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Website | https://www.mdpi.com/ |
Owner | Dr. Shu-Kun Lin, President |
Main Address | Headquarters: MDPI AG Grosspeteranlage 5 4052 Basel, Switzerland |
Other Office Locations | Offices across Europe, Asia, North America (details can be found on https://www.mdpi.com/about/contact) |
Copyright and Licensing Link | https://www.mdpi.com/authors/rights |
Copyright and Licensing Policy | For all articles published in MDPI journals, as well as MDPI books, copyright is retained by the authors. Articles are licensed under an open access Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license, meaning that anyone may download and read the paper for free. In addition, the article may be reused and quoted provided that the original published version is cited. These conditions allow for maximum use and exposure of the work, while ensuring that the authors receive proper credit. |
Complaint Contact Link | https://www.mdpi.com/about/ethics_contactform |
Complaint Policy | Readers who have concerns or complaints about published papers should first contact the corresponding author to attempt a resolution directly, before contacting the Editorial Office. The Editorial Office may be contacted in cases where it is not appropriate to contact the authors, if the authors were not responsive, or if the concerns were not resolved. The Editorial Office will coordinate with the complainant, author/s and Editors-in-Chief or Editorial Board members for the investigation, remedy or resolution of any concerns or complaints. |
Publication Charge Link | https://www.mdpi.com/apc |
Publication Charge Policy | MDPI publishes all its journals and books in full open access, meaning unlimited use and reuse of articles and books, in addition to giving credit to the authors.
Authors pay a one-time article processing charge (APC) to cover the costs of peer review administration and management, professional production of articles in PDF and other formats, and dissemination of published papers in various venues, in addition to other publishing functions. There are no charges for rejected articles, no submission charges, and no surcharges based on the length of an article, figures or supplementary data. Some items (Editorials, Corrections, Addendums, Retractions, Comments, etc.) are published free of charge. |
OASPA Compliant OA Journals | 399 (end of 2023) |
OA Articles (approx. number in 12 months) | 1,228,799 (end of 2023) |
OASPA Compliant OA Books | 47 (end of 2023) |
Peer Review Process Link | https://www.mdpi.com/authors#General_PeerReview_and_Editorial_Procedure |
Peer Review Policy | All manuscripts sent for publication in our journals are strictly and thoroughly peer-reviewed by experts (this includes research and review articles, spontaneous submissions, and invited papers). The Managing Editor of the journal will perform a technical pre-check of the manuscript’s suitability upon receipt. The academic editor will be notified of the submission and invited to perform an editorial pre-check. The Editorial Office will then organize the peer-review process performed by independent experts and collect at least two review reports per manuscript. To uphold transparency and keep authors informed on the progress of the peer review, a preliminary version of the reviewers’ reports, collected during the peer-review process, is made accessible to authors via the Susy platform. Authors can see in real-time the content and how many reviewer reports have been collected. As these reviewer reports have not been checked by an academic editor, authors are recommended to refrain from undertaking any revision until the full editorial assessment has been conducted and official notification has been received by the Editorial Office. We ask our authors for adequate revisions (with a second round of peer-review if necessary) before a final decision is made. The final decision is made by the academic editor (usually the Editor-in-Chief/Editorial Board Member of a journal or the Guest Editor of a Special Issue). Accepted articles are copy-edited and English-edited. |
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