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A pioneer in scholarly, open access publishing, MDPI has supported academic communities since 1996. Based in Basel, Switzerland, MDPI has the mission to foster open scientific exchange in all forms, across all disciplines.
Our 468 diverse and open access journals, including 459 peer-reviewed journals and 9 conference journals, are supported by more than 295,000 academic experts who share our mission, values, and commitment to providing high-quality service for our authors. We serve scholars from around the world to ensure the latest research is freely available and all content is distributed under aCreative Commons Attribution License (CC BY).
MDPI's portfolio comprises at least 237 journals with impact factors, 72% of which are ranked in the top 2 quartiles of their respective fields. To view the current impact factors for MDPI journals (according to theJournal Citation Reports), please visit our yearly announcement pagehere.
With additional offices in Beijing, Wuhan, Tianjin and Nanjing (China), Barcelona (Spain), Belgrade and Novi Sad (Serbia), Manchester (UK), Tokyo (Japan), Cluj and Bucharest (Romania), Toronto (Canada), Kraków (Poland), Singapore (Singapore), Bangkok (Thailand) and Seoul (Republic of Korea), MDPI has published the research of more than 330,000 individual authors and our journals receive more than 25 million monthly webpage views.
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Indexing of MDPI Journals
At MDPI, we aim to continuously expand coverage of our publications within the following main academic databases:
In addition to the main databases, we also focus on ensuring coverage of our journals within as many scope-specific databases as possible, in order to increase visibility for our authors, and further disseminate their impactful data. Moreover, we also work with various universities and government organizations, to ensure that our journals are listed within country-specific journal ranking lists that are often required by funders or institutions for authors to publish with a journal.
Furthermore, all MDPI journals are digitally preserved cover-to-cover, by theSwiss National Library andCLOCKSS, ensuring long-term archival of all of our publications.
All Content Is Open Access and Free for Readers
All content published in MDPI journals is fully open access, making it available for everyone to read free of charge. To be able to provide open access journals, we finance publication through article processing charges (APCs); these are usually covered by the authors' institutes or research funding bodies. Read more about our open access policy.
MDPI Publication Ethics Statement
As a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), MDPI enforces a rigorous peer-review process and follows strict ethical policies and standards to ensure the publication of high-quality scientific works. Unfortunately, cases of plagiarism, data falsification, inappropriate authorship credit, and other errors and infractions do occur. MDPI takes such publishing ethics issues very seriously and our editors approach these cases with zero tolerance. To verify the originality of content submitted to our journals, we use iThenticate to check submissions against previous publications.
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MDPI and Sustainability
Sustainability has always been a core value of MDPI, starting with the collection and preservation of rare chemical samples that started in 1996 and led to the first journal, Molecules.
As a global enterprise, it is our duty to advance responsible practices that will ensure a bright future for our planet. MDPI’s commitment to sustainability is focused on open access publishing that promotes content related not only to environmental sustainability, but to all 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) defined by the UN.
In 2020, the SDG Publishers Compact was launched to promote informative and inspirational published content that will propel us towards achieving the SDGs. In 2021, MDPI became a signatory of the SDG Publishers Compact, and this past year, launched the MDPI SDG Hub as part of our commitment to the Compact.
Sustainability is also present in our conferences, including the World Sustainability Forum (WSF)—a biannual conference focused on sustainability. Furthermore, we financially support researchers through two sustainability-focused awards given at the WSF: 1) the USD 100,000 World Sustainability Award, given to senior researchers; and 2) the USD 20,000 Emerging Sustainability Leader Award, funded by the journal Sustainability, given to early career researchers.
MDPI is also a member of the United Nations Global Compact to support corporate sustainability and is committed to the ten principles associated with the Compact in the areas of human rights, labour, the environment and anti-corruption.
Mission and Values
As a pioneer in scholarly, open access publishing, MDPI has been serving the scientific community since 1996. Our aim is to foster scientific exchange in all forms, across all disciplines. MDPI's guidelines for disseminating open science are based on the following values and guiding principles:
- Open Access—All of our content is published in open access and distributed under a Creative Commons License, providing free access to science and the latest research, allowing articles to be freely shared and content to be re-used with proper attribution.
- Timeliness and Efficiency—Publishing the latest research through thorough editorial work, ensuring a first decision is provided to authors in under 18 days and papers are published in 4 days upon acceptance (median values for papers published in the second half of 2024).
- Simplicity—Offering user-friendly tools and services in one place to enhance the efficiency of our editorial process.
- High-Quality Service—Supporting scholars and their work by providing a range of options such as journal publication at mdpi.com, early publication at preprints.org, and conferences on sciforum.net to make a positive impact on research.
- Flexibility—Adapting and developing new tools and services to meet the changing needs of the research community, driven by feedback from authors, editors, and readers.
- Rooted in Sustainability—Ensuring long-term preservation of published papers and supporting the future of science through partnerships, sponsorships, and awards.
By adhering to these values and principles, MDPI remains committed to advancing scientific knowledge and promoting open science practices.
Brief History of MDPI
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