This research received no external funding. Yes you are right. 1 Viruses 1 Vision 1 Water 1 World Electric Vehicle Journal - Arts - Big Data and Cognitive Computing — Open Access Journal - Clocks & Sleep - Corrosion and Materials Degradation - Fishes - Forecasting - J — Open Access Journal of Multidisciplinary Science - Languages - Molbank - Recycling. I even have a screenshot with 0 but now it is again 1. I... Post written by Dr Anja Kanngieser Part 1: Whiteness and research practices and J.A.T.d.S. Mdpi Journals Predatory. here. Fazio, L.K. At the time that I joined the EB of Diagnostics, they solicited a topic from me for a Special Issue; I have not yet proposed a topic for that journal. ; Bales, S.; Sare, L.; Van Duinkerken, W. Format aside: Applying Beall’s criteria to assess the predatory nature of both OA and non-OA library and information science journals. Klicka på meddelandets rubrik och en kommentarsruta öppnas. You are also encouraged to send a short abstract and We used Crawford’s assessment as well as the 2016 ABDC and Cabell’s whitelist and blacklist and found different results than the Study. It is possible that academics may have been “victims”, but that would also imply that Cabell International and ABDC were also victims. For example, I have never published in BMC journals, does it mean that they are predatory journals? Recently I held in my hands a printed copy of the new Fourth Edition of my It can either be a comprehensive review paper or a full I personally know some people who have published in it, and I will definitely consider publishing in MDPI journals on a case by case basis in the future. In the process a number of journals were relocated to MDPI, and since then MDPI’s portfolio of open access journals has grown to 137. ; Bland, J.M. ; supervision, P.T. Without warning, Beall shut his blog down on 15 January 2017. Our dedicated information section provides allows you to learn more about MDPI. 1604 journals and publishers of the 1834 (excluding duplicates) on the 2016 versions have no more than an unstated “trust me” as the reason for avoiding them. ABDC removed seven journals from their 2016 whitelist. However, the first author of this paper (Panagiotis Tsigaris), who works at the same institute as Derek Pyne, could be perceived as biased, in that he has been affected by Pyne’s work, and may have an interest in rebutting his conclusions. 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Hence, we disagree with Pyne’s statements suggesting that the majority of the faculty members at a small Canadian business school published in predatory journals (quote a) and that they knowingly published in Beall’s lists s (quote b). For example, the string of words “predatory publication” in, See, as an example: “Recommendation: Do not do business with the above publishers, including submitting article manuscripts, serving on editorial boards, buying advertising, etc. The Portuguese Society of Materials (SPM), and the Spanish Materials Society (SOCIEMAT) are affiliated with Metals and their members receive a discount on the article processing charges. Al-Khatib, A.; Teixeira da Silva, J.A. and J.A.T.d.S. Thank you Edward for your informative contribution. The experience with the Publishers of that journal has been much the same and I am acting as Co-Editor for a Special Issue for that journal - to be published next year. Please note that many of the page functionalities won't work as expected without javascript enabled. Any explanation? So, I wss at first a bit suspicious about MDPI journals but all of my experience has been more or less the same as with other journals for which I have reviewed or served as Editor. They've been put in and later removed from Beall's list of predatory publishers, but I didn't find anything about Cells specifically. One reason for my absence has been an offer I received to join the ; data curation, P.T. Using a set of established criteria, which were broad and qualitative in nature, Beall began to list hundreds of new POAJs and POAPs annually, and his list of POAPs exceeded 1000 entries at the beginning of 2017. In terms of Beall’s + “not ranked in ABDC list” (the Study’s classification). 2017 (Scopus): 1.44, which equals rank 50/124 (Q2) in the This constitutes approximately 2.2% of the total publications of the 27 research faculty. ; visualization, P.T. As a feature paper, the Article Processing Charges will ; formal analysis, P.T. Hi Matsso please advise is Water a predatory journal. Since Sustainability is drawing authors from many disciplines it is hard to know what best to compare to, for the impact factor. and J.A.T.d.S. ; Rice, D.B. (. A predatory journal is one that will accept virtually any article as long as they are paid to publish that article. Note: It is worth clarifying here that Publons is not an indexing service. Although Beall listed MDPI as a predatory publisher, they are several arguments against listing publishers rather than individual journals. If you want to contribute the name of a predatory journal or publisher, either email us , send us a tweet , or create an issue or pull request for the data files on GitHub. Cabell indicated to the first author by email on 29 December 2017 that they had added one more journal to their blacklist. I am not able to judge.Mats, I just received from Water a message that is (substantively) identical to B Message.Daniel Schiffman, This interesting comment came from Edward Moore in Gothenburg - I made some mistake in the handling so it was not published immedeiately. After reading it I checked the Norwegian Scientific Index and I found MDPI with O. those of the individual authors and contributors and not of the publisher and the editor(s). HAve limited resources to check at the moment given the global situation and work from home is not the norm for me. Anonyma troll göre sig icke besvär! Today, MDPI is included in the Directory of Open Access Journals. Mdpi was included on jeffrey beall s list of predatory open access publishing companies in 2014 but was removed in 2015 following a. “In seven cases out of eight (on the 2016 lists), Beall provides no case whatsoever in his blog: the journal or publisher is in the lists Just Because. 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Olivarez, J.D. Beall’s list of ‘predatory’ open access journals has disappeared but the information isn’t lost: It still exists across many resources - including on Publons. Metals (ISSN 2075-4701; CODEN: MBSEC7) is an international peer-reviewed open access journal published monthly online by MDPI. On the above-mentioned Cabell’s Blacklist currently almost 12,000 so-called predatory journals are listed (Andersen 2019). sci.) So, the issue of congruency between Beall’s lists and Pyne’s lists, and if both focused exclusively on OA journals and publishers, remains unclear. Conceptualization, P.T. Hence, IABE has been under review for almost a year and a half. research paper. The Publishers never sent articles for review if I had indicated that they should not go for review. He defined gray OA journals as “A full survey of journals from open access publishers that aren’t in the Directory of Open Access Journals, using Beall’s lists as a resource.”, Crawford recorded and analyzed 18,910 journals. Unfortunately, Pyne refused to provide the data to the authors of this article when requested in the summer and winter of 2017 and a formal complaint was filed with Pyne’s university in late 2017 requesting this data. This guide is designed to help you determine whether or not a particular journal is predatory. I get harassed to publish by predatory journals probably 15 times per week and MDPI journals have never been among them - and I wouldn't expect them to be. However, a few days ago I checked it again and, astonished, I discovered it is now with a 1. International Journal of Business and Management, Academy of Accounting and Financial Studies Journal, Journal of Academy of Business and Economics, Journal of Business and Economics Research, The Journal of Global Business Management, Journal of International Business and Economics, Journal of International Finance and Economics, Journal of International Financial Studies, The Journal of International Management Studies, International Academic Research Journal of Business and Management, International Business and Economics Research Journal, International Journal of Business Research and Management, International Review of Business Research Papers, Journal of International Business Research, OIDA International Journal on Sustainable Development, The International Journal of Applied Economics and Finance, Journal of Economics and Economic Education Research, Help us to further improve by taking part in this short 5 minute survey, Data2paper: Giving Researchers Credit for Their Data, Ten Hot Topics around Scholarly Publishing, https://doi.org/10.3390/publications7020035, http://walt.lishost.org/2016/01/trust-me-the-other-problem-with-87-of-bealls-lists/, https://scholarlyoa.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/criteria-2012.pdf, https://scholarlyoa.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/criteria-2012-2.pdf, http://beallslist.weebly.com/uploads/3/0/9/5/30958339/criteria-2015.pdf, https://www.mdpi.com/about/announcements/534, https://walt.lishost.org/2016/01/trust-me-the-other-problem-with-87-of-bealls-lists/, https://twitter.com/jeffrey_beall?lang=en, http://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/columnists/pyne-are-universities-complicit-in-predatory-publishing, http://retractionwatch.com/2017/05/09/faculty-publish-predatory-journals-school-become-complicit/, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/30/science/predatory-journals-academics.html, http://www.ep.liu.se/authorinf/pdf/List_of_Predatory_Open-Access_Publishers_2012.pdf, http://www.abdc.edu.au/pages/2016-review.html, https://www.aeaweb.org/econlit/journal_list.php, http://ejbr-journal.org/domains/EJBR-JOURNAL/Default.aspx, https://figshare.com/articles/Gray_OA_2012-2016_Gold_OA_Beyond_DOAJ/4275860, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. B3 was for journals with no articles later than 2013, B4 later than 2014, B5 no 2016 articles, BC merged, BF fewer than three 2016 articles, BR primarily conference proceedings, E empty, UA unknown or hidden APC, XH hybrid, XM malware, XN not OA, Xo opaque and too difficult to count, and XU for unworkable. As Beall recorded more and more cases, his blog rapidly gained popularity. Several of the MDPI journals are highly regarded in their fields, particularly in Remote Sensing/GIS area. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact it again. be fully waived. Before I proposed a special topic, I contacted another Editor that had edited a Special Issue; she told me that the process had gone smoothly and she had been supported by the Publishers. Available online: Pyne, D. The rewards of predatory publishing at a small business school. https://www.researchgate.net/post/Is_MDPI_still_a_predatory_publisher You can check yourself here:https://dbh.nsd.uib.no/publiseringskanaler/KanalForlagInfo.action?id=26778Please, check your source before posting.copy-pasta of the journals listed in the Norwegian database (mostly LVL 1) 1 Administrative Sciences 1 Aerospace 1 Agriculture 1 Agronomy 1 Algorithms 1 Animals 1 Antibiotics 1 Antioxidants 1 Applied Sciences 1 Atmosphere 1 Atoms 1 Axioms 1 Batteries 1 Behavioral Sciences 1 Bioengineering 1 Biology (Basel) 1 Biomolecules 1 Biosensors 1 Brain Sciences 1 Buildings 1 Cancers 1 Catalysts 1 Cells 1 Ceramics 1 Challenges 1 ChemEngineering 1 Chemosensors 1 Children 1 Climate 1 Coatings 1 Colloids and Interfaces 1 Computation 1 Computers 1 Cryptography 1 Crystals 1 Data 1 Designs 1 Diagnostics (Basel) 1 Diseases 1 Diversity 1 Drones 1 Econometrics 1 Economies 1 Education Sciences 1 Electronics 1 Energies 1 Entropy 1 Environments 1 Fibers 1 Fluids 1 Foods 1 Forests 1 Future Internet 1 Galaxies 1 Games 1 Gels 1 Genealogy 1 Genes 1 Geosciences 1 Geriatrics (Basel) 1 Healthcare 1 Heritage — Open Access Journal of Knowledge, Conservation and Management of Cultural and Natural Heritage 1 Humanities 1 Hydrology 1 Informatics 1 Information 1 Inorganics 1 Insects 1 International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 1 International Journal of Financial Studies (IJFS) 1 International Journal of Molecular Sciences 1 International Journal of Turbomachinery, Propulsion and Power 1 ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 1 Journal of Cardiovascular Development and Disease (JCDD) 1 Journal of Clinical Medicine 1 Journal of Composites Science 1 Journal of Functional Biomaterials 1 Journal of Functional Morphology and Kinesiology 1 Journal of fungi (JoF) 1 Journal of Imaging 1 Journal of Intelligence 1 Journal of Low Power Electronics and Applications 1 Journal of Manufacturing and Materials Processing (JMMP) 1 Journal of Marine Science and Engineering 1 Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity 1 Journal of Risk and Financial Management 1 Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks 1 Land 1 LAWS 1 Life 1 Logistics 1 Lubricants 1 Marine Drugs 1 Materials 1 Mathematics 1 Medicina (Kaunas) 1 Membranes 1 Metabolites 1 Metals 1 Micromachines 1 Microorganisms 1 Minerals 1 Molecules 1 Multimodal Technologies and Interaction 1 Nanomaterials 1 Nutrients 1 Pathogens 1 Pharmaceuticals 1 Pharmaceutics 1 Pharmacy 1 Philosophies 1 Photonics 1 Plants 1 Plasma 1 Polymers 1 Proceedings 1 Processes 1 Proteomes 1 Publications 1 Religions 1 Remote Sensing 1 Resources 1 Risks 1 Robotics 1 Safety 1 Scientia pharmaceutica 1 Sensors 1 Social Sciences 1 Societies 1 Sports 1 Sustainability 1 Symmetry 1 Systems 1 Technologies 1 Toxics 1 Toxins 1 Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease 1 Universe 1 Urban Science 1 Vaccines 1 Veterinary Sciences (Vet. Potential predatory scholarly open‑access publishers. This year, I joined the EB of another MDPI journal, Microorganisms. Beall retired in early 2018. The dot points are just marketing gimmicks that even credible publishers employ to attract applications and do not, alone, mean that the journal is predatory. Most journals were in the A category. Almost all publishers under review can be found in Beall’s blacklist of 1163 publishers. The number of predatory journals and papers published in these journals is continuously growing. When I receive a manuscript for consideration to send out for review, it comes with a list of reviewers, selected by the Publishers and also at least 3 suggested by the authors of the manuscript. Be sure to include evidence of predatory behavior. STÅ FÖR DIN ÅSIKT OCH SKRIV UT HELA DITT NAMN! Issues (. So far, in the case of my Special Issue, the Publishers have been efficient in organising everything. Post scriptum april 2020: Read also More on MDPI: Strange antics from LAND - - - - - - - On social media there is a discussion about the... More than a year ago I wrote a blog post Is MDPI a serious publisher or predatory? universitet Propagandan för s.k. and J.A.T.d.S. My comment about the index was only referring to the publishing company not to the individual journals (at the time of my blog post almost a year ago). Buckley had been working to boost the visibility and reputation of Nutrients, a human clinical nutrition journal … We believe that faculty members published in these journals because they preferred an OA choice, even though we detected that some publishers were not OA (e.g., IABE). us. The statements, opinions and data contained in the journals are solely In terms of the business educational journals, In addition, Crawford produced a report on gray OA journals which was based on Beall’s two lists as of 8 July 2016. Mr. Beall also denies the right to defense to those that he attacks. The illicit and illegitimate continued use of Jeffrey Beall’s “predatory” open access black lists. Threats to the survival of the author-pays-journal to publish model. There are numerous traditional, legitimate journals that will publish your quality work for free, including many legitimate, open-access publishers.”, Throughout this paper, we have add inverted commas for the term “predatory” because this term is used widely by so many academics and has come to represent a vast range of journals and publishers with varying academic quality. for publication elsewhere. Beall created two blacklists that would prove to be the subject of great controversy, and both praise and criticism, namely one for POAJs and a separate one for POAPs. Crawford, W. ‘Trust Me’: The Other Problem with 87% of Beall’s Lists. This issue is not clear in his paper. ; project administration, P.T. The increasing number of predatory journals spotted in the UGC list of approved journals is a clear indication that UGC is not equipped to produce and sustain a journal white list. The data required is usually just not there. Thank you for your continuous support in reviewing for Predatory journals: Ban predators from the scientific record. Editors may also suggerst reviewers for the submitted manuscript. Jeffrey Beall’s “predatory” lists must not be used: They are biased, flawed, opaque and inaccurate. Jeffrey Beall: What I learned from predatory publishers the Wikipedia article MDPI ) . Predatory publishing has emerged as a professional problem for academics and their institutions, as well as a broader societal concern.As these journals have proliferated, they have brought to the fore a debate over what constitutes legitimate science, which has been centred on attempts to define and demarcate predatory from non-predatory publications. Were most of the 619 publishers not operational with no content as Crawford found when constructing the GrayOA list from Beall’s list? We found significantly different results with the use of Crawford’s grayOA as well as Cabell’s blacklist, and found that only a small number of publications were potentially questionable. Most of this piece was written in 2017 (probably after another After scanning Crawford’s spreadsheet, it was found that only four journals (see. deadline at, The submitted papers should not be under consideration ; Grudniewicz, A.; Lalu, M.M. 1: Sensitivity and specificity. I hope this 'review' helps people to consider MDPI journals.Edward Moore, Prof of Bacteriology, University of Gothenburg. Beall, J. The Publishers do 'push' reviewers and editors to come to decisions - I think the average time for a review of a manuscript submitted to Diagnostics is about 10 days.MDPI does seem to push the special topics issues - I guess the Special Issues are a money-maker for them. The ethical and academic implications of the Jeffrey Beall (. Mr. Beall’s judgments are therefore to be considered as unreliable, unmethodical and his personal opinions.” See: Crawford did not use the term “predatory” once in his critique of Beall’s blacklists and exclusively used the categories “no”, “weak”, “maybe” and “strong” to identify if Beall had provided clear criteria for those entries (journal or publishers). Since then, I have been contacted about once or twice every 3 months to assess whether an article should go out for review. In a lengthy 2014 memo posted on its website, MDPI refuted all of Mr. Beall’s charges against it as a predatory publisher, including a note that OASPA had confirmed MDPI met its criteria as a legitimate OA publisher. In summary, the faculty members at a small Canadian business school who were profiled by the Study used the 2013 ABDC list and continue to use the 2016 ABDC list. soul-destroying election result) but left in draft and I just came across The 1st edition was published on 4 August 2012: MDPI has expressed serious concerns with Beall’s list: “We wish to conclude by expressing that Mr. Beall’s blacklist in its current form is unnecessary and unreliable.” “Mr. Did Pyne use any hybrid or non-OA journals or publishers for his classification? A study by Shen & Björk (2015) revealed a rise of active predatory journals from 1,800 in 2010 to 8,000 in 2016. Using Crawford’s gray OA list under “strong predatory”, there are only six articles, or eight if we also include the “maybe” category. MDPI is a fully open access publisher, that is, all their journals operate exclusively on the open access model. Altman, D.G. Of these 10 articles, six were published in journals that were ranked in the ABDC list in 2013 while four were from the Beall and unranked category. This page provides the url for Jeffrey Beall's list of suspicious scholarly open-access journals Seven cases out of eight: 87.5%. The Publishers responded to my suggestions in cases of 'conflicting' reviews and have contacted me for assessing articles with 'conflicting' reviews. However, when researchers demonstrate a pattern of publishing in such journals, suspicions increase.” “It can be seen that 75 per cent of traditional faculty who have predatory journal publications have more than one such publication. and J.A.T.d.S. 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