MDPI Annual Report 2017

Contents: Message from the CEO ● MDPI at a Glance ● Key Figures ● 19 Journals Launched in 2017 ● Preprints.org in 2017 ● Scilit in 2017 ● Sciforum in 2017 ● Institutional Open Access Program in 2017 ● OA Initiatives in 2017 ● Top MDPI Books in 2017 ● Journal Development in 2017 ● Journals Tracked for Impact Factor in 2018 ● Electronic Conferences in 2017 ● Call for Expression of Interest ● Physical Conferences in 2017 ● About MDPI ● Corporate Social Responsibility at MDPI ● Upcoming Physical Conferences in 2018 ● Collaborations with Societies ● JAMS ● Stay Connected The year 2017 has been extremely interesting and rewarding for open access publishing and for open science. Funders and policy-makers have demonstrated a strong commitment and support for open access publishing, and to immediate availability of research output. In 2017, MDPI has continued to focus on its primary purpose of making science openly and rapidly available. We took great care in fulfilling this mission, and constantly kept in mind our responsibility towards researchers and science, to disseminate the latest research findings without delay, facilitating new research projects to be initiated and new breakthroughs to be made. We published 35,950 peer-reviewed articles in our journals, 96 % of which are available in Web of Science. This marks a 52.5 % increase compared to 2016 and makes MDPI a leader among pure open access publishers. This has only been possible thanks to the trust that authors have placed in our journals, the dedication of our academic editors and reviewers, and the devotion of MDPI team members for every single manuscript. In 2017, we continued to demonstrate our commitment to serving research communities. We signed several initiatives, such as the Initiative for Open Citations ( I4OC ) and the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment ( DORA ), and we joined the trial of Knowledge Unlatched for funding open access in the Humanities. We strengthened our program to reward and credit the important work done by reviewers by transferring reviewers\u27 information to Publons and offered APC vouchers to reviewers for future publications in our journals. We also added a free job advertisement service on the website of each journal. We presented more than 100 awards for researchers, including The World Sustainability Award and The Emerging Sustainability Leader Award, and sponsored 2397 academic events. Our literature database, Scilit, expanded and now contains more than 100 million publication records, a number that increases every day, and we launched SciFeed for users to receive regular alerts about new articles in their field from any publisher. I believe that 2018 will be a crucial year for the future of open access. Libraries, policy-makers and funders are starting to work together to effect a permanent transition. At MDPI, we are looking forward to keeping up with these important developments.--Dr. Franck Vazquez, Chief Executive Office

MDPI Annual Report 2015: Academic Open Access Publishing Since 1996

3 20 YEARS OF OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING 5 2015 KEY FIGURES 5 Papers Published in MDPI Journals by Region 5 Geographical Distribution of Authors and Reviewers 5 Publication by Subject Area 5 Growth Based on Published Articles 6 Summary of Key Performance Indicators 6 Readership 6 Quality of Service 6 Papers Published in Flagship Journals 7 2015 FINANCIAL INFORMATION 7 Information on Article Processing Charges 7 Sources of Income 8 JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR DEVELOPMENT 8 Impact Factors 9 Journal Rankings by Quartile in Science Citation Index Expanded ( SCIE ) 10 NEW JOURNALS LAUNCHED IN 2015 11 SCIFORUM CONFERENCES IN 2015 11 International Symposium on Sensor Science ( I3S ) 11 World Sustainability Forum ( WSF ) 12 BOOK PUBLISHING IN 2015 12 About 12 Benefits of Publishing Open Access Books with MDPI 12 Top 5 Books 13 INSTITUTIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND PARTNERSHIPS 13 Institutional Members 13 Partnerships 13 Learned Societies and Professional Associations 14 OUTLOOK FOR 2016 14 MDPI\u27s 20th Anniversary 14 Company Expansion 14 Sustainability Award 15 CONFERENCES 2016/2017 15 Viruses 2016 - At the Forefront of Virus – Host Interactions 15 World Sustainability Forum ( WSF ) in 2017 16 STAY CONNECTED 16 About MDP

MDPI Annual Report 2015: Academic Open Access Publishing Since 1996

3 20 YEARS OF OPEN ACCESS PUBLISHING 5 2015 KEY FIGURES 5 Papers Published in MDPI Journals by Region 5 Geographical Distribution of Authors and Reviewers 5 Publication by Subject Area 5 Growth Based on Published Articles 6 Summary of Key Performance Indicators 6 Readership 6 Quality of Service 6 Papers Published in Flagship Journals 7 2015 FINANCIAL INFORMATION 7 Information on Article Processing Charges 7 Sources of Income 8 JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR DEVELOPMENT 8 Impact Factors 9 Journal Rankings by Quartile in Science Citation Index Expanded ( SCIE ) 10 NEW JOURNALS LAUNCHED IN 2015 11 SCIFORUM CONFERENCES IN 2015 11 International Symposium on Sensor Science ( I3S ) 11 World Sustainability Forum ( WSF ) 12 BOOK PUBLISHING IN 2015 12 About 12 Benefits of Publishing Open Access Books with MDPI 12 Top 5 Books 13 INSTITUTIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND PARTNERSHIPS 13 Institutional Members 13 Partnerships 13 Learned Societies and Professional Associations 14 OUTLOOK FOR 2016 14 MDPI\u27s 20th Anniversary 14 Company Expansion 14 Sustainability Award 15 CONFERENCES 2016/2017 15 Viruses 2016 - At the Forefront of Virus – Host Interactions 15 World Sustainability Forum ( WSF ) in 2017 16 STAY CONNECTED 16 About MDP

Distributed System Contract Monitoring

The use of behavioural contracts, to specify, regulate and verify systems, is particularly relevant to runtime monitoring of distributed systems. System distribution poses major challenges to contract monitoring, from monitoring-induced information leaks to computation load balancing, communication overheads and fault-tolerance. We present mDPi, a location-aware process calculus, for reasoning about monitoring of distributed systems. We define a family of Labelled Transition Systems for this calculus, which allow formal reasoning about different monitoring strategies at different levels of abstractions. We also illustrate the expressivity of the calculus by showing how contracts in a simple contract language can be synthesised into different mDPi monitors.Comment: In Proceedings FLACOS 2011, arXiv:1109.239

UWM publications in MDPI journals

In August 2020, the UWM Libraries signed an agreement with MDPI’s Institutional Open Access Program. This report outlines our findings in support of our decision to join the program. The growing number of UWM publications and faculty affiliations with the editorial boards provided solid evidence. The speed of publication research in MDPI journals is remarkably fast. The other benefits of publishing with MDPI are open access and indexing by reputable discovery platforms

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This article presents the results of research the objective of which was to know the opinion of directors of different educational centers about the management carried out in their centers and the possible difficulties encountered during the suspension of face-to-face classes caused by the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. The research method is qualitative, exploratory, descriptive, and inductive. The study sample is made up of 43 managers of educational centers, who were selected by applying an intentional sampling based on criteria of age, experience, ownership of the center, teachings that are taught, and the socioeconomic context where it is located. A questionnaire was used to collect the information, previously designed and validated through the judgment of experts, to inquire about the organization and management from the management team, the development of the academic task with the students, and the relationship with the families during the course period of cessation of classroom activities. To make an adequate approximation to the reality studied, an exhaustive content analysis of the speeches issued by the participants was carried out. Among the main conclusions of the research are the difficulties they have experienced during the closure of schools in relation to the lack of strategic planning to reconvert face-to-face education to the online format, scarcity of technological resources in centers and homes, training deficit in digital skills, increasing the digital divide, attention to students with special educational needs or communication problems with students and their families.Departamento Educación y Psicología Social (Universidad Pablo de Olavide

Recent changes in drug abuse scenarios : The new/novel psychoactive substances (NPS) phenomenon

© 2018 by the author. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).Peer reviewedFinal Published versio

Development of a metric of aquatic invertebrates for volunteers (MAIV): a simple and friendly biotic metric to assess ecological quality of streams

Citizen science activities, involving local people in volunteer-supported and sustainable monitoring programs, are common. In this context, the objective of the present work was to develop a simple Metric of Aquatic Invertebrates for Volunteers (MAIV), including a user-friendly tool that can be easily accessed by volunteers, and to evaluate the e ciency of a volunteer monitoring program following an audit procedure. To obtain MAIV values, macroinvertebrate communities were reduced to 18 surrogate taxa, which represented an acceptable compromise between simplicity, e ciency, and reproducibility of the data, compared to the regular Water Framework Directive monitoring. When compared to results obtained with the National Classification System of Portugal, MAIV accurately detected moderate, poor, and bad ecological status. Thus, MAIV can be used by volunteers as a complement to the o cial monitoring program, as well as a prospective early warning tool for local problems related to ecological quality. Volunteers were students supervised by their teachers. Results obtained by volunteers were compared to results obtained by experts on macroinvertebrate identification to measure the e ciency of the procedure, by counting gains and losses on sorting, and identification. Characteristics of groups of volunteers (age and school level) did not influence significantly the e ciency of the procedure, and generally results of volunteers and experts matched.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

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ORC technology is one of the most promising technologies for the use of residual energy in the generation of electrical energy, offering simple and environmentally friendly alternatives. In this field, the selection of working fluids plays an important role in the operation of the cycle, whether in terms of the energy efficiency or the minimization of environmental impacts. Therefore, in this paper, a comprehensive review is presented on the use of R1234yf refrigerant and its mixtures as working fluids in ORC systems. These fluids are used in low- and medium-temperature applications for the use of residual energy generated from solar energy, geothermal energy, and internal combustion engines. It was concluded that R1234yf and its mixtures are competitive as compared with conventional refrigerants used in ORC.https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/13/11/5864/ht