About Standards

Aims

Standards (ISSN 2305-6703) is an international scientific open access journal that publishes original papers, review articles, short notes, and communications related to standardization, inspection, verification, certification, testing, quality control, and rating. Our aim is to encourage researchers to publish their experimental and theoretical results in as much detail as possible. There is no restriction on the maximum length of the papers.

Scope

Subject areas include:

• standardization
• standards in research, development and production
• standards
• inspection, verification, certification
• testing
• quality control
• ratings, rankings
• metrics: standards of measurement by which efficiency, performance, progress, or quality of a plan, process, or product can be assessed
• all kinds of metrics: scitometrics, health metrics, biometrics

MDPI Publication Ethics Statement

MDPI is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). MDPI takes the responsibility to enforce a rigorous peer-review together with strict ethical policies and standards to ensure to add high quality scientific works to the field of scholarly publication. Unfortunately, cases of plagiarism, data falsification, inappropriate authorship credit, and the like, do arise. MDPI takes such publishing ethics issues very seriously and our editors are trained to proceed in such cases with a zero tolerance policy. To verify the originality of content submitted to our journals, we use iThenticate to check submissions against previous publications.

Book Reviews

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Copyright / Open Access

Articles published in Standards will be Open-Access articles distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The copyright is retained by the author(s). MDPI will insert the following note at the end of the published text:

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