Global InformationMDPI information
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| Status | Active |
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| Founded | 1996 |
| Country of origin |
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| Headquarters location | Basel, Switzerland |
| Distribution | Worldwide |
| Key people | Shu-Kun Lin |
| Publication types | Open access scientific journals |
| No. of employees | 6,750 (in 2022)[1] |
| Official website | mdpi |
MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute) is a publisher of open-access scientific journals. It publishes over 390 peer-reviewed, open access journals.[2][3] MDPI is among the largest publishers in the world in terms of journal article output,[4][5] and is the largest publisher of open access articles.[6]
It was founded by Shu-Kun Lin as a chemical sample archive.[7] Between 2016 and 2020, the number of peer-reviewed papers published by MDPI grew significantly, with year-over-year growth of over 50% in 2017, 2018 and 2019,[6] attracting attention to their very fast article processing times.[4][8][9] In a review of 26 open-access "mega-journals" that published over 3,500 papers in 2022, 11 (42%) of the journals were from MDPI.[10] Besides launching its own journals, MDPI has acquired journals from other publishers, such as Tomography from Grapho Publications in 2021,[11] and Nursing Reports[12] and Audiology Research[13] from PagePress Publications in 2020.
As of January 2024, MDPI publishes 433 academic journals, including 92 journals indexed within the Science Citation Index Expanded, 7 journals indexed within the Social Sciences Citation Index,[14] 138 journals listed in SciFinder,[15] and 270 in Scopus.[16] Its journals are included in the DOAJ.[17] MDPI also publishes open access books indexed in DOAB, OAPEN and BCI.[18] It is a member of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association,[19] a participating publisher and supporter of the Initiative for Open Citations,[20] and is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).[21]
MDPI's business model is based on establishing entirely open access broad-discipline journals, with fast processing times from submission to publication and article processing charges paid by the author, their institutions or funders.[6] MDPI's business practices have attracted controversy,[22][23] with critics suggesting it sacrifices editorial and academic rigor in favor of operational speed and business interests.[4][8][24] MDPI was included on Jeffrey Beall's list of predatory open access publishing companies in 2014[25][26] but was removed in 2015 following a successful appeal[23][25] while applying pressure on Beall's employer.[27] Some journals published by MDPI have also been noted by the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Norwegian Scientific Index for lack of rigor and possible predatory practices.[28][29][30]
- ^ "History of MDPI". MDPI. 2022. Retrieved 26 July 2023.
- ^ Fosso, Olav Bjarte; Nøland, Jonas Kristiansen (6 January 2020). "Forskere blir ledet til etiske overtramp" [Researchers are led into ethical transgressions]. Universitetsavisa.
- ^ "MDPI | Journals A–Z". www.mdpi.com. Retrieved 25 February 2022.
- ^ a b c Petrou, Christos (8 November 2022). "Guest Post – Publishing Fast and Slow: A Review of Publishing Speed in the Last Decade". The Scholarly Kitchen. Retrieved 30 December 2022.
- ^ Csomós, György; Farkas, Jenő Zsolt (14 November 2022). "Understanding the increasing market share of the academic publisher "Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute" in the publication output of Central and Eastern European countries: a case study of Hungary". Scientometrics. 128: 803–824. doi:10.1007/s11192-022-04586-1. ISSN 1588-2861. S2CID 253535738.
- ^ a b c "Guest Post – MDPI's Remarkable Growth". The Scholarly Kitchen. 10 August 2020. Retrieved 1 March 2021.
- ^ Lin, S.-K. (2005), Lichtfouse, Eric; Schwarzbauer, Jan; Robert, Didier (eds.), "Chemical Samples Recycling: The MDPI Samples Preservation and Exchange Project", Environmental Chemistry, Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, pp. 585–590, doi:10.1007/3-540-26531-7_53, ISBN 978-3-540-22860-8, retrieved 7 February 2024
- ^ a b Crosetto, Paolo (12 April 2021). "Is MDPI a predatory publisher?". Paolo Crosetto's Blog. Retrieved 30 December 2022.
- ^ "Quality questions as publisher's growth challenges big players". Times Higher Education (THE). 15 March 2023. Retrieved 18 March 2023.
- ^ Ioannidis, John P. A.; Pezzullo, Angelo Maria; Boccia, Stefania (20 March 2023). "The Rapid Growth of Mega-Journals: Threats and Opportunities". JAMA. 329 (15): 1253–1254. doi:10.1001/jama.2023.3212. PMID 36939740. S2CID 257630165.
- ^ Publisher’s note: Continued publication of tomography by MDPI. 2021. Tomography. 7/1, 65. F. Vazquez. doi: 10.3390/tomography7010006
- ^ Publisher’s note: Continued publication of nursing reports by mdpi. 2020. Nurs Rep. 10/1, 1. F. Vazquez. doi: 10.3390/nursrep10010001.
- ^ Publisher’s Note: Continued Publication of Audiology Research by MDPI. 2020. Audiol Res. 10/2, 49. S.K. Lin, U. Vicario, F. Vazquez. doi: 10.3390/audiolres10020008.
- ^ "Web of Science Master Journal List". Web of Science Group, a Clarivate company. Retrieved 25 July 2023.
- ^ "SciFinderⁿ Login".
- ^ "Scopus preview - Scopus - Sources".
- ^ DOAJ. "Directory of Open Access Journals". doaj.org. Retrieved 31 March 2020.
- ^ "Information". www.mdpi.com. Retrieved 29 January 2024.
- ^ "OASPA Members". Retrieved 1 September 2019.
- ^ "Initiative for Open Citations". Retrieved 1 September 2019.
- ^ "COPE: MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute), 190 Member Journals". Retrieved 1 September 2019.
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- ^ "There is no black and white definition of predatory publishing". Impact of Social Sciences. 13 May 2020. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
- ^ a b Gillis, Alex (12 January 2017). "Beware! Academics are getting reeled in by scam journals". University Affairs.
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- ^ "Vi innfører nivå X for tvilsomme tidsskrifter" [We are introducing level X for dubious journals]. Khrono. 27 May 2021. Retrieved 27 May 2021.
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