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.
Thanks, I hadn’t caught that!
I can confirm - this is what I’ve been experiencing after publishing with them once.
Yep, this is really bad, and something I definitely should have known.
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.