Announcements

We are pleased to share that the research work in the article published at Signals (ISSN: 2624-6120) titled “Internet of Spacecraft for Multi-Planetary Defense and Prosperity” has been featured in Forbes in the article "Do We Need An ‘Internet Of Spacecraft?’ Elon Musk And Jeff Bezos Could Protect Us From Massive Asteroid Strikes Says Scientist".

The paper that was published in the Special Issue “Internet of Things for Smart Planet: Present and Future” was written by Dr. Yiming Huo, and the original title can be found at the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/2624-6120/3/3/26?type=check_update&version=1.

Name: Dr. Yiming Huo
Affiliation: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada
Interests: next-generation wireless systems and networks; space technology; space exploration; astronomy; the Internet of Things; artificial intelligence



Researchers in the field are welcome to submit their work to this Special Issue!

We are proud to recognize the winners of MDPI’s 2021 Travel Awards in the subject area of “Computer Science & Mathematics” for their outstanding presentations and to present them with the prize.

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

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

We would like to warmly congratulate the winners of Travel Awards for the year 2021 and wish them the greatest success with their future research endeavors.

MDPI will continue to enhance communication among scientists.

Computers:

• Umberto Michieli, University of Padova, Italy

Journal of Imaging:

• Cameron Kaye, University of Manitoba, Canada
• Alexandra Trujillo, Universidad Nacional del Sur, Argentina

Symmetry:

• José María, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain
• Naser Ojaroudi Parchin, University of Bradford, UK

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

We are proud to recognize the winners for the year 2021 in the “Computer Science and Mathematics” for their outstanding contributions among extensive competition by presenting them with an Outstanding Reviewer Award.

We would like to take this opportunity to congratulate all of the winners on their achievement.

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

Algorithms:

• Maxim A. Dulebenets, SA Florida A&M University-Florida State University, USA
• Artur Jez, University of Wrocław, Poland
• Dmitry Lukyanenko, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia

Forecasting:

• Juan Ramón Trapero Arenas, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain

Future Internet:

• Pedro Pablo Garrido Abenza, Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche, Spain
• Roberto Saia, University of Cagliari, Italy
• Marek Bolanowski, Rzeszow University of Technology, Poland

Journal of Imaging:

• Jung Sun Yoo, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
• Josemaria Martinezo, University of the Basque Country, Spain

Mathematics:

• Maria Alessandra Ragusa, Università di Catania, Italy; DN University, Russia
• Endre Kovács, University of Miskolc, Hungary
• Roman Vavrek, VŠB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
• Giacomo Ascione, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Italy
• Giorgio Sonnino, University in the City of Brussels, Belgium

Signals:

• Nina Golyandina, St. Petersburg State University, Russia
• Cataldo Guaragnella, Politecnico di Bari, Italy

Symmetry:

• Stefan Groote, University of Tartu, Estonia
• José Antonio Oller, Universidad de Murcia, Spain
• Kazuharu Bamba, Fukushima University, Japan

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

We warmly congratulate the awarded Young Investigators for their outstanding contributions.

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

Mathematics:

• Marina Murillo Arcila, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain

Symmetry:

• Tanmoy Paul, University of Burdwan, India

The purpose of our best paper awards is to promote and recognize the most impactful contributions published within MDPI journals.

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

We are honored to present the winners in the “Computer Science & Mathematics”, who were selected amongst extensive competition, and congratulate the authors for their outstanding scientific publications.

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

Axioms:

• A New gH-Difference for Multi-Dimensional Convex Sets and Convex Fuzzy Sets
  By Luciano Stefanini and Barnabas Bede
  Axioms 2019, 8(2), 48; doi:10.3390/axioms8020048

• Initial Value Problem for Nonlinear Fractional Differential Equations with ψ-Caputo Derivative via Monotone Iterative Technique
  By Choukri Derbazi, Zidane Baitiche, Mouffak Benchohra and Alberto Cabada
  Axioms 2020, 9(2), 57; doi:10.3390/axioms9020057

Future Internet:

• A review of Machine Learning and IoT in Smart Transportation
  By Fotios Zantalis, Grigorios Koulouras, Sotiris Karabetsos and Dionisis Kandris
  Future Internet 2019, 11(4), 94; doi:10.3390/fi11040094

Signals:

• Recognition of Blinks Activity Patterns during Stress Conditions Using CNN and Markovian Analysis
  By Alexandra I. Korda, Giorgos Giannakakis, Errikos Ventouras, Pantelis A. Asvestas, Nikolaos Smyrnis, Kostas Marias and George K. Matsopoulos
  Signals 2021, 2(1), 55–71; doi:10.3390/signals2010006

• An Educational Guide through the FMP Notebooks for Teaching and Learning Fundamentals of Music Processing
  By Meinard Müller
  Signals 2021, 2(2), 245–285; doi:10.3390/signals2020018

Symmetry:

• Hadronic and Hadron-Like Physics of Dark Matter
  By Vitaly Beylin, Maxim Yu. Khlopov, Vladimir Kuksa and Nikolay Volchanskiy
  Symmetry 2019, 11(4), 587; doi:10.3390/sym11040587

• Role of Asymmetric Autocatalysis in the Elucidation of Origins of Homochirality of Organic Compounds
  By Kenso Soai, Tsuneomi Kawasaki and Arimasa Matsumoto
  Symmetry 2019, 11(5), 694; doi:10.3390/sym11050694

• Convenient Asymmetric Synthesis of Fmoc-(S)-6,6,6-Trifluoro-Norleucine
  By Haibo Mei, Zizhen Yin, Toshio Miwa, Hiroki Moriwaki, Hidenori Abe, Jianlin Han and Vadim A. Soloshonok
  Symmetry 2019, 11(4), 578; doi:10.3390/sym11040578

• CMB Tensions with Low-Redshift H₀ and S₈ Measurements: Impact of a Redshift-Dependent Type-Ia Supernovae Intrinsic Luminosity
  By Matteo Martinelli and Isaac Tutusaus
  Symmetry 2019, 11(8), 986; doi:10.3390/sym11080986

The 2021 citation metrics have been officially released in Scopus!

We are pleased to announce that 182 MDPI journals are included, of which:

● 21 journals received their first CiteScore.
● 85% of journals increased their CiteScore from 2020.
● 155 journals (85%) ranked above average, in at least one category.

The following 65 MDPI journals (36%) ranked among the top 25% of journals, in at least one category:

Source: 2021 CiteScores™ (Elsevier)

We are pleased to announce that Prof. Dr. Santiago Marco has been appointed Editor-in-Chief of Signals (ISSN: 2624-6120, https://www.mdpi.com/journal/signals).

Dr. Santiago Marco is a Full Professor (since 2020) at the Department of Electronics and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Barcelona (UB), in addition to being a Group Leader (since 2008) at the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC). He completed his university degree in physics (1988) and his Ph.D. (1993) from the UB. Then, he held a postdoctoral position at the Department of Electronic Engineering at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata”. In 1995, he became an Associate Professor at the UB. In 2004, he had a sabbatical leave at AIRBUS-Munich, working on ion mobility spectrometry. His research interests are in signal processing and machine learning for chemical instrumentation. He has published around 140 archival papers (75% in Q1) and six patents.

The following is a short Q&A with Prof. Dr. Santiago Marco, who shared his vision for the journal as well as his views on this research area:

1. What appealed to you about the journal that made you want to take the role of Editor-in-Chief?
MDPI has been successful in promoting the open access publishing model, and it has highly efficient mechanisms for manuscript processing as well as paper publishing. I am ready to accept the challenge to make Signals a leading journal in the field of signal processing for a variety of applications, with the help of a committed Editorial Board.

2. What is your vision for Signals?
Signals are everywhere: multimedia, communications, audio, music, automotives, control systems, biomedicine, etc. However, some signal processing areas have been traditionally underrepresented in signal processing journals. We have exciting new developments in analytical chemistry, vibration, and structural analysis, neuroscience, geophysics, omics data science, imaging, multisensory systems, etc. I would like to expand the coverage of Signals to every area of science and technology where signals need to be analyzed to extract the relevant information. We should also promote science reproducibility by encouraging contributors to Signals to share datasets and software tools in open repositories.

3. What does the future of this field of research look like?
The field of signal processing will continue to attract excellent engineers and scientists. We will also see vanishing borders between traditional signal processing and related areas, such as machine learning and image processing.

4. What do you think of the development of open access in the publishing field?
This is clearly the future. The whole global community is moving in this direction.

Due to the aim and scope of our journal and published papers, we are currently recruiting an Editor-in-Chief for Signals (ISSN 2624-6120). Dr. Toshihisa Tanaka, the current Editor-in-Chief, will be stepping down from this position. To inquire, nominate a candidate, or submit an application, please contact us at signals@mdpi.com or ida.li@mdpi.com.

Responsibilities of the Editor-in-Chief:

• Decision-making concerning the journal's aims and scopes;
• Inviting distinguished scientists to join the Editorial Board;
• Giving suggestions for Special Issues or hot topics;
• Peer reviewing papers;
• Assisting the Guest Editors in organizing Special Issues;
• Making the final decision on whether a paper will be published after peer review and revisions.

If you are interested in applying for this position, please submit a proposal on your vision and plans for the journal, along with your CV. Please include the following:

• Description of your prior editorial experience;
• Your overall goals for the journal in the next two years;
• Suggestions for broadening the reach of the journal or improving it.

Please submit your proposal and CV to signals@mdpi.com no later than 30 April 2022. 

We look forward to reviewing your applications.

It is our great honor to congratulate the Editorial Board Members and Editors in MDPI's journals who have been distinguished as 2021 Highly Cited Researchers by Clarivate, according to Web of Science data. We herewith express our gratitude for the immense impact the named researchers continue to make on scientific progress and on our journals' development.

Clarivate's annual list of Highly Cited Researchers^TM identifies the most highly cited scientists for the past decade. Their impactful papers are among the top 1 per cent in the citation distribution of one or more of 22 fields analyzed in the "Essential Science Indicators", distinguishing them as hugely influential among their peers.

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

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

Academic editors play a crucial role in leading our journals and ensuring that each article undergoes a robust and timely peer-review. With the launch of Topics this year and addition of Topic Editors to our family of academic editors, we decided it would be a good time to restructure our academic boards, thus providing more clarity and support for each role. MDPI is pleased to announce the launch of a new position—Topical Advisory Panel Member, that will replace the previous position of Topics Board Member. The Topical Advisory Panel will be comprised of early career researchers eager to gain experience in editorial work.

The main responsibility of the new members of the Topical Advisory Panel is to regularly provide support to Guest Editors, Topic Editors, and Section Board Members. The responsibilities of the Topical Advisory Panel are available here: https://www.mdpi.com/editors.

Each year, the members’ performances are evaluated, and outstanding members are promoted to the Editorial Board by the Editor-in-Chief.

To qualify as a Topical Advisory Panel Member, applicants must:

• Have expertise and experience in the field related to the journal;
• Have received a Ph.D. in the last 10 years, approximately;
• Have at least 6-8 published papers in the last 5 years as first author or corresponding author;
• Currently hold an independent research position in academia or a government institute.

If you are interested in this role, please contact the editorial office by email.

We look forward to hearing from you soon.