Announcements

We are pleased to announce that MDPI's open access journals Safety, Journal of Imaging, Fermentation, C-Journal of Carbon Research, Magnetochemistry, Batteries and Horticulturae released their first issue at the end of December 2015.

Season's greetings from everyone at MDPI!

We are pleased to announce that the University of Bern, Switzerland has not only renewed their institutional membership with MDPI after two years of successful cooperation, but also increased the reduction of the article processing charges (APCs) for affiliated authors to 25%.

We are pleased to announce that University of Ulm, Germany and Helmholtz Zentrum Munich, Germany has joined MDPI's institutional membership program:

Primary authors from the University of Ulm and Helmholtz Zentrum Munich will benefit from a 10% discount on the article processing charges as of 1 January 2016. Additional details can be found on our institutional membership page.

We are pleased to announce that Virginia Tech has joined MDPI's institutional membership program. Authors from Virginia Tech will benefit from a 10% discount on the article processing charges as of 1 December 2015. Additional details can be found on our institutional membership page.

We are pleased to announce that the following universities have joined MDPI's institutional membership program:

• Technical University of Denmark (as of 1 November 2015)
• University of North Florida, USA (as of 15 November 2015)

Primary authors from the Technical University of Denmark and the University of North Florida will benefit from a 10% discount on the article processing charges.

Additional details can be found on our institutional membership page.

We are pleased to announce that the following universities have joined MDPI's institutional membership program:

University of Freiburg, Germany
University of Regensburg, Germany

Primary authors from the University of Freiburg and the University of Regensburg will benefit from a 10% discount on the article processing charges as of 1 October 2015 and 1 November 2015.

Additional details can be found on our institutional membership page.

Nutrients is pleased to announce that four members of the Editorial Board have been appointed to the position of Associate Editor. The appointees are Dr. Cindy Davis from the Office of Dietary Supplements at the National Institutes of Health, Professor Antonio Ferrante from the Children's Research Centre at the University of Adelaide, Professor Trevor Mori from the School of Medicine and Pharmacology at the University of Western Australia and Professor Susan Whiting from the College of Pharmacy and Nutrition at the University of Saskatchewan. With its impact factor continuing to increase Nutrients has been receiving an increasing number of submissions and the appointment of these Associate Editors, who bring a wealth of experience and expertise to the positions, will assist the journal in continuing to increase the quality of its publications and its impact within the field of Nutrition research.

We are pleased to report the 2014 Impact Factor for Nutrients. According to the 2015 release of the Journal Citation Reports® Science Edition (published by Thomson Reuters in June 2015), the updated Impact Factor for Nutrients is 3.270. The 5-Year Impact Factor is 3.671. Nutrients now ranks 21/77 (Q2) in the category ‘Nutrition & Dietetics’.

Evolution of the Nutrients Impact Factor:

Evolution of citations to Nutrients:

Nutrients would like to share with our readers some encouraging statistics on the journal’s progress through 2013.

• We received 586 submissions in 2013; 303 were published. The rejection rate was 44%.
• The publication rate was a substantial increase compared with 134 published in 2012 and 58 in 2011.
• 48% of the articles published in 2013 were original research articles and 48% reviews. Their countries of origin are illustrated below.

  

• Almost half of these articles were published in the following special issues:
  
  
  • “Nutrition and the Eye” edited by Drs Frank Eperjesi, Hannah Bartlett (11 articles published)
  • “Polyphenols and Human Health” edited by Dr Winston Craig (9 articles published)
  • “Nutrients and Immune Function” edited by Drs Alma Nauta, Johan Garssen (11 articles published)
  • “Dietary Fiber and Nutrition” edited by Dr Nancy Turner (8 articles published)
  • “Dietary Iron and Human Health” edited by Dr Mitchell Knutson (14 articles published)
  • “Vitamin D and Human Health” edited by Dr Simon Spedding (22 articles published)
  • “Nutrition and Respiratory Disease” edited by Dr Lisa Wood (10 articles published)
  • “Vitamin B12 and Human Health” edited by Dr Kristina Pentieva (7 articles published)
  • “Nutrition and Infectious Diseases” edited by Dr Mark Kuhlenschmidt (5 articles published)
  • “Chocolate and Cocoa in Human Health” edited by Dr Margarida Castell (8 articles published)
  • “Vitamin C and Human Health” edited by Drs Anitra Carr, Margreet Vissers (10 articles published)
  • “Nutrition and Celiac Disease” edited by Drs Carlo Catassi, Alessio Fasano (19 articles published)
  • “Vitamin A and Carotenoids” edited by Drs Loredana Quadro, William Blaner (10 articles published)
  • “Nutrition and Neuroscience” edited by Dr Kevin Laugero (3 articles published)


• The average time from first submission to publication was 95 days.
• Nutrients’ manuscripts were accessed on-line 191835 times. Over 30% of these were from the USA.
• Importantly, there were 149067 full text downloads from the MDPI website.
• Our citation rate continues to rise rapidly (89 citations in 2011, 330 in 2012, over 1000 in 2013)
• Nutrients’ Impact Factor has increased consistently from 0.676 in 2011 to 2.072 in 2012. The 2013 Impact Factor is likely to exceed 3.

We would like to thank our readers for their continuing interest and support which has enabled Nutrients to make great progress in its first four years. We also acknowledge the efforts of our Editorial Board members, those who have guest edited our special issues and the many expert reviewers who have so generously, often repeatedly, given their valuable time to ensure the quality of our publications. We trust that Nutrients will continue to fulfil a need for on-line, open access scientific communication in your field and we hope that we can expand this role by encouraging the promotion and reporting of conferences and other relevant events through the Nutrients website.

Peter Howe & Jonathan Buckley