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