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08.11.2020 · I do not believe that MDPI is a predatory publisher. Not by any stretch of the imagination. I have published two papers in one of their journals and I must say that their peer review process is ...

11.01.2017 · Beware! Academics are getting reeled in by scam journals. The number of predatory publishers is skyrocketing – and they’re eager to pounce on unsuspecting scholars. BY ALEX GILLIS | JAN 12 2017. Editor’s note, Jan. 18, 2017: Jeffrey Beall, the University of Colorado Denver librarian behind Beall’s List of “potential, possible or ...

MDPI Sustainability journal is 100% predatory, there is no doubt. I have asked to withdraw my paper three times and they do not care at all.

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Although Beall listed MDPI as a predatory publisher, they are several ... far as a referee with MDPI International Journal of Molecular Sciences - several ...

12.04.2021 · Is MDPI predatory? MDPI’s growth: how? MDPI has had an impressive growth rate in the last years. It went from publishing 36 thousand articles in 2017 to 167 thousands in 2020. MDPI follows the APC publishing model, whereby accepted articles have to pay an Article Processing Charge (APC) before they are published.

«Journal citation reports and the definition of a predatory journal: The case of the Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI)». Research Evaluation ...

​Potential predatory scholarly open‑access publishers. Instructions: first, find the journal's publisher – it is usually written at the bottom of the ...

... to publicly ask, “Is MDPI considered a predatory publisher? ... Molecules, the fastest of the four journals, took on average 38 days to ...

Apr 12, 2021 · At one point it is bound to collapse, and we could see four potential scenarios: MDPI goes full predatory, MDPI downsizes significantly by focusing only on a few flagship journals (most journals will lose their IF), MDPI gets sold, or MDPI becomes a cheaper version of PLOS One, but just being one journal.

MDPI is not included on my list of predatory publishers. ... published by the organization Molecular Diversity Preservation International, ...

I will not respond to all Beall's criticisms. Beall has set up a site where he lists questionable (aka predatory) Open Access publishers who ...

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19.08.2021 · Therefore, the conclusion that MDPI journals are predatory does not follow. We have taken the opportunity to analyse self-citation data across different publishers. Figure 1 represents publishers with more than 10,000 publications between 2018 and July 2021.

MDPI traces its roots to Molecular Diversity Preservation International, also abbreviated MDPI, which was founded by Shu-Kun Lin in 1996 as a chemical sample archive, with some scholarly publishing and conference activities. The second organisation, Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, was founded in 2010, primarily as a publisher.

Molecules is the leading international, peer-reviewed, open access journal of chemistry. Molecules is published semimonthly online by MDPI. The International Society of Nucleosides, Nucleotides & Nucleic Acids (IS3NA), the Spanish Society of Medicinal Chemistry (SEQT) and the International Society of Heterocyclic Chemistry (ISHC) are affiliated with Molecules and their …

Feb 17, 2019 · It is clear for me MDPI is a predatory publisher and its journal Sustainability is a clear example of it. See, for example, Sustainabilty scheduled for 2019 more than 680 special issues (plus 12 regular issues).

tl; dr: probably reputable, but they are controversial, and a significant number of academics don't like MDPI. I used to work in publishing so this answer cuts much closer to the publisher's world than the academic one. It's also going to be very long, so I'm splitting it into sections. Size: MDPI has grown very large.

Molecules is the leading international, peer-reviewed, open access journal of chemistry. Molecules is published semimonthly online by MDPI. The International Society of Nucleosides, Nucleotides & Nucleic Acids (IS3NA), the Spanish Society of Medicinal Chemistry (SEQT) and the International Society of Heterocyclic Chemistry (ISHC) are affiliated with Molecules and their members receive a ...

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MDPI strategy boils down to exploiting their rent, as fast and aggressively as they can, through the Special Issue model. The original journals' ...

MDPI or Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute is a publisher of open access scientific journals. Founded by Shu-Kun Lin as a chemical sample archive, it has established over 200 broad-scope journals. MDPI is the largest open access publisher in the world and the fifth largest publisher overall in terms of journal paper output. The number of published papers has been growing significantly in the last decade with year over year growth of over 50% in 2017, 2018 an…

17.02.2019 · Post scriptum april 2020: Read also More on MDPI: Strange antics from LAND On social media there is a discussion about the editorial policies of the publisher MDPI, which has been involved in different controversies (see e.g. Jeffrey Beall: What I learned from predatory publishers the Wikipedia article MDPI ) . In the Norwegian Scientific Index the publishing house …