Generative AI and Interdisciplinary Applications

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Dear Colleagues,

Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) now produces coherent text, photorealistic images, atom-level molecular blueprints, and working engineering layouts. These systems already accelerate protein engineering, guide chip layout optimization, draft medical reports, compose educational material, and power social science simulations. Large language models, diffusion and flow-matching networks, and structure-based generators already help researchers form hypotheses, expand data sets, speed up simulation, and support creative thinking. At the same time, pressing questions remain regarding their robustness, generalization, evaluation protocols, bias, privacy, intellectual-property rights, and governance.

This Topic welcomes original research that advances GenAI algorithms and their application in various fields. We welcome studies that integrate GenAI into interdisciplinary applications, including research at the intersection of GenAI with natural sciences, engineering, life and health sciences, social sciences, arts, or humanities. In addition, we encourage submission regarding the responsible use of GenAI regarding safety, ethics, regulation, and responsible deployment. By gathering these contributions, we aim to provide a clear snapshot of GenAI across disciplines and to outline practical directions for future work.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:

• Novel generative model architectures, algorithms, objectives, and optimization strategies
• Multimodal GenAI for heterogeneous data encoding, modeling, and generation
• Social simulation, agent-based modeling, economics, and policy analysis with GenAI
• Human-centered GenAI for education, creativity, language learning, and culture studies
• GenAI for life science, health sciences, and natural science
• GenAI for information retrieval, recommendation, and content generation
• GenAI for medical imaging, report generation, and clinical decision support
• Materials generation and inverse design for energy, catalysis, and manufacturing
• GenAI for environmental and climate modeling, remote sensing, and agriculture
• GenAI for software such as text-to-code generation and automated software engineering
• Mathematical foundations, evaluation metrics, calibration, and uncertainty estimation
• Safety, bias mitigation, privacy preservation, and legal or ethical considerations in responsible GenAI

Dr. Jisheng Dang
Dr. Wenjie Wang
Dr. Yongqi Li
Dr. Juncheng Li
Topic Editors

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Participating Journals

Journal Name	Impact Factor	CiteScore	Launched Year	First Decision (median)	APC
Electronics electronics	2.6	6.1	2012	16.8 Days	CHF 2400	Submit
AgriEngineering agriengineering	3.0	4.7	2019	20.6 Days	CHF 1600	Submit
AI Sensors aisens	-	-	2025	15.0 days *	CHF 1000	Submit
Healthcare healthcare	2.7	4.7	2013	21.5 Days	CHF 2700	Submit
AI ai	5.0	6.9	2020	20.7 Days	CHF 1600	Submit
BioMedInformatics biomedinformatics	-	3.4	2021	22.9 Days	CHF 1000	Submit
Big Data and Cognitive Computing BDCC	4.4	9.8	2017	24.5 Days	CHF 1800	Submit
Information information	2.9	6.5	2010	18.6 Days	CHF 1800	Submit

* Median value for all MDPI journals in the first half of 2025.

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