Aims & Scope

Aims

Laboratories (ISSN 2813-8856) is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal on laboratory management. It publishes reviews, research papers, and short communications. This journal has a multidisciplinary character, and our aim is to publish papers exploring all the aspects related to laboratory construction and maintenance, management and planning, equipment and supplies, automatization, hazards, and other pertinent topics.

Scope

This journal welcomes manuscripts on different aspects of laboratories, including but not limited to the following:

• Laboratories’ role in driving scientific and technological innovation through research and development.
• Innovation in the interaction between laboratories and quality industries.
• The critical analysis of existing legislation, proposals for improvement, and new aspects to be included.
• Good practices in biological laboratories, risks, and health.
• Occupational health and hygiene monitoring.
• Novel methods or new equipment and their integration into laboratory management.
• New laboratories, construction, planning, equipment, computational tools, automatization, management, maintenance, and supplies.
• Laboratory hazardous waste management and process safety standards.
• Spills, safety legislation and practices, and related concerns.
• Fires and explosions.
• Protective equipment.
• Laboratory animals.
• Laboratory problems and challenges.

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

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Copyright / Open Access

Articles published in Laboratories 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:

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