The year 2020 marks the 20th anniversary of Sensors. Sensors has published more than 30,000 papers from more than 100,900 authors. To celebrate this 20th anniversary, we have arranged a series of special content and events. We hope you can join us to celebrate this milestone of our journal and enjoy the collection below.

The year 2020 was a year of growth for Sensors. The journal received 17,136 submissions and published 7255 articles from 30,084 international authors. More than 49,000 experts were involved in reviewing articles for Sensors during 2020 and involved in the peer review process of the journal. Moreover, 554 academic editors joined the Editorial Board in 2020. Sensors’ articles were cited 12,703 times in 2020 and the impact factor (IF) increased from 3.031 to 3.275. Thanks to the commitment and dedication of the editorial staff, the median time between submission and publication is around 39 days.

The journal established the following six new sections: “Communications”, “Fault Diagnosis & Sensors”, “Wearables”, “Nanosensors”, “Sensing and Imaging” and “Sensors and Robotics”.

The E-conference organized by Sensors, the 7th International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications (ECSA-7), has been closed successfully with 115 accepted proceedings and 6 live sessions. We would like to take this opportunity to express our appreciations to all the participants for their contributions and all the chairs and committee members for their excellent work.

Moreover, Sensors became an affiliated journal of the Spanish Society of Biomedical Engineering (SEIB).

High Altmetrics Papers

Physical Sensors
Vacuum Ultraviolet Absorption Spectroscopy Analysis of Breath Acetone Using a Hollow Optical Fiber Gas Cell
Yudai Kudo et al.

Chemical Sensors
Photometric Sensing of Active Chlorine, Total Chlorine, and pH on a Microfluidic Chip for Online Swimming Pool Monitoring
Sait Elmas et al.

Physical Sensors
Wildfire Smoke Adjustment Factors for Low-Cost and Professional PM_2.5 Monitors with Optical Sensors
William W. Delp et al.

Biosensors
An Optical Urate Biosensor Based on Urate Oxidase and Long-Lifetime Metalloporphyrins
Tokunbo Falohun et al.

Chemical Sensors
A ppm Ethanol Sensor Based on Fabry–Perot Interferometric Surface Stress Transducer at Room Temperature
Toshiaki Takahashi et al.

Sensor Networks
Discovering Suspicious APT Behaviors by Analyzing DNS Activities
Guanghua Yan et al.

Hot Special Issues

Intelligent Vehicles
Sensors and Robot Control
Advanced Sensors and Signal Processing of Sensor Data: Recent Advances and Applications
Sensors for Biomechanics Application
Emotion and Stress Recognition Related Sensors and Machine Learning Technologies

Sensors runs Special Issues to create collections of articles on specific topics with the aim of building a community of authors and readers to discuss the latest research and develop new ideas and research directions.

Open Calls

Sensors for Gait, Human Movement Analysis, and Health Monitoring
edited by Marco Iosa
submission deadline 31 March 2021

Internet of Things for Smart Homes and Industrial Application
edited by Tiago M. Fernández-Caramés and Paula Fraga-Lamas
submission deadline 18 June 2021

Sensing Technologies for Agricultural Automation and Robotics
edited by Manoj Karkee
submission deadline 30 June 2021

Please find the full list of topics and calls for papers via the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sensors/special_issues.

On behalf of the editorial team, we would like to express our gratitude to the Editor-in-Chief of Sensors, all Section Editors-in-Chief and Editorial Board Members, as well as to the Guest Editors of Special Issues, Topic Board Members, and Reviewer Board Members, all of whom have ensured the continued success of the journal through their hard work and diligence.

In 2021, Sensors will continue to contribute to academic exchange and sharing of knowledge.