Announcements

Conference: Plant Genomics in China XXII
Organization: Genetic Society of China
Date: 19–22 August 2024
Place: Haikou, Hainan, China

MDPI journals will be attending Plant Genomics in China XXII as exhibitors. This meeting will be held in Haikou, Hainan, China, from 19 to 22 August 2024.

In order to fully demonstrate the latest achievements and progress in the field of plant genome research and promote the in-depth research of plant genomics in the country and the rapid development of the agricultural biotechnology industry, the 23rd National Congress is scheduled to be held in Haikou, Hainan, from August 19 to 22, 2024. The conference will invite experts, scholars and outstanding young scientists at home and abroad who have made outstanding achievements in plant genomics-related fields and have important academic influence to give academic reports. The language of the conference report is English. The organizing committee invites domestic and foreign colleagues and graduate students from relevant universities and research institutes to participate in this conference. This conference is the largest high-level academic event in the field of genetics research in China. This conference invites famous scholars, experts, young talents and entrepreneurs in the field of genetics to conduct in-depth exchanges.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Plants;
• Genes;
• International Journal of Molecular Sciences (IJMS);
• Life;
• Biomolecules;
• Current Issues in Molecular Biology (CIMB);
• International Journal of Plant Biology (IJPB);
• Agronomy;
• BioTech.

If you will be attending this conference, please feel free to start a conversation with us. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person and answering any questions that you may have.

Conference:  Aquaculture Europe 2024 (AQUA 2024)

Organization: European Aquaculture Society (EAS)

Date: 26–30 August 2024

Place: Ac Hotel by Marriott Bella Sky, Center Boulevard 5 2300, Copenhagen

MDPI journals will be attending AQUA 2024 as exhibitors. This meeting will be held in Copenhagen, Denmark, from 26 to 30 August 2024.

AQUA 2024 will take place in the Danish capital of Copenhagen. It will comprise a scientific conference, trade exhibition, industry forums, workshops, student events and receptions. The event will highlight the latest in aquaculture research and innovations, underpinning the continued growth of this exciting food production sector. It will be a showcase for Denmark and its innovation leadership in several key technologies that are crucial for future aquaculture, but the event will also function as a meeting and exchange platform for experts from around the world.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Fishes;
• Animals;
• Antioxidants;
• Aquaculture Journal;
• Biology;
• Life;
• Diversity;
• Oceans;
• Sustainability;
• Water;
• JMSE.

If you will be attending this conference, please feel free to start a conversation with us. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person and answering any questions you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit the following website: https://www.aquaeas.org/.

Five new journals covering multiple subjects have launched their inaugural issue in June 2024. We are excited to be able to share with you the newest research rooted in the value of open access.

We would like to express our deepest appreciation to all the Editorial Board Members and each journal will ensure its high-quality output using excellent editorial and rigorous peer review processes, to ensure that the articles achieve high impact and visibility.

Please feel free to browse and discover more about the new journals below.

Journal	Founding Editor-in-Chief	Journal Topics (Selected)
	Prof. Dr. Marco Ranucci, IRCCS Policlinico San Donato, Italy | Editorial | view inaugural issue	anaesthetic medications; blood and fluid management; pain management; critical care; critical illness | view journal scope | submit an article
	Dr. Giovanni E. Cacciamani, University of Southern California, USA | Editorial | view inaugural issue	surgical/procedural complications; complications; perioperative adverse events; postoperative adverse events | view journal scope | submit an article
	Prof. Dr.  Gassan Hodaifa, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Spain | Editorial | view inaugural issue	laboratory management; laboratory safety; protective equipment; laboratory problems and challenges; laboratory Innovation | view journal scope | submit an article
	Prof. Dr. Jan S. Suchodolski, Texas A&M University, USA | Editorial | view inaugural issue	companion animals health and disease; veterinary care and nutrition; genetics and genomics; behavior and welfare; human-animal relations | view journal scope | submit an article
	Prof. Dr. Pierfrancesco De Paola, University of Naples Federico II, Italy | Editorial | view inaugural issue	real estate appraisal; economic and financial valuation of real estate projects; sustainable real estate; housing and urban economics | view journal scope | submit an article

We wish to thank everyone who has supported the development of open access publishing. You are welcome to send an application here, or contact the New Journal Committee (newjournal-committee@mdpi.com) if you would like to create more new journals.

The 11th WACBE World Congress on Bioengineering will be held from 4 to 7 August 2024, in Hong Kong, China. The conference is organized by the World Association for Chinese Biomedical Engineers (WACBE) and hosted by the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Topics include the following:

• AI and data sciences in biomedical engineering;
• biomaterials, tissues engineering and regenerative medicine;
• biomedical imaging, signal processing, and health informatics;
• biomechanics, sports science, and rehabilitation;
• biosensors, bionanotechnology and medical devices;
• cellular, genomic and biomolecular engineering;
• innovation, translation and entrepreneurship.

The following MDPI journals will be represented in the conference:

• Bioengineering;
• BioChem;
• BioMed;
• Biomimetics;
• Life.

If you are attending this conference, please feel free to start a conversation with us by contacting us online. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person at a booth and answering any questions that you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit the following link: https://www.wacbe2024.org/.

We are pleased to share that Life (ISSN: 2075-1729) was awarded an Impact Factor of 3.2 in the 2023 Journal Citation Reports™ released by Clarivate in June 2024. Life ranks Q1 (26 among 109 titles) in the “Biology” category.

For further statistics, please visit https://www.mdpi.com/journal/life/stats. For more information about MDPI flagship journals' citation metrics, please see here.

At MDPI, our mission is simple yet powerful: we strive every day to make scientific research freely accessible to everyone, everywhere. With over 3.5 million authors choosing MDPI, we have established ourselves as a key player driving the open access initiative.

Our journals have received over 15,665 citations in the Web of Science, making us the most cited open access publisher. With over 800 institutional partners, MDPI continues to demonstrate its dedication to providing reliable and collaborative publishing services.

Life Editorial Office

MDPI will attend the ASHG Annual Meeting 2024, held in Denver, Colorado, USA, from 5 to 9 November 2024.

The ASHG Annual Meeting is the largest human genetics and genomics meeting and exposition in the world. Held in the fall, it provides a forum for the presentation and discussion of cutting-edge science in all areas of human genetics. Highlights include invited symposia; abstract-driven plenary, platform, and poster sessions; education/trainee workshops; and career opportunities and networking events.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Genes;
• IJMS;
• Biomedicines;
• Diagnostics;
• Cancers;
• Biomolecules;
• Humans;
• Applied Biosciences;
• DNA;
• Cardiogenetics;
• Vaccines;
• Life;
• Epigenomes;
• Biology;
• CIMB;
• JCDD;
• ncRNA;
• Diseases;
• BioMed;
• Biomedinformatics.

If you plan on attending this conference, please stop by our booth #1058 and speak with us. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person and answering any questions that you may have.

For more information about the conference, please visit the following link: https://www.ashg.org/meetings/2024meeting/.

Conference: the CRS 2024 Annual Meeting and Expo (CRS 2024)
Date: 8–12 July 2024
Location: Bologna, Italy

This conference will be the 51st annual conference of the Controlled Release Society. The annual CRS conference is the most important one in the pharmaceutics field. The main topics of the conference include Nanomedicine and Nanoscale Delivery, Immuno Delivery, Oral Delivery, Skin and Mucosal Delivery, Ocular Delivery, Bioengineering, Gene Delivery and Gene Editing, Alternative Methods to Animal Testing, Long-Acting Drug Delivery Formulations, Delivery to the Nervous System, Artificial Intelligence, and Predictive Models in Pharmaceutical Technologies.

MDPI will be attending the CRS 2024 Annual Meeting and Expo (CRS 2024). We welcome researchers from different backgrounds to visit and share their latest ideas with us.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Pharmaceutics;
• Molecules;
• Pharmaceuticals;
• Future Pharmacology;
• Applied Biosciences;
• IJMS;
• Gels;
• BioMedInformatics;
• CIMB;
• JNT;
• Life;
• Biomolecules.

If you plan to attend this conference, please contact us online. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person at booth #29 and answering any questions you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit the following website:  https://2024crsannualmeeting.eventscribe.net/.

MDPI is pleased to announce the inclusion of 237 journals in the 2024 release of the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) and share the key results (see above).

This year, journals covered in the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) received category ranks together with journals in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) and Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI). Overall, 139 MDPI journals indexed in ESCI are included in the new unified rankings for the first time.

Enhanced Comparability of Data

According to Clarivate, "the creation of unified category rankings [provides] a simpler and more complete category view for the evaluation of journal performance. [...] The category-first approach simplifies journal performance assessment with a holistic view of all journals in each subject category."

We are thrilled to announce that 72% of our ranked MDPI journals (171 of 237) are above average, in Q1 or Q2. Twenty-nine of our journals received their first Impact Factor this year, accounting for more than 5% of the journals accepted into the Web of Science last year.

MDPI Journals Ranked in JCR

The following data includes all MDPI journals indexed in SCIE, SSCI, ESCI and AHCI.

Source: 2023 Journal Impact Factors, Journal Citation Reports ^TM (Clarivate, 2024)

About MDPI

A pioneer in scholarly, open access publishing, MDPI has supported academic communities since 1996. MDPI is leading the transition to open science by making more research free and accessible to everyone. Over 3.5 million researchers have entrusted MDPI with publishing their scientific discoveries. MDPI’s editorial process is bolstered by a network of dedicated reviewers, a team of 6000 professional, well-trained staff members, and an in-house article submission platform that was designed to ensure efficient processes within its 440 fully open access titles.

Conference: XX International Botanical Congress—IBC 2024
Organization: International Association for Botanical and Mycological Societies (IABMS)
Date: 21–27 July 2024
Place: FEMA Madrid, Avda del Partenón, 5. 28042 Madrid, Spain

MDPI journals will be attending IBC 2024 as exhibitors. This meeting will be held in Madrid, Spain, from 21 to 27 July 2024.

The IBC takes place every six years under the supervision of the International Association for Botanical and Mycological Societies (IABMS). Rooted in the tradition of systematic botany, the IBCs have enlarged their scope over more than a century to become an integrated forum for knowledge on the plant and mycological worlds. The topics include the following: systematics; phylogenetics; biogeography and evolution; ecology, environmental, and global change, including invasive species and plant-animal interactions; biodiversity and conservation; structure, physiology, and development, including evo-devo genetics, genomics, and bioinformatics; and plants and society.

The following MDPI journals will be represented:

• Plants;
• International Journal of Plant Biology (IJPB);
• Biology;
• Taxonomy;
• Agronomy;
• Diversity;
• Forests;
• Life;
• Ecologies;
• Journal of Zoological and Botanical Gardens (JZBG);
• Journal of Fungi (JoF);
• Conservation.

If you will be attending this conference, please feel free to start a conversation with us. Our delegates look forward to meeting you in person and answering any questions that you may have. For more information about the conference, please visit the following website: https://ibcmadrid2024.com/.

We are pleased to inform you that Life (ISSN: 2075-1729) has received an increased CiteScore of 4.3, which is an increase of 59.3% compared with the 2022 metric. The 2023 CiteScore was recently released, and it assesses the scientific influence of journals in the 2020 to 2023 period. Life’s CiteScore ranks Q1 in the “Paleontology” category and Q2 in the “Biology” category.

To learn more about journal statistics, please visit https://www.mdpi.com/journal/life/stats.

Excellent performance is inseparable from the support and dedication of all journal editors, reviewers, authors, and readers. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you who have contributed to the journal.

Life Editorial Office