Information for Authors

MDPI publishes scholarly peer-reviewed Open Access journals since 1996. All journals maintain a rapid, yet rigorous, peer-review, manuscript handling and editorial process.

MDPI journals are the perfect place for you to publish your work in a fast and straightforward manner under an Open Access license, and to reach a potentially huge number of readers. MDPI delivers 1 million webpage views and over 100'000 full-text downloads per month.

MDPI is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland with an Editorial Office in Beijing.

Useful Resources for Authors

Copyright Rights & Permissions Guide
MDPI Reference List and Citations Style Guide [PDF Download]
MDPI LaTeX Templates (Microsoft Word Templates are available on the individual journals' Instructions for Authors pages)

Manuscript Submission & Instructions for Authors

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For Authors and Readers MDPI Aims to:

  • publish exclusively peer-reviewed journals — all articles are thoroughly peer-reviewed
  • maintain a quick publication procedure — manuscripts are peer-reviewed and published within 4-8 weeks from submission, provided that no major revisions are required
  • publish full open access journals — readers can access all articles published on this platform for free, including state-of-the-art review articles
  • publish citation-tracked journals — MDPI is working towards a quick coverage and citation-tracking of all of its journals by the Science Citation Index Expanded (see a list of covered journals) and Scopus (see a list of covered journals)
  • publish highly visible journals — journals are indexed by leading indexing and abstracting databases

For Authors and Readers Open Access Means:

  • free availability of the literature on the Internet without any subscription or price barriers
  • immediate open access once an article is released (no embargo period)
  • authors retain all copyrights - authors will not be forced to sign any copyright transfer agreement
  • permission of re-use of the published material, given proper accreditation (Creative Commons Attribution Licenseexternal link)

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General Peer-Review Procedure

All manuscripts sent for publication in our journals are strictly and thoroughly peer-reviewed (research and review articles, spontaneous submissions as well as invited papers). The Editorial Offices will organize peer-review and collect at least two review reports per manuscript, ask the authors for adequate revision (peer-review again whenever necessary), before requesting the decision of an external editor (usually the Editor-in-Chief of a journal or the Guest Editor of a special issue).

Long-Term Archiving

  • MDPI deposits all articles published in life-science related journals into PubMed Centralexternal link. This has been realized for Marine Drugs (2008), IJMS (2009) and IJERPH (2009).
  • MDPI deposits a full archival copy of all publications in electronic format into the Swiss National Library e-collectionexternal link.
  • Recently MDPI undersigned an agreement with Informatics India Ldt. to have all its journals included in Open J-Gateexternal link, a full-text repository for open access journal literature.
  • Finally, authors are encouraged to self-archive the final version of their published articles into institutional repositories (such as those listed in the Directory of Open Access Repositoriesexternal link). For this purpose authors may use the final PDF version published by MDPI.