Announcements
29 May 2023
Meet Us at the 32nd Annual Meeting of the European Society of Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care (ESPNIC 2023), 20–23 June 2023, Athens, Greece
23 May 2023
Nutrients | 2021–2022 Highly Cited Papers in Web of Science about Prebiotics and Probiotics
23 May 2023
Nutrients | 2021–2022 Highly Cited Papers in Web of Science about Nutritional Epidemiology
23 May 2023
Nutrients | 2021–2022 Highly Cited Papers in Web of Science about Nutrition and Metabolism
23 May 2023
Nutrients | 2021–2022 Highly Cited Papers in Web of Science about Clinical Nutrition
21 May 2023
Nutrients | 2021–2022 Highly Cited Papers in Web of Science about Micronutrients and Human Health
21 May 2023
Nutrients | 2021–2022 Highly Cited Papers in Web of Science about Nutrition and Public Health
21 May 2023
Nutrients | 2021–2022 Highly Cited Papers in Web of Science about Phytochemicals and Human Health
19 May 2023
Prof. Dr. George Moschonis Appointed Section Editor-in-Chief of Section “Nutrition Methodology & Assessment” in Nutrients
16 May 2023
Meet Us at the 19th Annual International Conference of the Metabolomics Society, 18–22 June 2023, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada
24 April 2023
Nutrients | Invitation to Read 2021–2022 Hot Topic Papers in Web of Science
7 April 2023
World Health Day–Health for All
On 7 April 2023—World Health Day, the World Health Organization (WHO) will observe its 75th anniversary. In 1948, countries of the world came together and founded the WHO to promote health, keep the world safe, and serve the vulnerable, so that everyone, everywhere, can attain the highest level of health and well-being. The WHO’s 75th anniversary is an opportunity to look back at public health successes that have improved quality of life over the last seven decades. It is also an opportunity to motivate action to tackle the health challenges of today and tomorrow. In order to encourage everyone to understand health and pay attention to health, we have also curated a list of publications on topics related to universal health coverage, healthy diet, and mental health. We also want to remind everyone that all research published in MDPI journals is available in an open access format, allowing practitioners, policy makers, and people around the world to access the latest scientific knowledge to build upon and share. Although we still have a long way to go to achieve universal health, this day also provides an opportunity to celebrate the progress made and inspire further action toward a more just and equitable world. Join us on a journey at MDPI to achieve Health for All.
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- The Antioxidant Potential of the Mediterranean Diet as a Predictor of Weight Loss after a Very Low-Calorie Ketogenic Diet (VLCKD) in Women with Overweight and Obesity
Antioxidants 2023, 12(1), 18; https://doi.org/10.3390/antiox12010018
- Effectiveness of Non-Contact Dietary Coaching in Adults with Diabetes or Prediabetes Using a Continuous Glucose Monitoring Device: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Healthcare 2023, 11(2), 252; https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11020252
- The Association between Advanced Liver Fibrosis and Mortality Is Modified by Dietary Quality among Korean Adults: Results from the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey with Mortality Data
Nutrients 2023, 15(6), 1501; https://doi.org/10.3390/nu15061501
- Physical Exercise and Diet: Regulation of Gut Microbiota to Prevent and Treat Metabolic Disorders to Maintain Health
Nutrients 2023, 15(6), 1539; https://doi.org/10.3390/nu15061539
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Section: Nutrition and Public Health |
Special Issue: Dietary Antioxidants and Cardiovascular Health |
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- Modelling and Prediction of the Spread of COVID-19 in Cameroon and Assessing the Governmental Measures (March–September 2020)
COVID 2021, 1(3), 622-644; https://doi.org/10.3390/covid1030052
- SARS-CoV-2 Infection in Health Care Workers of Trieste (North-Eastern Italy), 1 October 2020–7 February 2022: Occupational Risk and the Impact of the Omicron Variant
Viruses 2022, 14(8), 1663; https://doi.org/10.3390/v14081663
- Vaccination Coverage during Childhood and Adolescence among Undergraduate Health Science Students in Greece
Children 2022, 9(10), 1553; https://doi.org/10.3390/children9101553
- Determinants of Equity in Coverage of Measles-Containing Vaccines in Wales, UK, during the Elimination Era
Vaccines 2023, 11(3), 680; https://doi.org/10.3390/vaccines11030680
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Topical Collection: Poxviruses
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- Sex Differences in Substance Use, Prevalence, Pharmacological Therapy, and Mental Health in Adolescents with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
Brain Sci. 2022, 12(5), 590; https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12050590
- Impact on Students of the Act–Belong–Commit Mentally Healthy Schools Framework
Children 2023, 10(3), 548; https://doi.org/10.3390/children10030548
- Psychological Health and Drugs: Data-Driven Discovery of Causes, Treatments, Effects, and Abuses
Toxics 2023, 11(3), 287; https://doi.org/10.3390/toxics11030287
- Characterizing Touch Discrimination Impairment from Pooled Stroke Samples Using the Tactile Discrimination Test: Updated Criteria for Interpretation and Brief Test Version for Use in Clinical Practice Settings
Brain Sci. 2023, 13(4), 533; https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci13040533
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Special Issue: Disruptive Behavior Disorders: Symptoms, Evaluation and Treatment |
Special Issue: Organophosphate-Induced Neurotoxicity: Countermeasures, Mechanisms, and Physiology |
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4 April 2023
Meet Us at the 11th AOHUPO and 7th AOAPO Congress, 8–10 May 2023, Singapore
13 March 2023
MDPI’s Newly Launched Journals in December 2022
As a leading open access publisher, MDPI provides scholars with a high-quality and rich academic exchange platform by continuously expanding into new and exciting research areas.
In December 2022, MDPI launched five new journals, covering multiple subjects such as life sciences, biology, medicine and pharmacology, social sciences and humanities. These new journals are being edited by established scholars across the world.
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Prof. Dr. Fabio Gresta, University of Messina, Italy| Editorial | view inaugural issue |
grass/forage/turf production; grassland management; pasture monitoring; grazing and livestock; grass agro-ecosystems| view journal scope | submit an article |
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Prof. Dr. Christos G. Athanassiou, University of Thessaly, Greece| Editorial | view inaugural issue |
pesticides; fungicides; herbicides; fertilizers; soil conditioners| view journal scope | submit an article |
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Prof. Dr. Stephen H. Safe, Texas A&M University, USA| Editorial | view inaugural issue |
receptor structure; receptor function; receptor signaling; receptor expression and regulation; receptor interactions with drugs| view journal scope | submit an article |
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Dr. Jean Jacques Vanden Eynde, University of Mons-UMONS, Belgium| Editorial | view inaugural issue |
drug discovery; medicinal chemistry; preclinical and clinical research; marketed drugs; intellectual property and regulatory affairs| view journal scope | submit an article |
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Prof. Dr. Heather Kanuka, University of Alberta, Canada| Editorial | view inaugural issue |
higher education; tertiary education; policy and practice in higher education; educational leadership in higher education; educational administration and management in higher education| view journal scope | submit an article |
If you are interested in creating more open access journals with us to publish cutting-edge research, please send your journal proposal application to newjournal-committee@mdpi.com.
7 March 2023
Displaying Co-Authors’ Email Addresses on the Webpage of Published Papers
16 February 2023
Increasing Visibility for Preprints.org – Clarivate adds the Preprint Citation Index to the Web of Science
1 February 2023
Prof. Dr. Jaime Uribarri Appointed Section Editor-in-Chief of Section “Clinical Nutrition” in Nutrients
3 January 2023
Nutrients | Invitation to Read the Current Editor’s Choice Articles Published in 2021–2022
3 January 2023
Nutrients | Issue Cover Papers in 2022
28 December 2022
Nutrients | Season’s Greetings from the Editors-in-Chief
23 December 2022
Nutrients | Issue Cover Papers in 2021
22 December 2022
Special Issue Mentor Program
14 December 2022
"Thanks a Million!" – One Million Articles Published in MDPI Journals
MDPI has just become the first open access (OA) publisher to reach the milestone of one million articles published. That is one million articles freely available to all, to circulate and build upon! We are proud to share this special moment with the global scientific community.
This landmark has been reached thanks to the immeasurable support of more than 600,000 expert reviewers, 66,000 editorial board members and 6700 hard-working colleagues across MDPI’s global offices.
Within more than 25 years of publishing, our journals received 2.1 million manuscripts and generated 4.6 million peer review reports to get to one million papers published.
Reaching the milestone of one million articles published reinforces our mission to remove any existing barriers and to make scientific research accessible to all. Since its inception, MDPI’s goal has been to create reliable processes to make science open. This is a path towards facilitating the dissemination of novel insights in scientific communities.
Regular feedback from authors and reviewers shows that our service is greatly appreciated and needed. At the same time, the feedback helps us identify areas for further improvement.
As it stands, a significant share of published research findings remain closed access. More than half of the content published with the most well-known legacy publishers stays behind a paywall, and that is not including articles published in hybrid OA journals, or made available months or years after publication.
A new policy announced by the US administration in August 2022 requires that, as of January 2026, all US federally funded research be made freely and immediately available after publication. While the new policy does not mandate articles be published under an open access license, it is aligned with the open access movement in removing all barriers to research. Similarly, some of the most advanced research institutions in the world intend to have all funded research articles published in open access by 2025.
MDPI is proud to be the leading agent of the transition to open access.
"Thanks a Million" to all the contributors!
12 December 2022
Editorial Board Members from Nutrients Featured in the 2022 Highly Cited Researchers List Published by Clarivate
8 December 2022
MDPI Sustainability Foundation: New Look and Nominations for the 2023 Sustainability Awards Now Open
We are pleased to announce that the website of the MDPI Sustainability Foundation has been revamped! For the past couple of months, our UX UI team and front-end developers have been working hard to launch the website in time for the opening of the Sustainability Awards nominations.
The website is not the only thing that has had a remodeling. Indeed, the format of the Emerging Sustainability Leader Award (ESLA) has been updated. ESLA is now a competition open to individual researchers or start-ups founded by researchers under the age of 35. Nominee applications will go through 2 rounds of selection until the final 3 are decided. The finalists will then be invited to give pitch presentations during the Award Ceremony to win either first place (10,000 USD) or runner-up (2 x 5000 USD).
The World Sustainability Award, on the other hand, remains the same: a total prize money of 100,000 USD is up for grabs by senior individual researchers or groups of researchers from the international research community.
Nominations for both the World Sustainability Award and the Emerging Sustainability Leader award are now open! Check out our new website for more information on how to nominate.
24 November 2022
Editorial Board Members from Nutrients Featured among the World’s Top 2% Scientists in 2022
23 November 2022
Nutrients | Top 10 Selected Papers in 2020–2021 in the Section “Nutrition and Public Health”
17 November 2022
Nutrients | Top 10 Selected Papers in 2020–2021 in the Section “Clinical Nutrition”
17 November 2022
Nutrients | Top 10 Selected Papers in 2020–2021 in the Section “Nutritional Immunology”
17 November 2022
Nutrients | Top 10 Selected Papers in 2020–2021 in the Section “Nutrition Methodology & Assessment”
16 November 2022
Nutrients | Top 10 Selected Papers in 2020–2021 in the Section “Nutritional Epidemiology”
8 November 2022
Nutrients | Top 10 Selected Papers in 2020–2021 in the Section “Sports Nutrition”
8 November 2022
Nutrients | Top 10 Selected Papers in 2020–2021 in the Section “Nutrigenetics and Nutrigenomics”
8 November 2022
Nutrients | Top 10 Selected Papers in 2020–2021 in the Section “Prebiotics and Probiotics”
8 November 2022
Nutrients | Top 10 Selected Papers in 2020–2021 in the Section “Nutrition and Metabolism”
4 November 2022
Nutrients | Top 10 Selected Papers in 2020–2021 in the Section “Micronutrients and Human Health”
4 November 2022
Nutrients | Top 10 Selected Papers in 2020–2021 in the Section “Phytochemicals and Human Health”
4 November 2022
Meet Us at the 27th Congress of the Chinese Pediatric Society, 15–18 December 2022, Changsha, China
MDPI will be attending the 27th Congress of the Chinese Pediatric Society, held in Changsha, China, from 15–18 December 2022.
The following MDPI journals will be represented:
- Children (leading journal);
- JPM;
- Medicina;
- Audiology Research;
- JCM;
- Healthcare;
- Diagnostics;
- Metabolites;
- Cancers;
- Nutrients.
If you plan on attending this conference, feel free to stop by our booth: #B67. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person to answer any questions that you may have.
For more information about the conference, please see the following link: https://nccps2022.tiemeeting.com/CN.
28 October 2022
Nutrients | Top 10 Cited Special Issues in 2021
28 October 2022
Nutrients 2022 Best Paper Award—Winners Announced
21 October 2022
Nutrients | Editor’s Choice Articles in 2020–2021
19 October 2022
Recruiting Editorial Board Members for Nutrients
28 September 2022
Peer Review Week 2022 – Research Integrity: Creating and Supporting Trust in Research
26 September 2022
Nutrients | Top 10 Cited Papers in 2020
26 September 2022
Nutrients | Top 10 Cited Papers in 2021
27 July 2022
Nutrients | Special Issue Mentor Program
We are pleased to announce the launch of a new initiative—the Special Issue Mentor Program.
This program intends to provide an opportunity for early career scientists to enhance their editing, networking, and organizational skills, as well as to work closely with our journal to gain more editorial experience. Early career scientists who have novel ideas for new Special Issues of Nutrients (ISSN: 2072-6643) will act as Guest Editors under the mentorship of an experienced scientist; this mentor could be a member of the Nutrients Editorial Board or be from other well-established research institutes or laboratories, etc.
If you are interested in this opportunity, please send your Special Issue proposal to the Nutrients Editorial Office (nutrients@mdpi.com), and we will discuss the process (i.e., mentor collaboration, Special Issue topic feasibility analysis, etc.) in further detail. When the Special Issue is closed, our Editorial Office will provide certificates to all the mentors and to those who complete the program. Younger scholars will be prioritized as candidates for our journal award.
In addition to the new Special Issue Mentor Program, Nutrients will continue to welcome all Special Issue proposals based on hot research topics in the field.
26 July 2022
Meet Us at the China Functional Foods Conference 2022, 1–3 August 2022, Nanjing, China
Conference: China Functional Foods Conference 2022
Date: 1–3 August 2022
Place: Nanjing, China
Booth Number: #A19
Theme: Functional Foods and Human Health
Nutrients (ISSN: 2072-6643) will be attending the China Functional Foods Conference 2022 as exhibitors from 1 to 3 August in Nanjing, China.
Conference program:
(I) Invited reports:
- Development status and trending of global nutritional functional foods;
- Nutrition, healthcare for special food regulations and standards;
- Current situation and development of a special food industry;
- Future trends of personalized precision nutrition.
(II) Thematic forums:
- Technological innovation and industrial development of special medical use formula food;
- Technological innovation and industrial development of probiotics;
- Technological innovation and industrial development of bioactive peptides;
- Development and application of functional food raw materials/ingredients;
- Food nutrition and human health;
- Functional food development and industrial development of marine resources;
- Homology of medicine and food and development and industrial development of natural products;
- Functional polysaccharide nutrition and development and application;
- Cereal food nutrition and intensive processing.
Booth information:
The following MDPI journals will be represented:
Please do not hesitate to reach out if you plan on attending this conference. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person and answering any questions that you might have.
For more information about the conference, please visit the following website: http://guohsushipn.mikecrm.com/0EYH8vK.
20 July 2022
Meet Us at the 15th China Nutrition Science Congress, 29–31 July 2022, Wuhan, China
28 June 2022
2021 Impact Factors - Released
The 2021 citation metrics have been released in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR), and we’re pleased to announce the following results for MDPI journals:
| Journal | Impact Factor | Rank | Category |
| Antioxidants | 7.675 | Q1 | Food Science & Technology |
| Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | |||
| Chemistry, Medicinal | |||
| Cells | 7.666 | Q2 | Cell Biology |
| Nutrients | 6.706 | Q1 | Nutrition & Dietetics |
| Cancers | 6.575 | Q1 | Oncology |
| Pharmaceutics | 6.525 | Q1 | Pharmacology & Pharmacy |
| International Journal of Molecular Sciences | 6.208 | Q1 | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology |
| Q2 | Chemistry, Multidisciplinary | ||
| Marine Drugs | 6.085 | Q1 | Chemistry, Medicinal |
| Pharmacology & Pharmacy | |||
| Biomolecules | 6.064 | Q2 | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology |
| Batteries * | 5.938 | Q2 | Electrochemistry |
| Energy & Fuels | |||
| Materials Science, Multidisciplinary | |||
| Viruses | 5.818 | Q2 | Virology |
| Biosensors | 5.743 | Q1 | Chemistry, Analytical |
| Instruments & Instrumentation | |||
| Q2 | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | ||
| Journal of Fungi | 5.724 | Q1 | Mycology |
| Q2 | Microbiology | ||
| Nanomaterials | 5.719 | Q1 | Physics, Applied |
| Q2 | Chemistry, Multidisciplinary | ||
| Materials Science, Multidisciplinary | |||
| Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | |||
| Metabolites | 5.581 | Q2 | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology |
| Foods | 5.561 | Q1 | Food Science & Technology |
| Drones * | 5.532 | Q2 | Remote Sensing |
| Remote Sensing | 5.349 | Q1 | Geosciences, Multidisciplinary |
| Imaging Science & Photographic Technology | |||
| Q2 | Remote Sensing | ||
| Environmental Sciences | |||
| Journal of Theoretical and Applied Electronic Commerce Research | 5.318 | Q2 | Business |
| Antibiotics | 5.222 | Q1 | Pharmacology & Pharmacy |
| Q2 | Infectious Diseases | ||
| Pharmaceuticals | 5.215 | Q1 | Pharmacology & Pharmacy |
| Q2 | Chemistry, Medicinal | ||
| Biology | 5.168 | Q1 | Biology |
| Fermentation | 5.123 | Q2 | Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology |
| Toxins | 5.075 | Q1 | Toxicology |
| Q2 | Food Science & Technology | ||
| Bioengineering * | 5.046 | Q2 | Engineering, Biomedical |
| Polymers | 4.967 | Q1 | Polymer Science |
| Journal of Clinical Medicine | 4.964 | Q2 | Medicine, General & Internal |
| Vaccines | 4.961 | Q2 | Immunology |
| Medicine, Research & Experimental | |||
| Molecules | 4.927 | Q2 | Chemistry, Multidisciplinary |
| Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | |||
| Microorganisms | 4.926 | Q2 | Microbiology |
| Journal of Functional Biomaterials * | 4.901 | Q2 | Engineering, Biomedical |
| Materials Science, Biomaterials | |||
| Biomedicines | 4.757 | Q2 | Medicine, Research & Experimental |
| Pharmacology & Pharmacy | |||
| Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | |||
| Plants | 4.658 | Q1 | Plant Sciences |
| International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health | 4.614 | Q1 | Public, Environmental & Occupational Health (SSCI) |
| Q2 | Public, Environmental & Occupational Health (SCIE) | ||
| Environmental Sciences (SCIE) | |||
| Membranes | 4.562 | Q1 | Polymer Science |
| Q2 | Engineering, Chemical | ||
| Materials Science, Multidisciplinary | |||
| Chemistry, Physical | |||
| Pathogens | 4.531 | Q2 | Microbiology |
| Catalysts | 4.501 | Q2 | Chemistry, Physical |
| Toxics | 4.472 | Q2 | Toxicology |
| Environmental Sciences | |||
| Gels | 4.432 | Q1 | Polymer Science |
| Journal of Cardiovascular Development and Disease | 4.415 | Q2 | Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems |
| Chemosensors | 4.229 | Q1 | Instruments & Instrumentation |
| Q2 | Chemistry, Analytical | ||
| Q3 | Electrochemistry | ||
| Genes | 4.141 | Q2 | Genetics & Heredity |
| Diagnostics | 3.992 | Q2 | Medicine, General & Internal |
| Agronomy | 3.949 | Q1 | Agronomy |
| Plant Sciences | |||
| Land | 3.905 | Q2 | Environmental Studies |
| Sustainability | 3.889 | Q2 | Environmental Sciences (SCIE) |
| Environmental Studies (SSCI) | |||
| Q3 | Green & Sustainable Science & Technology (SCIE) | ||
| Q4 | Green & Sustainable Science & Technology (SSCI) | ||
| Sensors | 3.847 | Q2 | Instruments & Instrumentation |
| Chemistry, Analytical | |||
| Engineering, Electrical & Electronic | |||
| Materials | 3.748 | Q1 | Metallurgy & Metallurgical Engineering |
| Q2 | Physics, Applied | ||
| Physics, Condensed Matter | |||
| Q3 | Materials Science, Multidisciplinary | ||
| Chemistry, Physical | |||
| Biomimetics * | 3.743 | Q2 | Engineering, Multidisciplinary |
| Q3 | Materials Science, Biomaterials | ||
| Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease * | 3.711 | Q1 | Tropical Medicine |
| Q2 | Parasitology | ||
| Q3 | Infectious Diseases | ||
| Lubricants * | 3.584 | Q2 | Engineering, Mechanical |
| Fractal and Fractional | 3.577 | Q1 | Mathematics, Interdisciplinary Applications |
| Water | 3.530 | Q2 | Water Resources |
| Q3 | Environmental Sciences | ||
| Micromachines | 3.523 | Q2 | Instruments & Instrumentation |
| Physics, Applied | |||
| Chemistry, Analytical | |||
| Q3 | Nanoscience & Nanotechnology | ||
| Journal of Personalized Medicine | 3.508 | Q2 | Medicine, General & Internal |
| Health Care Sciences & Services | |||
| Agriculture | 3.408 | Q1 | Agronomy |
| Processes | 3.352 | Q2 | Engineering, Chemical |
| Separations | 3.344 | Q2 | Chemistry, Analytical |
| Magnetochemistry | 3.336 | Q2 | Chemistry, Inorganic & Nuclear |
| Q3 | Chemistry, Physical | ||
| Materials Science, Multidisciplinary | |||
| Brain Sciences | 3.333 | Q3 | Neurosciences |
| Buildings | 3.324 | Q2 | Construction & Building Technology |
| Engineering, Civil | |||
| Forests | 3.282 | Q1 | Forestry |
| Energies | 3.252 | Q3 | Energy & Fuels |
| Life | 3.251 | Q2 | Biology |
| Coatings | 3.236 | Q2 | Materials Science, Coatings & Films |
| Physics, Applied | |||
| Q3 | Materials Science, Multidisciplinary | ||
| Animals | 3.231 | Q1 | Agriculture, Dairy & Animal Science |
| Veterinary Sciences | |||
| Journal of Intelligence * | 3.176 | Q2 | Psychology, Multidisciplinary |
| Fishes | 3.170 | Q1 | Marine & Freshwater Biology |
| Q2 | Fisheries | ||
| Healthcare | 3.160 | Q2 | Health Policy & Services (SSCI) |
| Health Care Sciences & Services (SCIE) | |||
| Inorganics * | 3.149 | Q2 | Chemistry, Inorganic & Nuclear |
| Insects | 3.139 | Q1 | Entomology |
| Atmosphere | 3.110 | Q3 | Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences |
| Environmental Sciences | |||
| Current Oncology | 3.109 | Q3 | Oncology |
| ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information | 3.099 | Q2 | Geography, Physical |
| Q3 | Computer Science, Information Systems | ||
| Remote Sensing | |||
| Diversity | 3.029 | Q2 | Biodiversity Conservation |
| Ecology | |||
| Tomography | 3.000 | Q3 | Radiology, Nuclear Medicine & Medical Imaging |
| Current Issues in Molecular Biology | 2.976 | Q3 | Biochemistry & Molecular Biology |
| Medicina | 2.948 | Q3 | Medicine, General & Internal |
| Symmetry | 2.940 | Q2 | Multidisciplinary Sciences |
| Horticulturae | 2.923 | Q1 | Horticulture |
| Machines | 2.899 | Q2 | Engineering, Mechanical |
| Engineering, Electrical & Electronic | |||
| Systems * | 2.895 | Q2 | Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary |
| Applied Sciences | 2.838 | Q2 | Engineering, Multidisciplinary |
| Physics, Applied | |||
| Q3 | Chemistry, Multidisciplinary | ||
| Materials Science, Multidisciplinary | |||
| Children | 2.835 | Q2 | Pediatrics |
| Minerals | 2.818 | Q2 | Mining & Mineral Processing |
| Mineralogy | |||
| Geochemistry & Geophysics | |||
| Universe | 2.813 | Q2 | Astronomy & Astrophysics |
| Q3 | Physics, Particles & Fields | ||
| Journal of Marine Science and Engineering | 2.744 | Q1 | Engineering, Marine |
| Q2 | Oceanography | ||
| Engineering, Ocean | |||
| Entropy | 2.738 | Q2 | Physics, Multidisciplinary |
| Fire * | 2.726 | Q2 | Forestry |
| Q3 | Ecology | ||
| Metals | 2.695 | Q2 | Metallurgy & Metallurgical Engineering |
| Q3 | Materials Science, Multidisciplinary | ||
| Electronics | 2.690 | Q3 | Engineering, Electrical & Electronic |
| Computer Science, Information Systems | |||
| Physics, Applied | |||
| Crystals | 2.670 | Q2 | Crystallography |
| Q3 | Materials Science, Multidisciplinary | ||
| Aerospace | 2.660 | Q1 | Engineering, Aerospace |
| Mathematics | 2.592 | Q1 | Mathematics |
| Photonics | 2.536 | Q3 | Optics |
| Actuators | 2.523 | Q2 | Instruments & Instrumentation |
| Q3 | Engineering, Mechanical | ||
| Veterinary Sciences | 2.518 | Q2 | Veterinary Sciences |
| Behavioral Sciences * | 2.286 | Q3 | Psychology, Multidisciplinary |
| Axioms * | 1.824 | Q2 | Mathematics, Applied |
For more information on Impact Factors and what it means to index academic journals, please visit our related blog posts.
* Journals given their first Impact Factor in 2022
Source: 2021 Journal Impact Factors, Journal Citation Reports TM (Clarivate, 2022)
9 June 2022
2021 CiteScores - Released
2 June 2022
MDPI’s 2021 Outstanding Reviewer Awards in “Biology & Life Sciences”—Winners Announced
2 June 2022
MDPI’s 2021 Young Investigator Awards in “Biology & Life Sciences”—Winners Announced
2 June 2022
MDPI’s 2021 Travel Awards in “Biology & Life Sciences”—Winners Announced
2 June 2022
MDPI’s 2021 Best Paper Awards in “Biology & Life Sciences”—Winners Announced
7 April 2022
Nutrients | Highly Cited Papers in Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) in the Web of Science in 2021
21 March 2022
Nutrients | Recruiting Editorial Board Members for Section “Nutrition and Obesity”
21 March 2022
Nutrients | New Section “Hydration” Established
17 March 2022
Nutrients | Recruiting Editorial Board Members for Section “Prebiotics and Probiotics”
17 March 2022
Nutrients | Call for Special Issue Proposals for Section “Prebiotics and Probiotics”
28 February 2022
Nutrients | Recruiting Editorial Board Members for New Section “Sports Nutrition”
21 February 2022
Nutrients | Recruiting Editorial Board Members for Section “Micronutrients and Human Health”
21 February 2022
Nutrients | Call for Special Issue Proposals for Section “Micronutrients and Human Health”
21 February 2022
Nutrients | Recruiting Editorial Board Members for New Section “Protein”
21 February 2022
Nutrients | Recruiting Editorial Board Members for New Section “Nutrition in Women”
14 February 2022
Nutrients | Recruiting Editorial Board Members for New Section “Geriatric Nutrition”
14 February 2022
Nutrients | Call for Special Issue Proposals for New Section “Geriatric Nutrition”
10 February 2022
Nutrients | Recruiting Editorial Board Members for New Section “Nutrition and Diabetes”
10 February 2022
Nutrients | Call for Special Issue Proposals for New Section “Nutrition and Diabetes”
10 February 2022
Nutrients | Special Issue “Advances in Nutrition: Opportunities and Challenges in 2022”—Open for Submission
24 January 2022
Nutrients | Call for Special Issue Proposals for Section “Nutritional Immunology”
13 January 2022
Nutrients | Call for Special Issue Proposals for Section “Nutrigenetics and Nutrigenomics”
13 January 2022
Nutrients | Call for Special Issue Proposals for New Section “Carbohydrates”
6 January 2022
Nutrients | Recruiting Editorial Board Members for New Section “Hydration”
30 December 2021
Nutrients | Two New Sections Established
We are pleased to announce that we are launching two new Sections in the open-access journal Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643), which publishes reviews, research papers, and communications in all areas of hydration and geriatric nutrition research.
The two new Sections being launched are as follows:
If you are interested in publishing your research, please do not hesitate to contact us at nutrients@mdpi.com; we welcome original research articles and reviews in the above-mentioned fields.
Nutrients Editorial Office
29 December 2021
Nutrients | Season’s Greetings from Editorial Board Members
Video message from the Editor-in-Chief of Nutrients (ISSN: 2072-6643) and the Section Editors-in-Chief:
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Prof. Dr. Federica I. Wolf Editor-in-Chief of the “Micronutrients and Human Health” Section |
Dear readers,
Notwithstanding the viral storm that has blasted the world over the last two years, we are here to talk about science, ready to start the new year with unfailing enthusiasm.
It has been a difficult time for us all. Both our work environments and our social lives have been greatly affected, and we have experienced an unprecedented feeling of social isolation and restraint, as well as anxiety for the future of ourselves and the whole community.
Fortunately, we were blessed by the might of the web, which has helped us in the face of so many difficulties. We have learned how to explore and communicate in a virtual world—slang such as call and link and tele-this or tele-that has penetrated our language and become our leitmotiv to survive isolation and loneliness. This could not in any way compensate for the collapse of personal interactions, but it removed what was initially perceived as an insurmountable wall between us and the others, helping us to realize we were not alone after all. In looking back at the last two years, we might conclude that the Sars-Cov2 pandemic changed our lifestyle and made our days less frantic and neurotic. We suddenly found ourselves with plenty of time for thinking, putting ideas together, and brainstorming in the search for new scientific avenues.
In reviewing how the scientific literature embraced thousands of solid or naïve reports on the evil virus, I have the impression that we never stopped conducting science. Looking at how our journal faired during the pandemic, it is clear that our authors faced the challenges presented to them head on and broadened their focus on what a healthy lifestyle means. We all became, more than ever, aware of the importance of nutrition as a preventive or curative indispensable strategy. As a result, nutrition research is stronger than before and represents a unique arena to welcome translational collaborations and efforts to fight COVID-19. More importantly, nutrition research has become a flagship of a revitalized interest in life and the environment.
I wish you all a healthy and fruitful 2022!
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Prof. Dr. Yvan Vandenplas Editor-in-Chief of the “Pediatric Nutrition” Section |
The whole team in “Pediatric Nutrition” wishes all co-workers and authors a very happy 2022 and we thank you for your devotion and interest.
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Dr. Javier Gómez-Ambrosi Editor-in-Chief of the “Nutrition and Obesity” Section Co-Editor-in-Chief of the “Nutrition and Diabetes” Section |
On behalf of the Editorial Office of Nutrients we would like to extend our sincere gratitude to Nutrients’ authors, readers, Editorial Board members, and reviewers, thanking them for their kind and continued participation in the journal in 2021.
This year, we have published many relevant findings in the field of human nutrition. For example, several important papers have highlighted the role of vitamin D in reducing the severity and mortality rate of COVID-19, or other factors such as vitamin K or zinc, and how the pandemic has changed the dietary habits and physical activity due to lockdowns. Nutrients has also published studies demonstrating the positive health effects of nuts and coffee and has reviewed the benefits of fasting and its application. We have also seen research concerning meta-analysis, showing that animal protein tends to be more beneficial for lean mass than plant protein, a work suggesting that a ketogenic low-carbohydrate high-fat diet induces a deleterious blood lipid profile, and an innovative study using a metagenomics and metabolomics approach to show how western and Mediterranean diets differently affect gut microbiota metabolism. Finally, some studies have also shed more light on controversial topics such as the effects of the consumption of potatoes and saturated fats on health.
In 2021, the impact factor of Nutrients has increased to 5.719 and thanks to all the excellent papers we have published in 2021, we expect to further increase the impact of Nutrients in 2022.
We wish you a very happy new year, and we welcome submissions of even more excellent articles in 2022.
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Prof. Dr. David C. Nieman Editor-in-Chief of the “Sport Nutrition” Section |
Wishing you health and happiness in the New Year ahead.
Sports nutrition is a rapidly expanding area of scientific investigation. The interaction of exercise and nutrition is compelling and complex. Advances in measurement technologies have allowed hundreds of metabolites, proteins, lipids, and genes to be measured simultaneously. This approach has improved the capacity to provide accurate and practical guidelines for athletes. The “Sports Nutrition” Section of the journal Nutrients is devoted to advancing scientific understanding, and I encourage you to send us your best papers in 2022.
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Prof. Dr. Yan Chen Editorial Board Member in Nutrients |
Wish for Nutrients to be nutritious and important to all fields of biological research.
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Prof. Dr. Gloria Lena Vega Editor-in-Chief of the “Nutrition and Metabolism” Section |
Dear readers,
Congratulations to all those who contributed to this year’s “Nutrition and Metabolism” Section and to our supportive readers and editorial staff. We were pleased to receive very informative manuscripts on diverse topics. The Section published about 400 manuscripts representing the scientific activities of researchers and scholars from the Americas, Asia, and Europe. The scope of the science is broad reflecting the many aspects of nutrition and metabolism research being conducted in well-established research centers.
We look forward to your continued support by submitting reviews, original research, and/or editorials on topics that are of greatest importance to nutrition and metabolism. In these challenging times of the pandemic, scientists are to be commended for their resilience and commitment to their work. As we learn to navigate the present health challenge, we anticipate additional submissions on new aspects of the role of the immune system in metabolism and new strategies to enhance immunity through nutrition. We encourage you to continue to submit your research findings to this section next year. We urge you to encourage your fellows and students to publish their thesis work and to use this forum as a key resource of innovative research in nutrition and metabolism.
We extend to our readership, authors, and very able editorial staff best wishes for a productive 2022 and for better control of the healthcare challenges we confront worldwide.
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Prof. Dr. Luis A. Moreno Editor-in-Chief of the “Nutritional Epidemiology” Section |
Dear readers,
On behalf of the “Nutrition Epidemiology” Section of our journal Nutrients, we wish all authors and readers a happy Christmas time and a scientifically productive 2022, with our best wishes for your personal and familial life.
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Prof. Dr. Ina Bergheim Editor-in-Chief of the “Clinical Nutrition” Section |
Dear readers and authors,
The last two years have been very challenging to all of us. People all over the world lost loved ones and many suffered economic hardship. Even though the pandemic is not over, it is thanks to the outstandingly fast development of COVID-19 vaccines that many of us will be able to meet friends and family in this holiday season and hopefully lead a more normal life in 2022. Therefore, I would like to take the opportunity to send a word of gratitude to our fellow scientists who worked hard to develop the COVID-19 vaccines.
Additionally, I would also like to take the opportunity to thank you, the readers and the authors, for following Nutrients and for publishing more than 400 excellent original manuscripts and review articles this year in the “Clinical Nutrition” Section. Indeed, if I look at the many submissions and manuscripts published in this Section, but also the journal in general throughout the past year, I have the impression we never stopped engaging with science, and that nutrition research is an ever-developing discipline being one of the keys to a healthy life.
Happy Holidays to everyone and a healthy and fruitful 2022!
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Prof. Dr. Kimber L. Stanhope Editor-in-Chief of the “Carbohydrates” Section |
As we near the end of another challenging year, a Season’s Greeting full of enthusiasm for the progress we have made in the world of nutrition research and optimism for our future progress is the order of the day. It is easy for me to be enthusiastic about progress. I was lucky to stumble on a research path that has made particularly impressive progress during the last two decades—the metabolic effects of added sugar consumption. I assess this progress starting in 2001 with our NIH summary statement for our first R01 proposal to conduct a well-controlled dietary intervention study on the metabolic effects of fructose and glucose. A reviewer panned our hypothesis that fructose consumption increased risk factors for CVD, stating that it had already been disproven 30 years ago when it was proposed by John Yudkin (eventually, and luckily, we got funded anyway). Fast forward to 2015, reviewers of our new proposals were questioning the need for any more dietary intervention studies on added sugar. Specifically, one reviewer wrote that everyone, except those associated with the sugar industries, knows that the consumption of sugar is bad for health. While the comment is arguable, specifically concerning the “everyone knows” part, it certainly suggests a lot of results were generated and a lot of learning occurred in only 13 years! We can also reasonably claim that the change in the 2015 US Dietary Guideline for the upper limit of added sugar consumption is indicative of outstanding progress; down from 25% of daily energy to 10% of daily energy. However, the U.S. per capita consumption of added sugar (sucrose plus HFCS) has only decreased 17% since 2002 (from 350 to 292 Kcal/day), therefore the average level of added sugar consumption in the U.S. is still closer to 15% of daily energy than 10%. Furthermore, the decrease consisted of solely high fructose corn syrup (HFCS); sucrose intake has increased by 16 kcal/day since 2002. (Nutrition educators, please broadcast the finding of our latest publication: Liver fat, insulin resistance, circulating lipids/lipoproteins, and uric acid are significantly increased by consumption of sucrose, and the increases are comparable to those caused by consumption of HFCS.)
Clearly, we need to keep adding to the evidence base that demonstrates that the refined Western diet is a mediator of chronic disease, ensure that the evidence is translated to dietary advice and education for the public, and develop and test new strategies that will promote dietary change. Does my enthusiasm for our recent progress on the topic of added sugar translate to optimism that we can make equally impressive progress on the goals stated above? I am not sure. I worry that the challenge of obtaining funding to conduct a clinical dietary intervention study, the gold standard of nutrition research, has sky-rocketed alarmingly during the last decade. The researcher must not only meet the NIH standards for being significant and innovative (a challenge in itself), but many reviewers are judging the study design (approach) based on the same standards set for evidence-based medicine. These evidence-based medicine standards for sample size, duration, direct disease outcomes, blinding, control of confounding variables, and compliance monitoring are achievable for a Phase III drug study, for practical, ethical, and methodological reasons, they are not realistic standards for clinical dietary intervention studies.
Furthermore, I think summary statements from my recent unfunded NIH proposals illustrate additional challenges that face nutrition researchers who are seeking funding for clinical dietary intervention studies. For example, in the same summary statement, two reviewers offered completely non-reconcilable critiques of my plan to provide the human subjects with 6 weeks of standardized meals and beverages prepared in our metabolic kitchen. The first reviewer described the dietary protocol as a weakness as it “...is so tightly controlled it is unclear how generalizable these findings will be”; the second reviewer described the dietary protocol as a weakness as the subjects “are not brought into a monitored or controlled setting” for meal consumption, thus may cheat.
I was also disconcerted when a reviewer of my most recent unfunded proposal stated that it was unclear how elucidating the mechanism between consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages and weight gain would result in public health policy to reduce the availability of SSB. It is the objective of nearly all dietary intervention studies to generate results that will influence public health policy. While many of us researchers put substantial effort into trying to ensure our published results have an impact, the role of translating research evidence into public health policy belongs to others specifically trained for this. Luckily, more and more of our young people are embracing this role, and from 1992 to 2016 the number of post-graduate degrees conferred in public health has more than tripled.
One of the hurdles that the current and future public health advocates have to deal with in their efforts to impact dietary policy is gaps in the evidence base. Filling these gaps is our role, and it takes three types of studies to do this: 1. The observational studies that can show associations between dietary components and health or disease; 2. The basic animal research that can demonstrate causal mechanism between dietary components and health or disease; and 3. Clinical dietary intervention studies to test the relevance of the mechanisms in humans using surrogate markers of health and disease. With all three, we will arm the public health advocates with the best possible evidence base. Therefore, we have to work to ensure that unrealistic standards do not impede the conduct of clinical dietary intervention studies. Dietary intervention studies will never test CVD or diabetes as outcomes, only their surrogates. They will never have sample sizes or durations to rival Phase III drug studies. If they use a free-living/free-choice dietary protocol, the results are subject to confounding by other dietary variables. If they use the standardized dietary protocol in which subjects are confined to consuming only the study diet, mis-compliance is still possible and the results may not be generalizable to real-world diets. While it may be my fantasy, it is not possible, even with unlimited funding, to conduct a dietary intervention study that will not have limitations and that will single-handedly impact dietary policy and consumer behavior. This must not become an excuse not to conduct them. Let us work together to ensure that it does not!
Happy Holidays to everyone!
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Prof. Dr. Guansheng Ma Editorial Board Member in Nutrients |
As the pandemic continues to rage around the world in 2021, nutrition research is still being conducted, despite the impact. To fight against COVID-19, the link between vitamin D, zinc, polyphenols, other nutrients and resistance to infection and immune function has received particular attention. The results of these studies have shown that adequate and appropriate intake of nutrition is essential for strengthening immunity and preventing the infection of COVID-19. Investigations have concluded that quarantine does changes dietary behavior and physical activity, eventually impacting the health of the population. Nutrition and healthy aging, food allergies, mechanisms and effects of dietary factors on chronic diseases are the focus of research; moreover, the food environment, food systems, low carbon and sustainability are the focus of researchers.
In the coming year, 2022, as researchers, our scientific research in nutrition and health will never stop. We will continue to make new advances in our own research fields in order to benefit both mankind and nature.
Happy Holidays! I wish you all a healthy and fruitful 2022!
22 December 2021
Nutrients | Call for Special Issue Proposals for New Section “Protein”
20 December 2021
Nutrients | Call for Special Issue Proposals for New Section “Lipids”
22 November 2021
722 MDPI Editorial Board Members Receiving "2021 Highly Cited Researchers" Distinction
18 November 2021
Nutrients | Call for Special Issue Proposal for New Section “Nutrition and Obesity”
16 November 2021
Topical Advisory Panel Established to Support Editorial Board
25 October 2021
Open Access Week 2021 | It Matters How We Open Knowledge: Building Structural Equity, 25–31 October
Founded in 1996, MDPI was one of the first fully Open Access publisher. Over 25 years MDPI has grown to become the largest Open Access publisher globally, publishing over 160,000 articles across more than 350 journals in 2020. At the core, MDPI was founded in response to a pressing need of fast publication and inclusion. The scholar was set at the centre of the publication process for the first time. Acting as a service provider, rather than a product provider, MDPI exists to help scientists achive their objective to disseminate research results. At MDPI, we believe scientists deserve a better service from the publishing world.
The International Open Access Week (Open Access Week), founded by the SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) Alliance and student partners in 2008, has been successfully running for 13 years. As an advocate and pioneer of open access publishing, MDPI actively responds to the call of International Open Access Week. This year’s theme of “It Matters How We Open Knowledge: Building Structural Equity” highlights the Recommendation’s call for equitable participation from all authors and readers.
For the last 25 years, MDPI has been committed to disseminating open research. Here is a video showing MDPI’s Commitment to Equity, Inclusion and Diversity for More than 25 Years.
International Open Access Week is an important opportunity to catalyze new conversations, create connections across and between communities that can facilitate this co-design, and advance progress in the building of more equitable foundations for opening knowledge—discussions and actions that need to be continued, year in and year out. MDPI has always aimed to provide professional and efficient publishing services to scholars around the world.
Our mission is to make scientific research accessible to everyone; this year, we interview and hold discussions with open science ambassadors on how to build an equal and inclusive environment for open science. Academic editors help us collaborate with more institutions to advocate for open access ideas.
Besides this, our scientific community is a key driver of our success and MDPI’s remarkable growth. Despite the pandemic, we have prepared online conferences and workshops to gather scholars from different communities.
The Basel Sustainable Publishing online forum provides an equal opportunity for stakeholders and researchers from multi-cultural environments to exchange ideas and eliminate barriers to participation.
Conference date: 25 October 2021, online
Conference website: https://bspf2021.sciforum.net/
Main topics: MDPI discusses the current dilemma of open access science from various perspectives such as governments, libraries, and publishers, and related measures on how to change the status quo of discrimination from a global perspective.
We aim to support equality, inclusion, diversity, and accessibility in scholarly communications. We collaborate with universities and key laboratories and have scholarly communications with researchers, teachers, and students on open access workshops.
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Energies journal and Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- 28 October 2021
Machines journal and State Key Laboratory of Traction Power, Southwest Jiaotong University
- 29 October 2021
Processes journal and Beijing Institute of Technology
- 29 October 2021
Coatings journal and Wuhan University of Technology
MDPI is committed to providing open access and high-quality publishing services for scholars and promoting rapid dissemination of academic achievements. We hope to promote the practices and policies of open access publishing and diversify the dissemination of academic achievements.
23 September 2021
2020 MDPI Top Reviewer Award—Winners Announced
22 September 2021
MDPI Joins SDG Publishers Compact
UN's 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are the blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all. In 2020 the SDG Publishers Compact was launched, aimed to inspire publishers and accelerate progress to achieve the 17 goals by 2030. Members of the programme are committed to support the publication of materials that will promote and inspire actions towards SDGs.
MDPI is an eager advocate of SDGs and has already been supporting the programme by creating Special Issues and publishing a series of books on SDGs prior to joining the Compact in 2021. MDPI's Sustainability Foundation initiated the World Sustainability Awards in 2016. We fully support UN's goals to promote sustainable actions that make the world a better place for all and, as part of its commitment, we will focus our actions on SDG10: Reduced Inequalities whilst promoting all 17 SDGs. For more details, please visit the programme’s website: https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/sdg-publishers-compact/.
Joining this initiative was a unanimous decision. MDPI has in its core values the dissemination of science for all, breaking the wall between research access and under-represented members of the scientific community and the general population. To support this initiative further and continue to support under-represented scientists, MDPI will take a series of actions that will be announced once ready.
The first action MDPI takes is to nominate Dr. Liliane Auwerter as the coordinator of the programme. Dr. Auwerter studied Environmental Process Technology (UTFPR, Brazil), obtained her MSc degree in Water and Environmental Engineering (University of Surrey, UK) and in 2020 completed her PhD in self-healing low-friction materials for water transport (Imperial College London, UK), always focusing on diverse scientific projects that would potentially bring sustainability to industrial processes. As a student in Brazil, she engaged in volunteering activities focused on environmental education and took part in the Millennial Development Goals meetings held at the university.
For more information, please contact:
Dr. Liliane Auwerter
Scientific Officer
liliane.auwerter@mdpi.com
18 September 2021
Nutrients | Four New Sections Established
16 September 2021
Nutrients Webinar | Sports Nutrition Current Trends and Insights, 20 September 2021
27 August 2021
Nutrients Webinar | Nutrigenetics: Translation into Clinical and Nutritional Practice, 7 September 2021
3 August 2021
Announcement on Japanese Consumption Tax (JCT)
30 June 2021
2020 Impact Factors - Released
29 June 2021
Nutrients 2nd Webinar | Dietary Patterns, Dietary Behaviour in Children and Adolescents
Dietary behaviours develop from early stages of life. Dietary patterns start to be established during childhood. Early interventions should be able to positively influence the development of healthy dietary patterns. In order to design intervention programs, the first step is to know what the main determinants of dietary behaviours and dietary patterns in children and adolescents are. Several strategies have been proposed to deal with optimal behaviour development. Of recent interest are the support of food literacy in families and co-creation strategies to improve energy balance-related behaviours. All the previously mentioned topics will be covered during the present webinar.
Date: 5 July 2021
Time: 3 p.m. (CEST)
Webinar ID: 917 5682 3262
Register for free here: https://nutrients-2.sciforum.net/#registration
Program
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Prof. Dr. Luis A. Moreno Chair Introduction |
3:00–3:10 pm |
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Dr. Antje Hebestreit Determinants of Dietary Patterns and Dietary Behaviour in Children and Adolescents |
3:10–3:35 pm |
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Dr. Jess Haines Strategies to Support Food Literacy Among Families |
3:35–4:00 pm |
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Prof. Dr. Mai Chin A Paw Co-Creating Interventions to Improve Energy Balance Behaviours |
4:00–4:25 pm |
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Q&A and Discussion |
4:25–4:45 pm |
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Conclusion & Closing of Webinar |
4:45–5:00 pm |
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Prof. Dr. Luis A. Moreno "Growth, Exercise, Nutrition and Development" (GENUD) Research Group, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain Luis A. Moreno is Professor of Public Health at the University of Zaragoza (Spain). He did his training as Medical Doctor and his PhD thesis at the University of Zaragoza. He studied Human Nutrition and Public and Community Health at the University of Nancy (France). He has participated in several research projects supported by the Spanish Ministry of Health, and the European commission (HELENA, IDEFICS, EURRECCA, ENERGY, ToyBox, iFamily, Feel4Diabetes, GrowH! And DigiCare4You). He has published more than 700 papers in peer-reviewed journals. He is the coordinator of the GENUD (Growth, Exercise, Nutrition and Development) research group, at the University of Zaragoza. He is a former member of the ESPGHAN Committee of Nutrition and former President of the Spanish Nutrition Society. |
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Dr. Antje Hebestreit Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology—BIPS GmbH, Germany Dr. Antje Hebestreit is head of the Unit Lifestyle-Related Disorders at the Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology—BIPS, in Bremen, Germany. After her PhD in Nutritional Sciences and Home Economics, and further training in epidemiology, she worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow for Harvard University and as a consultant for the UN World Food Programme. Over the years, her work has focused on studying the role of dietary intake, dietary behaviour, and their determinants in the development of non-communicable diseases, as well as primary prevention strategies for childhood obesity. |
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Dr. Jess Haines Department of Family Relations and Applied Nutrition, University of Guelph, Canada Jess Haines is a dietitian and a Professor of Applied Nutrition at the University of Guelph in Canada. Dr. Haines’ research aims to bridge epidemiologic research on the determinants of health behaviours with the design, implementation, and evaluation of interventions to support children’s healthy eating and growth. Dr. Haines is the Co-Director of the Guelph Family Health Study, a longitudinal family-based cohort, and the Director of the Parent–Child Feeding Laboratory, which focuses on identifying how parent–child feeding interactions influence children’s eating behaviours. |
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Prof. Dr. Mai Chin A Paw Department of Public and Occupational Health, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 1081 BT Amsterdam, The Netherlands Mai Chin A Paw dreams of a world where children grow up healthy and happy. Such a world provides plenty of opportunities for active play, inspiring education, and nutritious and delicious foods. Mai is fascinated by why we do what we do and how this affects health, with a particular interest in youth. As university chair of the Child and Adolescent Public Health research section of Amsterdam University Medical Center, she combines her scientific expertise in human movement science and epidemiology to unravel working mechanisms using innovative methodologies, exploring unique intervention strategies and creatively combining multiple disciplines. Mai is the current president of the International Society of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity until June 2021. Growing up in a multicultural family, she learned to observe the world from various perspectives, enjoy diversity, believe in serendipity and search beyond the expected. This sculpted her unique scientific frame of mind. |
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For any questions about the webinar, please send an email to nutrients.webinar@mdpi.com.
29 June 2021
Nutrients | New Section “Lipids” Established
We are pleased to announce the new Section “Lipids” (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/nutrients/sections/Lipids) in the journal Nutrients. Prof. Dr. Manohar Garg is serving as the Section Editor-in-Chief.
Lipids are no longer considered to only be important as energy-rich nutrients, and specific fatty acids and lipid-soluble substances are now known to act as metabolic regulators. Lipids also play an important role in the development of obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancer, and mental illness. Some fatty acids and lipid-soluble substances have shown the ability to modulate the pathophysiology of these lifestyle diseases due to their unique route of absorption, selective incorporation into various tissues, and influence on metabolic pathways, resulting in alteration of blood lipid levels, pro- and anti-inflammatory mediators, platelet aggregation, eicosanoid production, and hormonal responses. The “Lipids” Section of Nutrients is open for contributions from health professionals and clinicians researching the area of lipids, including but not limited to:
- Medium chain fatty acids;
- Omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids;
- Monounsaturated fatty acids;
- Oils;
- Cholesterol;
- Fat-soluble vitamins;
- Lipids in pathology of the disease;
- Blood lipids and lipoproteins;
- Membrane lipids;
- Impact on inflammation, platelet aggregation, and blood pressure;
- Functional foods and lipids;
- Carotenoids;
- Polyphenols.
To access more detailed information, please see here: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/nutrients/sections/Lipids.
28 April 2021
Book Builder—Compile a Customized E-Book from Your Favorite MDPI Open Access Content
MDPI Books recently released Book Builder, a new online tool to conveniently arrange, design and produce an eBook from any content published in MDPI journals. Book Builder offers two functions: on the one hand (1) Selections, available to every registered user of MDPI; on the other hand (2) Special Issue Reprints, which can be used exclusively by Guest Editors of Special Issues.
Selections
In just a matter of a few clicks, all users are now able to assemble books from MDPI articles and receive instantaneous feedback in the form of a fully produced and compiled book (PDF), which can be downloaded or ordered as print copy. Selections can include any paper published with MDPI, picking and combining content from different journals and special issues.
This way, the user may for example choose to compile an ebook focusing around a particular topic, or assemble articles from a group of others.
We invite you to make yourself familiar with the new tool! The Book Builder can be found here: https://www.mdpi.com/books/book_builder.
Special Issue Reprints
The Book Builder allows Guest Editors of MDPI journals to create a reprint from a successfully completed Special Issue or Topical Collection in book format. If you are a Guest Editor for an MDPI journal, you can use the new tool to create an PDF document which includes all articles published in the Special Issue as well as a book cover and table of contents.
For Special Issues containing a minimum of 5 articles, the Guest Editor can request its publication on the MDPI Book platform. Published reprints are assigned an ISBN and DOI.
In addition to the PDF copy of the Reprint Book, as a token of our gratitude, MDPI offers every Guest Editor one (1) complimentary print copy (via print-on-demand). All contributors benefit from a discount on orders of any additional print copies, to share with colleagues or libraries or others.
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15 April 2021
MDPI Celebrates Company Milestone With 25th Anniversary Page
"We exist to help scientists achieve their own objectives"
10 March 2021
Journal Selector: Helping to Find the Right MDPI Journal for Your Article
4 March 2021
Nutrients Established New Section—“Nutrition in Women”
15 December 2020
MDPI adopts C4DISC principles to improve diversity and inclusion in scholarly communications
MDPI is proud to adopt the principles of the Coalition for Diversity & Inclusion in Scholarly Communications (C4DISC) to support building equity, inclusion, diversity, and accessibility in scholarly communications.
The C4DISC represents organizations and individuals working in scholarly communications and is focused on addressing issues of diversity and inclusion within the publishing industry.
MDPI’s Managing Editors encourage the Editors-in-Chief and Associate Editors to appoint diverse expert Editorial Boards. This is also reflective in our multi-national and inclusive workplace. We are proud to create equal opportunities without regard to gender, ethnicity, geographic location, sexual orientation, age, disability, political beliefs, religion, or socio-economic status. There is no place for discrimination in our workplace and editors of MDPI journals are to uphold these principles in high regard.
Representatives from C4DISC meet monthly, and have started to implement initiatives to shed light and improve on the lack of diversity in scholarly communications. Some of the initiatives include developing a joint statement of principles; conducting market research; providing training resources, best practices, toolkits, and documentation for our collective memberships; and establishing outreach programs, curricula, events, and publications.
The Coalition is committed to:
- eliminating barriers to participation, extending equitable opportunities across all stakeholders, and ensuring that our practices and policies promote equitable treatment and do not allow, condone, or result in discrimination;
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14 December 2020
Article Layout and Templates Revised for Future Volumes
At MDPI we have slightly revised the layout for articles to be published in the 2021 Volume, starting at the end of December 2020. As of today, the article templates available for download on ‘Instructions for Authors’ pages have been updated.
The most noticeable change can be found on the first page of the article, where a left-hand column has been created to include the following front matter elements: (i) the recommended citation style for the article, (ii) the publishing history, (iii) as well as the Creative Commons Attribution license used (iv) a standard note regarding affiliations. At the same time, the extra spacing on the left means the authors’ affiliations are now more clearly set apart than before. Other front matter key elements such as journal logo, article type, article title, authors, abstract and keywords remain unchanged.
The blank column on the left runs through all pages in an article; as a result, the main text is slightly more condensed, which improve reader friendliness for smaller screens. Small figures/tables are aligned on the left with standard indenture, while large figures/tables are centered and covering the full width of the page. The revised layout was applied in the article pictured below, to serve as an example:
1) Information is displayed in the left information bar.
2) In the main text, there is a blank column on the left.
3) Small tables/figures are aligned on the left, large tables/figures are centered.
11 December 2020
2020 "Highly Cited Researchers" on MDPI Journal's Editorial Boards
23 July 2020
The 1st International Electronic Conference on Nutrients (IECN)—Open for Submission
9 July 2020
Open Access Agreement Between Jisc Collections and MDPI
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Eligible authors affiliated with the participating institutions are prompted to choose the corresponding Institutional Open Access Program (IOAP) when they submit an article via our online submission system.
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29 June 2020
Updated Impact Factors Released in the Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate)
The updated citation metrics have been released in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR), published by Clarivate. The recent release of the JCR includes seventy-one MDPI titles. Out of these, 18 titles are newcomers, receiving a first Journal Impact Factor which is based on citation activity in 2019: Actuators, Agriculture, Biology, Biomedicines, Biosensors, Chemosensors, Children, Healthcare, Journal of Fungi, Journal of Personalized Medicine (JPM), Land, Life, Magnetochemistry, Membranes, Pharmaceuticals, Photonics, Separations and Toxics.
- Out of the previously listed journals, a total of 72 percent boast an increased Impact Factor.
- 25 journals are ranked among the top 25% of journals in at least one of the categories they are ranked for.
- Articles published in 2019 in MDPI journals account for approximately 17 percent of of articles published in gold Open Access journals covered in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) and Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI).
First Impact Factors
| Journal | Impact Factor | Rank | Category | Details |
| Actuators | 1.957 | 31/64 (Q2) | • Instruments & Instrumentation | Link |
| Agriculture | 2.072 | 25/91 (Q2) | • Agronomy | Link |
| Biology | 3.796 | 19/93 (Q1) | • Biology | Link |
| Biomedicines | 4.717 | 30/138 (Q1) 36/270 (Q1) |
• Medicine, Research & Experimental • Pharmacology & Pharmacy |
Link |
| Biosensors | 3.240 | 24/86 (Q2) | • Chemistry, Analytical | Link |
| Chemosensors | 3.108 | 16/64 (Q1) 27/86 (Q2) 13/27 (Q2) |
• Instruments & Instrumentation • Chemistry, Analytical • Electrochemistry |
Link |
| Children | 2.078 | 50/128 (Q2) | • Pediatrics | Link |
| Healthcare | 1.916 | 62/102 (Q3) 45/87 (Q3) |
• Health Care Sciences & Services (SCIE) • Health Policy & Services (SSCI) |
Link |
| Journal of Fungi | 4.621 | 5/29 (Q1) 31/135 (Q1) |
• Mycology • Microbiology |
Link |
| Journal of Personalized Medicine | 4.433 | 24/165 (Q1) 10/102 (Q1) |
• Medicine, General & Internal • Health Care Sciences & Services |
Link |
| Land | 2.429 | 58/123 (Q2) | • Environmental Studies (SSCI) | Link |
| Life | 2.991 | 26/93 (Q2) 109/267 (Q2) |
• Biology • Microbiology |
Link |
| Magnetochemistry | 1.947 | 22/45 (Q2) 109/159 (Q3) 201/314 (Q3) |
• Chemistry, Inorganic & Nuclear • Chemistry, Physical • Materials Science, Multidisciplinary |
Link |
| Membranes | 3.094 | 53/143 (Q2) 129/314 (Q2) 23/89 (Q2) |
• Engineering, Chemical • Materials Science, Multidisciplinary • Polymer Science |
Link |
| Pharmaceuticals | 4.286 | 49/270 (Q1) | • Pharmacology & Pharmacy | Link |
| Photonics | 2.140 | 48/97 (Q2) | • Optics | Link |
| Separations | 1.900 | 53/86 (Q3) | • Chemistry, Analytical | Link |
| Toxics | 3.271 | 32/92 (Q2) 92/265 (Q2) |
• Toxicology • Environmental Sciences |
Link |
Updated Impact Factors
| Journal | Impact Factor | Rank | Category | Details |
| Agronomy | 2.603 | 18/91 (Q1) 65/234 (Q2) |
• Agronomy • Plant Sciences |
Link |
| Animals | 2.323 | 10/63 (Q1) 14/142 (Q1) |
• Agriculture, Dairy & Animal Science • Veterinary Sciences |
Link |
| Antibiotics | 3.893 | 23/93 (Q1) 64/270 (Q1) |
• Infectious Diseases • Pharmacology & Pharmacy |
Link |
| Antioxidants | 5.014 | 10/139 (Q1) 56/297 (Q1) 7/61 (Q1) |
• Food Science & Technology • Biochemistry & Molecular Biology • Chemistry, Medicinal |
Link |
| Applied Sciences | 2.474 | 161/314 (Q3) 32/91 (Q2) 88/177 (Q2) 62/154 (Q2) |
• Materials Science, Multidisciplinary • Engineering, Multidisciplinary • Chemistry, Multidisciplinary • Physics, Applied |
Link |
| Atmosphere | 2.397 | 48/93 (Q3) | • Meteorology & Atmospheric Sciences | Link |
| Biomolecules | 4.082 | 98/297 (Q2) | • Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | Link |
| Brain Sciences | 3.332 | 113/271 (Q2) | • Neurosciences | Link |
| Cancers | 6.126 | 37/244 (Q1) | • Oncology | Link |
| Catalysts | 3.520 | 65/159 (Q2) | • Chemistry, Physical | Link |
| Cells | 4.366 | 70/195 (Q2) | • Cell Biology | Link |
| Coatings | 2.436 | 10/21 (Q2) | • Materials Science, Coatings & Films | Link |
| Crystals | 2.404 | 10/26 (Q2) 165/314 (Q3) |
• Crystallography • Materials Science, Multidisciplinary |
Link |
| Diagnostics | 3.110 | 39/165 (Q1) | • Medicine, General & Internal | Link |
| Diversity | 1.402 | 119/168 (Q3) | • Ecology | Link |
| Electronics | 2.412 | 125/266 (Q2) | • Engineering, Electrical & Electronic | Link |
| Energies | 2.702 | 63/112 (Q3) | • Energy & Fuels | Link |
| Entropy | 2.494 | 33/85 (Q2) | • Physics, Multidisciplinary | Link |
| Foods | 4.092 | 27/139 (Q1) | • Food Science & Technology | Link |
| Forests | 2.221 | 17/68 (Q1) | • Forestry | Link |
| Genes | 3.759 | 53/177 (Q2) | • Genetics & Heredity | Link |
| Insects | 2.220 | 18/101 (Q1) | • Entomology | Link |
| International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) | 2.849 | 58/193 (Q2) 32/170 (Q1) 105/265 (Q2) |
• Public, Environmental & Occupational Health (SCIE) • Public, Environmental & Occupational Health (SSCI) • Environmental Sciences (SCIE) |
Link |
| International Journal of Molecular Sciences (IJMS) | 4.556 | 74/297 (Q1) 48/177 (Q2) |
• Biochemistry & Molecular Biology • Chemistry, Multidisciplinary |
Link |
| ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information (IJGI) | 2.239 | 31/50 (Q3) 18/30 (Q3) |
• Geography, Physical • Remote Sensing |
Link |
| Journal of Clinical Medicine | 3.303 | 36/165 (Q1) | • Medicine, General & Internal | Link |
| Journal of Marine Science and Engineering | 2.033 | 31/66 (Q2) | • Oceanography | Link |
| Marine Drugs | 4.073 | 16/61 (Q2) | • Chemistry, Medicinal | Link |
| Materials | 3.057 | 132/314 (Q2) | • Materials Science, Multidisciplinary | Link |
| Mathematics | 1.747 | 28/324 (Q1) | • Mathematics | Link |
| Medicina | 1.205 | 107/165 (Q3) | • Medicine, General & Internal | Link |
| Metabolites | 4.097 | 95/297 (Q2) | • Biochemistry & Molecular Biology | Link |
| Metals | 2.117 | 18/79 (Q1) 185/314 (Q3) |
• Metallurgy & Metallurgical Engineering • Materials Science, Multidisciplinary |
Link |
| Micromachines | 2.523 | 56/92 (Q3) 23/64 (Q2) |
• Nanoscience & Nanotechnology • Instruments & Instrumentation |
Link |
| Microorganisms | 4.152 | 37/135 (Q2) | • Microbiology | Link |
| Minerals | 2.380 | 6/21 (Q2) 11/30 (Q2) |
• Mining & Mineral Processing • Mineralogy |
Link |
| Molecules | 3.267 | 70/177 (Q2) 141/297 (Q2) |
• Chemistry, Multidisciplinary • Biochemistry & Molecular Biology |
Link |
| Nanomaterials | 4.324 | 89/314 (Q2) 42/103 (Q2) |
• Materials Science, Multidisciplinary • Nanoscience & Nanotechnology |
Link |
| Nutrients | 4.546 | 17/89 (Q1) | • Nutrition & Dietetics | Link |
| Pathogens | 3.018 | 65/135 (Q2) | • Microbiology | Link |
| Pharmaceutics | 4.421 | 44/270 (Q1) | • Pharmacology & Pharmacy | Link |
| Plants | 2.762 | 58/234 (Q1) | • Plant Sciences | Link |
| Polymers | 3.426 | 16/89 (Q1) | • Polymer Science | Link |
| Processes | 2.753 | 59/143 (Q2) | • Engineering, Chemical | Link |
| Remote Sensing | 4.509 | 9/30 (Q2) | • Remote Sensing | Link |
| Sensors | 3.275 | 22/86 (Q2) 77/266 (Q2) 15/64 (Q1) |
• Chemistry, Analytical • Engineering, Electrical & Electronic • Instruments & Instrumentation |
Link |
| Sustainability | 2.576 | 120/265 (Q2) 26/41 (Q3) 53/123 (Q2) 6/8 (Q3) |
• Environmental Sciences (SCIE) • Green & Sustainable Science & Technology (SCIE) • Environmental Studies (SSCI) • Green & Sustainable Science & Technology (SSCI) |
Link |
| Symmetry | 2.645 | 29/71 (Q2) | • Multidisciplinary Sciences | Link |
| Toxins | 3.531 | 21/92 (Q1) 34/139 (Q1) |
• Toxicology • Food Science & Technology |
Link |
| Universe | 1.752 | 18/29 (Q3) 42/68 (Q3) |
• Physics, Particles & Fields • Astronomy & Astrophysics |
Link |
| Vaccines | 4.086 | 57/158 (Q2) 50/138 (Q2) |
• Immunology • Medicine, Research & Experimental |
Link |
| Viruses | 3.816 | 12/37 (Q2) | • Virology | Link |
| Water | 2.544 | 31/94 (Q2) | • Water Resources | Link |
Source: Clarivate 2020, InCites Journal Citation Reports®.
25 June 2020
The Spanish Nutrition Society (SEÑ) is Now an Affiliated Society Member of Nutrients
In June 2020, the Spanish Nutrition Society (SEÑ) became affiliated to Nutrients. As part of this collaboration, all members of SEÑ enjoy a discount on the article processing charges (APC) when submitting articles to Nutrients.
The Spanish Nutrition Society (SEÑ) was founded in 1978 to promote the development, innovation, research and education of Nutrition in Spain. It organizes scientific meetings and seeks other means of establishing and maintaining contact between Spanish nutritionists as well as between them and foreign scientists.
SEÑ is a professional organization whose functions are highly relevant to the scope of Nutrients. We look forward to collaborating with SEÑ and publishing state-of-the-art research from its members in this field.
24 June 2020
Nutrients Free Webinar: Diet and CKD: Old and New Concepts—8 June 2020
MDPI has provided several Free Open Platforms that may help to accelerate scientific exchange and provide support to academics during this particularly tough period. Thanks to our brilliant technical support, we are pleased to report that the first Nutrients webinar on Diet and CKD: Old and New Concepts is coming soon.
Date: Wednesday 8 June 2020 | 03:00 pm (CEST) | 09:00am (EDT) | 09:00pm (CST)
Duration: Maximum 2 hours
Webinar ID: 886 7523 9724
Register for Free Here: https://sciforum.net/conference/Nutrients-1
Chair:
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Presentation: His main fields of clinical and research interest are kidney transplantation, clinical nephrology, CKD-MBD, acid-base and electrolyte disturbances. |
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Prof. Dr. Piergiorgio Messa Guest Editor of “Renal Nutrition and Metabolism” |
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Presentation: His main research interests include the pathological mechanisms involved in extraosseous calcifications, and the phosphate and vitamin D metabolism in chronic kidney disease-mineral and bone disorder (CKD-MBD), and he has served as principal investigator in several clinical multicentre trials in the CKD-MBD field. |
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Prof. Dr. Peter Stenvinkel |
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For any questions about the webinar, please send an email to webinars@mdpi.com.
13 May 2020
COVID-19 Academic Resources Center
20 April 2020
Meet us at the 2020 IAFP (International Association for Food Protection) Annual Meeting, held in Cleveland, Ohio, USA, 25–28 October 2020.
9 April 2020
Free Open Platforms to Support Academics During the COVID-19 Pandemic
25 March 2020
MDPI Comment on the COVID-19 Virus
19 March 2020
Nutrients Award for Young Investigator 2020
Dear Colleague,
We are inviting nomination for the Nutrients Award for Young Investigators 2020, which will be given for remarkable research achievements or for career achievements. The nominations will be assessed by an Evaluation Committee presided by the Editors-in-Chief of Nutrients Prof. Dr. Lluis Serra-Majem and Prof. Dr. Maria Luz Fernandez.
Nutrients AWARD
FOR YOUNG INVESTIGATOR 2020
Candidates’ Requirements:
- Ground-breaking contribution to the advancement of Nutrition and Dietetics
- 35 years age and under (by 30 September 2020)
- Candidates must be nominated by their supervisor(s).
Required Nomination Documents:
- Curriculum Vitae and a list of publications
- A description of the candidate’s research and a scanned copy of the candidate’s doctorate certificate
- Nomination letter from your supervisor in Nutrition and Dietetics field
The Award will consist of 2000 Swiss Francs and a waiver of the 2000 Swiss Francs article processing fee for a manuscript accepted for publication in Nutrients, and there will be two awardees.
Please send the nomination by 30 September 2020. The winners will be announced in Nutrients by 30 November 2020.
Please send your nomination to the Nutrients Editorial Office at nutrients@mdpi.com by 30 September 2020.
Nutrients Editorial Office
St. Alban-Anlage 66
CH-4052, Basel, Seitzerland
nutrients@mdpi.com
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/nutrients
18 March 2020
MDPI Co-Signed Position Statement on Transformative Agreements
16 March 2020
Encyclopedia Outstanding Contributor Awards 2020 - Open for Application
We are pleased to announce that Encyclopedia will be awarding five Outstanding Contributor Awards for researchers in 2020. The nominations and applications will be assessed by an Evaluation Committee consisting of senior scholars from the Encyclopedia Editorial Board.
Prize for Winners
- An official certificate;
- A cash award of 500 CHF or an MDPI discount voucher of 800 CHF.
Application Deadline
31 December, 2020 (Please send your application email with a list of all entries you contributed to our office before the deadline: office@encyclopedia.pub)
Candidate Requirements
- Have a Ph.D. degree;
- Have more than three qualified entries published in Encyclopedia in 2020.
Evaluation Standards
- Number of entries published in Encyclopedia in 2020;
- Quality of entries online (including length, figure quality, and novelty);
- Impact of entries (including the number of likes, discussion contents, views, and downloads).
If you are a researcher and have not yet contribute entries to Encyclopedia, please do not miss this chance to highlight your research results.
19 February 2020
Meet Us at the 2020 Annual Meeting of American Society for Nutrition (Nutrition 2020) in Seattle, WA, USA, 30 May–2 June 2020
20 November 2019
Meet Us at ICoFF2019 and ISNFF2019 in Kobe, Japan, 1–5 December 2019
11 October 2019
Introducing SciProfiles, an Academic Social Network
MDPI is pleased to announce the release of SciProfiles, its social network platform for researchers and scholars.
The purpose of SciProfiles is aligned with MDPI’s broad mission to accelerate discovery and innovation by facilitating immediate access to research results and to serve scholars and communities by providing opportunities for academic networking.
SciProfiles also ambitions to serve as a sustainable, transparent and community-driven research evaluation system aligned with the DORA principles (https://sfdora.org/). Through their scientific profiles, academics can highlight their contribution to research communities, and measure their impact on their field, beyond publication numbers and impact factors. SciProfiles is currently a beta version and will enrich to give researchers the possibility to highlight all of their contributions to science and their scientific communities as authors, reviewers, editors, conference organizers, conference panelists, conference keynote speakers, or even as lecturers or student mentors at their University.
The classic components of popular community social networks, including follower/following, classical metrics, endorsements and recommendations (https://www.mdpi.com/about/announcements/1690), comments (https://www.mdpi.com/about/announcements/1397) are or will be very soon highlighted in SciProfiles as open science contributions.
To help increase the impact and visibility of articles and their authors to an appropriate audience, the platform offers a NewsFeed that includes recommendations of relevant content based on interests, publication history, saved searches or colleagues’ recommendations.
SciProfiles’ avatars are now being integrated on several MDPI platforms, meaning that you will directly access researchers’ profiles from any of the MDPI platforms:
MDPI's journal publishing website: www.mdpi.com
MDPI's conference hosting and management website: www.sciforum.net
MDPI's pre-print website : www.preprints.org
MDPI's knowledge sharing website : www.encyclopedia.pub
MDPI's books store: www.mdpi.com/books
MDPI's literature database : www.scilit.net
SciProfiles aims to serve scientific communities at large. It can be embedded into third-party websites and also welcomes integration of data from third-parties.
Dr. Shu-Kun Lin: https://sciprofiles.com/profile/2
Dr. Franck Vazquez: https://sciprofiles.com/profile/FranckVazquez
Dr. Martyn Rittman: https://sciprofiles.com/profile/martynrittman
2 October 2019
Winners of the 2019 MDPI Writing Prize
We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2019 MDPI Writing Prize. Entrants were asked to write on the theme "Judging research: How should research and researchers be evaluated and rewarded?" We received a large number of excellent essays from PhD students and postdocs, and the process of shortlisting and choosing winners was not an easy one. The winners demonstrated excellent writing skills alongside interesting and thought-provoking ideas.
As last year, we will begin the process of collating all entries into a book that will be available in open access format. Alongside promoting good writing skills, we see the prize as a way to promote the voices of early career researchers within broader debates and policy discussions.
Congratulations to all of the participants and especially the winners. The winners are:
1st Prize (500 CHF):
Albin Nilsson (National Centre for Nuclear Research, Warsaw, Poland)
[Read here]
2nd Prize (250 CHF):
Qi Zhang (Shandong University, Jinan, China)
[Read here]
Igor Ogashawara (Indiana University, Indianapolis, US)
[Read here]
3rd Prize (100 CHF):
Margaret Sivapragasam (Universiti Teknologi Petronas, Perak, Malaysia)
[Read here]
Arvind Sharma (The University of Queensland, Gatton, Australia)
[Read here]
Jose Flores-Guerrero (University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands)
[Read here]
The MDPI Writing Prize is an annual award supported by MDPI Author Services, which provides services including language editing, reformatting, plagiarism checks, and image editing.
20 September 2019
MDPI Now Gives Scholars the Possibility to Endorse and Recommend Articles
MDPI is pleased to announce the release of a new functionality giving the possibility for researchers and scholars to endorse, and formally recommend articles to their colleagues.
MDPI was an early signatory of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (https://sfdora.org/read/) which calls for improvement in how quality and impact of scholarly research outputs are evaluated, especially in moving beyond journal-based citation metrics (journal Impact Factor, Scopus Citescore, etc.).
MDPI supports the establishment of article-level impact metrics, including citations, views, downloads, and Altmetric scores. These measures serve as an impact indicator for research articles on a case–by-case basis, assessing paper on its own merit. However, these metrics are also subjective and can give a biased picture of the article impact: they do not directly reflect the quality or the intrinsic scientific value of the article.
In our view, community engagement with publications based on community-driven metrics can help to overcome this limitation. We have therefore launched an option for scholars to endorse articles, indicating their own assessment of its content and making a recommendation to their community. This follows our implementation of the open source Hypothesis commenting tool, which has been available for all articles published by MDPI for over a year (https://www.mdpi.com/about/announcements/1397). Both endorsement and commenting are available for all previously published and forthcoming MDPI articles.
In addition to potentially serving as a sustainable solution to article assessment, endorsements will help scientific communities to identify the most relevant articles, independently of the journal in which it was published.
The code for the endorsing functionality, which relies on DOIs and ORCIDs, will be made available on GitHub with an open source license.
Dr. Shu-Kun Lin, President and Founder
Dr. Franck Vazquez, Chief Scientific Officer
Dr. Martyn Rittman, Publishing Director
11 September 2019
Create an Entry in Encyclopedia to Get a 100 CHF Voucher in Publishing in MDPI Journals
Encyclopedia is a free online reference created and curated by active scholars. It aims to highlight the latest research results as well as provide a comprehensive record of scientific development. If you have any suggestions or questions, please feel free to contact us via office@encyclopedia.pub.
6 August 2019
Preprints Reaches 10,000 Posted Articles Milestone
We are pleased to announce that Preprints has passed the milestone of 10,000 posted preprints. We are delighted to have reached this after just over three years of operation. Our congratulations and thanks go to our authors and advisory board who have supported growth of the platform and been crucial to its operation.
You can find further details at https://www.preprints.org/announcement/show/37.
2 August 2019
DeepGreen Partnering with Publishers and Universities in Distributing Open Access Content to Institutional Repositories
Last week, the DeepGreen initiative in Germany started into an advanced test phase with the publishing partners S. Karger AG, SAGE Publishing, MDPI, Frontiers and De Gruyter, as well as 27 universities from all over Germany, from Hamburg University of Applied Sciences to University of Konstanz.
DeepGreen aims at lowering the barriers for open access publishing by automatically delivering metadata and full text publications from participating publishers to authorized repositories at German universities.
In preparation for a later live operation, the advanced test phase serves to gain experience with extensive data deliveries from publishers and also handling different repository software (including OPUS4, DSpace, EPrints, MyCoRe). DeepGreen thereby acts as a sophisticated platform, receiving articles published by authors affiliated with German universities and depositing these articles to respective university repositories, based on the affiliation metadata. For more information about DeepGreen: https://deepgreen.kobv.de
Karger AG has been a close cooperation partner of the DeepGreen consortium since 2016. S. Karger has more than 80 subscription-based and around 20 open access journals covering a wide spectrum in health science. DeepGreen will assign S. Karger articles to authorized institutions on the legal basis of German alliance and national licenses.
SAGE Publishing was founded by Sara Miller McCune in 1965 to support the dissemination of usable knowledge and educate a global community. SAGE publishes more than 1,000 journals and over 600 new books each year, spanning a wide range of subject areas. Our growing selection of library products includes archives, data, case studies and video. SAGE remains majority owned by our founder and after her lifetime will become owned by a charitable trust that secures the company’s continued independence. Principal offices are located in Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore, Washington DC and Melbourne. SAGE Publishing has been a close cooperation partner of DeepGreen since 2016.
MDPI is a scientific open access publisher and has been a partner of DeepGreen since 2017. MDPI comprises 205 peer-reviewed journals of various disciplines. All articles are published under a CC-BY license and are freely available without embargo period.
Frontiers is a scientific open access publisher with 61 journals of over 600 academic disciplines. All articles are peer-reviewed and published freely available under CC-BY license.
De Gruyter is an academic publisher with more than 700 subscription-based and open access journals of 29 disciplines. Articles provided by De Gruyter will be assigned to institutions with German alliance and national licenses.
There is promising communication with other publishers.
DeepGreen is funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the consortium comprises six institutions: the Cooperative Library Network Berlin-Brandenburg, Bavarian State Library, Bavarian Library Network, University Library of the Technische Universität Berlin, University Library of Erlangen-Nuremberg and the Helmholtz Open Science Coordination Office at the GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences.
If you would like to know in more detail which institutions take part in the advanced test phase of DeepGreen, you can find more information here.
17 July 2019
First Basel Sustainable Publishing Forum
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
20 June 2019
Nutrients Receiving 2018 Updated Impact Factor of 4.171
We are pleased to inform that Nutrients received an updated Journal Impact Factor of 4.171 in the recent release of the Journal Citation Reports®. The journal's 5-Year Impact Factor is 4.813. Nutrients now ranks 16/86 (Q1) in the category 'Nutrition & Dietetics'.
Evolution of Impact Factor, Citations and Publications for Nutrients:
Source: data according to Journal Citation Reports®, 2018 release, a Clarivate Analytics product; and Scopus journal metrics.
28 May 2019
Meet US at the 2019 Annual Meeting of ASN in Baltimore, MD, USA, 8–11 June 2019
28 May 2019
Meet US at the 52nd Annual Meeting of ESPGHAN in Glasgow, Scotland, 5–8 June 2019
9 May 2019
Obituary—Prof. Dr. Valerio Nobili
20 March 2019
Fostering Open Access Publishing Worldwide: New IOAP Participants in February and March 2019
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.
5 March 2019
MDPI Joins Jisc’s Publications Router Service
1 February 2019
2018 MDPI Top Reviewer Award—Winners Announced
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
24 January 2019
JAMS Journals: A Low-Cost Publishing Platform
24 January 2019
Popularity of Preprints Continues to Grow
2018 was a great year for preprints, with increasing numbers of authors looking to make their papers available online before peer review. Along with other preprint servers, our platform Preprints.org saw an increase in the uptake from authors, and more than double the number of announced papers compared to 2017. In fact, we recently passed two important milestones: 8000 preprints online and 30,000 authors.
We believe that the whole research community has the opportunity to benefit from work being available online as early as possible. We thank and congratulate our authors for supporting us to make this goal a reality.
In 2019, we will be looking carefully at how to provide better value for authors, maintain efficiency while growing in size, and make sure we remain well-connected with the research community.
If you want to participate, you can consider screening preprints or joining our advisory board. And, of course, posting your own work.
9 January 2019
Open Access Agreement between the Austrian Academic Library Consortium (KEMÖ), the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), and MDPI
We are delighted to announce the establishment of our national Open Access agreement with the Austrian Academic Library Consortium (KEMÖ) and the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). Through this national agreement, the Austrian institutions listed below as well as FWF will cover the Article Processing Charges (APC) of manuscripts published by eligible corresponding or funded authors in MDPI journals as long as central funds are available.
All participating institutions have gained access to the MDPI online submission system where they can find full article metadata and pricing information as well as Funder and Grant ID details for easy identification and additional transparency. At the same time eligible authors are benefited from an APC discount which comes at no cost for the institutions.
Eligible corresponding authors affiliated with the participating institutions are prompted to choose the corresponding Institutional Open Access Program (IOAP) when they submit an article via our online submission system. The program will be selected automatically if authors submit their papers using their institutional email address. To claim their discount, FWF funded authors should choose the particular funder and add their Grant ID upon online submission of their manuscript. The institutions will then crosscheck the information and confirm the APC funding.
Eligible authors that have their APC covered by their institution or funder are advised to include the following sentence in their acknowledgments: "Open Access Funding by the [name of the institution/funder]".
The full text of the agreement is openly available online at: http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2536007
For any questions about the agreement, please contact the KEMÖ Consortium at emedien@obvsg.at, FWF at Katharina.Rieck@fwf.ac.at, or the MDPI IOAP team at ioap@mdpi.com.
The Austrian institutions participating in this agreement are:
- Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
- University for Continuing Education Krems
- University of Applied Sciences BFI Vienna
- University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria
- University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien
- Vorarlberg University of Applied Sciences
- International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
- Institute of Science and Technology Austria
- MCI Management Center Innsbruck
- University of Graz
- University of Linz
- University of Salzburg
- Graz University of Technology
- TU Wien
- University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
- University of Vienna
This is our first collective agreement with a national library consortium, while the individual institutions around the world participating in our IOAP are now more than 500 - see details here: https://www.mdpi.com/about/ioap. We would be mostly interested in discussing about possible collaborations with other consortia, funders, and institutions in our mutual efforts to accelerate Open Access.
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