Aims & Scope

Aims

Universe (ISSN 2218-1997) is an international peer-reviewed open access journal focused on theoretical, experimental, and observational progress in fundamental and applied physics from circumterrestrial space to cosmological scenarios. The journal focuses on publishing research articles, reviews, and communications, but other article types will also be considered. Our aim is to encourage scientists to publish their research results in as much detail as possible. There is no restriction on the maximum length of the papers.

Scope

Universe covers topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Cosmology
• Gravitation and general relativity
• Gravitational waves
• High-energy nuclear and particle physics
• Astrophysics and astronomy
• Solar system
• Planetary science
• Galaxies and clusters
• Compact objects
• Stellar astronomy
• Astrochemistry and astrobiology
• Plasma astrophysics
• Nuclear astrophysics
• Observational astronomy
• Astrometry and celestial mechanics
• Astroinformatics and astrostatistics
• Astronomical instrumentation
• Space science
• Field theory
• Foundations of quantum mechanics and quantum gravity

MDPI Publication Ethics Statement

MDPI is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). MDPI takes the responsibility to enforce a rigorous peer-review together with strict ethical policies and standards to ensure to add high quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication. Unfortunately, cases of plagiarism, data falsification, inappropriate authorship credit, and the like, do arise. MDPI takes such publishing ethics issues very seriously and our editors are trained to proceed in such cases with a zero tolerance policy. To verify the originality of content submitted to our journals, we use iThenticate to check submissions against previous publications.

Book Reviews

Authors and publishers are encouraged to send review copies of their recent related books to the following address. Received books will be listed as Books Received within the journal's News & Announcements section.

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Copyright / Open Access

Articles published in Universe will be Open-Access articles distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The copyright is retained by the author(s). MDPI will insert the following note at the end of the published text:

Reprints

Reprints may be ordered. Please contact publisher@mdpi.com for more information on how to order reprints.

Announcement and Advertisement

Announcements regarding academic activities such as conferences are published for free in the News & Announcements section of the journal. Advertisement can be either published or placed on the pertinent website. Contact e-mail address is universe@mdpi.com.