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Annual Report 2019 Content Annual Report 2019 Content Content 2 About MDPI 4 Message from the CEO 6 Key Figures 8 Financial Data 2019 12 Journal Development in 2019 16 Journals Launched in 2019 18 Quality of Service 20 Societies and Partnerships 22 Sciforum Conferences 2019 24 MDPI Conferences in 2020 26 MDPI Books 28 SciProfiles 30 MDPI Other Services 32 Stay Connected 1 MDPI Annual Report 2019 About MDPI About MDPI ▶ www.mdpi.com/about Being a pioneer in academic Open Access publishing, MDPI Flexibility has been focused on serving and strengthening the scientific community since 1996. In 2019, MDPI journals continued to make In a changing and evolving publishing environment, we are constantly impact in a growing Open Access publications market. Our purpose adapting and developing new tools and services. By listening to feedback is to provide a valuable service to the academic community. Our from authors, editors, and readers, we can make changes to better meet mission is to foster scientific exchange in its various forms, across the needs of our research community and keep MDPI relevant. all scientific disciplines. The driving principles behind everything that we do are the following: Simplicity Accessibility All of our tools and services can be found in one place and prioritize user-friendliness. Simple processes keep our editorial process highly We offer access to science and the latest research to readers free- efficient. of-charge. All of our content is published in Open Access format and distributed under a Creative Commons License, which means free distribution and the right to share and re-use published articles. Sustainability In addition to being a key theme in our journals, we support sustainability Speed by ensuring the long-term preservation of published papers and the future of science through partnerships, sponsorships, and awards. We publish quickly to ensure the latest research is rapidly disseminated, using thorough, precise editorial work. A first decision is provided to authors in approximately 19 days; once accepted, papers are published in 5–10 days. Service We aim to provide a service that supports scholars and their work. By offering a range of different options, including journal publication at mdpi.com, early publication at Preprints.org, and conferences on Sciforum, we support scientific communities world- wide to make a positive impact on research. 2 3 MDPI Annual Report 2019 Message from the CEO Message from the CEO I am pleased to announce another year of exponential growth for MDPI. We are pleased to observe an acceleration of this transition in 2019, In 2019, 106,152 peer-reviewed articles were published (out of 269,122 with an increasing number of authors and scientific societies adopting submitted articles), representing a 64% increase over the previous year. the open access model. We are well-positioned to support and assist The further expansion of our flagship journals, the fast growth of some scholars, institutions, and scientific societies to make the transition to medium-size journals due to increased visibility in indexing databases, open access. The number of scientific societies partnering with MDPI as well as the successful launch of a number of new journals, has helped or affiliating to MDPI journals reached 95 at the us to strengthen our position as the leading open access publisher and We are well-positioned to end of 2019. The Institutional Open Access Pro- has brought MDPI into the top 5 largest academic publishers worldwide. support and assist scholars, gram (IOAP) reached 658 academic institutions institutions, and scientific around the world. In an effort to understand It is not all about quantity, we cannot succeed without quality! Out societies to make the transition the needs and challenges of scholarly societies of a total of 218 journals, 137 journals are indexed in the Web of Delia Mihaila to open access. in making a sustainable transition to the open Science database, of which 70 are indexed in Science Citation Index Chief Executive Officer access model, we organized the Basel Sustain- Expanded (SCIE) and the rest in the Emerging Sources Citation Index able Publishing Forum in September 2019. The event was dedicated to (ESCI) and the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI). In 2019 alone, 17 learned societies, and videos of the fascinating and informative talks are MDPI journals were newly indexed in the available on the conference website. This is the first event of an annual It is not all about quantity, SCIE database, 2 journals in the SSCI, 23 in conference series, for which the next topic will be announced soon. we cannot succeed Scopus, and 8 in PubMed. MDPI journals also without quality! rank highly in the Quality Open Access Market MDPI supports a high level of transparency in scholarly publishing. As (www.qoam.eu) platform, based on eval- a result, we have published on our website a breakdown of how our uations made by librarians and academic authors. Several MDPI APCs are used. To do this, we followed the recommendations from the journals are also among the highest ranked in terms of number Fair Open Access Alliance, an organization that promotes sustainable of verified review reports and expert endorsements in Publons and transparent scholarly open access publishing. This step also makes (www.publons.com). MDPI fully compliant with the requirements of Plan S. The reason for our consistently high levels of growth over the last In our effort to support scholars in disseminating their research results decade is that we are focused on offering the best service to authors as widely and rapidly as possible, we have continuously invested in and editors, through immediate responses, expanding our other scholarly communication platforms and services, high quality peer-review, flexibility, and speed Simplicity is one of our guiding such as the multidisciplinary preprints platform Preprints.org, and the of publication. Simplicity is one of our guiding principles. We keep things scholarly networking platform Sciprofiles.com. We have organized principles. We keep things simple, efficient, simple, efficient, and cost- twelve scientific conferences, expanded our open access books portfo- and cost-effective. effective. lio, and launched article endorsement and recommendation functions across our journal portfolio. In order to ensure the best service to an increasing number of authors, in 2019 we opened five new offices in: Manchester (United Kingdom), Tokyo I would like to thank all our authors, readers, reviewers and academic (Japan), Cluj-Napoca (Romania), Tianjin (China) and Bangkok (Thailand). editors for their loyalty, support, and dedicated work. We are also grate- ful to all the learned societies, research institutions, and individuals who MDPI continues to be strongly committed to driving the transition to a have entrusted us with the publication of their journals or endorsed our fully open access environment. We therefore welcome and support the journals. We wish you all a very successful 2020! Plan S initiative from cOAlition S and other similar initiatives worldwide. 4 5 MDPI Annual Report 2019 Key Figures Key Figures Submissions Articles Peer-Review Journals Covered by Journals Covered Journals Covered Received 269.1 K Published 106.2 K Reports 451.9 K the Web of Science by SCIE by Scopus Received Core Collection * 337.3 K 165.5 K 67.3 K 2019 137 2019 70 2019 134 171.7 K 35.9 K 82.1 K 128.8 K 58.6 K 23.5 K 2018 127 2018 54 2018 111 2017 110 2017 37 2017 86 2016 2017 2018 2019 2016 2017 2018 2019 2016 2017 2018 2019 2016 85 2016 27 2016 60 Median Time— Median Time— Submission to Publication Submission to First Decision * Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, Emerging Sources Citation Index, Arts & Humanities Citation Index 2019 2019 2018 39 days 2018 19 days 122.5M Page Views 2017 50 days 2017 25 days Access to MDPI.com 2016 68 days 2016 28 days 88.2M Page Views 67,207 Academic Editors Journals Published 52.1M Page Views 50.5M Sessions 43,140 218 203 190 36.8M Page Views 169 36.4M Sessions 23,522 24.2M Users 15,715 22.2M Sessions 15.2M Sessions 18.3M Users 12.1M Users 8.7M Users 2016 2017 2018 2019 2016 2017 2018 2019 2016 2017 2018 2019 6 7 MDPI Annual Report 2019 Financial Data 2019 Financial Data 2019 • For 218 journals, Article Processing Charges (APC) in 2019 ranged from Publishing MDPI develops and maintains its own electronic submission and 300–2000 CHF. Operations peer-review website. We also run several platforms to offer different • Average APC based on price list was approximately 1525 CHF. & Projects types of services for scholars. • The average (net) cost to authors across all journals (including those with no APC) was 1144 CHF per paper. • Preprints.org: a multidisciplinary preprint platform where authors can • The average waiver rate across all MDPI journals was 25%, in relation publish their articles free of charge. to an average APC of 1525 CHF. • We provided discounts to authors affiliated with our institutional • Scilit.net: a comprehensive, free database for scientists using a new 1) www.mdpi.com/about/ members of 10% or more 1), and granted discounts for physical method to collate data and indexing scientific material. memberships conferences and e-conferences held at Sciforum 2). 2) www.sciforum.net • In 2019, MDPI sponsored more than 400 academic conferences and • Sciforum.org: an event-planning platform that supports open science supported 280 scholars, in particular young academics, to attend by offering the opportunity to host and participate in academic scientific events. conferences. To show further transparency, MDPI published a detailed break- • Sciprofiles.com: a researcher-profile platform. down of how APCs are used. In calculating these values, we have followed recommendations from the Fair Open Access Alliance 3) www.fairopenaccess.org/ 3), an organization that promotes sustainable and transparent breakdown-of-publication- 4) www.coalition-s.org/ services-and-fees scholarly open access publishing.
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