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We are delighted to announce the establishment of our Open Access agreement with Jisc Collections, which will allow UK institutions to benefit from access to article processing charge (APC) discounts and streamlined payment workflows.

All institutions participating in the agreement will also gain access to the MDPI online submission system where they can find full article metadata and pricing information for easy identification and additional transparency.

Eligible 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.

About Jisc

Jisc's vision is for the UK to be the most digitally advanced education and research nation in the world. At its heart is the super-fast national research and education network, Janet, with built-in cyber security protection.  Jisc also provides technology solutions for its members (colleges, universities and research centres) and customers (public sector bodies), helps members save time and money by negotiating sector-wide deals and provides advice and practical assistance on digital technology. Jisc is funded by the UK higher and further education and research funding bodies and member institutions.

For more information, contact helen.dobson@jisc.ac.uk.

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For any questions about this agreement, please contact the MDPI IOAP team at ioap@mdpi.com.

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: im.hyungsoon@mgh.harvard.edu

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).
  
  

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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.

Since 1996, MDPI has been committed to supporting the research community by providing the latest research freely available and making relevant and useful research available as quickly as possible. The world is current experiencing a pandemic of COVID-19, and researchers are working extremely hard to understand it and find a cure.

The values MDPI holds strongly are particularly important at the moment, and we will continue to publish relevant, peer-reviewed research as quickly as possible in open access format. This means that it will immediately be available for researchers, health professionals, and the general public to read, distribute, and reuse. We believe that scientific advancements will be crucial to overcoming this pandemic, and will do everything we can to support researchers working looking for solutions.

COVID-19 Academic Resources Center contains a variety of information related to COVID-19 available from MDPI, including journal articles, special issues, and preprints, among others.

For more information, please visit: https://www.mdpi.com/covid-19

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: francesco.deleonardis@poliba.it

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.

Sensors is recruiting Conference Board Members：https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/events.

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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1. Share conference information you host and plan to attend;
2. Help to promote Sensors in the conference you participate in;
3. Help Sensors to collaborate with the conference you host;
4. Provide the feedback of the hot topics related to Sensors in the conference.

As a leading Open Access publisher, MDPI is committed to fostering open scientific exchange in all forms across all disciplines. Due to the outbreak of COVID-19, many researchers have to stay at home and many academic conferences have been cancelled or postponed. In light of these changes, MDPI has adopted numerous initiatives that may help accelerate scientific exchange and provide support to the academics during this period.

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Comprehensive and Free Literature Database—Scilit

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Display Academic Achievements—SciProfiles

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Organize and Participate in Conferences Online—Sciforum

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Post Early Versions of Research Outputs—Preprints

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