Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417; Applied Sciences-Basel in Web of Science) is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal, published semi-monthly by MDPI AG, Basel, Switzerland. The journal is covered by leading indexing services, including Science Citation Index Expanded (Web of Science) and Scopus. Its 2018 Impact Factor is 2.217, and a five-year Impact Factor is 2.287. The median article processing time is only 39 days according to the publication data of recent 6 months. For further details, please refer to: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci