McDermitt Caldera in Oregon is attracting attention for what could be one of the largest lithium deposits ever identified in the U.S.
    • thebestaquaman@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 hours ago

      Thanks, I hadn’t caught that!

      Beall also claimed that MDPI used email spam to solicit manuscripts

      I can confirm - this is what I’ve been experiencing after publishing with them once.

      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.”

      Yep, this is really bad, and something I definitely should have known.

      MDPI even asked Jeffrey Beall, the author of Beall’s list of predatory publishers, to edit a Special Issue in a field that is not his own.

      Yea, I’m never publishing with these guys again. I probably wouldn’t have anyway, because the email-spam has been so annoying, but now I definitely won’t.

      For anyone interested in predatory publishing practices, the link is a pretty good and in-depth read.