Dear Colleagues,
We are launching a Special Issue for the journal /Insects/ (IF: 2.139) and we are writing to ask you if you would be willing to contribute either an article or a review for the issue:
Special Issue: The Citizen Science Approach for Expanding the Research on Insects
Website:Â https://www.mdpi.com/journal/insects/special_issues/citizen_science_insects
Deadline: 28 February 2021.
This Special Issue aims at collecting recent contributions of citizen science applied to insects and other arthropods in various fields including: conservation and monitoring of species, biodiversity assessments, physiology, ecology, behavior, pest management, parasitology, sustainable development and human dimension.
According to journal’s procedures, the deadline (28.02.2021) is the closing time for receiving papers, but they are separately published in this Special Issue. So you can send the paper anytime and once the manuscript is accepted, it will be published online soon. Generally, the acceptance to publication is undertaken in 3.5 days. Manuscripts are peer-reviewed and a first decision provided to authors approximately 17.6 days after submission (median values for papers published in this journal in the second half of 2019). Details could be found at: https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.mdpi.com%2Fjournal%2Finsects&data=02%7C01%7Ccristina.castracani%40unipr.it%7C2941e239a0f1447da97008d80eb28d32%7Cbb064bc5b7a841ecbabed7beb3faeb1c%7C0%7C0%7C637275507753676936&sdata=X6MLvPaQfBFIWxqWB5m1I%2BTIfgizCesmF3casRy2r%2Fk%3D&reserved=0 .
Please let us know at your earliest convenience if you are willing to contribute such a chapter. If so, we would be happy to provide you with an outline for the content of the issue once we have had responses from other invited authors. We look forward to hearing from you soon and hope you will be willing to contribute.
If you can propose a provisional title, the names of co-authors and whether you would submit a review or an original article, please let us know.
Kind regards,
Dr. Cristina Castracani
University of Parma, Italy
Email:Â cristina.castracani@unipr.it
Dr. Alessandro Campanaro
Research Centre for Plant Protection and Certification, Italy
Email:Â alessandro.campanaro@crea.gov.it