The death of open access mega-journals?

An article covering the problems for some open access journals, including a staggeringly high amount of citations to other articles in the same journal at some MDPI journals. Detected by #AI. So they have been delisted from citation metrics.
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-death-access-mega-journals.html

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The death of open access mega-journals?

The entire scientific publishing world is currently undergoing a massive stress test of quantity vs. quality, open access (free) vs. institutional subscriptions (paywall), and how to best judge the integrity of a publication.

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