I personally am very critical of MDPI. I find them highly aggressive and careless in approaching me for editing and reviews. They are growing extremely fast, https://www.mdpi.com/about/history, and are, it seems to me, in the academic publishing business mainly to grow and make profit. That’s not my cup of tea.
Some debate here, https://www.researchgate.net/post/Im_gonna_ask_whether_publishing_in_MDPI_journals_is_good_or_more_specifically_how_is_publishing_in_International_Journal_of_Molecular_Sciences
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Emne: Re: MDPI journals turning predatory?
a large amount of journals are overbusy processing articles because they are flooded by submissions, they do not have the time (nor the desire, since they receive more than they can process) to solicit articles
+ as a journal editor, if I want you to edit a special issue of my journal, I'd write to you personally, not through the system
+ what are the odds that they are interested in you? (I am not commenting on your scientific outputs, I am talking of statistics...there are zillions of academics out there, why just you? Or me? or him/her?)
I am working to develop a training (in the frame of the Open Science group of the Global Young Academy) on how to identify and avoid predatory publishers. If interested, I can send the concept once it's ready
good luck
On Tue, 6 Aug 2019 at 09:00, simone tulumello <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
Hi critters,
I'm being bombed of request of articles for "special issues" on MDPI journals (e.g. Sustainability) and even some request to edit a SI. Also, I've heard of oretty "fast" peer-review processes...
Seems like a very typical predatory publisher, but then some legit scholars have published and edited for them.
Anyone knows better?
Bests
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