Frederik Elwert
Is there already a consensus on whether MDPI’s journal “religions” should be considered predatory? @religion #religiodons
Feb 14, 2023 at 10:33amWeb
Show threadMichael PiotrowskiFeb 14, 2023
@felwert @religion I’d say #MDPI is a predatory publisher, but you could also “name their methods aggressive rent extracting, rather than predatory.”
https://paolocrosetto.wordpress.com/2021/04/12/is-mdpi-a-predatory-publisher/
Is MDPI a predatory publisher?

Edit April 20th, 2021: thanks to Christos Petrou I found a bug in my code. I was considering both “Section” and “Collection” articles as Speical Issue. The whole analysis ha…

Paolo Crosetto
Show threadChristof SchöchMar 12, 2023
@true_mxp @felwert @religion "Based on a series of information published here, here and here, we decided to include the MDPI journals on the predatory publications list." https://predatoryreports.org/news/f/list-of-all-mdpi-predatory-publications
List of all MDPI predatory journals

MDPI as a publisher of open-access scientific journals was spun off from the Molecular Diversity Preservation International organization. It was formally registered by Shu-Kun Lin and Dietrich Rordorf in May 2010 with it...

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