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Your question perfectly illustrated my point. He left Louisville 25 years ago. The incident remained undisclosed until a couple of months ago, after his public donation to Fang’s website, thanks to the...
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What incident? Can you describe it fully? If he left 25 years ago, how can there be a record on the internet? Thanks.
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I just received an invitation to publish with them, for $3000. Have never heard of this journal and doubt many would see an article in it. So I’ll pass…
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First of all, I don’t believe that the incident itself has any bearing on whether MDPI is a legitimate publisher. The University never made it public. However, in 2002 an anonymous person posted a...
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I have just received an SMS message from a MDPI Editor to come to this forum and to defend MDPI. So, I have just landed in this forum, but I will not speak like an under-control robot, but as a free...
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Thank you for this very helpful comment.
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Dear Jinhai: You seem very happy with MDPI, and that’s fine. You are free to like it, and I am free to classify it as questionable. Because you seem to like it so much, I encourage you to publish your...
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http://www.sciacademypublisher.com/ appears to be out-of-business now.
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Also note that the publication frequency has exploded to 10 papers per year from a few in just two years. Should one look also for (self) plagiarism?
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Cool down please! Nothing happened. This journal’s list is not God’s list. The actual quality of a journal can only be determined in two ways: 1. Give the published article to an expert of that area,...
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The news story that supposedly backs up what you said about a Nobel Laureate not knowing he was on the editorial board of an MDPI journal should have checked its sources, as you should have too. An...
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As Jinhai Gao says: (February 19, 2014 at 11:23 AM) “a ferocious war against one of the “science cops”, Fang Shimin.” Just check what the so-called “science cop” did in his own first-authored...
View ArticleComment on List of Predatory Publishers 2014 by Lachezar Filchev
I submit to MDPI two years ago – and since then I told myself I will not repeat it again. Everything was OK – the journal was brand new, without an IF and of course with the appealing waiver of...
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MDPI is a bogus publisher. They charge 300 CHF just to fix the format of your paper. This makes the publisher 5 times predatory one. Avoid any relation with MDPI predatory company and the chinese mafia...
View ArticleComment on Lambert Academic Publishing: A Must to Avoid by Line Fricke
Thanks for this post. I just graduated my Master’s to weeks ago and just received an email from them with a request to publish my thesis. I was suspicious for two reasons (I) seems a liiiittle to easy...
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We picked MDPI’s Journal of Marine Science and Engineering for the publishing selected papers from the 13th International Conference on Estuarine and Coastal Modeling, and as one of the special issue...
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Jeff, I don’t know how you came up with your conclusion that I am happy with MDPI. I have never published or reviewed a paper in its journals, not on any of its editorial boards. I am not defending...
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Have you ever published a scholarly paper anywhere? Who are you? I think you were smart not to ever publish in an MDPI journal, and your actions are very telling.
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How much did they charge per paper?
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Terry, thanks for this correction. It looks like they changed model. I am seeing a new category of journals like this. Their content is not open-access, and the only way to access them is through...
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