Thanks for sharing this, Michael. Timely given all the news coming out about problems with special issues in MDI and Hindawi journals like:

https://www.science.org/content/article/fast-growing-open-access-journals-stripped-coveted-impact-factors
https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2023/03/30/guest-post-of-special-issues-and-journal-purges/

I also saw a (thankfully succinct) slide deck on LinkedIn about MDPI from the publisher-centric Journalology newsletter. I've attached it for reference since the link below might require logging in to the site: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jwbutcher_a-million-ways-mdpi-has-changed-scholarly-activity-7023185076414763008-WE8H/

Best,
Anneliese
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Hi all,

 

That’s an interesting and very detailed blog post about the pros and cons of MDPI. It’s along read and the post has already 145 comments …

https://paolocrosetto.wordpress.com/2021/04/12/is-mdpi-a-predatory-publisher/

 

Best

Michael

 

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