Overview
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 352 diverse, peer-reviewed, open access journals are supported by more than 84,200 academic editors. We serve scholars from around the world to ensure the latest research is freely available and all content is distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY).
Journals include Molecules (launched in 1996; Impact Factor 3.267), the International Journal of Molecular Sciences (launched in 2000; Impact Factor 4.556), Sensors (launched in 2001; Impact Factor 3.275), Marine Drugs (launched in 2003; Impact Factor 4.073), Energies (launched in 2008; Impact Factor 2.702), the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (launched in 2004; Impact Factor 2.849), Viruses (launched in 2009; Impact Factor 3.816), Remote Sensing (launched in 2009; Impact Factor 4.509), Toxins (launched in 2009; Impact Factor 3.531), Nutrients (launched in 2009; Impact Factor 4.546), Cancers (launched in 2009; Impact Factor 6.126), Applied Sciences (launched in 2011; Impact Factor 2.474) and Journal of Clinical Medicine (launched in 2012; Impact Factor 3.303). With further offices in Beijing, Wuhan and Tianjin (China), Barcelona (Spain), Belgrade and Novi Sad (Serbia), Cluj-Napoca (Romania), Manchester (UK), Tokyo (Japan), Bangkok (Thailand) and Kraków (Poland), MDPI has publ ished the research of more than 330,000 individual authors and our journals receive more than 14 million monthly webpage views.
Journals Covered by Leading Indexing Databases
At MDPI, we aim to expand coverage by the main academic databases Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) and Scopus to all journals. Eighty journals have been included in the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE) in the Web of Science by the end of 2020. Out of these titles, nine are due to receive a first Journal Impact Factor (JIF) in 2021. Furthermore, the biomed-related journals are full-text archived in PubMed Central (complying with NLM funding requirements) and with article abstracts to be found in PubMed/MEDLINE. All MDPI journals are archived long-term with the Swiss National Library and CLOCKSS.
All Content is Open Access and Free for Readers
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.
MDPI is Committed to the UN Global Compact
MDPI is a member of the United Nations Global Compact to support corporate sustainability and have committed ourselves to the ten principles associated with the Compact.
Sustainability has always been at the core of MDPI’s values, starting with the collection and preservation of rare chemical samples that started in 1996 and led to the first journal, Molecules. Sustainability has become one of our flagship journals and we have supported and organized several conferences and events based on Sustainability, including the 6th World Sustainability Forum. As a global enterprise, we see it as our duty to promote responsible practices that will ensure a bright future for our planet.
Mission and Values
As a pioneer of academic open access publishing, we serve the scientific community since 1996. Our aim is to foster scientific exchange in all forms, across all disciplines.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
As a pioneer open access publisher, our mission is to make new research findings accessible to everyone. We are serving scholars from across the globe and from a variety of backgrounds. To deepen our understanding of the research communities that we serve, we aim to build journals that are just as diverse and inclusive. Only by valuing differences can we create an equitable and inclusive work environment and foster the openness that is key to our mission.
The daily exchange of ideas between the East and the West has been at the heart of MDPI's progress from day one. We understand that diversity does not end there. More needs to be done to bridge the gap between the global North and South—and to create equal opportunities for people without regard to race, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, religion, country of origin, physical ability, or socio-economic status. There is no place for discrimination on the basis of any one of these characteristics.
MDPI adopts the principles of the Coalition for Diversity & Inclusion in Scholarly Communications (C4DISC) to support building equity, inclusion, diversity, and accessibility in scholarly communications. The Coalition is committed to creating and maintaining an environment that respects diverse traditions, heritages, and experiences. Our focus is on eliminating barriers to participation, extending equitable opportunities across all stakeholders, and ensuring that publishers' practices and policies promote equitable treatment and do not allow, condone, or result in discrimination.