Designs: A Multidisciplinary Open-Access Engineering Journal

first_page settings Order Article Reprints Font Type: Arial Georgia Verdana Font Size: Aa Aa Aa Line Spacing:    Column Width:    Background: Open AccessEditorial Acknowledgement to Reviewers of Journal of Functional Biomaterials in 2017 by Journal of Functional Biomaterials Editorial Office MDPI AG, St. Alban-Anlage 66, 4052 Basel, Switzerland J. Funct. Biomater. 2018, 9(1), 5; https://doi.org/10.3390/jfb9010005 Received: 12 January 2018 / Revised: 12 January 2018 / Accepted: 12 January 2018 / Published: 12 January 2018 Download Download PDF Download PDF with Cover Download XML Download Epub Versions Notes Peer review is an essential part in the publication process, ensuring that Journal of Functional Biomaterials maintains high quality standards for its published papers. In 2017, a total of 52 papers were published in the journal. Thanks to the cooperation of our reviewers, the median time to first decision was 18 days and the median time to publication was 43 days. The editors would like to express their sincere gratitude to the following reviewers for their time and dedication in 2017: Akhavan, BehnamKramer, PhillipAl-Dujaili, EmadKundu, JoydipAlem, HalimaLebaron, RichardAmorati, RiccardoLee, Hae-HyoungAniello, FrancescoLee, WonhyeArnaud, FrançoiseLee, WooCheolAtrens, AndrejLlena, CarmenBiglino, GiovanniŁukomksa-Szymańska, MonikaBouropoulos, NikolaosMadeddu, RobertoBrantley, William A.Maeda, HirotakaBrauer, Jeremy A.Mahapatro, AnilBusquets, Maria AntòniaMandava, NandaCalvo-Guirado, José LuisMao, ChuanbinCapasso, RaffaeleMarpu, Sreekar BabuCervadoro, AntonioMartin, Thomas JohnChang, Thomas M.S.Martins, AlbinoChang, Wen-WeiMaruyama, KeiChou, JoshuaMathew, MathewCicciu, MarcoMayer, ChristianCollins, Maurice N.McCoy, Sarah J. BreeseColtelli, Maria BeatriceMekonnen, Tizazu H.Costa-Rodrigues, JoãoMelo, Mary Anne S.Cristea, CeciliaMenabue, LediDe Aza, PiedadMendes, Ana C.Do, Sun HeeMizusaki, MasanobuDoloff, Joshua C.Naito, YoshihitoEggenhöffner, RobertoNoubissi, FeliciteEsposito, CiroOh, Daniel S.Farsad, KhashayarOkamoto, MasamiFauzi, IlianaOskouei, RezaFernandes, Susana C.M.Palumbo, Fabio SalvatoreFeyerabend, FrankPapini, AlessioFigueiredo, MarxaPartonen, TimoFinley, Brent L.Patterson, JenniferForner, LeopoldoPenarrocha-Diago, MiguelGentile, PiergiorgioPerepelyuk, MarynaGirousi, StellaPetridis, LambisGizdavic-Nikolaidis, Marija R.Piluso, SusannaGlaser, RainerPistone, AlessandroGolkowski, MarkPucci, AndreaGómez-Florit, ManuelQuencer, KeithGracia, IgnacioRadecki, JerzyGrandfield, KathrynRanzato, EliaGranet, RobertRavaioli, StefanoGraziani, GabrielaRen, YanfangGrenho, LilianaRohnke, MarcusHaapasalo, MarkusRoldo, MartaHadjiargyrou, MichaelRossouw, Paul E.Hayakawa, TohruSantos, JoaoHerndon, DavidSebastian, AimyHildreth, BlakeSeeliger, ClaudineHirner, Alfred V.Sgarbossa, PaoloHu, JackSharma, BheshHu, YangShavandi, AminIntaglietta, MarcosShie, Ming-YouIrie, MasaoShih, Yu-RuJennings, JessicaSilikas, NikolaosKevadiya, BhaveahSilva, Simone S.Khandaker, MorshedSimoni, JanKim, Chun HoSiracusa, ValentinaKim, Hyoung SeopSpriano, SilviaKim, Kyung-suStamboulis, ArtemisKim, Tae ImStan, GeorgeKim, Young-JinSurmenev, Roman A.Knipping, KarenSwaminathan, ViswanathanKoizumi, HiroyasuTakeshita, HaruoKootala, SujitTaubenberger, AnnaKoźlecki, TomaszTavri, Sidhartha © 2018 by the authors. 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/). Share and Cite MDPI and ACS Style Journal of Functional Biomaterials Editorial Office. Acknowledgement to Reviewers of Journal of Functional Biomaterials in 2017. J. Funct. Biomater. 2018, 9, 5. https://doi.org/10.3390/jfb9010005 AMA Style Journal of Functional Biomaterials Editorial Office. Acknowledgement to Reviewers of Journal of Functional Biomaterials in 2017. Journal of Functional Biomaterials. 2018; 9(1):5. https://doi.org/10.3390/jfb9010005 Chicago/Turabian Style Journal of Functional Biomaterials Editorial Office. 2018. "Acknowledgement to Reviewers of Journal of Functional Biomaterials in 2017" Journal of Functional Biomaterials 9, no. 1: 5. https://doi.org/10.3390/jfb9010005 Find Other Styles Note that from the first issue of 2016, MDPI journals use article numbers instead of page numbers. See further details here. Article Metrics No No Article Access Statistics For more information on the journal statistics, click here. Multiple requests from the same IP address are counted as one view.

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to report results of a study which investigated the growth of open access (OA) journals across the world with reference to the Asian region. Details of 117 OA journals were collected from the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) to determine the geographic distribution, language of publication and growth of periodical year-wise. The study makes detail analysis of four OA periodical published from India, Iran, Pakistan and Taiwan. Pattern of authorship and contribution according to nature of professional work were analyzed. The study reveals that most contributions were made by teaching professionals in comparison to working library and information officers. Single-authored contributions dominated (44 per cent) in all periodicals of the Asian region, indicating low amount of teamwork/collaborative contributions to library and information science (LIS) research by the authors of this region. To know the subject distribution of articles, the study was limited to 27 ...

Background: Over the past few decades, there has been an increase in the number of open access (OA) journals in almost all disciplines. This increase in OA journals was accompanied an increase in funding to support such movements. Medical fields are among the highest funded fields, which further promoted its journals to move toward OA publishing. Here, we aim to compare OA and non-OA journals in terms of citation metrics and other indices. Methods: We collected data on the included journals from Scopus Source List on 1 st November 2018. We filtered the list for medical journals only. For each journal, we extracted data regarding citation metrics, scholarly output, and wither the journal is OA or non-OA. Results: On the 2017 Scopus list of journals, there was 5835 medical journals. Upon analyzing the difference between medical OA and non-OA journals, we found that OA journals had a significantly higher CiteScore (p< 0.001), percent cited (p< 0.001), and source normalized impact per paper (SNIP) (p< 0.001), whereas non-OA journals had higher scholarly output (p< 0.001). Among the five largest journal publishers, Springer Nature published the highest frequency of OA articles (31.5%), while Wiley-Blackwell had the lowest frequency among its medical journals (4.4%). Conclusion: Among medical journals, although non-OA journals still have higher output in terms of articles per year, OA journals have higher citation metrics.

Background: Over the past few decades, there has been an increase in the number of open access (OA) journals in almost all disciplines. This increase in OA journals was accompanied an increase in funding to support such movements. Medical fields are among the highest funded fields, which further promoted its journals to move toward OA publishing. Here, we aim to compare OA and non-OA journals in terms of citation metrics and other indices. Methods: We collected data on the included journals from Scopus Source List on 1 st November 2018. We filtered the list for medical journals only. For each journal, we extracted data regarding citation metrics, scholarly output, and wither the journal is OA or non-OA. Results: On the 2017 Scopus list of journals, there was 5835 medical journals. Upon analyzing the difference between medical OA and non-OA journals, we found that OA journals had a significantly higher CiteScore (p< 0.001), percent cited (p< 0.001), and source normalized impact per paper (SNIP) (p< 0.001), whereas non-OA journals had higher scholarly output (p< 0.001). Among the five largest journal publishers, Springer Nature published the highest frequency of OA articles (31.5%), while Wiley-Blackwell had the lowest frequency among its medical journals (4.4%). Conclusion: Among medical journals, although non-OA journals still have higher output in terms of articles per year, OA journals have higher citation metrics.

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first_page settings Order Article Reprints Font Type: Arial Georgia Verdana Font Size: Aa Aa Aa Line Spacing:    Column Width:    Background: Open AccessEditorial Acknowledgement to Reviewers of Cryptography in 2017 by Cryptography Editorial Office MDPI AG, St. Alban-Anlage 66, 4052 Basel, Switzerland Cryptography 2018, 2(1), 2; https://doi.org/10.3390/cryptography2010002 Received: 16 January 2018 / Accepted: 16 January 2018 / Published: 16 January 2018 Download Download PDF Download PDF with Cover Download XML Download Epub Versions Notes Peer review is an essential part in the publication process, ensuring that Cryptography maintains high quality standards for its published papers. In 2017, a total of 21 papers were published in the journal. Thanks to the cooperation of our reviewers, the median time to first decision was 26 days and the median time to publication was 56 days. The editors would like to express their sincere gratitude to the following reviewers for their time and dedication in 2017:Abdmeziem, Mohammed RiyadhLee, Cheng-ChiAmirtharajan, RengarajanLeordeanu, CatalinAssad, SyedLeu, Fang-YieBacco, DavideLitchfield, Alan T.Baharon, Mohd RizuanLuo, YiyuanBanik, SubhadeepMa, Yu TakBansarkhani, Rachid ElMartin, KeithBoström, Kim JorisMurty, KumarBun, MarkMustafa, Mustafa A.Cambou, BertrandNeumann, StephanCampo Vázquez, CelesteOgiela, Marek R.Catuogno, LuigiPan, LeiChen, Hsing-Chung JackPehl, MichaelChen, Bing-ChangPivoluska, MatejChou, Jue-SamPlesch, MartinColuccia, AngeloPuech, WilliamConchon, EmmanuelRass, StefanCouchot, Jean-FrançoisRottondi, CristinaCruz-Hernández, CésarRzonca, DariuszDeligiannidis, LeonSeo, HwajeongDemertzis, KonstantinosSimplicio, MarcosDucas, LéoSimpson, Leonie RuthFidas, Christos A.Souto, AndréFRANÇOIS, MichaelSyed, ZahidGaborit, PhilippeTse, Daniel W.K.Ganji, FatemehTsikerdekis, MichaelGarcía, BoniTzeng, Wen-GueyGiannakis, KonstantinosVătăjelu, Elena IoanaGuilley, SylvainVerticale, GiacomoHalevi, TziporaVessio, GennaroHaskell-Dowland, PaulVogt, AndreasHernandez-Castro, Carlos J.Wan, ZhiguoHirose, ShoichiWang, KevinHong, WienWang, HuaIliyasu, Abdullah M.Yoav, WeizmanJiang, XiaohongWenzel, JakobJonker, HugoXagawa, KeitaKim, MyungsunXi, PingKim, CheonshikXie, JiafengKoenig, RetoXiong, MaoshengKumar, PardeepYang, WenchengLashkari, Arash HabibiZhang, FangguoLee, Jooyoung © 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/). Share and Cite MDPI and ACS Style Cryptography Editorial Office. Acknowledgement to Reviewers of Cryptography in 2017. Cryptography 2018, 2, 2. https://doi.org/10.3390/cryptography2010002 AMA Style Cryptography Editorial Office. Acknowledgement to Reviewers of Cryptography in 2017. Cryptography. 2018; 2(1):2. https://doi.org/10.3390/cryptography2010002 Chicago/Turabian Style Cryptography Editorial Office. 2018. "Acknowledgement to Reviewers of Cryptography in 2017" Cryptography 2, no. 1: 2. https://doi.org/10.3390/cryptography2010002 Find Other Styles Note that from the first issue of 2016, MDPI journals use article numbers instead of page numbers. See further details here. Article Metrics No No Article Access Statistics For more information on the journal statistics, click here. Multiple requests from the same IP address are counted as one view.

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Obama Signs Act to Make More Federally Funded Research Open Access: NIH Requirement Extended to Other Agencies

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