In my humble opinion MDPI is a bogus publisher. They have published many plagiarized papers in the past and many papers with counterfeit experiments. They publish several papers per month, they find plagiarism and mistakes and then they retract them. The whole procedure is quite ridiculous. The upload PDF files and after some days they delete them without explanation. A typical blog of a non-scholar is more serious.
Furthermore, MDPI is totally bogus.
In the MDPI web site as it is today, they are bragging that they have teamed up with some important universities:
* 10 February 2014: Institutional Membership with the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
* 5 February 2014: Institutional Membership with the University of Zurich and the University Hospital of Zurich, Switzerland
* 31 January 2014: Institutional Membership with the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC)
All these are lies and bullshit. From time to time they send unsolicited emails that they are in the same team with some important universities.
This is, however, unacceptable, offensive, unethical, and quite unprofessional.
I know very well and I can sign that MDPI has underground routes of black money with several professors and several indexes.
Another example: In this paper:
http://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/7/2/804
they claim
Received: 14 December 2013; in revised form: 14 January 2014
If you calculate 15 days Christmas Holidays, it seems that
time between Received and Revised is 15 days.
It implies (as an average) that Review Time was 7.5 days and Time for Revised Version other 7.5 days.
Is it a real scientific journals with 7.5 days for review only?
MDPI is clearly a good marketing scheme for easy profit.
I also agree that MDPI is bogus and fake publishing industry. Vanity Press. Nothing more.
Greetings
Mateo
