About Universe

Aims

Universe (ISSN 2218-1997) is an international peer-reviewed open access journal focused on principles and new discoveries in the universe. It publishes reviews, research papers and communications. Our aim is to encourage scientists to publish their research results in as much detail as possible. There is no restriction on the maximum length of the papers.

Scope

Universe covers topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Cosmology
• Gravitation and General Relativity
• Gravitational Wave
• High Energy Nuclear and Particle Physics
• Astrophysics and Astronomy
• Solar System
• Planetary Science
• Galaxies and Clusters
• Compact Objects
• Stellar Astronomy
• Astrochemistry and Astrobiology
• Plasma Astrophysics
• Observational Astronomy
• Astrometry and Astromechanics
• Computational Astrophysics
• Astronomical Instrumentation
• Space Science
• Field Theory
• Foundations of Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Gravity
• Mathematical Physics

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.

Book Reviews

Authors and publishers are encouraged to send review copies of their recent related books to the following address. Received books will be listed as Books Received within the journal's News & Announcements section.

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Copyright / Open Access

Articles published in Universe will be Open-Access articles distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The copyright is retained by the author(s). MDPI will insert the following note at the end of the published text:

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