In honor of its recent 10-year anniversary, we’re highlighting Cosmetics (ISSN 2079-9284), an international, peer-reviewed, Open Access journal providing an advanced forum for research on skin, cosmetic product formulations, ingredient research, clinical and experimental research including cosmetic surgery, light sources and technical devices for dermatological treatment.

We’re recapping Cosmetics’ MDPI journey thus far, covering the journal’s development history and scope, the achievements it has accomplished, instructions for manuscript submission, and more.

Editor-in-Chief: Prof. Dr Enzo Berardesca

Current Impact Factor: 3.4

Current CiteScore: 5.2

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A history of Cosmetics

The inaugural issue of Cosmetics was released in March 2014, with Prof. Dr Enzo Berardesca appointed as the founding Editor-in-Chief. A research professor at the Phillip Frost Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery, University of Miami, his research interests include barrier function, pigmentation, ethnic dermatology, skin irritation and skin aging.

Prof. Dr. Berardesca took on the role of Editor-in-Chief with the belief that publications related to cosmetic sciences from other journals at the time were often restricted to very narrow audiences, making them less translational and therefore more difficult to share with the scholarly community. As the first Open Access journal inclusive of all professional categories related to cosmetic development, Cosmetics provides a global platform for open scientific exchange

Read Prof. Dr. Berardesca’s Editorial Piece

Prof. Dr Enzo Berardesca, EiC of Cosmetics

Cosmetics attracted 20 publications within its first year, demonstrating a great potential for growth from an early stage, as well as an active scholarly community. In 2018, the journal was indexed in Scopus (Elsevier), followed three years later by ESCI (Web of Science). Cosmetics is currently covered by a wide range of indexing and abstracting services, including DOAJ, ProQuest, J-Gate, and more.

10^th Anniversary (2014-2024)

2024 marked the 10^th anniversary of Cosmetics, with the journal releasing two Special Issues to celebrate the occasion:

• “10^th Anniversary of Cosmetics – Recent Advances and Perspectives” edited by Dr. Vasil Georgiev.
• “Current and Future Trends in Cosmetics Research: The 10^th Anniversary of Cosmetics” edited by Prof. Dr. Enzo Berardesca.

See the anniversary interview with Prof. Dr. Berardesca

Timeline as of December 2024

Aims & scope

Cosmetics aims to bring together basic scientists, cosmetic chemists, dermatologists and clinicians to share their theoretical and experimental research with the global community without any restrictions under an Open Access publishing model.

Articles published in Cosmetics are licensed under an Open Access Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license, making them free to read and download. This also supports the reuse and quotation of the articles (providing that the original published version is cited), allowing for maximum use and exposure of the work whilst ensuring that authors receive proper credit.

An Open Access publication model becomes particularly important when considering research areas such as cosmetics, making scientific findings and treatment descriptions for highly specialised topics accessible within a clinical setting.

General subject areas included in Cosmetics range from in vivo and in vitro testing of cosmetic products and product formulations to cosmetic surgery and the various ethical issues associated with cosmetic research.

Cosmetics journal metrics

Journal statistics as of December 2024.

CiteScore (Scopus) is a metric that can be used to gain an idea of a particular journal’s scholarly impact, through measuring the average number of citations it receives over a certain period. We are proud to share that the journal has been listed in Q1 for both Surgery and Dermatology with an overall CiteScore of 5.2.

Since its launch, Cosmetics has generated almost 700 mentions in international news outlets, 105 citations within patents, and 10 policy papers, demonstrating a high level of real-world impact and reach.

Cosmetics first received an Impact Factor of 3.3 in the Journal Citation Reports™ (JCR, Clarivate) in 2022. Journal Impact Factor is calculated by dividing the total number of current year citations to publications from the previous 2 years by the number of citable publications published in the journal during the same time period. With a slight increase in the Impact Factor in 2023, the journal is ranked Q2 in Dermatology and in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in JCR.

The title for the most cited Cosmetics publication is currently held by Asja Sarkic and Iris Stappen for their paper “Essential Oils and Their Single Compounds in Cosmetics—A Critical Review” which has received 277 citations.

For more details on the most cited, viewed, and downloaded Cosmetics papers, please visit this webpage.

The Cosmetics community

Cosmetics has represented MDPI at a range of global scholarly events over the years, recently including the EADV congress in the Netherlands, the 31^st International Carbohydrate Symposium in China, and the 12^th World Biomaterials Congress in Korea.

Lareina Guo (ME), Prof. Dr. Berardesca (EiC), and Peter Roth (Head of Publishing) at the EADV congress 2024.

In 2021, Cosmetics introduced its Best Paper Award, which is awarded annually to highlight publications of high quality, scientific significance, and extensive influence. The first winning papers for this award were:

• “Natural Antioxidants from Plant Extracts in Skincare Cosmetics: Recent Applications, Challenges and Perspectives” by Dr. Hien Thi Hoang et al.
• “Biobased and Eco-Compatible Beauty Films Coated with Chitin Nanofibrils, Nanolignin and Vitamin E” by Dr. Luca Panariello et al.

For up-to-date information about both open and closed Cosmetics Awards, visit this webpage

Submitting a manuscript

Manuscripts for Cosmetics should be submitted online at susy.mdpi.com. The submitting author, who is generally the corresponding author, is responsible for the manuscript during the submission and peer review process.

To submit your manuscript, register and login to the submission website. Once you have registered, click here to go to the submission form. All co-authors can see the manuscript details in the submission system if they register and login using the e-mail address provided during manuscript submission.

Prior to submitting, explore the useful resources on our author guidelines webpage.

If you’d like to find out more about Cosmetics and its publication process, please visit the journal website.

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