The Full Form of MDPI is Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute.

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 279 diverse, peer-reviewed, open access journals are supported by more than 67,200 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) and Nutrients (launched in 2009; Impact Factor 4.546). With further offices in Beijing and Wuhan (China), Barcelona (Spain) and Belgrade (Serbia), MDPI has published the research of 263,500 individual authors and our journals receive more than 5.8 million monthly webpage views.

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.