MDPI is a publisher of open access scientific journals.
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19 Facts About MDPI
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MDPI is the largest open access publisher in the world and the fifth largest publisher overall in terms of journal paper output.
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MDPI journals are included in the Directory of Open Access Journals.
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MDPI is a member of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, a participating publisher and supporter of the Initiative for Open Citations, and a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics.
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MDPI was included on Jeffrey Beall's list of predatory open access publishing companies in 2014 but was removed in 2015 following a successful appeal while applying pressure on Beall's employer.
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Some journals published by MDPI have been noted by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Norwegian Scientific Publication Register, two major scientific bodies, for lack of rigour and possible predatory practice.
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All of MDPI's journals have been open access and since 2008 published under a Creative Commons Attribution License.
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Several other journals were established by the MDPI Verein, including Entropy, the International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Sensors, Marine Drugs, and the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.
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MDPI Verein co-organized several academic conferences, including the International Symposium on Frontiers in Molecular Science.
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MDPI was included on Jeffrey Beall's list of predatory open access publishing companies in February 2014.
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MDPI made a successful appeal to the Beall's list appeals board in October 2015, and was removed from the list.
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OASPA concluded that MDPI satisfactorily meets the OASPA Membership Criteria.
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MDPI responded to the list promising to communicate with the academy and improve its journals' parameters to remove the affected journals from the list as soon as possible.
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The new level became active in September 2021, and five MDPI journals were among the initial 13 journals included in the level, making MDPI the largest publisher of level X-designated journals; the journals were Arts, Sustainability, Geosciences, Processes, and Axioms.
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In 2022, one MDPI journal was nominated for a level X rating: Remote Sensing, but later on the journal retained its status as academic.
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MDPI wrote that he had been only given one week to review a paper, that he recommended rejection, that the paper was then simply published without further comment, and that he never was in contact with any editor.
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In 2016, MDPI journal Behavioral Sciences published a review paper that claimed that watching pornography is a cause of erectile dysfunction.
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MDPI later issued an expression of concern and changed the status of the article from editorial to opinion, three months after publication.
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