Comment on Chinese Publisher MDPI Added to List of Questionable Publishers by Joel Kinnamann

MDPI is registered in Switzerland, and in China it is treated as a foreign company. What you described is simply a phenomenon of globalisation where international outsourcing of labor is commonplace. What many people fails to realise is that China actually houses quite a few internationally renowned journals, Cell Research for example (IF > 10), is described as “China’s leading journal in the life sciences”. What we should focus on is the quality of the journal, not the origin or where they have most of their employees.