Announcements

We are pleased to announce that, up to now, 116 distinguished scholars have joined the JCM Editorial Board in this quarter, including the well-known Prof. Dr. Aldo Pietro Maggioni from the ANMCO Research Center of the Heart Care Foundation, Prof. Dr. Paolo P. Prandoni from the "Arianna Anticoagulazione" Foundation, Dr. Stefan Evers from the University of Münster, Prof. Dr. Ben Willem Mol from Monash University, Prof. Dr. Tobias Welte from Medizinische Hochaschule Hannover, Prof. Dr. Fabiola Atzeni from the University of Messina, Prof. Dr. Gianluca Aimaretti from Università del Piemonte Orientale, Prof. Dr. Eva Compérat from L’Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris and various other prominent academics. 

You can access more information on our new members on the website: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/jcm/editors. 

Their trust in JCM is much appreciated, and we look forward to their contributions to the journal.

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.

Why choose MDPI Books?

In line with our organization's values, MDPI Books publishes all content in open access, promoting the exchange of ideas and knowledge in a globalized world. MDPI Books encompasses all the benefits of open access—high availability and visibility, as well as wide and rapid dissemination. MDPI Books are distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License, meaning as an author you retain the copyright for your work. In addition, with MDPI Books you can complement the digital version of your work with a high-quality printed counterpart.

If you are interested in editing a book volume or series, or have a monograph manuscript to be considered for publication, please submit your proposal online and look at our Information for Authors.

Contact: Laura Wagner, MDPI Books Manager (email)

In June of this year, MDPI will celebrate the 25th anniversary of its foundation. To mark this significant milestone, we have created a 25th Anniversary page on our website that evokes the development of our company over the past quarter-century.

MDPI has been a pioneer of Open Access publishing ever since the concept was first created.

In a wide-ranging interview, our CEO Delia Mihaila reflects on the company’s 25th anniversary and its contribution to the world of scientific publishing.

Delia considers how MDPI has evolved since starting life in 1996 as a visionary ‘project’ run out of an apartment in Basel, Switzerland, by Dr. Shu-Kun Lin. A chemist who was passionate about the long-term preservation of rare chemical sample, Dr. Lin was determined to help scholars publish their findings as quickly as possible and make their research results available to as wide a readership as possible worldwide. That determination remains unchanged 25 years later.

Today, MDPI is an international organization with over 4,000 employees based on three continents and in ten countries, and ranks among the world's top four academic publishers.

MDPI's mission is to accelerate access to new scientific research, delivering insight faster for researchers worldwide. Read more here about the company's remarkable success story and what the Open Access publishing model can offer the global scientific community.

At MDPI, we strive to make your online publication process seamless and efficient. To achieve this, our team is continuously developing tools and features to make the user experience useful and convenient.

As the number of academic papers continues to grow, so does the need to analyze and work with them on a large scale. This prompted us to design a new feature aimed at helping researchers find journals that are relevant to their publication by matching their abstract topic. In this regard, we designed a similarity model that automatically identifies the most suitable academic journals for your paper.

We are pleased to introduce Journal Selector, a new feature that measures similarity in academic contexts. By simply entering the title and/or abstract into our Journal Selector, the author will see a list of the most related scientific journals published by MDPI. This method helps authors select the correct journals for their papers, highlighting the time of publication and citability.

The methodology is known as representation learning, where words are represented as vectors in hyperspace. Representation helps us differentiate between different concepts within articles, and in turn, helps us identify similarities between them.

We used an advanced machine learning model to better capture the semantic meanings of words. This helps the algorithm make better predictions by leveraging scientific text representation. In turn, this ensures high precision, helping authors decide which journal they should submit their paper to.

The goal is to support authors to publish their work in the most suitable journal for their research, as fast as possible, accelerating their career progress.

Contact: Andrea Perlato, Head of Data Analytics, MDPI (email)

We are pleased to announce that the first International Electronic Conference on Clinical Medicine (ECCM), chaired by Prof. Dr. Emmanuel Andrès, from the University Hospital of Strasbourg, France, and Prof. Dr. Michael G. Hennerici, from the University of Heidelberg, Germany, will be held on 15–30 September 2021 at Sciforum (https://sciforum.net/conference/ECCM).

The conference will cover all the multidisciplinary aspects of clinical medicine. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

Cardiology

COVID-19

Gastroenterology and Hepatopancreatobiliary Medicine

Oncology

Infectious Diseases

Pulmonology

Hematology

Neurology and Stroke Neurology

Stomatology

Clinical Psychology

Psychiatry

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Endocrinology and Metabolism

Nephrology and Urology

Epidemiology and Public Health

Orthopedics

Dermatology

Ophthalmology

Otolaryngology

Nuclear Medicine and Radiology

Pharmacology

Anesthesiology

Emergency Medicine

The conference will be completely free of charge, both to attend and, for scholars, to upload and present their latest work on the conference platform. Accepted abstract submissions will be published in the proceedings of the conference, and authors are invited to develop their abstracts into full manuscripts, which will be considered for publication in JCM, with a 10% discount on the APC. JCM is an open access journal, published semimonthly by MDPI, in the field of clinical medicine. The journal is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE IF = 3.303) and other databases. Full texts are archived in PubMed Central (PMC).

Important Dates

• Abstract Submission: 31 May 2021
• Acceptance Notification: 14 June 2021
• Full Paper Submission: 12 July 2021
• Conference Open: 15–30 September 2021

For more information on ECCM, please visit the conference website (https://sciforum.net/conference/ECCM) or contact us by email (eccm-2021@mdpi.com).

In November 2020, the Spanish Society of Hematology and Hemotherapy (SEHH) became affiliated with Hemato, JCM and Cells. As part of this collaboration, all members of the SEHH enjoy a discount on the article processing charge (APC) when submitting articles to the journals.

The SEHH is a scientific society purposed with the promotion, development and dissemination of research advances in two specialist areas, Hematology and Hemotherapy. In particular, the SEHH focuses on their medical, scientific, organizational, care, teaching and research aspects. Hematology, as a specialty, covers all aspects related to the physiology of the blood and hematopoietic organs, the diagnosis and treatment of benign and malignant diseases of the blood, the study of the hemostasis and coagulation system, and all aspects related to transfusion medicine, including hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. The professional role of the hematologist covers all aspects of the practice.

With 61 years of history, the SEHH is today an organization that contributes significantly to science. At present, it holds a community of almost 2800 professionals, of which many are internationally recognized figures, who continually contribute to making hematology, globally, one of the most prestigious fields of Spanish medicine. The society considers that, in order to achieve optimal patient care, it is essential to have access to medical advances, promote research and have well-trained and highly qualified specialists in the management of hematological diseases.

The SEHH is a professional organization whose functions and research are highly relevant to the scope of Hemato, JCM and Cells. We look forward to collaborating with the SEHH and to publishing state-of-the-art research from its members.

It is our pleasure to announce that seven JCM Editorial Board Members have been listed as 2020 Highly Cited Researchers by Clarivate. This corresponds to being in the top 1% of the most cited researchers for that publication year.

Prof. Dr. Robert C. Cantu

Dr. Michael R. Hamblin

Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA 02114, USA
Interests: photodynamic therapy (PDT); low-level light therapy (LLLT); wound healing and infectious disease; atherosclerotic vulnerable plaque; anti-tumor immunity; photochemical mechanisms

Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Hartung

Department of Neurology, Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine-University, Moorenstrasse 5, 40225, Düsseldorf, Germany
Interests: immune mediated neurological disroders; multiple sclerosis; NMOSD; immune encephalitides; immune neuropathies; Guillan Barre syndrome and CIDP

Prof. Dr. Gregory Y. H. Lip

Prof. Dr. Russel J. Reiter

Department of Cellular & Structural Biology, The UT Health Science Center, 7703 Floyd Curl Drive, San Antonio, TX 78229-3900, USA
Interests: melatonin; free radicals of disease processes and aging; oxygen derivatives

Prof. Fred Saad

Centre Hospitalier de Université de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
Interests: Prostate cancer; biomarkers; novel therapeutics; castration resistant prostate cancer; GU cancers; metastases prevention

Dr. Allan H. Young

Centre for Affective Disorders, Department of Psychological Medicine, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London, London, UK
Interests: Bipolar disorder; treatment resistant depression; cognition; translational

The 2020 Highly Cited Researchers list has been announced by Web of Science at: https://recognition.webofscience.com/awards/highly-cited/2020/.

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;
• creating and maintaining an environment that respects diverse traditions, heritages, and experiences;
• promoting diversity in all staff, volunteers, and audiences, including full participation in programs, policy formulation, and decision-making;
• raising awareness about career opportunities in our industries to groups who are currently underrepresented in the workforce;
• supporting our members in achieving diversity and inclusion within their organizations.

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.

We are pleased to acknowledge that many academic editors who have made an impact on MDPI journals as editorial board members, editors-in-chief, or section editors, are recognized as 2020 Highly Cited Researchers by Clarivate.

Highly Cited Researchers highlights the top 1% of researchers, by citations, in one or more of the 22 fields used in Clarivate Analytics Essential Science Indicators. We offer our congratulations to 279 academic editors of MDPI journals who were recognized as the most influential scholars in their fields in 2020.

The full list of 2020 Highly Cited Researchers  can be accessed on https://recognition.webofsciencegroup.com/awards/highly-cited/2020/

--- Highly Cited Researchers (HCR) is a Clarivate product.