for researchers and scholars.

The purpose of SciProfiles is aligned with MDPI’s broad mission to accelerate discovery and innovation by facilitating immediate access to research results and to serve scholars and communities by providing opportunities for academic networking.

SciProfiles also ambitions to serve as a sustainable, transparent and community-driven research evaluation system aligned with the DORA principles (https://sfdora.org/). Through their scientific profiles, academics can highlight their contribution to research communities, and measure their impact on their field, beyond publication numbers and impact factors. SciProfiles is currently a beta version and will enrich to give researchers the possibility to highlight all of their contributions to science and their scientific communities as authors, reviewers, editors, conference organizers, conference panelists, conference keynote speakers, or even as lecturers or student mentors at their University.

The classic components of popular community social networks, including follower/following, classical metrics, endorsements and recommendations (https://www.mdpi.com/about/announcements/1690), comments (https://www.mdpi.com/about/announcements/1397) are or will be very soon highlighted in SciProfiles as open science contributions.

To help increase the impact and visibility of articles and their authors to an appropriate audience, the platform offers a NewsFeed that includes recommendations of relevant content based on interests, publication history, saved searches or colleagues’ recommendations.

SciProfiles’ avatars are now being integrated on several MDPI platforms, meaning that you will directly access researchers’ profiles from any of the MDPI platforms:

MDPI's journal publishing website: www.mdpi.com
MDPI's conference hosting and management website: www.sciforum.net
MDPI's pre-print website : www.preprints.org
MDPI's knowledge sharing website : www.encyclopedia.pub
MDPI's books store: www.mdpi.com/books
MDPI's literature database : www.scilit.net

SciProfiles aims to serve scientific communities at large. It can be embedded into third-party websites and also welcomes integration of data from third-parties.

Dr. Shu-Kun Lin: https://sciprofiles.com/profile/2
Dr. Franck Vazquez: https://sciprofiles.com/profile/FranckVazquez
Dr. Martyn Rittman: https://sciprofiles.com/profile/martynrittman

We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2019 MDPI Writing Prize. Entrants were asked to write on the theme "Judging research: How should research and researchers be evaluated and rewarded?" We received a large number of excellent essays from PhD students and postdocs, and the process of shortlisting and choosing winners was not an easy one. The winners demonstrated excellent writing skills alongside interesting and thought-provoking ideas.

As last year, we will begin the process of collating all entries into a book that will be available in open access format. Alongside promoting good writing skills, we see the prize as a way to promote the voices of early career researchers within broader debates and policy discussions.

Congratulations to all of the participants and especially the winners. The winners are:

1st Prize (500 CHF):
Albin Nilsson (National Centre for Nuclear Research, Warsaw, Poland)
[Read here]

2nd Prize (250 CHF):
Qi Zhang (Shandong University, Jinan, China)
[Read here]
Igor Ogashawara (Indiana University, Indianapolis, US)
[Read here]

3rd Prize (100 CHF):
Margaret Sivapragasam (Universiti Teknologi Petronas, Perak, Malaysia)
[Read here]
Arvind Sharma (The University of Queensland, Gatton, Australia)
[Read here]
Jose Flores-Guerrero (University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands)
[Read here]

The MDPI Writing Prize is an annual award supported by MDPI Author Services, which provides services including language editing, reformatting, plagiarism checks, and image editing.

MDPI is pleased to announce the release of a new functionality giving the possibility for researchers and scholars to endorse, and formally recommend articles to their colleagues.

MDPI was an early signatory of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (https://sfdora.org/read/) which calls for improvement in how quality and impact of scholarly research outputs are evaluated, especially in moving beyond journal-based citation metrics (journal Impact Factor, Scopus Citescore, etc.).

MDPI supports the establishment of article-level impact metrics, including citations, views, downloads, and Altmetric scores. These measures serve as an impact indicator for research articles on a case–by-case basis, assessing paper on its own merit. However, these metrics are also subjective and can give a biased picture of the article impact: they do not directly reflect the quality or the intrinsic scientific value of the article.

In our view, community engagement with publications based on community-driven metrics can help to overcome this limitation. We have therefore launched an option for scholars to endorse articles, indicating their own assessment of its content and making a recommendation to their community. This follows our implementation of the open source Hypothesis commenting tool, which has been available for all articles published by MDPI for over a year (https://www.mdpi.com/about/announcements/1397). Both endorsement and commenting are available for all previously published and forthcoming MDPI articles.

In addition to potentially serving as a sustainable solution to article assessment, endorsements will help scientific communities to identify the most relevant articles, independently of the journal in which it was published.

The code for the endorsing functionality, which relies on DOIs and ORCIDs, will be made available on GitHub with an open source license.

Dr. Shu-Kun Lin, President and Founder
Dr. Franck Vazquez, Chief Scientific Officer
Dr. Martyn Rittman, Publishing Director

MDPI will be attending the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) in San Francisco, USA, 7–11 December 2019

IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM) is the world’s preeminent forum for reporting technological breakthroughs in the areas of semiconductor and electronic device technology, design, manufacturing, physics, and modeling. IEDM is the flagship conference for nanometer-scale CMOS transistor technology, advanced memory, displays, sensors, MEMS devices, novel quantum and nano-scale devices and phenomenology, optoelectronics, devices for power and energy harvesting, high-speed devices, as well as process technology and device modeling and simulation.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Electronics
• JSAN
• Energies
• Micromachines
• Sensors
• Biosensors

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://ieee-iedm.org/.

We will be attending the 23rd International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (MicroTAS 2019), to be held at Congress Center Basel, in Basel, Switzerland, on 27–31 October 2019. MicroTAS 2019 represents the continuation of a series of conferences that are considered the premier forum for presenting the latest research in microfluidics, microfabrication, nanotechnology, integration, materials and surfaces, analysis and synthesis, and detection technologies for life science and chemistry. MicroTAS 2019 offers plenary talks as well as contributed oral presentations and posters from selected abstracts. The following open-access journals will be represented:

Micromachines
Biosensors
Coatings
Applied Sciences
IJMS
Sensors

If you are also attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth (booth #21). 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://microtas2019.org.

Encyclopedia is pleased to announce that certain well-prepared entries are eligible for a 100 CHF voucher, which can be used for paper publication in any journals in MDPI. We believe that your contribution would be a great help in keeping up with scientific developments. Do not miss the chance to publish with us. Please clink here to find the detailed guideline.

Encyclopedia is a free online reference created and curated by active scholars. It aims to highlight the latest research results as well as provide a comprehensive record of scientific development. If you have any suggestions or questions, please feel free to contact us via [email protected].

We are pleased to announce that Preprints has passed the milestone of 10,000 posted preprints. We are delighted to have reached this after just over three years of operation. Our congratulations and thanks go to our authors and advisory board who have supported growth of the platform and been crucial to its operation.

You can find further details at https://www.preprints.org/announcement/show/37.

Last week, the DeepGreen initiative in Germany started into an advanced test phase with the publishing partners S. Karger AG, SAGE Publishing, MDPI, Frontiers and De Gruyter, as well as 27 universities from all over Germany, from Hamburg University of Applied Sciences to University of Konstanz.

DeepGreen aims at lowering the barriers for open access publishing by automatically delivering metadata and full text publications from participating publishers to authorized repositories at German universities.

In preparation for a later live operation, the advanced test phase serves to gain experience with extensive data deliveries from publishers and also handling different repository software (including OPUS4, DSpace, EPrints, MyCoRe). DeepGreen thereby acts as a sophisticated platform, receiving articles published by authors affiliated with German universities and depositing these articles to respective university repositories, based on the affiliation metadata. For more information about DeepGreen: https://deepgreen.kobv.de

Karger AG has been a close cooperation partner of the DeepGreen consortium since 2016. S. Karger has more than 80 subscription-based and around 20 open access journals covering a wide spectrum in health science. DeepGreen will assign S. Karger articles to authorized institutions on the legal basis of German alliance and national licenses.

SAGE Publishing  was founded by Sara Miller McCune in 1965 to support the dissemination of usable knowledge and educate a global community. SAGE publishes more than 1,000 journals and over 600 new books each year, spanning a wide range of subject areas. Our growing selection of library products includes archives, data, case studies and video. SAGE remains majority owned by our founder and after her lifetime will become owned by a charitable trust that secures the company’s continued independence. Principal offices are located in Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore, Washington DC and Melbourne. SAGE Publishing has been a close cooperation partner of DeepGreen since 2016.

MDPI  is a scientific open access publisher and has been a partner of DeepGreen since 2017. MDPI comprises 205 peer-reviewed journals of various disciplines. All articles are published under a CC-BY license and are freely available without embargo period.

Frontiers  is a scientific open access publisher with 61 journals of over 600 academic disciplines. All articles are peer-reviewed and published freely available under CC-BY license.

De Gruyter  is an academic publisher with more than 700 subscription-based and open access journals of 29 disciplines. Articles provided by De Gruyter will be assigned to institutions with German alliance and national licenses.

There is promising communication with other publishers.

DeepGreen is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the consortium comprises six institutions: the Cooperative Library Network Berlin-Brandenburg, Bavarian State Library, Bavarian Library Network, University Library of the Technische Universität Berlin, University Library of Erlangen-Nuremberg and the Helmholtz Open Science Coordination Office at the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences.

If you would like to know in more detail which institutions take part in the advanced test phase of DeepGreen, you can find more information here.

The University of Basel and the MDPI Sustainability Foundation are organizing the First Basel Sustainable Publishing Forum on 9th September 2019.

The aim of this event is to provide background and perspectives on Plan S to Learned Societies, which have to make well-informed decisions to transition their journals to Open Access (OA).

The BSPF will bring together several representatives of Learned societies, Plan S architects as well as representatives from various publishers and publishing platforms. After getting the big picture from cOAlition S, panel discussions will allow to better understand the diverse challenges that Learned societies are facing to transition their journals to OA as well as to identify sustainable, implementable and scalable solutions for successful Open Access transition.

For program details and registration, please follow the link below:
https://sciforum.net/conference/SustainableSolutionsToOpenAccess

We are pleased to inform that Sensors received an updated Journal Impact Factor of 3.031 in the recent release of the Journal Citation Reports®. The journal's 5-Year Impact Factor is 3.302. Sensors now ranks 23/84 (Q2) in the category 'Analytical Chemistry', 12/26 (Q2) in 'Electrochemistry' and 15/61 (Q1) in 'Instruments & Instrumentation.'

Evolution of Impact Factor, Citations and Publications for Sensors:

Source: data according to Journal Citation Reports®, 2018 release, a Clarivate Analytics product; and Scopus journal metrics.

We are pleased to announce that all the accepted submissions of the 5th International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications have been published in a dedicated volume of Proceedings, and this volume has now been released online.

Volume Editors: Stefano Mariani, Francesco Ciucci, Dirk Lehmhus, Thomas B. Messervey, Alberto Vallan, Stefan Bosse and Francisco Falcone

This issue of Proceedings gathers the papers presented at the 5th International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications (ECSA-5), held on 15–30 November 2018. ECSA-5 collected contributions concerning four thematic areas (Chemo and Biosensors, Physical Sensors, Sensor Networks, and Applications) and four specific sessions (Smart Cities, Smart Sensing Systems and Structures, Structural Health Monitoring Technologies and Sensor Networks, and Wearable Sensors).

We also delighted to announce that the 6th International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications now open for contributions. You are welcome to join us at https://ecsa-6.sciforum.net/.

To read the articles published in the volume, please visit the following website: https://www.mdpi.com/2504-3900/4/1.

People rely on optics every day. By utilizing the knowledge of how light behaves under different conditions, scientists and engineers develop remarkable technologies that improve our world. In expanding our offerings to the field of optics, MDPI will be launching a broad-interest and high-quality journal, Optics, an open access journal that seeks full research articles in all areas of optics and related interdisciplinary areas. Optics will also act as a medium for exchanging ideas and thoughts regarding the impacts of optical research.

Optics is an international, peer-reviewed open access journal which aims to present cutting edge research related to all aspects of optics. We are now seeking a founding Editor-in-Chief to develop Optics into a leading flagship journal in this field.

The main responsibilities of the Editor-in-Chief include the following:

• Setting the scope and direction of the journal;
• Advising on the strategic development of the journal;
• Ensuring the quality of the published content;
• Coordinating the Editorial Board and stimulating their contributions to the journal;
• Promoting the journal at scientific conferences and through other venues.

We also welcome scientists in the field of optics to join our Editorial Board.

A full application for evaluation should include these items:

• An up-to-date CV;
• A description of the candidate’s vision for Optics.

Applications are due by 20 June 2019. Please send your application or any questions to the Optics Editorial Office ([email protected]).

Oceans is an international, peer-reviewed open access journal which is aiming to provide cutting-edge research related to all aspects of oceanography. We are now seeking a founding Editor-in-Chief to develop Oceans into a leading flagship journal in this field.

The main responsibilities of the Editor-in-Chief include the following:

• Setting the scope and direction of the journal
• Advising on the strategic development of the journal
• Ensuring the quality of the published content
• Coordinating the Editorial Board and stimulating their contributions to the journal
• Promoting the journal at scientific conferences and through other venues

A full application for evaluation should include these items:

• An up-to-date CV
• A description of the candidate’s vision for Oceans.

Applications are due by 9th July 2019. Please send your application or any questions to the Oceans Editorial Office ([email protected]).

MDPI will be attending the 2019 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, to be held in Yokohama, Japan, 28 July – 2 August 2019.

This conference will be the 39th annual IGARSS symposium and will continue the excellent tradition of gathering world-class scientists, engineers and educators engaged in the fields of geoscience and remote sensing. We believe that the additional scientific themes of this event, focusing on 'Disasters and Environment' will allow the formation of an inspiring technical program.

IGARSS is recognized today as a premier event in remote sensing and provides an ideal forum for obtaining up-to-date information about the latest developments, exchanging ideas, identifying future trends in your research area and making contacts with the international remote sensing community. With intensive and careful planning underway we anticipate a technically outstanding and most pleasant symposium.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

Remote Sensing
IJGI
Sensors
Water
Geosciences
Atmosphere
Land
Forests
JMSE
Sustainability

If you are also attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth (Booth # 30). 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://igarss2019.org/CallForSponsorsExhibitors.asp.

We will be attending the Transducers 2019 - EUROSENSORS XXXIII event, to be held in Berlin, Germany from 23rd June 2019. The conference covers major areas of activity in the development of Sensor, Actuators and Transducers, including the following:

• Mechanical/Physical Sensors and Microsystems
• Materials, Fabrication, and Packaging Technologies
• Nanoscale Devices and Nanomaterials
• Transducers with Soft, Flexible or Composite Materials
• Chemical and Environmental Sensors and Microsystems
• Bio-Sensors and Bio-Microsystems
• Medical Microsystems
• Microfluidics (non-bio)
• Energy and Power MEMS
• Acoustic Microdevices and RF MEMS
• Integrated Photonics and Optical MEMS

Representatives of the following open access journals will attend:

Sensors
Chemosensors
Biosensors
Actuators

If you are also attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth (Booth #25). Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person to answer any questions you may have.
For more information, please access the website: https://transducers-eurosensors2019.org/.

We are pleased to welcome more universities from Poland, Italy, Germany, Brazil and other parts of the world to MDPI's Institutional Open Access Program (IOAP). A warm welcome to the institutions listed below, who have joined the Program in February and March this year.

James Madison University (JMU), Harrisonburg	USA
Loughborough University	UK
Lublin University of Technology	Poland
Marquette University, Milwaukee	USA
Massey University, Palmerston North	New Zealand
Medical College of Wisconsin	USA
Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń	Poland
Poznań University of Life Sciences	Poland
Robert Koch-Institut, Berlin	Germany
Rothamsted Research, Harpenden	UK
Santa Clara University (SCU)	USA
Technical University of Applied Sciences Wildau	Germany
University of Aveiro	Portugal
University of Brasília	Brazil
University of Duisburg-Essen	Germany
University of Greifswald	Germany
University of Molise	Italy
University of Naples Parthenope	Italy
University of São Paulo (USP) - São Carlos Institute of Physics	Brazil
University of Szczecin	Poland
University of Warmia and Mazury, Olsztyn	Poland
University West, Trollhättan	Sweden
UTP University of Science and Technology, Bydgoszcz	Poland
VTT - Technical Research Centre of Finland	Finland

Authors affiliated with these institutions can now enjoy a discount on the APC for papers accepted for publication in any MDPI journal. If you would like to learn more about our program, please visit: https://www.mdpi.com/about/ioap or email us at [email protected].

We are delighted to announce our participation in Jisc’s Publication Router project, as of March 2019.

Publications Router is a Jisc service that automatically sends notifications about research articles to institutions' systems such as their repositories or CRISs, since May 2015. Through this agreement, MDPI will provide Jisc with daily feeds and information regarding published articles, which will be gathered by their system and delivered to institutions also registered to this service. Nearly all of our articles are published within 15 days of acceptance, so institutions will receive them quite promptly.

The feed will include the full text of the published version of record, with no embargo, so the articles can be exposed immediately for public view. They are accompanied by rich metadata, including confirmation of the immediate CC BY licence, minimising the need for any manual intervention or checking.

For more information about Publications Router, you may contact Jisc’s central helpdesk at [email protected]. For any queries about MDPI’s institutional agreements and collaborations, you may get in touch with MDPI’s Institutional Engagement team at [email protected], which would be very happy to hear from further UK institutions.

Rigorous peer-review is the cornerstone of high quality academic publishing. Over 97,000 scholars served as reviewers for MDPI journals in 2018. 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 all reviewers’ names to express our gratitude. In addition, this year the “MDPI Top Reviewer Awards” are announced, to recognize the very best reviewers for their expertise, dedication, high quality, and timely review reports. We are pleased to announce the following winners of the 2018 MDPI Top Reviewer Awards:

• Ali Behnood
• Andrea Pezzuolo
• Angela Gorgoglione
• Anna D'Auria
• Antonio D'Andrea
• Azhar Abbas
• Bogdan Zagajewski
• Chunhui Chen
• Dominika Głąbska
• Dominika Guzek
• Dragan Pamucar
• Francisco J. G. Silva
• Frank Li
• Gianluca Serafini
• Gyorgy Szekely
• Haozhi Pan
• Helvi Heinonen-Tanski
• José Manuel Gómez-Soberón
• Kathy Lewis
• Klara Kosova
• Luis N. López De Lacalle
• M. Z. Naser
• Malwina Tytła
• Masoume Amirkhani
• Matteo Ghidelli
• Moretti Laura
• Petra Schneider
• Roberto Cerchione
• Spyros Papaefthymiou
• Ştefan Cristian Gherghina

Since 2010, MDPI has run its own online submission system. More recently, we have made the software, with accompanying publishing services, available to other publishers as JAMS (Journal and Article Management System). We are now delighted to announce the launch of JAMS Journals, a standardized platform for operating open access journals at low cost.

JAMS Journals provides a comprehensive service, including a shared submission website, journal websites hosted at a URL provided by the publisher, and a full production service. There is a small setup fee and the cost for each published paper is just a few hundred Swiss francs.

The platform demonstrates that running an open access journal can be straightforward and affordable. The JAMS Journals platform is suitable for

• small publishers or groups of scholars looking to launch their own journal;
• existing publishers or societies seeking to explore open access options;
• publishers looking to convert an existing subscription journal to open access.

JAMS journals launches with two journals from Canadian-based publisher Etcetera Publications:

• Canadian Journal of Pesticides & Pest Management (http://www.cjppm.ca)
• Nanotechnology in Agriculture, Food & Environment (http://www.nanoafe.ca)

Dr AJ Al-Rajab (President of Etcetera Publications) comments:

“In the past few months, we were working on our project to launch new open access scientific journals in the field of agricultural and environmental sciences. We decided to go with JAMS for this venture because of the high quality of their services, reasonable prices, professionalism and easy communication. Our portfolio is expected to grow rapidly during 2019 to include more titles covering different areas in agriculture and environment. MDPI earned already our complete satisfaction and we are looking for a long term cooperation.”

Alongside the new platform, we continue to provide flexible, tailored journal management solutions for existing publishers. For any questions or to request a quotation, contact Dr. Constanze Schelhorn ([email protected]).

2018 was a great year for preprints, with increasing numbers of authors looking to make their papers available online before peer review. Along with other preprint servers, our platform Preprints.org  saw an increase in the uptake from authors, and more than double the number of announced papers compared to 2017. In fact, we recently passed two important milestones: 8000 preprints online and 30,000 authors. 

We believe that the whole research community has the opportunity to benefit from work being available online as early as possible. We thank and congratulate our authors for supporting us to make this goal a reality.

In 2019, we will be looking carefully at how to provide better value for authors, maintain efficiency while growing in size, and make sure we remain well-connected with the research community. 

If you want to participate, you can consider screening preprints or joining our advisory board. And, of course, posting your own work.

We are delighted to announce the establishment of our national Open Access agreement with the Austrian Academic Library Consortium (KEMÖ) and the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). Through this national agreement, the Austrian institutions listed below as well as FWF will cover the Article Processing Charges (APC) of manuscripts published by eligible corresponding or funded authors in MDPI journals as long as central funds are available.

All participating institutions have gained access to the MDPI online submission system where they can find full article metadata and pricing information as well as Funder and Grant ID details for easy identification and additional transparency. At the same time eligible authors are benefited from an APC discount which comes at no cost for the institutions.

Eligible corresponding authors affiliated with the participating institutions are prompted to choose the corresponding Institutional Open Access Program (IOAP) when they submit an article via our online submission system. The program will be selected automatically if authors submit their papers using their institutional email address. To claim their discount, FWF funded authors should choose the particular funder and add their Grant ID upon online submission of their manuscript. The institutions will then crosscheck the information and confirm the APC funding.

Eligible authors that have their APC covered by their institution or funder are advised to include the following sentence in their acknowledgments: "Open Access Funding by the [name of the institution/funder]".

The full text of the agreement is openly available online at: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2536007

For any questions about the agreement, please contact the KEMÖ Consortium at [email protected], FWF at [email protected], or the MDPI IOAP team at [email protected]

The Austrian institutions participating in this agreement are:

• Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
• University for Continuing Education Krems
• University of Applied Sciences BFI Vienna
• University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria
• University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien
• Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences
• International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
• Institute of Science and Technology Austria
• MCI Management Center Innsbruck
• University of Graz
• University of Linz
• University of Salzburg
• Graz University of Technology
• TU Wien
• University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
• University of Vienna

This is our first collective agreement with a national library consortium, while the individual institutions around the world participating in our IOAP are now more than 500 - see details here: https://www.mdpi.com/about/ioap. We would be mostly interested in discussing about possible collaborations with other consortia, funders, and institutions in our mutual efforts to accelerate Open Access.

We are pleased to announce the new platform Encyclopedia, which is an online reference created and curated by active scholars. It aims to highlight the latest research results as well as providing benchmark information for researchers and the general public interested in accurate and advanced knowledge on specific topics.

We encourage authors of review articles to quote and adapt the content of their published papers to create Encyclopedia entries. You can create completely new entries on topics in which you have knowledge and expertise. There is no limit on the topics or research fields. All of science and the humanities are included. Each entry will be published directly after submission.

We also have prepared a DOI application function in Encyclopedia. Once a DOI application is approved, the entry website will announce the DOI number and a pdf version with DOI information will be automatically created.

We look forward to your contributions and hope you will make use of this service. Find more about the service at: https://encyclopedia.pub/

The 9th International IoT Week will be held in June 2019, from the 17th to the 21st at the Musikhuset in Aarhus, Denmark. The Conference will gather more than 1000 IoT devotees from all around the world to explore a range of topics regarding the impact of IoT on the environment, society and business through following themes:

● International Cooperation & SDGs
● Future Manufacturing and Industry
● Smart Living and Health
● Smart Cities & Communities
● Artificial Intelligence and Smart Data
● IoT Market and Business Models
● IOT Emerging Technologies
● IoT Security and Data Protection
● 5G and IoT Network
● Smart Farming
● IoT Art and Society

Parallel events held at the same venue:

● Global IoT Summit 2019, which will present scientific papers on the most recent IoT research results
● Startup Competition
● Hackathon
● Art Residency
● Exhibition Area

Among the confirmed speakers are representatives of the world's largest companies developing IoT technologies. The list of already confirmed speakers is available on the conference website.
The key institutions involved in the development of IoT in the world such as Microsoft and Grundfos are supporting this gathering.

The Organizing Committee of the IoT Week 2019 comprises the IoT Forum and the It-forum.

Meet us in Aarhus next June!

The XIX Brazilian Symposium on Remote Sensing (XIX SBSR) is the main scientific meeting in Latin America dedicated to the dissemination of remote sensing science and geotechnologies, organized biannually since 1978. The SBSR has been continuously improving to deliver the best scientific services to researchers, companies, and the education community in Brazil by incorporating the highest scientific standards. Today, the SBSR is perceived as a reference event to a wide spectrum of professionals from different areas, including biome monitoring, natural resources, agriculture, ocean, inland waters, and climate change, with a strong positive impact on the general well-being of our society. The SBSR are committed to stimulating the exchange of experiences among participants, disseminating the state-of-the-art of remote sensing applications, and enhancing the cooperation among institutions from Brazil and abroad.

The Brazilian Symposium on Remote Sensing has a target audience composed of Brazilian and international researchers, students, lecturers, and professionals from the public and private sectors, from a large array of interests including mineral resources, agriculture, hydrology and water resources, environment, government authorities, and a wide range of decision makers in Brazil.

This Special Issue is now open for submission. Despite the focus on the XIX SBSR, submissions are not limited to papers presented at the symposium. We seek original and innovative contributions that involve (but are not restricted to) sensor applications, sensing systems and principles, remote sensors, machine learning and modelling approaches, multispectral imaging, hyperspectral imaging, signal processing, data fusion and deep learning, and integrated sensor or internet-of-things technologies, among others. Papers that tackle complex Earth Observation issues by integrating traditional areas of application (e.g., agriculture, geology, oceanography) are also encouraged.

You are invited to submit your paper through the following link:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues/RS_AMALR

Date and Location: 15-18 April 2019 – Limerick, Ireland
Website: http://wfiot2019.iot.ieee.org/

Sensors is sponsoring the "Sensors and Sensor Systems" Session at the 2019 IEEE 5th World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT 2019), held in Limerick, Ireland, in April 2019.

The 2019 IEEE 5th World Forum on IoT (WF-IoT 2019) will be held on the spectacular parkland setting of the University of Limerick 15-18 April 2019. The historic city of Limerick is located in the heart of the beautiful Midwest region of Ireland, on the magnificent Wild Atlantic Way. We look forward to extending a very special Irish welcome and invite you to join us in 2019 for a truly memorable event.

The broad reaching program at WF-IoT attracts industry practitioners, government regulators, public sector executives, as well as researchers and academics interested in the latest developments, new standards, technical innovations, and firsthand experiences with commercial offerings. This year's theme is “IoT and the Digital Revolution.”

We will attend the 32nd International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS 2019). It will be held in Seoul, Korea, 27–31 January 2019, and it will be organized by the society of Micro and Nano Systems (SMNS). MEMS 2019 is one of the premier annual events reporting research results on every aspect of microsystems technology. This conference reflects from the rapid proliferation of the commitment and success of the microsystems research community. In recent years, the IEEE MEMS Conference has attracted more than 700 participants and 800+ abstract submissions and has created a forum to present over 200 select papers in podium and poster/oral sessions. Representatives of the following open-access journals will attend:

Micromachines

Technologies

Chemosensors

Energies

Applied Sciences

Sensors

Fluids

J – Journal of Multidisciplinary Science

If you are also attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth (booth #40). 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://mems19.org/html/main.php.

Our editors and colleagues are attending the 22nd International Conference on Miniaturized Systems for Chemistry and Life Sciences (µTAS 2018). The conference is being held at the Kaohsiung Exhibition Center in Kaohsiung, Taiwan from 11 to 15 November 2018, organized by the Chemical and Biological Microsystems Society (CBMS).

µTAS 2018 continues a series of Conferences that are the premier forum for reporting research results in microfluidics, microfabrication, nanotechnology, integration, materials and surfaces, analysis and synthesis, and detection technologies for life science and chemistry. Representatives of the following open access journals will attend:

Micromachines

Applied Sciences

International Journal of Molecular Sciences (IJMS)

Sensors

Biosensors

Technologies

Diagnostics

Journal of Multidisciplinary Science (J)

If you're attending the conference too, please feel free to stop by our booth (Booth #350). 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://cbmsociety.org/conferences/microtas2018/

 

We are delighted to announce that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) is now a participant of our Institutional Open Access Program (IOAP). Authors funded by the BMGF can enjoy discounts on the APC, while the funder covers the costs of eligible articles centrally. BMGF also has access to the MDPI online submission system where they can find full article metadata and pricing information as well as Grant ID details for easy identification and additional transparency.

We hope that funded authors find the programme beneficial and we are happy to offer our IOAP to other funders that need a streamlined workflow of compliance checking and APC coverage. 

To claim their discount, BMGF funded authors should choose the particular funder and add their Grant ID upon online submission of their manuscript.

For any questions about the BMGF agreement, please contact the funder at [email protected] or the MDPI IOAP team at [email protected].

Recently, it was announced that a group of European funders supported 10 principles that will help to expand open access, known as Plan S. MDPI warmly welcomes this move as a step towards achieving more open and accessible communication of research across all disciplines. Some aspects remain to be clarified, however the details given so far match the aims and values that MDPI has held over the past two decades.

We believe that open access publishers should be active participants in discussions around Plan S, particularly regarding potential new business models and practical aspects of implementation. MDPI supports APCs as a transparent unit of payment for article publishing, however we are committed to exploring other measures and recently signed the Jussieu Call. Sustainability is a key value for MDPI, and future funding models should have at their heart the sustainability of knowledge and research dissemination. Plan S provides an opportunity for funders and publishers to directly discuss funding of open access journals in ways that are beneficial to all parties involved.

MDPI will be attending 2018 MRS Fall Meeting & Exhibit, to be held in Boston, USA, 25–30 November 2018.

This conference is the key forum to present research to an interdisciplinary and international audience. It provides a window on the future of materials science and offers an opportunity for researchers—from students and postdoctoral fellows, to Nobel and Kavli Prize Laureates—to exchange technical information and network with colleagues.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Materials
• Polymers
• Energies
• Nanomaterials
• Metals
• Journal of Functional Biomaterials (JFB)
• Processes
• Sensors
• Sustainability
• C
• Journal of Manufacturing and Materials Processing (JMMP)
• Biomimetics
• Methods and Protocols (MPs)

If you are also attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth (Booth #123). 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://www.mrs.org/fall2018

We are happy to announce the establishment of an Open Access (OA) agreement with Qatar National Library (QNL). QNL is committed to supporting and helping Qatar authors publish OA at no cost. Through this national agreement, QNL will cover the Article Processing Charges (APC) of manuscripts published by Qatar-based corresponding authors in MDPI journals.

Eligible corresponding authors affiliated with Qatar research centers and universities are prompted to choose QNL as part of our Institutional Open Access Program (IOAP) when they submit an article via our online submission system. The program will be selected automatically if authors submit their papers using their institutional email and/or a computer registered with the institution’s IP range. QNL will then crosscheck the information and confirm the APC funding.

Qatar authors that have their APC covered by QNL are advised to include the following sentence in their acknowledgments: "The publication of this article was funded by Qatar National Library".

For more information, please visit Open Access at QNL or email the QNL Open Access team at [email protected].

We are pleased to inform that Sensors received an updated Journal Impact Factor of 2.475 in the June 2018 release of the Journal Citation Reports®.The journal's 5-Year Impact Factor is 3.014. Sensors now ranks 30/80 (Q2) in the category 'Analytical Chemistry', 15/28 (Q3) in 'Electrochemistry' and 16/61 (Q2) in 'Instruments & Instrumentation.'

Overview of Citation Metrics:

• Journal Impact Factor, 2 yrs (2017): 2.475
• 5-Year Impact Factor (2017): 3.014
• CiteScore, 3 yrs (Scopus): 3.23
• SJR Scimago Journal Rank 2017(SJR): 0.584
• Source Normalized Impact 2017 (SNIP): 1.550

Evolution of Impact Factor, Citations and Publications for Remote Sensing:

Source: data according to Journal Citation Reports®, 2018 release, a Clarivate Analytics product; and Scopus journal metrics.

We are pleased to announce the 5th International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications (ECSA-5). After the success of the four editions from 2014 to 2017, this year's edition will focus on four thematic areas where sensors are changing science:

• Chemo and Biosensors (Session A)
• Physical Sensors (Session B)
• Sensor Networks (Session C)
• Applications (Session D)

There will be 4 specific sessions on:

• Smart Cities (Specific Session S1)
• Smart Sensing Systems and Structures (Specific Session S2)
• Structural Health Monitoring Technologies and Sensor Networks (Specific Session S3)
• Wearable Sensors (Specific Session S4)

You will be able to present your work in the form of a proceedings paper; optionally you may also contribute a (video) presentation.

Abstracts (in English) should be submitted before 10 September 2018 online at https://sciforum.net/login. The conference aims to bring the scientists working in the field onto a common platform and promote and advance the exciting and rapidly changing field of sensing technologies and applications.

More info can be found at https://ecsa-5.sciforum.net/.

We will be attending the EUROSENSORS 2018 conference. EUROSENSORS 2018 will be hosted in Graz, Austria’s second largest city, with a beautiful historic old town that is a UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site. The conference venue will be the University of Graz, founded in 1585, which is one of the largest universities in Austria with about 32,500 students. Many excellent scientists, including six Nobel laureates such as Erwin Schroedinger, Otto Loewi and Viktor Hess, have taught and researched here.

All the accepted Eurosensors 2018 submissions will also be published in open access form in the MDPI journal Proceedings. For the publications from Eurosensors 2017, please visit at: https://www.mdpi.com/2504-3900/1/4

Representatives of the following open access journals will attend:

Sensors
Chemosensors
Biosensors
Actuators
Materials

For more information, please access the website: https://www.eurosensors2018.eu/.

We are pleased to report Sensors received a CiteScore of 3.23 for 2017. The metric reflects citation activity in 2017 in Scopus for papers published in the period 2014‒2016.

For the full details in the current CiteScore release, please see the journal's Source profile. To check the full list of MDPI journals receiving CiteScores, please see here.

The 2017 CiteScore™ data is available now, based on citation data in the Scopus® database. The current CiteScore reflects citation activity in 2017 for articles published in 2014‒2016. Please note that the list below includes journals assigned a CiteScore in this year’s release. For a full list of journals indexed in Scopus, please see our journal list.

Thirteen of our journals received a CiteScore which is in the top 10% of the distribution in at least one of the categories (marked with * in the table below), while a further 32 journals exhibit scores that are in the first quartile of the respective categories.

To access the full data for MDPI journals, please see here. More data can also be found in SJR Scimago Journal & Country Rank.

Unlike CiteScores and the widely used Journal Impact Factors, the Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) metrics are normalized in order to correct for differences in citation practices between scientific fields. Therefore, the SNIP allows direct comparison between journals specialized in different fields.

According to 2017 data, MDPI publishes six journals with an average citation impact, or SNIP, in excess of 1.500. These journals are Biomolecules, Cancers, Journal of Clinical Medicine (JCM), Marine Drugs, Remote Sensing and Sensors (see the last column in the table below).

CiteScore Data for MDPI Journals

Journal	Rank (Quartile)	Category	Link	CiteScore 2017	2016	2015	SNIP 2017
Aerospace	43/116 (Q2)	• Aerospace Engineering	Link	1.23	-	-	1.152
Agriculture	69/309 (Q1) 91/398 (Q1) 78/255 (Q2)	• Agronomy and Crop Science • Plant Science • Food Science	Link	1.93	-	-	1.133
Agronomy	46/309 (Q1)	• Agronomy and Crop Science	Link	2.38	-	-	1.115
Algorithms	22/46 (Q2) 61/125 (Q2) 60/107 (Q3) 64/114 (Q3)	• Numerical Analysis • Computational Mathematics • Computational Theory and Mathematics • Theoretical Computer Science	Link	1.03	1.15	1.07	0.749
Animals	12/154 (Q1) * 48/367 (Q1)	• General Veterinary • Animal Science and Zoology	Link	2.02	1.46	1.66	1.099
Antibiotics	6/68 (Q1) * 62/263 (Q1) 55/230 (Q1) 31/108 (Q2) 47/134 (Q2) 139/398 (Q2)	• General Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics • Infectious Diseases • Pharmacology (medical) • Microbiology (medical) • Microbiology • Biochemistry	Link	2.85	1.65	-	0.975
Antibodies	43/143 (Q2) 61/164 (Q2) 85/189 (Q2)	• Drug Discovery • Immunology and Allergy • Immunology	Link	2.85	-	-	0.844
Antioxidants	23/119 (Q1) 35/169 (Q2) 100/398 (Q2) 119/367 (Q2) 102/264 (Q2)	• Clinical Biochemistry • Physiology • Biochemistry • Molecular Biology • Cell Biology	Link	3.42	-	-	1.361
Applied Sciences	48/270 (Q1) 15/66 (Q1) 31/116 (Q2) 18/53 (Q2) 151/434 (Q2) 186/535 (Q2)	• General Engineering • Fluid Flow and Transfer Processes • Instrumentation • Process Chemistry and Technology • General Materials Science • Computer Science Applications	Link	1.90	-	-	0.801
Biology	12/177 (Q1)* 32/186 (Q1) 10/40 (Q1)	• General Agricultural and Biological Sciences • General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology • General Immunology and Microbiology	Link	3.48	3.02	2.78	0.961
Biomolecules	31/398 (Q1) * 41/367 (Q1)	• Biochemistry • Molecular Biology	Link	5.72	1.67	3.08	1.542
Biosensors	20/119 (Q1)	• Clinical Biochemistry	Link	3.59	2.83	2.37	1.122
Brain Sciences	47/111 (Q2)	• General Neuroscience	Link	2.56	-	-	0.695
Cancers	26/323 (Q1) * 23/191 (Q1)	• Oncology • Cancer Research	Link	5.82	5.02	4.07	1.567
Catalysts	32/151 (Q1) 21/46 (Q2)	• Physical and Theoretical Chemistry • Catalysis	Link	3.23	3.44	3.45	0.954
Crystals	76/272 (Q2) 140/434 (Q2) 127/398 (Q2) 26/64 (Q2)	• General Chemical Engineering • General Materials Science • Condensed Matter Physics • Inorganic Chemistry	Link	1.97	1.89	1.47	0.745
Diagnostics	49/119 (Q2)	• Clinical Biochemistry	Link	2.43	-	-	0.788
Diversity	30/124 (Q1) 14/52 (Q2) 83/306 (Q2) 11/29 (Q2)	• Nature and Landscape Conservation • Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) • Ecology • Ecological Modelling	Link	2.15	2.03	1.96	1.300
Electronics	109/644 (Q1) 26/148 (Q1) 42/224 (Q1) 50/259 (Q1) 23/96 (Q1)	• Electrical and Electronic Engineering • Hardware and Architecture • Control and Systems Engineering • Computer Networks and Communications • Signal Processing	Link	2.97	-	-	1.227
Energies	6/73 (Q1) * 31/192 (Q1) 103/644 (Q1) 4/16 (Q1) 47/140 (Q2)	• Control and Optimization • Energy Engineering and Power Technology • Electrical and Electronic Engineering • Energy (miscellaneous) • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment	Link	3.11	2.50	2.87	1.340
Entropy	35/202 (Q1)	• General Physics and Astronomy	Link	2.41	1.87	1.99	1.189
Forests	17/129 (Q1)	• Forestry	Link	2.31	2.06	1.76	0.990
Future Internet	132/259 (Q3)	• Computer Networks and Communications	Link	1.25	-	-	-
Games	132/187 (Q3) 78/110 (Q3) 305/418 (Q3)	• Statistics and Probability • Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty • Applied Mathematics	Link	0.61	0.87	0.57	1.038
Genes	21/91 (Q1) 74/311 (Q1)	• Genetics (clinical) • Genetics	Link	3.49	3.62	3.18	0.374
Geosciences	32/182 (Q1)	• General Earth and Planetary Sciences	Link	1.97	1.67	1.29	0.856
Information	143/251 (Q3)	• Information Systems	Link	1.16	0.78	0.94	1.146
Insects	27/135 (Q1)	• Insect Science	Link	1.85	1.81	1.38	0.719
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH)	80/478 (Q1) 34/106 (Q2)	• Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis	Link	2.41	2.38	2.42	0.931
International Journal of Molecular Sciences (IJMS)	7/69 (Q1) * 61/535 (Q1) 20/163 (Q1) 9/64 (Q1) 26/151 (Q1) 89/367 (Q2) 17/46 (Q2)	• Spectroscopy • Computer Science Applications • Organic Chemistry • Inorganic Chemistry • Physical and Theoretical Chemistry • Molecular Biology • Catalysis	Link	3.86	3.73	3.37	0.998
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (IJGI)	79/605 (Q1) 22/82 (Q2) 13/36 (Q2)	• Geography, Planning and Development • Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) • Computers in Earth Sciences	Link	2.10	1.62	1.52	1.062
Journal of Clinical Medicine (JCM)	10/841 (Q1) *	• General Medicine	Link	7.07	-	-	1.535
Journal of Functional Biomaterials (JFB)	43/199 (Q1) 23/77 (Q2)	• Biomedical Engineering • Biomaterials	Link	3.47	-	-	1.344
Journal of Low Po- wer Electronics and Applications (JLPEA)	301/644 (Q2)	• Electrical and Electronic Engineering	Link	1.12	0.98	0.83	0.367
Journal of Personalized Medicine (JPM)	54/189 (Q2)	• Medicine (miscellaneous)	Link	2.61	-	-	0.944
Land	50/124 (Q2) 129/306 (Q2) 36/65 (Q3)	• Nature and Landscape Conservation • Ecology • Global and Planetary Change	Link	1.44	-	-	0.658
Life	4/94 (Q1) * 70/561 (Q1) 40/186 (Q1) 20/80 (Q2)	• Palaeontology • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics • General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology • Space and Planetary Science	Link	3.16	2.95	1.68	0.935
Marine Drugs	17/146 (Q1)	• Drug Discovery	Link	4.58	3.83	3.66	1.537
Materials	83/434 (Q1)	• General Materials Science	Link	3.02	3.26	3.11	1.285
Membranes	5/18 (Q2) 15/53 (Q2) 4/10 (Q2)	• Chemical Engineering (miscellaneous) • Process Chemistry and Technology • Filtration and Separation	Link	2.69	2.19	2.95	0.880
Metabolites	47/209 (Q1) 103/398 (Q2) 127/367 (Q2)	• Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism • Biochemistry • Molecular Biology	Link	3.35	-	-	0.925
Metals	155/434 (Q2)	• General Materials Science	Link	1.87	-	-	0.955
Micromachines	105/554 (Q1) 154/644 (Q1) 64/224 (Q2)	• Mechanical Engineering • Electrical and Electronic Engineering • Control and Systems Engineering	Link	2.31	1.83	1.78	0.987
Minerals	33/175 (Q1) 45/208 (Q1)	• Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology • Geology	Link	2.21	2.13	1.77	1.149
Molecules	4/25 (Q1) 25/172 (Q1) 18/104 (Q1) 31/163 (Q1) 30/151 (Q1) 31/146 (Q1) 55/160 (Q2)	• Chemistry (miscellaneous) • Pharmaceutical Science • Analytical Chemistry • Organic Chemistry • Physical and Theoretical Chemistry • Drug Discovery • Molecular Medicine	Link	3.27	3.09	2.65	1.146
Nutrients	11/255 (Q1) * 9/112 (Q1) *	• Food Science • Nutrition and Dietetics	Link	4.35	4.29	4.07	1.403
Pathogens	38/263 (Q1) 20/108 (Q1) 9/40 (Q1) 40/164 (Q1) 110/367 (Q2)	• Infectious Diseases • Microbiology (medical) • General Immunology and Microbiology • Immunology and Allergy • Molecular Biology	Link	3.52	-	-	1.166
Pharmaceuticals	14/172 (Q1) * 33/160 (Q1)	• Pharmaceutical Science • Molecular Medicine	Link	4.12	4.90	3.64	1.370
Pharmaceutics	21/172 (Q1)	• Pharmaceutical Science	Link	3.68	3.83	2.68	1.092
Photonics	30/116 (Q1) 80/270 (Q2) 53/160 (Q2)	• Instrumentation • Radiology Nuclear Medicine and Imaging • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics	Link	1.96	-	-	0.817
Plants	73/561 (Q1) 48/389 (Q1) 44/306 (Q1)	• Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics • Plant Science • Ecology	Link	3.13	-	-	0.969
Polymers	17/142 (Q1) 63/359 (Q1)	• Polymers and Plastics • General Chemistry	Link	3.30	3.74	3.37	1.213
Religions	26/389 (Q1) *	• Religious Studies	Link	0.56	-	-	0.676
Remote Sensing	13/182 (Q1) *	• General Earth and Planetary Sciences	Link	4.03	3.56	3.76	1.559
Resources	19/142 (Q1) 39/261 (Q1)	• Nature and Landscape Conservation • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law	Link	2.69	-	-	1.387
Scientia Pharmaceutica	92/172 (Q3)	• Pharmaceutical Science	Link	0.86	-	-	0.513
Sensors	9/116 (Q1) * 25/160 (Q1) 100/644 (Q1) 19/104 (Q1) 113/398 (Q2)	• Instrumentation • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics • Electrical and Electronic Engineering • Analytical Chemistry • Biochemistry	Link	3.23	2.78	2.21	1.550
Social Sciences	81/213 (Q2)	• General Social Sciences	Link	0.60	-	-	0.445
Sustainability	61/605 (Q1) * 55/261 (Q1) 60/140 (Q2)	• Geography, Planning and Development • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law • Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment	Link	2.37	1.96	1.78	1.030
Symmetry	44/327 (Q1) 17/45 (Q2) 16/40 (Q2) 14/25 (Q2)	• General Mathematics • Computer Science (miscellaneous) • Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous) • Chemistry (miscellaneous)	Link	1.32	1.12	0.95	0.802
Toxins	18/106 (Q1) 21/111 (Q1)	• Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis • Toxicology	Link	3.32	3.34	3.76	1.136
Vaccines	5/230 (Q1) * 13/263 (Q1) * 18/302 (Q1) * 11/146 (Q1) * 32/189 (Q1)	• Pharmacology (medical) • Infectious Diseases • Pharmacology • Drug Discovery • Immunology	Link	4.88	1.23	3.76	1.255
Viruses	29/263 (Q1) 16/68 (Q1)	• Virology • Infectious Diseases	Link	3.88	3.60	3.74	1.130
Water	66/605 (Q1) 37/191 (Q1) 43/199 (Q1) 193/398 (Q2)	• Geography, Planning and Development • Water Science and Technology • Aquatic Science • Biochemistry	Link	2.29	2.05	1.96	1.007

To promote Open Access, MDPI has sponsored the latest issue (5/2018) of CHIMIA, published by the Swiss Chemical Society, and made it openly available for free. MDPI has its roots in the Swiss chemical research, as it is also reflected in the logo, and we are very happy to participate in and collaborate with this Society. For that matter, MDPI´s founder and president, Dr. Shu-Kun Lin, wrote a few lines about the beginning of the company and its development over the last 20 years. You can find this on the Swiss Chemical Society website here.

We are pleased to announce the results of the first MDPI Writing Prize. We received a large number of entries from across the globe on the theme of “The Global Benefits of Open Research”. It was a pleasure to read so many original, well-researched and well-presented ideas, and the final choice was not an easy one. We are pleased to announce that the winners are as follows:

1st prize (500 CHF, Swiss knife and certificate)

Edmond Sanganyado, Shantou University, China

2nd prizes (250 CHF, Swiss knife and certificate)

Kamala T. Rajahgopal, Asia e University, Malaysia
Yin Zhixuan, Qingdao University of Technology, China

3rd prizes (100 CHF, Swiss knife and certificate)

Alexandra Ticea, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Romania
Ankur Sarker, University of Virginia, USA
Daniel Attoye, United Arab Emirates University, UAE

Congratulations to all of them! The winning entries can be downloaded by clicking on the names above. A compilation of all entries will soon be available as an open access book.

The writing prize is sponsored by the MDPI English editing service.

At MDPI, we always want to keep you up to date. Even for already published articles, some corrections or minor changes may occur. To prevent you from missing any updates, from now on you will be able to access the latest version of any manuscript by clicking on the “check for updates” logo that you can find in the PDF file, even if you have saved the file on your computer.

We are proud to announce that MDPI is now a member of UKSG, the UK´s largest scholarly communications community. Through UKSG, different stakeholders share their knowledge and experience in order to improve the knowledge and information environment for researchers. UKSG´s members include universities, publishers, content providers, intermediaries, and other similar organisations. Members participate in discussions and events on issues around scholarly communications.

The UKSG Annual Conference and Exhibition is a flagship initiative from the UKSG and one of the most stimulating events in the scholarly communications calendar. It is held annually and attracts a large number of delegates. More information is available at https://www.uksg.org/events/annualconference

MDPI is delighted to be a part of this active community and we look forward to making our own contribution. We will continue to support organisations and initiatives that boost collaboration and vision within scholarly communication.

More information about UKSG can be found at https://www.uksg.org/. The full membership list is available at: https://www.uksg.org/members.

We will be attending the 20th annual Nanotech 2018 Conference & Expo (NANOTECH 2018), co-located with the TechConnect World Innovation Conference, Defense TechConnect Summit and Spring SBIR/STTR Conference. The event will attract more than 350 featured exhibitors and an expected crowd of more than 4000 attendees, including business executives, venture capitalists, politicians, s cientists and researchers from over 70 countries. Nanotech contains 38 symposiums and brings together specialists from a wide range of scientific fields, technology and business.

Representatives of the following open access journals will attend:

Sensors
Materials
Nanomaterials
Journal of Functional Biomaterials (JFB)
Journal of Imaging
Sustainability
Fluids
Photonics
Electronics
Catalysts
Applied Sciences
Inventions
Diagnostics
Cancers
Journal of Low Power Electronics and Applications (JLPEA)
Designs
Pharmaceuticals
C
Inorganics
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH)
Machines
Pharmaceutics
Journal of Manufacturing and Materials Processing (JMMP)
Actuators
Robotics
Energies
Biosensors
Chemosensors
Membranes
Coatings
Micromachines

If you will also attend this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth (Booth # 317). 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://www.techconnectworld.com/Nanotech2018/

Conference Location:
Anaheim Convention Center,
800 W Katella Avenue
Anaheim CA 92802
USA

The DORA initiative addresses the need for advanced approaches in the evaluation and measurement of the quality of scientific research outputs. It is a worldwide initiative covering all scholarly disciplines. MDPI proudly joins a list of more than 400 organizations around the world which support DORA’s recommendations for improving the way the quality of research results is evaluated.

More info can be found at http://www.ascb.org/dora/

We will be attending the 255th ACS National Meeting & Exposition. It is an interdisciplinary forum open to anyone with an interest in Chemistry and the related disciplines. Representatives of the following open access journals will attend:

Agronomy
Applied Sciences
Beverages
Biomimetics
Biosensors
C
Catalysts
ChemEngineering
Chemosensors
Coatings
Energies
Environments
Fibers
Foods
Gels
Inorganics
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (JMSE)
Lubricants
Materials
Mathematics
Metals
Molecules
Nanomaterials
Polymers
Processes
Resources
Safety
Sensors
Separations
Sustainability
Symmetry
Toxins
Water

If you are also attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth (Booth #640). 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://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/meetings/national-meeting.html?sc=home_meetings_170818_mtg_NO18_od

The Steering Committees of the International Symposium on Sensor Science (I3S), the International Symposium on Frontiers in Molecular Science (ISFMS) and the Symmetry Conference are seeking Expression of Interest (EoI) from universities/organizations/individual scholars to host an edition of the conference series. There is no restriction in the geographic areas considered.

For full reading, please refer to:

International Symposium on Sensor Science (I3S): https://sciforum.net/conference/I3S_EoI
International Symposium on Molecular Science (ISFMS): https://sciforum.net/conference/MolSci_EoI
Symmetry Conference: https://sciforum.net/conference/Symmetry_EoI

Please feel free to contact us at [email protected]

We will be attending the 31st IEEE International Conference on Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS 2018) (http://www.mems2018.org/). The MEMS 2018 will bring together academics from all over the world to one meeting covering on every aspect of Microsystems technology. This conference reflects from the rapid proliferation of the commitment and success of the microsystems research community. Its single-session format provides ample opportunity for interaction between attendees, presenters and exhibitors. Representatives of the following open access journals will attend:

Sensors
Micromachines
Machines
Actuators
Journal of Manufacturing and Materials Processing (JMMP)

If you are also attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth (Booth #9). 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.mems2018.org/.

Conference Location:

Belfast Waterfront
2 Lanyon Place
Belfast BT1 3WH
UK

 

We will be attending the General Assembly 2018 of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) (https://egu2018.eu/home.html). The EGU General Assembly 2018 will bring together geoscientists from all over the world to one meeting covering all disciplines of the Earth, planetary and space sciences. It aims to provide a forum where scientists, especially early career researchers, can present their work and discuss their ideas with experts in all fields of geoscience. Representatives of the following open access journals will attend:

Remote Sensing
Geosciences
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information
Water
Animals
Atmosphere
Climate
Environments
Forests
Hydrology
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH)
Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
Land
Minerals
Resources
Quaternary
Sensors

If you are also attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth (Booth #36). 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://egu2018.eu/home.html.

Sensors are vital components of smart manufacturing, artificial Intelligence, Cyber–Physical System (CPS) and Internet of Things (IoT) for industry 4.0. For more advanced creations, biologists, engineers, physicists and chemists are all endeavoring to provide innovative technical sensors. In 2018, the journal Sensors is going to hold an international conference in Kenting, which is located in the south of Taiwan; the conference is taking place in Asia for the first time.

I3S embraces all professionals from industry, academia and government to discuss the latest developments and breakthroughs of sensor technology and related subjects. During the conference, attendees, from a range of research areas, will all gather together to share different aspects and establish new mutually beneficial collaborations across different fields.

Conference scope: Physical Sensors; Sensor Networks; Sensors Application; Biosensors; Chemical Sensors; IOT sensor and application.

We sincerely look forward to your participation in I3S2018.

 

The competition is still open until end of March! Please check out the banner for more details: https://res.mdpi.com/data/english-prize.pdf

We are delighted to announce that UCL Press has adopted MDPI's Journal Article & Management System, JAMS, including production services. JAMS is a modular, integrated editorial platform for academic publishers. It offers flexibility, ease-of-use, and is a fully integrated solution for the end-to-end management of scholarly journals. JAMS is based on the software used to publish MDPI’s portfolio of journals. 

Ian Caswell, UCL Press Journals Manager, says he is "excited to see UCL Press and MDPI partner together to implement the JAMS submission system for all UCL Press journals. The system offered a flexible, efficient and straightforward solution for our processes from author submission to ready for publication. I am grateful for the valuable experience and support MDPI have offered and look forward to developing our programme with an effective submission system in place.” Dr Martyn Rittman, MDPI’s Publishing Services Manager, adds, “We are proud to support one of the UK’s premier university presses in their publishing operation. This is an excellent way for us at MDPI to share our experience and knowledge, and benefit the research community beyond our own journals.”

JAMS combines services that are kept separate for many publishers. The entire editorial process, production and invoicing (e.g. for open access article processing charges) are fully integrated into a single platform. This allows for efficient, fast manuscript processing. For further information about JAMS, see https://www.mdpi.com/publishing_services. 

We are pleased to welcome new participants to MDPI's Institutional Open Access Program (IOAP), designed to help institutions manage the transition to the Open Access publishing model. Researchers affiliated with participating universites benefit from a 10% discount on the Article Processing Charges (APC) for any paper published in an MDPI journal, while the participating library or university incurs no basic fee for participating in the program.

The IOAP set of free services, provided by MDPI to institutions that sign up, include:

• No fee for participants and no obligation to prolong after the initial 12 months. The participants may withdraw from the programme at any time, and we will also keep it free for the library for as long as they continue in the programme.
• Authors affiliated with the university will receive a 10% discount on the APC.
• The institution is granted free access to the MDPI submission system and can receive free alerts of new submissions to our journals.
• By default, authors from the institution will continue to be invoiced directly unless the institution opts for central billing.
• Auto-archiving of papers into the institutions´ repository as long as it supports SWORD 1.3.

More details about the programme and a list of our current participant institutions can be found at: https://www.mdpi.com/about/ioap

Institutions which are interested to participate may do so online at: https://www.mdpi.com/ioap-form

The following North American universities have signed up to the IOAP program recently:

Connecticut College, USA
Emory University, USA
Florida International University, USA
Johns Hopkins University, USA
Mississippi State University, USA
Northeastern University, USA
Rice University, USA
University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada
University of Rhode Island, USA
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA
University of Toronto, Canada
University of Windsor, Canada
University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA
Wellesley College, USA
West Virginia University, USA

Many prestigious institutions from Europe and Asia have joined as well:

Asia Pacific University of Technology & Innovation, Malaysia
Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
Gdansk University of Technology, Poland
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan
Newcastle University, UK
Northumbria University, UK
Southwest University, China
Technical University of Crete, Greece
University Malaya, Malaysia
University of Antwerp, Belgium
University of Cyprus, Cyprus
University of Manchester, UK
University of Reading, UK
University of Sussex, UK
University of Warwick, UK
West Pomeranian University of Technology Szczecin, Poland

We offer a warm welcome to the new participants!

In order to reward the academic community, especially young researchers, and enhance communication among scientists, MDPI journals regularly offer various awards to researchers in specific fields, for example, Young Investigator Awards, Travel Awards, Best Paper Awards, and Best Poster Awards, etc. The awardees range from PhD students to junior scientists.

Currently, the following 44 awards given by MDPI journals are accepting applications. Please click on the award title below to check whether you are eligible for it and start the application process.

Subject	Journal	Award	Intended Awardee
Biology & Life Sciences	Animals	Travel Award 2018	PhD students or postdoctoral researchers
	Antioxidants	Travel Awards 2018	Postdoctoral researchers or PhD students
	Biology	Travel Award 2018	PhD or postdoctoral fellows
	Forests	2019 Travel award	Postdocs or PhD students
	International Journal of Molecular Sciences (IJMS)	Outstanding Contribution Awards 2018	Ground-breaking contribution in the fields of Molecular Biology, and Molecular Pathology
	Journal of Fungi (JoF)	Travel Awards 2018	PhD graduate students, and postdoctoral fellows
	Life	Travel Award 2018	PhD students or postdoctoral fellows
	Metabolites	Travel Award 2018	PhD students
	Pharmaceuticals	Travel Award 2018	PhD students
	Toxins	Travel Award 2018	Postdoctoral fellows
	Viruses	Best Oral Presentation Award 2018	Viruses 2018 participants
	Viruses	Best Poster Award 2018	Viruses 2018 participants
	Water	2018 Young Investigator Award	Young investigators
Chemistry & Materials Science	Biomimetics	Travel Award 2018	Graduate Student or Postdoctoral Trainee / Research Associate
	Catalysts	Travel Award 2018	PhD students
	Chemosensors	Travel Award 2018	PhD or postdoctoral fellows
	Entropy	Young Investigator Award 2018	Young investigators
	Fibers	2018 Travel award	Postdocs or PhD students
	Magnetochemistry	Travel Award 2018	Postdocs
	Materials	Travel Award 2018	PhD or postdoctoral fellows
	Metals	Travel Award 2018	PhD or postdoctoral fellows
	Minerals	Travel Awards 2018	PhD or postdoctoral fellows
	Sensors	Travel Award 2018	PhD or postdoctoral fellows
	Sensors	Outstanding Reviewer Awards 2017	Sensors' reviewers in 2017
	Sensors	Young Investigator Award 2018	Young investigators
	Technologies	Travel Award 2018	PhD students
Computer Science & Mathematics	Multimodal Technologies and Interaction (MTI)	Travel Awards 2018	Postdoctoral researchers or PhD students
	ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information(IJGI)	2018 Travel Award	Postdocs
	Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks (JSAN)	Travel Award 2018	Postdoctoral fellows and PhD students
	Journal of Imaging	Travel Award 2018	Postdoctoral fellows and PhD students
Engineering	Actuators	Travel Award 2018	PhD or postdoctoral fellows
	Remote Sensing	Best Paper Awards 2019	Authors
	Machines	Travel Award 2018	PhD or postdoctoral fellows
	Micromachines	Travel Awards 2018	PhD or postdoctoral fellows
	Fluids	Travel Award 2018	Postdoctoral fellows and PhD students
	ChemEngineering	Travel Award 2018	Postdoctoral researchers and PhD students
Environmental & Earth Sciences	Diversity	Travel Awards 2018	Postdoctoral fellows
	International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH)	Best Paper Award 2018	Authors who submit from 1 Nov 2017 to 31 Oct 2018
	Resources	Travel Award 2018	Postdocs or PhD students
	Geosciences	Travel Award 2018	Postdoctoral fellows and PhD students
Physical Sciences & Astronomy	Galaxies	Travel Award 2018	Ph.D. students, postdoctoral fellows, or lecturers in cosmology or galaxies physics
	Applied Science	Travel Award 2018	Postdocs
Medicine & Pharmacology; Public Health & Healthcare	Journal of Clinical Medicine (JCM)	2018 Travel Award	PhD or postdoctoral fellows
	Medicines	Travel Award 2018	Postdocs

The Jussieu Call aims to develop and implement alternative models to meet the aims of open science while promoting bibliodiversity. In particular it wishes to promote new business models for funding open access publication. It was drafted on the Jussieu campus in Paris by a group of French researchers and scientific publishing professionals.

MDPI supports scholarly communities and initiatives that innovate and further promote Open Access publishing. There is a need to explore different frameworks to fund open access in ways that ensure that excessive funds are not diverted from research towards publishing. Many fair funding models already exist, and they can be further developed and extended. These include institutional support, library contributions or subsidies, premium services, participatory funding, etc. For this reason, MDPI has signed up to the Jussieu call and welcomes its aims.

More information can be found at http://jussieucall.org/ (archived here)

The Society for Scholarly Publishing’s popular blog about topics in academic publishing, Scholarly Kitchen, recently interviewed MDPI’s CEO, Dr. Franck Vazquez. He shared some thoughts and information on the past and future of MDPI and open access publishing in general:

“In the long run, we aim to anchor MDPI in research communities. We recently developed and launched the preprint platform Preprints, revamped our free-to-use conference hosting platform Sciforum, and are working on other projects, such as Scilit, our bibliographic database.”

Read the full interview here.

We will be attending the MicroTAS 2017, a series of Conferences that are the premier forum for reporting research results in microfluidics, microfabrication, nanotechnology, integration, materials and surfaces, analysis and synthesis, and detection technologies for life science and chemistry. It will be held at the Savannah International Trade and Conference Center in Savannah, Georgia, USA from October 22–26, 2017, representing the following MDPI open access journals:

Micromachines
Sensors
Diagnostics
Biosensors
Technologies
Applied Sciences

Please visit our stand ((booth number: #6) to chat about our journals with our delegates. We look forward to meeting you in person to answer any questions you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit: http://www.microtas2017.org.

Conference Location

Savannah International Trade & Convention Center
1 International Drive
Savannah, Georgia 31402
USA

We are delighted to have welcomed 24 new participants to our Institutional Open Access Programme (IOAP) since the beginning of September this year. These are University libraries and Research Institutions located around the world; from the USA and Canada to the UK, and from Norway and Spain to Greece. Well respected Universities, such as the University of Denver, the University of Colorado Boulder, and the University of Arizona in the US, have signed up, while their researchers can now benefit from a 10% discount on the Article Processing Charges (APC) for any papers they publish in MDPI journals, at no cost for the library or the University.

We are more than happy to see the Open Access movement growing stronger and wider every day and we appreciate the vital role which librarians, repository managers, and other scholarly communications professionals play in the field. Our communication with and service to this community is, therefore, one of our principal priorities. The IOAP is our way to support academic and scientific Institutions as well as their scholars in managing, administrating, and publishing research in an Open Access world.

The IOAP set of free services, provided by MDPI to institutions that sign up, include:

• No fee for participants and no obligation to prolong after the initial 12 months. The participants may withdraw from the programme at any time, and we will also keep it free for the library for as long as they continue in the programme.
• Authors affiliated with the university will receive a discount on the article processing charge (APC).
• The institution is granted free access to the MDPI submission system and can receive free alerts of new submissions to our journals.
• By default, authors from the institution will continue to be invoiced directly unless the institution opts for central billing.
• Auto-archiving of papers into the institutions´ repository as long as it supports SWORD 1.3.

More details about the programme and a list of our current participant institutions can be found at: https://www.mdpi.com/about/ioap

Institutions which are interested to participate may do so online at: https://www.mdpi.com/ioap-form

 The full list of the Institutions that signed up in September is as follows:

1. University of Denver, USA
2. University of Colorado Boulder, USA
3. University of Arizona, USA
4. Institute of Metrology of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina
5. Middlebury College, USA
6. Touro College, USA
7. University of New Orleans, USA
8. University of Leicester, UK
9. Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, USA
10. University of Strathclyde, UK
11. Cranfield University, UK
12. Hope College, USA
13. Oregon State University, USA
14. Drew University, USA
15. Swansea University, UK
16. University of South Florida, USA
17. University of Georgia, USA
18. Arizona State University, USA
19. University of Southern Mississippi, USA
20. Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Canada
21. Grinnell College, USA
22. Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
23. University of Patras, Greece
24. Public University of Navarre, Spain

We are glad to announce that, on Friday 8 September 2017, the 1^st Molecules Medicinal Chemistry Symposium will be taking place in Barcelona at the School of Pharmacy and Food Sciences of the University of Barcelona, Spain.

Our open-access journal Molecules is the sponsor of this one-day monographic symposium that will address the topic of Emerging Drug Discovery Approaches against Infectious Diseases. In this sense, our intention is to provide a forum for discussion from novel biological targets and resistance mechanisms to the design and synthesis of new structural classes or the implementation of innovative therapeutic approaches against bacterial, protozoan, viral, and fungal infections. The event will gather together over 70 experts in the field of medicinal chemistry from more than 15 countries and 3 continents, mostly from academia but also from pharmaceutical industry and product development partnerships, therefore offering a very interesting platform for international networking in this field.

For more information please access the following ling: https://sciforum.net/conference/MMCS2017

Following this event, Barcelona will also be hosting two more MDPI Conferences this year:

• The 5^th International Symposium on Sensor Science will be held on 27–29 September 2017 at the AXA Convention Centre in Barcelona, Spain.
  This event, sponsored by our journal Sensors, will address the recent developments made in the field of sensor technology. To properly do so, the event will be split into 5 different sessions, each one of them focussing on the following different aspects of the field: chemosensors, bio-inspired and bio-based strategies for sensing and fluidics, biosensors, sensors for structures, and sensors for applications.
  The registration to attend the event is open until 7 September 2017.
  For more information please access the following link: https://sciforum.net/conference/i3s2017Barcelona.

• The First International Conference on Symmetry will be held on 16–18 October 2017 at the Parc Cientific de Barcelona (PCB), Barcelona, Spain.
  This conference, sponsored by our journal Symmetry, is an excellent opportunity to attend an event where cutting-edge ideas and knowledge on symmetry will be presented and shared. During the three days of the conference, a variety of subjects ranging from fields such as physics, chemistry, mathematics, computer science and biology will be brought together under the fundamental scientific phenomenon that is symmetry.
  The registration to attend the event is open until 25 September 2017.
  For more information please access the following link: https://sciforum.net/conference/symmetry2017

We are also pleased to announce that the following events will also be held in Barcelona in 2018:

• Viruses 2018 – Breakthroughs in Viral replication
  The event will take place at the Faculty of Biology of the University of Barcelona, on 7–9 February 2018.
  Early bird: 24 November 2017
  Abstract submission: 31 October 3017
  Registration: 22 January 2018
  For more information please access: https://sciforum.net/conference/Viruses-2018
  
• Polymers: Design, Function and Application
  The event will take place at the Faculty of Geology of the University of Barcelona on 22–23 March 2018
  Early bird: 15 December 2017
  Abstract Submission: 22 November 2017
  Registration: 2 March 2018
  For more information please access: https://sciforum.net/conference/polymers-2018
  
• Entropy 2018: From Physics to Information Sciences and Geometry
  The event will take place at the Faculty of Geology of the University of Barcelona on 14–16 May 2018.
  Early Bird: 14 February 2018
  Abstract Submission: 16 January 2018
  Registration: 25 April 2018
  For more information please access: https://sciforum.net/conference/Entropy2018-1

Congratulations to the authors Javier Monroy and Javier Gonzalez-Jimenez from Universidad de Malaga, Spain, Victor Hernandez-Bennets, Han Fan and Achim Lilienthal from Örebro University, Sweden for publishing the 100,000th peer-reviewed article.

The article is published in the Chemical Sensors section of Sensors.

GADEN: A 3D Gas Dispersion Simulator for Mobile Robot Olfaction in Realistic Environments

Evermore pressing environmental concerns have led global actors and decision-makers to search for stricter emission monitoring approaches. As part of novel monitoring systems, robots with gas and environmental sensors are a promising solution. However, validation of such robotic inspectors is expensive, time consuming, and plagued by repeatability issues. In this article, we present GADEN (the short form for Gas Dispersion Simulator for Mobile Robot Olfaction in Realistic Environments), which combines gas dispersion and robotics simulation in a common framework. Developed under the widely used Robot Operating System (ROS), GADEN enables validation of sensing strategies with gas dispersion being simulated using computational fluid dynamics and filament dispersion theory. GADEN allows simulating complex, realistic, 3D environments for reproducible testing of robotic gas sensing algorithms. Through qualitative and quantitative evaluations, we show that GADEN is a versatile and user-friendly evaluation tool and emphasize its enormous potential for the mobile robot olfaction community.

 

Read the full article here: https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/17/7/1479/htm

We are pleased to inform that the updated Impact Factor of Sensors has been released. According to the Journal Citation Reports®, published by Clarivate Analytics in June 2017, the new Impact Factor is 2.677, and the 5-Year Impact Factor is 2.964.

Sensors now ranks 25/76 (Q2) in the category ‘Chemistry, Analytical’, 12/29 (Q2) in the ‘Electrochemistry’ and 10/58 (Q1) in the category ‘Instruments & Instrumentation’. The journal remains among the highest ranking Open Access journals in these fields.

Evolution of Impact Factor, Citations and Publications for Sensors:

The CiteScore, the new citation metric for journals covered in the Scopus® database, was released on 1 June 2017, reflecting the citation activity in 2016 for articles published during the three previous years. Please note that the list below does not contain all MDPI journals covered in Scopus. For the CiteScore to serve as a reliable metric at least three volumes of articles need to be indexed in Scopus; journals which have not met this criterion have been omitted here.

Ten MDPI journals received a CiteScore which is in the Top 10% of scores in at least one of the categories, while a further 21 journals exhibit scores that are in the first quartile of the respective categories.

CiteScore Data for MDPI Journals

Journal	Rank	Category	Link	CiteScore 2016	2015	2014
Algorithms	44/112 (Q2) 49/111 (Q2) 19/42 (Q2) 52/113 (Q2)	• Numerical Analysis • Computational Mathematics • Computational Theory and Mathematics • Theoretical Computer Science	Link	1.15	1.07	1.06
Animals	69/343 (Q1) 21/146 (Q1)	• Animal Science and Zoology • General Veterinary	Link	1.46	1.66	0.74
Biology	13/92 (Q1) 34/81 (Q1) 10/75 (Q1)	• General Agricultural and Biological Sciences • General Biochemistry, Gene- tics and Molecular Biology • General Immunology and Microbiology	Link	3.02	2.78	1.74
Biomolecules	234/382 (Q3) 260/353 (Q3)	• Biochemistry • Molecular Biology	Link	1.67	3.08	1.00
Biosensors	36/118 (Q2) 209/2156 (Q1)	• Clinical Biochemistry • General Medicine	Link	2.83	2.37	2.04
Cancers	29/196 (Q1) 27/321 (Q1)	• Cancer Research • Oncology	Link	5.02	4.07	2.31
Catalysts	18/44 (Q2) 27/144 (Q1)	• Catalysis • Physical and Theoretical Chemistry	Link	3.44	3.45	2.17
Crystals	70/270 (Q2) 25/64 (Q2) 118/398 (Q2) 131/424 (Q2)	• General Chemical Engineering • Inorganic Chemistry • Condensed Matter Physics • General Materials Science	Link	1.89	1.47	1.03
Diversity	10/41 (Q1) 9/25 (Q2) 76/291 (Q2) 24/109 (Q1)	• Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous) • Ecological Modelling • Ecology • Nature and Landscape Conservation	Link	2.03	1.96	1.82
Energies	-	-	Link	2.50	2.87	2.66
Entropy	51/198 (Q2)	• General Physics and Astronomy	Link	1.87	1.99	1.69
Forests	17/127 (Q1)	• Forestry	Link	2.06	1.76	1.84
Games	204/398 (Q3) 83/181 (Q2) 48/105 (Q2)	• Applied Mathematics • Statistics and Probability • Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty	Link	0.87	0.57	0.64
Genes	62/300 (Q1) 18/90 (Q1)	• Genetics • Genetics (clinical)	Link	3.62	3.18	1.33
Geosciences	36/169 (Q1)	• General Earth and Planetary Sciences	Link	1.67	1.29	1.13
Information	156/237 (Q3)	• Information Systems	Link	0.78	0.94	0.74
Insects	28/131 (Q1)	• Insect Science	Link	1.81	1.38	1.23
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH)	67/446 (Q1) 31/102 (Q2)	• Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health • Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis	Link	2.38	2.42	2.47
International Journal of Molecular Sciences (IJMS)	23/157 (Q1) 8/64 (Q1) 90/353 (Q1) 22/144 (Q1) 16/44 (Q1) 8/62 (Q1)	• Organic Chemistry • Inorganic Chemistry • Molecular Biology • Physical and Theoretical Chemistry • Catalysis • Spectroscopy	Link	3.73	3.37	3.06
ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information	12/29 (Q2) 28/79 (Q2) 96/587 (Q1)	• Computers in Earth Sciences • Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) • Geography, Planning and Development	Link	1.62	1.52	-
Journal of Low Power Electronic Applications (JLPEA)	301/645 (Q2)	• Electrical and Electronic Engineering	Link	0.98	0.83	0.83
Life	65/525 (Q1) 36/186 (Q1) 5/92 (Q1) 20/80 (Q2)	• Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics • General Biochemistry, Gene- tics and Molecular Biology • Palaeontology • Space and Planetary Science	Link	2.95	1.68	1.20
Marine Drugs	18/145 (Q1)	• Drug Discovery	Link	3.83	3.66	3.59
Materials	63/424 (Q1)	• General Materials Science	Link	3.26	3.11	2.69
Membranes	103/424 (Q1)	• Materials Science	Link	2.19	2.95	2.42
Micromachines	173/645 (Q2) 69/211 (Q2) 113/526 (Q1)	• Electrical and Electronic Engineering • Control and Systems Engineering • Mechanical Engineering	Link	1.83	1.78	2.10
Minerals	45/206 (Q1) 29/167 (Q1)	• Geology • Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology	Link	2.13	1.77	-
Molecules	32/157 (Q1)	• Organic Chemistry	Link	3.09	2.65	2.62
Nutrients	12/247 (Q1)	• Food Science	Link	4.29	4.07	3.78
Pharmaceuticals	8/168 (Q1) 21/158 (Q1)	• Pharmaceutical Science • Molecular Medicine	Link	4.90	3.64	1.92
Pharmaceutics	19/168 (Q1)	• Pharmaceutical Science	Link	3.83	2.68	2.46
Polymers	13/138 (Q1) 44/354 (Q1)	• Polymers and Plastics • General Chemistry	Link	3.74	3.37	4.10
Remote Sensing	13/169 (Q1)	• General Earth and Planetary Sciences	Link	3.56	3.76	3.23
Sensors	25/96 (Q2) 25/159 (Q1) 124/382 (Q2) 103/645 (Q1)	• Analytical Chemistry • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics • Biochemistry • Electrical and Electronic Engineering	Link	2.78	2.21	2.40
Sustainability	49/129 (Q2) 68/587 (Q1) 56/236 (Q1)	• Renewable Energy, Sustai-nability and the Environment • Geography, Planning and Development • Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law	Link	1.96	1.78	1.52
Symmetry	17/42 (Q2) 49/111 (Q2)	• Numerical Analysis • Computational Mathematics	Link	1.12	0.95	1.02
Toxins	16/102 (Q1) 16/108 (Q1)	• Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis • Toxicology	Link	3.34	3.76	2.85
Vaccines	146/184 (Q4) 151/250 (Q3) 93/145 (Q3) 186/299 (Q3) 130/232 (Q3)	• Immunology • Infectious Diseases • Drug Discovery • Pharmacology • Pharmacology (medical)	Link	1.23	3.76	2.85
Viruses	15/68 (Q1) 34/250 (Q1)	• Virology • Infectious Diseases	Link	3.60	3.74	3.80
Water	33/184 (Q1) 48/195 (Q1) 62/587 (Q1) 198/382 (Q3)	• Water Science and Technology • Aquatic Science • Geography, Planning and Development • Biochemistry	Link	2.05	1.96	1.45

We are pleased to announce that the Goethe University of Frankfurt, the Technical University of Hamburg (TU Hamburg-Harburg), as well as the Humboldt University of Berlin, in Germany, have joined MDPI's institutional membership program: Primary authors from these instititions will benefit from a 10% discount on the article processing charges.

Additional details can be found on our institutional membership page.

          

 

As an open access publisher, we are keen to support openness and transparency in the research process. Citation data is very important for assessing the value of individual papers and the contribution of researchers. As such, we support the recently launched Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC). The initiative recognizes that citations should be freely available and machine-readable. By doing so, authors gain the maximum benefit from having their work cited.

MDPI now uploads citation data with metadata uploaded to Crossref when registering digital object identifiers (DOIs) for published papers. We are delighted to take this step to support a truly open research environment.

Getting high quality review reports is critical for any journal’s editorial process. At MDPI we have put in place several measures to motivate reviewers and reward them for their work. We are proud of the quality of reviewer reports we receive and grateful for the hours put in by active researchers from across the globe.

Reviewers of MDPI’s largest journals can get recognition via Publons, a website dedicated to rewarding peer reviewers. They have now taken this one step further and launched the Publons Reviewer Academy to help train reviewers to provide useful feedback. Through the academy, researchers can be trained and tutored in various aspects of how to provide structured feedback that will be of genuine help to editors and authors. We support this initiative and recommend it to potential MDPI reviewers, especially early career researchers. See the Publons announcement for further information.

More information on reviewing for MDPI, including how to volunteer as a reviewer, can be found here.