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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Why not?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago (3 children)

some might regard it as a predatory publisher

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Mostly it’s seen as low quality no?

The vibe I got was that they’d basically accept anything in return for money.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

this is my impression. back when i still was in academia it would pop up from time to time but i never published there since i never cited any of their journals in the first place. (why would one publish there when all your peers are somewhere else). nowadays i sometimes get requests from them to my personal email for special issues which i just ignore. (it's academic spam essentially).

have a look at retraction watch https://retractionwatch.com/?s=mdpi

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

I’ve seen some really good papers in MDPI which challenge the consensus in different fields and I’m assuming aren’t published in bigger journals because colleagues are stuck in their own ways and disagree with the premise of the paper.

But these papers are vastly outnumbered by a mix of low quality papers and obvious corporate sponsored or “self-promotion of my new vitamin” type papers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

And your email account will never recover. They'll sell it like it's going out of style.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

Thanks. It's been a long time since I left academics. I can't remember having heard of them before.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

Inexperienced myself also served as a guest editor for one of their journals. Won't happen again.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

It really depends on the journal though.