Symmetry is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal covering research on symmetry/asymmetry phenomena wherever they occur in all aspects of natural sciences, and is published monthly online by MDPI.  

• Open Access— free for readers, with article processing charges (APC) paid by authors or their institutions.
• High Visibility: indexed within SCIE (Web of Science), Scopus, CAPlus / SciFinder, Inspec, Astrophysics Data System, and other databases.
• Journal Rank: JCR – Q2 (Multidisciplinary Sciences) / CiteScore – Q1 (General Mathematics )
• Rapid Publication: manuscripts are peer-reviewed and a first decision is provided to authors approximately 15.8 days after submission; acceptance to publication is undertaken in 5.9 days (median values for papers published in this journal in the second half of 2025).
• Recognition of Reviewers: reviewers who provide timely, thorough peer-review reports receive vouchers entitling them to a discount on the APC of their next publication in any MDPI journal, in appreciation of the work done.
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• Journal Cluster of Mathematics and Its Applications: AppliedMath, Axioms, Computation, Fractal and Fractional, Geometry, International Journal of Topology, Logics, Mathematics and Symmetry.

Impact Factor: 2.2 (2024); 5-Year Impact Factor: 2.1 (2024)