About MDPI

MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute) is an academic open-access publisher with headquarters in Basel, Switzerland. Additional offices are located in Beijing and Wuhan (China) as well as in Barcelona (Spain). MDPI publishes 150 diverse peer-reviewed, scientific, open access, electronic journals, including Molecules (launched in 1996; Impact Factor 2.416), the International Journal of Molecular Sciences (launched in 2000; Impact Factor 2.862), Sensors (launched in 2001; Impact Factor 2.245), Marine Drugs (launched in 2003; Impact Factor 2.853), Energies (launched in 2008; Impact Factor 2.072), the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (launched in 2004; Impact Factor 2.063), Viruses (launched in 2009; Impact Factor 3.353), Remote Sensing (launched in 2009; Impact Factor 3.180), Toxins (launched in 2009; Impact Factor 2.938) and Nutrients (launched in 2009; Impact Factor 3.270). Our publishing activities are supported by more than 9,900 active scientists and academic editors on our journals' international editorial boards, including several Nobelists. More than 187,500 individual authors have already published with MDPI. MDPI.com receives more than 4.2 million monthly webpage views.

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MDPI aims to have all of its journals covered by the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) and Scopus indexing systems. Several journals have already been covered by SCIE for several years and have received official Impact Factors. Some ‘life science’-related journals are also covered by PubMed/MEDLINE and archived through PubMed Central (PMC). All of our journals are archived with the Swiss National Library.

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Journals published by MDPI are fully open access: research articles, reviews or any other content on this platform is available to everyone free of charge. To be able to provide open access journals, we finance publication through article processing charges (APC); these are usually covered by the authors' institutes or research funding bodies. Read more about our open access policy.

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. MDPI works with Publons to provide reviewers with credit for their work.

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MDPI Headquarters, Basel Contact MDPI AG Klybeckstrasse 64 4057 Basel Postfach, CH-4005 Basel Switzerland Tel. +41 61 683 77 34 Fax: +41 61 302 89 18 Office Hours 8:00-17:00 (GMT +1) Public Holidays The office will be closed on the following days in 2016: New Year, 1 January Carneval, 15 February (afternoon) Carneval, 17 February (afternoon) Good Friday, 25 March Easter Monday, 28 March Labor Day, 1 May Ascension Day, 5 May Whit Monday, 16 May National Day, 1 August Christmas Day, 25 December Boxing Day, 26 December	Haidian Office, Beijing Contact MDPI Haidian Office No.99 Zhongguancun East Road Aerospace Cooperation Building, 8th Floor 100190 Beijing, Haidian District China Tel. +86 10 6280 0830 Fax: +86 10 6280 0830 Office Hours 8:30-17:30 (GMT +8) Public Holidays The office will be closed on the following days in 2016: New Year, 1-3 January Spring Festival, 7-13 February Qingming Festival, 2-4 April Labor Day, 30 April-2 May Dragon Boat Festival, 9-11 June Mid-Autumn Festival, 15-17 September National Day, 1-7 October	Tongzhou Office, Beijing Contact MDPI Tongzhou Office No. 21 Cuijingbeili, Tongzhou Jincheng Center, Room 2207 101101 Beijing, Tongzhou District China Tel. +86 10 8152 1170 Fax: +86 10 8152 1170 Office Hours 8:30-17:30 (GMT +8) Public Holidays The office will be closed on the following days in 2016: New Year, 1-3 January Spring Festival, 7-13 February Qingming Festival, 2-4 April Labor Day, 30 April-2 May Dragon Boat Festival, 9-11 June Mid-Autumn Festival, 15-17 September National Day, 1-7 October
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