Announcements

Recently, Clarivate^TM revealed its 2022 list of Highly Cited Researchers^TM—individuals at universities, research institutes and commercial organizations.

The scientists who were selected into this year’s list of Highly Cited Researchers have published highly cited papers in the 11-year period from January 2011 to December 2021, with citation frequency in the top 1% of academic subjects and the same year of publication in the Web of Science^TM database. Based on Web of Science Citation data, 6,938 researchers from across the globe who have demonstrated a disproportionate level of significant and broad influence in their chosen field or fields over the last decade have been awarded Highly Cited Researcher 2022 designations. The list is truly global, spanning 69 countries or regions and spread across a diverse range of research sciences and social sciences.

According to statistics, Prof. Dr. Jinde Cao and Prof. Dr. Wenwu Yu, members of the Editorial Board of Mathematical and Computational Applications (MCA, ISSN: 2297-8747) have been selected into the list of Highly Cited Researchers of Clarivate in 2022. They are being recognized for their high-quality scientific research achievements and outstanding contributions to professional fields. The MCA journal office sincerely congratulates all elected Editorial Board Members and hopes that they continue to have an academically productive relationship with the journal.

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!

We are currently recruiting Editorial Board Members (EBMs) for MDPI journals indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) in Web of Science. In particular, we are looking for experts who are interested in aiding in the development of our journals and safeguarding the scientific quality of the published findings.

Journals currently listed in the ESCI will receive an Impact Factor in June 2023, according to the changes announced by Web of Science (Clarivate). Therefore, this is an excellent time to become an Editorial Board Member for one of these fast-developing journals.

If you are interested in sharing your expertise in one of the journals listed below, please send us an application using this link.

The Editorial Office of the journal will contact you once the application has been approved.
Editorial Board Members are responsible for academic decisions on manuscripts in their field of expertise, will edit Special Issues, and may be invited to review manuscripts. The initial term lasts for two years, after which it can be renewed, and entails the following:

• Prescreening and making decisions on new submissions related to your research interests;
• Setting up at least one Special Issue during your term on a topic related to your research interests (or supervising Special Issues related to your research field);
• Providing input or feedback regarding journal policies;
• Helping to promote the journal among your peers or at conferences;
• Attending Board meetings to suggest journal development strategies;
• Reviewing manuscripts.

Editorial Board Members are entitled to a full waiver on one publication per year in the journal that they serve and need to be experts in their fields.

The list of ESCI journals can be found here: https://www.mdpi.com/about/journals/esci.

Please find the list of ESCI journals, categorized by subject, for which we are recruiting Editorial Board Members below.

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.

We are pleased to welcome our new Editorial Board Members, Dr. Efrén Mezura-Montes (University of Veracruz) and Dr. Cécile Daversin-Catty (Simula Research Laboratory). We look forward to their contributions to the journal.

We are pleased to announce the Editor's Choice Articles of Mathematical and Computational Applications (MCA, ISSN: 2297-8747) published in 2020. After an evaluation by our Board Members, Christian Gout and Zhenli Xu, the following four articles have been selected:

• “A Transformational Modified Markov Process for Chord-Based Algorithmic Composition”
  by Meirav Amram, Etan Fisher, Shai Gul and Uzi Vishne
  Math. Comput. Appl. 2020, 25(3), 40; https://doi.org/10.3390/mca25030043
• “Parallel Matrix-Free Higher-Order Finite Element Solvers for Phase-Field Fracture Problems”
  by Daniel Jodlbauer, Ulrich Langer and Thomas Wick
  Math. Comput. Appl. 2020, 25(3), 40; https://doi.org/10.3390/mca25030040
• “Numerical Approach to a Nonlocal Advection-Reaction-Diffusion Model of Cartilage Pattern Formation”
  by Tilmann Glimm and Jianying Zhang
  Math. Comput. Appl. 2020, 25(2), 36; https://doi.org/10.3390/mca25020036
• “Mechanism of Coup and Contrecoup Injuries Induced by a Knock-Out Punch”
  by Milan Toma, Rosalyn Chan-Akeley, Christopher Lipari and Sheng-Han Kuo
  Math. Comput. Appl. 2020, 25(2), 22; https://doi.org/10.3390/mca25020022

Peer Review Week began 19 September 2022 under the theme of “Research Integrity: Creating and Supporting Trust in Research”. Through various blog articles, podcast, and webinar, we discussed this crucial subject throughout the week, celebrating the essential role peer review plays in maintaining research quality.

To begin, we held a Webinar on the topic. Professor Peter W. Choate and Dr. Emmanuel Obeng-Gyasi joined Dr. Ioana Craciun, one of MDPI’s scientific officers, for an in-depth discussion.

We invite you to view the event recording:

During the week, the MDPI Blog in a series articles highlighted how good Peer Review safeguards research integrity. The following topics were covered:

• Peer Review Week 2022
• Research Integrity
• What We’ve Learned About Peer Review Reports
• 4 Steps to the Perfect Peer Review Report
• How to Write the Perfect Peer Review Report: An Interview
• Inviting Great Peer Reviewers

In a new edition of Insight Faster, an MDPI podcast, we were delighted to talk to the co-chairs of the Peer Review Week committee, Jayashree Rajagopalan (Senior Manager of Global Community Engagement for CACTUS) and Danielle Padula (Head of Marketing and Community Development at Scholastica) to get their take on this year’s event and its related topics.

You can find the Podcast here.

We hope you enjoy the contents!

Thank you for your continued support for the open access journal Mathematical and Computational Applications (MCA, ISSN 2297-8747; ISSN 1300-686X for the printed edition). We are pleased to announce that MCA will receive its first Impact Factor in June 2023.

We would like to extend our gratitude to our authors, editors, and reviewers, whose efforts have made this achievement possible.

To view the journal statistics, please visit the following link: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/mca/stats.

We are pleased to announce the Editor's Choice Articles of Mathematical and Computational Applications (ISSN: 2297-8747) published in 2021. After the evaluation of our Board Members Oliver Schütze, Gianluigi Rozza, Nicholas Fantuzzi, and Cristiana da Silva, the following nine articles have been selected:

1. “Surrogate Modeling Approaches for Multiobjective Optimization: Methods, Taxonomy, and Results”
   by Kalyanmoy Deb et al.
   Math. Comput. Appl. 2021, 26(1), 5; https://doi.org/10.3390/mca26010005

2. “Review of Multi-Physics Modeling on the Active Magnetic Regenerative Refrigeration”
   by Julien Eustache et al.
   Math. Comput. Appl. 2021, 26(2), 47; https://doi.org/10.3390/mca26020047

3. “A Localized Collocation Solver Based on T-Complete Functions for Anti-Plane Transverse Elastic Wave Propagation Analysis in 2D Phononic Crystals”
   by Zhuo-Jia Fu et al.
   Math. Comput. Appl. 2021, 26(1), 2; https://doi.org/10.3390/mca26010002

4. “Mathematical Model and Numerical Simulation for Electric Field Induced Cancer Cell Migration”
   by Antonino Amoddeo
   Math. Comput. Appl. 2021, 26(1), 4; https://doi.org/10.3390/mca26010004

5. “Data Augmentation and Feature Selection for Automatic Model Recommendation in Computational Physics”
   by Thomas Daniel et al.
   Math. Comput. Appl. 2021, 26(1), 17; https://doi.org/10.3390/mca26010017

6. “ROM-Based Inexact Subdivision Methods for PDE-Constrained Multiobjective Optimization”
   by Stefan Banholzer et al.
   Math. Comput. Appl. 2021, 26(2), 32; https://doi.org/10.3390/mca26020032

7. “Derivative-Free Multiobjective Trust Region Descent Method Using Radial Basis Function Surrogate Models”
   by Manuel Berkemeier and Sebastian Peitz
   Math. Comput. Appl. 2021, 26(2), 31; https://doi.org/10.3390/mca26020031

8. “Modelling Forest Fires Using Complex Networks”
   by Sara Perestrelo et al.
   Math. Comput. Appl. 2021, 26(4), 68; https://doi.org/10.3390/mca26040068

9. “Mathematical Models with Nonlocal Initial Conditions: An Exemplification from Quantum Mechanics”
   by Dmytro Sytnyk and Roderick Melnik
   Math. Comput. Appl. 2021, 26(4), 73; https://doi.org/10.3390/mca26040073

We are pleased to welcome our new Editorial Board Members, Prof. Dr. Zhonghua Qiao (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University) and Prof. Suchuan Dong (Purdue University). We look forward to their contributions to the journal.