Announcements

We will be attending the 2019 APHA Annual Meeting and Expo in Philadelphia, PA, USA from 2–6 November 2019. APHA's Annual Meeting and Expo is the largest and most influential annual gathering of public health professionals. Nearly 13,000 attendees join the conference each year to present, learn, and find inspiration. This year, the theme of the conference is “Creating the Healthiest Nation: For science. For action. For health”. Representatives of the following open access journals will attend:

IJERPH

Cancers

JCM

Healthcare

Vaccines

Microorganisms

Toxics

Sports

JPM

If you are also attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth (Booth #1144). 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.apha.org/events-and-meetings/annual.

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 will be attending the 2019 International Society for Vaccines (ISV) Annual Congress in Ghent, Belgium on 27–29 October 2019. The ISV Annual Congress is the world’s largest non-commercial scientific conference for basic and clinical researchers interested in vaccines and their underlying sciences, with broad coverage of topics related to vaccines and immunotherapies ranging from basic research through to manufacturing and clinical trials for humans, and veterinary vaccines encompassing infectious diseases and cancer. The conference provides a platform to exchange ideas through lively discussions led by session chairs and through vibrant interactive poster sessions among the attendees. Representatives of the following MDPI open access journals will attend:

Vaccines

Cancers

Healthcare

Viruses

If you are also attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth (booth #6). 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://isvcongress.org/#.

The editors are pleased to inform that Vaccines has received a first Impact Factor of 4.760, as published in the 2018 Edition of the Journal Citation Reports®, released just now. Vaccines ranks 39th out of 158 (Q1) titles in the 'IMMUNOLOGY' category and 25th out of 136 (Q1) titles in 'MEDICINE, RESEARCH & EXPERIMENTAL'.

Thank you to the authors, editorial board members and reviewers for their contribution in achieving this milestone for Vaccines.

Barcelona, Spain
27 September–1 October 2019

We will be attending the ESMO Congress 2019 in Barcelona, Spain from 27 September to 1 October 2019. The European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) is the leading European professional organization for medical oncology. Comprised of 17,000 oncology professionals from over 130 countries, they are the society of reference for oncology education and information. The annual ESMO Congress, which is held every year, is attended by 25,000 participants. The Congress presents the latest scientific developments in basic, translational and clinical cancer research and contextualizes new findings for practical implementation in everyday patient care. Representatives of the following MDPI open access journals will attend:

Cancers (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/cancers)

Diagnostics (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/diagnostics)

Genes (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/genes)

Healthcare (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/healthcare)

IJERPH (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/ijerph)

Journal of Clinical Medicine (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/jcm)

Journal of Personalized Medicine (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/jpm)

Medicina (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/medicina)

Medicines (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/medicines)

Vaccines (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/vaccines)

If you will attend this conference, please stop by our booth (Booth # P433). Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person and to answering any questions you may have concerning open access publishing and our journals.

For more information about the conference, please visit
https://www.esmo.org/Conferences/ESMO-Congress-2019

We will be attending the 46th Controlled Release Society Annual Meeting & Exposition. It is one of the biggest events in pharmaceutical field. Representatives of the following open access journals will attend:

Pharmaceutics
JCM
Biomolecules
Materials
IJMS
Molecules
Nanomaterials
Pharmaceuticals
Scientia Pharmaceutica
Vaccines
JPM
Genes
JFB
IJERPH
Biomedicines
Healthcare

If you are also attending this conference, please feel free to stop by our booth (Booth #303). 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://2019.controlledreleasesociety.org/

It is our pleasure to inform that twelve topical sections have been set up in Vaccines in order to reflect the scope of research published in the journal. The Sections are as follows:

1. Vaccines against Infectious Diseases;
2. Therapeutic Vaccines and Antibody Therapeutics;
3. Cancer Vaccines and Immunotherapy;
4. Influenza Virus Vaccines;
5. HIV Vaccines;
6. Veterinary Vaccines;
7. Vaccines against (Re)Emerging and Tropical Infections Diseases;
8. Epidemiology;
9. Toxicology Studies and Clinical Trials;
10. Immune Mechanisms;
11. Vaccines and Society;
12. Failed Vaccines and Vaccine Antigens.

We are looking to expand the Editorial Boards for the twelve sections to add to the expertise in these areas. The ideal candidate is an active, international, and experienced scholar in a research area related to the areas listed above. In addition, the candidate has a passion for journal editing, scientific communication, and digital publishing. We encourage anyone who is interested in applying to this position or who would like to recommend a potential candidate for this position to contact us by 30 September 2019.

Vaccines (ISSN 2076-393X) is an international, peer-reviewed, quick-refereeing open access journal published online by MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. /Vaccines/ is indexed by SCIE (Web of Science), PubMed (NLM), Scopus (CiteScore 4.94), etc. /Vaccines/ is due to receive its first Journal Impact Factor based on Web of Science data in mid-2019. More details regarding the Editorial Board of /Vaccines/ are available via the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/vaccines/editors/.

Members of the Editorial Board have the following duties:

• To make decisions regarding whether a manuscript will be accepted or not based on the information collected;
• To review a few papers per year;
• To guest edit a Special Issue on a topic related to his/her research interests; and
• To promote Vaccines and increase its visibility at related academic conferences.

To apply or request further information, please contact the Vaccines Editorial Office at vaccines@mdpi.com.

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.

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 ioap@mdpi.com.

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 help@jisc.ac.uk. For any queries about MDPI’s institutional agreements and collaborations, you may get in touch with MDPI’s Institutional Engagement team at ioap@mdpi.com, 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