Friends don't let friends publish in MDPI journals. Pass it on.
For more info, check out the Wikipedia page:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDPI 🔥
For more info, check out the Wikipedia page:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDPI 🔥
MDPI - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
December 21, 2023 at 3:39 PM
Friends don't let friends publish in MDPI journals. Pass it on.
For more info, check out the Wikipedia page:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDPI 🔥
For more info, check out the Wikipedia page:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDPI 🔥
New from The Strain Team:
🎊 Springer Nature Discovers MDPI 🎊
Springer Nature has spawned a copycat journal series called "Discover" mimicking #MDPI journal titles and citation behaviours. We even made a browser game to prove it (see 🔗).
Gross! 😀 1/n
#ResearchIntegrity #SciPub #AcademicSky
🎊 Springer Nature Discovers MDPI 🎊
Springer Nature has spawned a copycat journal series called "Discover" mimicking #MDPI journal titles and citation behaviours. We even made a browser game to prove it (see 🔗).
Gross! 😀 1/n
#ResearchIntegrity #SciPub #AcademicSky
Spinger Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing
Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro
the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io
June 10, 2025 at 5:49 AM
New from The Strain Team:
🎊 Springer Nature Discovers MDPI 🎊
Springer Nature has spawned a copycat journal series called "Discover" mimicking #MDPI journal titles and citation behaviours. We even made a browser game to prove it (see 🔗).
Gross! 😀 1/n
#ResearchIntegrity #SciPub #AcademicSky
🎊 Springer Nature Discovers MDPI 🎊
Springer Nature has spawned a copycat journal series called "Discover" mimicking #MDPI journal titles and citation behaviours. We even made a browser game to prove it (see 🔗).
Gross! 😀 1/n
#ResearchIntegrity #SciPub #AcademicSky
This is a catastrophe. While Finland has downgraded the MDPI and Frontiers journals to level 0 (meaning these publications are not recognized for research evaluation purposes), Germany has signed an agreement to promote publications in MDPI journals.
Over 100 German Universities Partner with #MDPI in New National Agreement
Over 100 German Universities Partner with MDPI in New National Agreement
More than 100 German universities and research institutions have entered into a national agreement with MDPI. The publication agreement negotiated...
buff.ly
December 21, 2024 at 12:25 AM
This is a catastrophe. While Finland has downgraded the MDPI and Frontiers journals to level 0 (meaning these publications are not recognized for research evaluation purposes), Germany has signed an agreement to promote publications in MDPI journals.
Another great reason to never publish in an MDPI journal
MDPI nudges research integrity checks to AI www.eurekalert.org/news-release...
MDPI rolls out AI-powered ethics checks across all submissions
MDPI, the open access publisher, has today announced the full deployment of its in-house AI-powered research integrity system, Ethicality. The tool is now being used to automatically screen all manusc...
www.eurekalert.org
June 21, 2026 at 12:25 AM
Another great reason to never publish in an MDPI journal
For those unfamiliar, MDPI has had a mixed reputation at best, and increasingly is viewed negatively as a paper publisher (there are a few exceptions among individual journals).
www.predatoryjournals.org/news/is-mdpi...
www.predatoryjournals.org/news/is-mdpi...
Predatory Journals - Is MDPI Predatory
Is MDPI Predatory?
www.predatoryjournals.org
September 17, 2026 at 11:45 AM
For those unfamiliar, MDPI has had a mixed reputation at best, and increasingly is viewed negatively as a paper publisher (there are a few exceptions among individual journals).
www.predatoryjournals.org/news/is-mdpi...
www.predatoryjournals.org/news/is-mdpi...
When even MDPI decides your article needs to be retracted…woof.
This paper I blogged on yonks ago - “Comparison of Recently Proposed Causes of Climate Change” - has now been retracted.
diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2023/08/17/y...
diagrammonkey.wordpress.com/2023/08/17/y...
Yet another eminent scientist
MDPI journals have become a clearing house for the kind of nonsense you can’t peddle through a reputable journal. Received on 23 June and published on the 3 August, the latest accretion of ba…
diagrammonkey.wordpress.com
September 17, 2026 at 11:42 AM
When even MDPI decides your article needs to be retracted…woof.
Let's crowdsource and find ideas for new MDPI journals! Send your proposals below.
November 18, 2024 at 1:24 PM
Let's crowdsource and find ideas for new MDPI journals! Send your proposals below.
I am not regretting my decision a few years ago to block all Frontiers emails/accounts (and MDPI). Thanks for sharing.
June 10, 2026 at 10:36 PM
I am not regretting my decision a few years ago to block all Frontiers emails/accounts (and MDPI). Thanks for sharing.
“A fraudulent e-mail might look like an MDPI account” let me stop you right there
We received this email forwarded to us at the university, and it is somewhat odd and amusing on several levels.
#ScientificPublishing
#ScientificPublishing
March 25, 2026 at 10:40 AM
“A fraudulent e-mail might look like an MDPI account” let me stop you right there
4. It's most common in MDPI journals, least common in PLOS journals.
June 3, 2026 at 10:57 PM
4. It's most common in MDPI journals, least common in PLOS journals.
Friends don’t ask friends to submit to their MDPI special issue
September 20, 2023 at 11:15 AM
Friends don’t ask friends to submit to their MDPI special issue
This fucking creepy AI journal cover from MDPI 🤮
December 14, 2024 at 12:46 PM
This fucking creepy AI journal cover from MDPI 🤮
Lol. MDPI not even trying...
September 9, 2026 at 9:58 PM
Lol. MDPI not even trying...
No paper from me or my lab will ever be submitted to an MDPI journal - including any of their superfluous "special issues". I will very rarely (if ever) cite MDPI papers. And I will never review for them. deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/08/gues...
The same goes for FrontiersIn journals, among others.
The same goes for FrontiersIn journals, among others.
December 16, 2025 at 4:21 AM
No paper from me or my lab will ever be submitted to an MDPI journal - including any of their superfluous "special issues". I will very rarely (if ever) cite MDPI papers. And I will never review for them. deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/08/gues...
The same goes for FrontiersIn journals, among others.
The same goes for FrontiersIn journals, among others.
Last week, Finland's Publication Forum announced that it is downgrading its classification of 271 journals to the lowest level, zero. This includes 187 MDPI and 82 Frontiers journals.
Read more by @deevybee.bsky.social here:
Read more by @deevybee.bsky.social here:
Finland vs. Germany: the case of MDPI
It's been an odd week for the academic publisher MDPI. On 16th December, Finland's Publication Forum (known as JUFO) announced that from J...
deevybee.blogspot.com
December 23, 2024 at 3:41 PM
Last week, Finland's Publication Forum announced that it is downgrading its classification of 271 journals to the lowest level, zero. This includes 187 MDPI and 82 Frontiers journals.
Read more by @deevybee.bsky.social here:
Read more by @deevybee.bsky.social here:
Springer-Nature launched a series of "Discover" journals that closely mimic MDPI titles -- sharing *identical* journal names, and likely similar business model.
What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it?
A 🧵
the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...
What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it?
A 🧵
the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...
Springer Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing
Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro
the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io
June 15, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Springer-Nature launched a series of "Discover" journals that closely mimic MDPI titles -- sharing *identical* journal names, and likely similar business model.
What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it?
A 🧵
the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...
What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it?
A 🧵
the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...
Live footage from the MDPI headquarters.
September 30, 2024 at 3:19 AM
Live footage from the MDPI headquarters.
This is taxpayer money, going to for-profit companies to stop them from paywalling factual information
(also MDPI?!)
(also MDPI?!)
January 26, 2025 at 10:21 PM
This is taxpayer money, going to for-profit companies to stop them from paywalling factual information
(also MDPI?!)
(also MDPI?!)
When you see a cool paper in an MDPI journal
March 14, 2025 at 1:57 PM
When you see a cool paper in an MDPI journal
Came to say this. Frontiers and MDPI are ghastly. Increasingly, Elsevier too.
June 11, 2026 at 1:46 AM
Came to say this. Frontiers and MDPI are ghastly. Increasingly, Elsevier too.
Remember when MDPI used questionable practices to siphon traffic from big five publishers’ journals? Never thought I’d see the shoe on the other foot.
Springer-Nature launched a series of "Discover" journals that closely mimic MDPI titles -- sharing *identical* journal names, and likely similar business model.
What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it?
A 🧵
the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...
What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it?
A 🧵
the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...
Springer Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing
Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro
the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io
June 16, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Remember when MDPI used questionable practices to siphon traffic from big five publishers’ journals? Never thought I’d see the shoe on the other foot.
New blogpost: gobbledegook papers as canaries in the coalmine- and more bad news for MDPI
deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/01/toma...
deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/01/toma...
Tomatoes roaming the fields and canaries in the coalmine: another embarrassing paper for MDPI
Many publishers are getting nervous about infiltration by paper mills, who can torpedo a journal's reputation when they succeed in publis...
deevybee.blogspot.com
January 18, 2025 at 3:51 PM
New blogpost: gobbledegook papers as canaries in the coalmine- and more bad news for MDPI
deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/01/toma...
deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/01/toma...