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How ironic, he still has not reposted his supposed data. Oh well.
And he has no answer to the articles that refute him. Who is being lazy?
As to MDPI, yes, it has problems:
en.wikipedia.org
MDPI was included on Jeffrey Beall's list of predatory open access publishing companies in February 2014.[21] Beall's concern was that "MDPI's warehouse journals contain hundreds of lightly-reviewed articles that are mainly written and published for promotion and tenure purposes rather than to communicate science."[21] Beall also claimed that MDPI used email spam to solicit manuscripts[31] and that the company listed researchers, including Nobel laureates, on their editorial boards without their knowledge.[21] MDPI responded to Beall's claims, seeking to debunk them.[32] Chemist Peter Murray-Rust criticized the inclusion of MDPI in Beall's list, stating that his criticism of the publisher "lacks evidence" and is "irresponsible".[33]
MDPI made a successful appeal to the Beall's list appeals board in October 2015, and was removed from the list.[19][34][35] Even after its removal, Beall remained critical of MDPI; in December 2015 he wrote: "it is clear that MDPI sees peer review as merely a perfunctory step that publishers have to endure before publishing papers and accepting money from the authors," and "it's clear that MDPI's peer review is managed by clueless clerical staff in China."[36][37]
Beall's list was shut down in 2017.[38] Beall later wrote that he had been pressured to shut down the list by his employer University of Colorado Denver and various publishers, specifically mentioning MDPI as a publisher that had "tried to be as annoying as possible to the university so that the officials would get so tired of the emails that they would silence me just to make them stop."[22]
In August 2018, 10 senior editors (including the editor-in-chief) of the journal Nutrients resigned, alleging that MDPI forced the replacement of the editor-in-chief because of his high editorial standards and for resisting pressure to "accept manuscripts of mediocre quality and importance."[18]
In June 2020, the would-be guest editors of a special issue in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Health resigned after being informed by an MDPI representative that a quota of publication-fee exemptions allocated to the special issue could only be given to scholars from developed countries.[44][45]
In 2021, five members of the editorial board of the journal Vaccines resigned after Vaccines published a controversial article that misused data to reach the incorrect conclusion that vaccines against COVID-19 had no clear benefit.[46][47]
In December 2021, the Faculty of Science of the University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice announced that it will stop financial support for publishing in MDPI journals, officially recommended against publishing in or reviewing for MDPI, and warned that publications in MDPI journals might not be taken into account for evaluations of employees and departments.[48] In January 2023, Zhejiang Gongshang University (浙江工商大学) in Hangzhou, China, announced it would no longer include articles published in Hindawi, MDPI, and Frontiers journals when evaluating researcher performance.[49][50]
In December 2020, the Chinese Academy of Sciences published a list of journals that may suffer from issues of scientific quality and other risk characteristics.[25] There were 22 MDPI group journals in the 65 journals given in its initial list. 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.[51] The list was updated in December 2021 and reduced to only 41 journals, of which seven MDPI journals were included.[52]
The article goes on and on. The source clearly has problems.
As to it being "non-profit". It is based in China and forgive me for not trusting the Chinese to make sure that a source of theirs follows the non-profit rules of other countries. I am a bit skeptical about that.
And he has no answer to the articles that refute him. Who is being lazy?
As to MDPI, yes, it has problems:
MDPI - Wikipedia
MDPI was included on Jeffrey Beall's list of predatory open access publishing companies in February 2014.[21] Beall's concern was that "MDPI's warehouse journals contain hundreds of lightly-reviewed articles that are mainly written and published for promotion and tenure purposes rather than to communicate science."[21] Beall also claimed that MDPI used email spam to solicit manuscripts[31] and that the company listed researchers, including Nobel laureates, on their editorial boards without their knowledge.[21] MDPI responded to Beall's claims, seeking to debunk them.[32] Chemist Peter Murray-Rust criticized the inclusion of MDPI in Beall's list, stating that his criticism of the publisher "lacks evidence" and is "irresponsible".[33]
MDPI made a successful appeal to the Beall's list appeals board in October 2015, and was removed from the list.[19][34][35] Even after its removal, Beall remained critical of MDPI; in December 2015 he wrote: "it is clear that MDPI sees peer review as merely a perfunctory step that publishers have to endure before publishing papers and accepting money from the authors," and "it's clear that MDPI's peer review is managed by clueless clerical staff in China."[36][37]
Beall's list was shut down in 2017.[38] Beall later wrote that he had been pressured to shut down the list by his employer University of Colorado Denver and various publishers, specifically mentioning MDPI as a publisher that had "tried to be as annoying as possible to the university so that the officials would get so tired of the emails that they would silence me just to make them stop."[22]
In August 2018, 10 senior editors (including the editor-in-chief) of the journal Nutrients resigned, alleging that MDPI forced the replacement of the editor-in-chief because of his high editorial standards and for resisting pressure to "accept manuscripts of mediocre quality and importance."[18]
In June 2020, the would-be guest editors of a special issue in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Health resigned after being informed by an MDPI representative that a quota of publication-fee exemptions allocated to the special issue could only be given to scholars from developed countries.[44][45]
In 2021, five members of the editorial board of the journal Vaccines resigned after Vaccines published a controversial article that misused data to reach the incorrect conclusion that vaccines against COVID-19 had no clear benefit.[46][47]
In December 2021, the Faculty of Science of the University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice announced that it will stop financial support for publishing in MDPI journals, officially recommended against publishing in or reviewing for MDPI, and warned that publications in MDPI journals might not be taken into account for evaluations of employees and departments.[48] In January 2023, Zhejiang Gongshang University (浙江工商大学) in Hangzhou, China, announced it would no longer include articles published in Hindawi, MDPI, and Frontiers journals when evaluating researcher performance.[49][50]
In December 2020, the Chinese Academy of Sciences published a list of journals that may suffer from issues of scientific quality and other risk characteristics.[25] There were 22 MDPI group journals in the 65 journals given in its initial list. 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.[51] The list was updated in December 2021 and reduced to only 41 journals, of which seven MDPI journals were included.[52]
The article goes on and on. The source clearly has problems.
As to it being "non-profit". It is based in China and forgive me for not trusting the Chinese to make sure that a source of theirs follows the non-profit rules of other countries. I am a bit skeptical about that.
