Is MDPI a good journal?

Is MDPI a good journal?

In regard to MDPI , although their peer review is too quick, they also have high rejection rate. I think Sustainability journal actually does a great job. The contents are good and it goes through multiple round of revisions before the journal is accepted.

Is sustainability Mdpi a good journal?

According to the 2019 Journal Citation Reports, the journal’s impact factor is 2.576 (2019) and the 5-Year Impact Factor is 2.798. According to JCR category rank, Sustainability now ranks 120/265 (Q2) in ‘Environmental Sciences’ (SCIE) and 26/41 (Q3) in ‘Green & Sustainable Science & Technology’.

Is it easy to publish in Mdpi?

Quite right, MDPi journals are quite expensive to publish though some have high impact factor. Only plus point is that they complete the review process and publication in a month. predatory journals will accept everything after a fake peer review just to get your money.

Is sustainability Mdpi a predatory Journal?

Sustainability is not a predatory journal. However, publication fee is too much since it is Open Access journal.

Is Mdpi predatory 2020?

MDPI was included on Jeffrey Beall’s list of predatory open access publishing companies in 2014 but was removed in 2015 following a successful appeal and applying pressure to Beall’s employer….MDPI.

Status	Active
No. of employees	3536 (in 2020)
Official website	www.mdpi.com

Is publishing in MDPI free?

MDPI publishes all its journals in full open access, meaning unlimited use and reuse of articles, in addition to giving credit to the authors. are published free of charge.

Is MDPI a reputable journal?

This appears to be a reputable journal. Although Beall listed MDPI as a predatory publisher, they are several arguments against listing publishers rather than individual journals. For example, I have worked with Symmetry, a journal published by MDPI, and I was impressed by their quality of peer-review.

Is mitmdpi a good publisher?

MDPI is a fully open access publisher, that is, all their journals operate exclusively on the open access model. Personally, I have not had any interaction with this publisher; however, the general impression around the journal is slightly uncertain.

Is multidisciplinary digital publishing Institute (MDPI) “predatory”?

The publisher, Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), churns out nearly 160 scholarly journals a year, many of them of mediocre quality, according to Jeffrey Beall, an associate professor and librarian at the University of Colorado Denver, and one of the world’s leading experts on what he calls “predatory” open access publishing.

Is MDPI as bad as it seems?

Very close to it, unfortunately. Me and my fellow researchers made very bad experiences with MDPI journals. Several critical reviews of very able and respected reviewers have been ignored just to get the money from publishing the paper. Often, they advertise with being from Switzerland (e.g. Geosciences [Switzerland]).