Machines | Call for Special Issue Proposals

Machines (ISSN 2075-1702; IF 2.428) is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal published semimonthly online by MDPI. It publishes articles, reviews, short communications, and letters that are relevant to any field of study in machinery and engineering. The journal is indexed within Scopus, SCIE (Web of Science), Inspec, and many other databases.

The Machines editorial team is pleased to announce this open call for Special Issue proposals, which offers a group of authors the opportunity to work on an interconnected set of papers on an innovative topic. We are soliciting high-quality proposals that will be evaluated in a continuous selection process throughout the year.

Proposals within the scope of the journal are welcome. For more details, please see: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/machines/about.

If you would like to propose a Special Issue topic for this journal, please contact the Machines Editorial Office (machines@mdpi.com) or complete and submit the form at the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/journalproposal/sendproposalspecialissue/machines. Our editors will respond to you swiftly.

As Guest Editor, you would be responsible for:

Inviting papers from your peers to be published in this Special Issue and take advantage of our high publicity of open access publishing, our rapid and high-quality peer review process, and immediate publication after acceptance;
Checking the suitability of abstracts/manuscripts submitted to the Special Issue;
Making precheck decisions regarding whether to send a new submission to peer review;
Making final decisions regarding whether to accept a paper based on peer review outcomes.

As Guest Editor, you would have the following privileges:

A recognition certificate as a Guest Editor of Machines;
The ability to publish papers with special discounts;
The opportunity to invite high-quality papers to be published in your Special Issue free of charge or with certain discounts;
Subject to the Special Issue’s success, with a minimum of 10 accepted manuscripts after full peer review, a printed book version of your Special Issue, with a copy sent to you free of charge.

The Editorial Office will set up the Special Issue’s website, arrange the promotional materials, assist with the invitations for paper contributions, and take care of the administrative tasks associated with peer review, including inviting reviewers, collating reports, contacting authors, and arranging professional production before publication.

Please do not hesitate to contact the Editorial Office (machines@mdpi.com) for further details and clarification.

We look forward to receiving your proposals.

Machines Editorial Office