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#MDPI publication: "User Preferences for Cartographic Presentation in Tourist Information Search Across Geographic Scales"

The research examines the link between the type of tourist information that is searched for and the graphical level of abstraction, as well as geographic scale.

Conclusion: a single type of map that could be useful doesn't exist and different map styles are necessary, depending on the situation.

I'm glad there is a study to demonstrate that. 🤣

https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/15/3/107

Just a reminder, we not only wrote about the profiteering nature of the Springer-Nature Discover journal series, but we made a "guess the publisher" game! hal.science/hal-05113253 Game by @[email protected] pagoba.shinyapps.io/publi_guess/ #OpenAccess #AcademicSky #FoSci #MDPI #SciPub

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Springer Nature Discovers MDPI

Just a reminder, we not only wrote about the profiteering nature of the Springer-Nature Discover journal series, but we made a "guess the publisher" game! hal.science/hal-05113253 Game by @[email protected] pagoba.shinyapps.io/publi_guess/ #OpenAccess #AcademicSky #FoSci #MDPI #SciPub

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Springer Nature Discovers MDPI

If you're unsure what to map in #OpenStreetMap for #accessibility, this #MDPI article may help you: "Identifying Key Environmental Factors Influencing Wheelchair Navigation"

Read it: https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/15/2/75

„Nach einer kurzen Vorstellungsrunde führte Herr Roth in die Präsentation des Verlags ein, der durchaus polarisiere und für viele ein Kuriosum sei. Vor fast 30 Jahren als Außenseiter außerhalb des klassischen Subskriptionssystems tradierter Verlage angetreten, werde MDPI mit zunehmendem Erfolg trotz hoher Nachfrage von einem Teil der Forschenden auch misstrauisch begegnet. Ein Beispiel sei der deutschsprachige Wikipedia-Eintrag zu #MDPI, dessen Diskussionsverlauf tatsächlich den Eindruck erwecken kann, dass er stark auf Kritik fokussiert und weniger auf Aspekte, die eine neutralere Beurteilung erlauben. Auch sei MDPI auf einer anonym betriebenen Webseite, die sich als seriöses Informationsportal ausgab, jedoch kriminelle Machenschaften verfolgte, als #Raubverlag gelistet gewesen.“

https://blog.ub.uni-kassel.de/blog/2025/12/17/mit-mdpi-im-dialog-ein-bericht-vom-transparenzworkshop-an-der-ub-kassel/

Far from enforcing their policies, publishers *hide* PISS. We learned most publisher policies ACTIVELY hide PISS by altering article metadata post-hoc. At a *minimum* #Frontiers, #Elsevier, #MDPI all do it publicly! Yikes. 🤯 Thanks to @[email protected] et al. for noting this (see pics). 11/n

In fact we actually saw pretty similar rates of PISS across all publishers tested: #MDPI, #Frontiers, #BMC, #Discover, but also the non-profit RSoc. Give authors a chance to guest edit and they'll PISS. Relative rate: 1 in 7 editors PISS 😬 Still, the real problem is about ABSOLUTE quantity... 6/n

In the strain on scientific publishing, we showed that total publications have grown out of control. A huge part of that was guest edited special issues by groups like #MDPI and #Frontiers. This ongoing practice is the largest delegation of editorial power academia has ever seen. 2/n

The strain on scientific publi...

Most journals practice special issues fairly responsibly. But it's the worst offenders that contribute most of the PISS. ~90% of PISS in our data come from just 150/904 journals. And it's exactly who you think it is. #MDPI #Frontiers 13/n

#Peer_review is one of the key stones of trust in #SchollComm. This blogpost by a researcher about here experience being a reviewer for #MDPI is interesting for those considering publishing, reading or reviewing for such journals

https://deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/08/guest-post-my-experience-as-reviewer.html

#Peer_review is one of the key stones of trust in #SchollComm. This blogpost by a researcher about here experience being a reviewer for #MDPI is interesting for those considering publishing, reading or reviewing for such journals

https://deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/08/guest-post-my-experience-as-reviewer.html

#Peer_review is one of the key stones of trust in #SchollComm. This blogpost by a researcher about here experience being a reviewer for #MDPI is interesting for those considering publishing, reading or reviewing for such journals

https://deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/08/guest-post-my-experience-as-reviewer.html

#Peer_review is one of the key stones of trust in #SchollComm. This blogpost by a researcher about here experience being a reviewer for #MDPI is interesting for those considering publishing, reading or reviewing for such journals

https://deevybee.blogspot.com/2024/08/guest-post-my-experience-as-reviewer.html

I recently met somebody actually working for #MDPI and before figuring that out, I was tricked by their partner into insult #MDPIgarbage.
Long story short, I consoled them that at least they weren't working for #Elsevier.

But they seemed really nice and extremely unhappy to be stuck with a terrible employer due to economic circumstances.

#AcademicChatter #PhDLife #PostDocLife

„Bug in #springernature metadata may be causing ‘significant, systemic’ citation inflation“
Mit aktuellem Kommentar des CTO von #MDPI
#bibliometrics

via @sinensetin und @jagusch

https://retractionwatch.com/2025/11/11/bug-in-springer-nature-metadata-may-be-causing-significant-systemic-citation-inflation/

🌍 Excited to welcome MDPI as a sponsor of #MuninConference2025! 🎉 A pioneer in #OpenAccess publishing, MDPI shares our commitment at UiT to openness, collaboration, and knowledge for a sustainable future in the Arctic and beyond. ❄️📚 #OpenScience #Research #MDPI

Holy shit, it (finally) happened: Someone (I have nothing to do with) cited a paper of mine. 😱

Okay, it's an #MDPI paper¹, but I'll take that.

For nearly 8 years of #PhDLife now (looks like I'll be done in spring 💪), this feels a bit... underwhelming, I guess. But that's how it is when you work on a super niche #PhD topic (#CO2 emissions from mofettes) and basically as a one-man-show with no consortia or big projects behind it.

¹https://doi.org/10.3390/geosciences15090368

#academicChatter

Example 3 (#MDPI):
Zou, Y., Wang, D., Qu, Y., Liu, H., Jia, A., & Hong, B. (2025). A Magnetron Plasma Arc Fusion Identification Study Based on GPCC-CNN-SVM Multi-Source Signal Fusion. Sensors, 25(10), 2996. https://doi.org/10.3390/s25102996

Thats's it so far, only 3 examples. I bet there will be much more in the next months, if #Deepl does not fix that.

#AI #AIslop #ScholarlyCommunication

Example 2 (#MDPI):
Li, X., Yue, H., Qin, Y., & Zhang, H. (2025). Extension Distance-Driven K-Means: A Novel Clustering Framework for Fan-Shaped Data Distributions. Mathematics, 13(15), 2525. https://doi.org/10.3390/math13152525

Does not seem like anyone read, reviewed and corrected this at all. Not my domain, but this sentence just does not fit there at all.

Submitting something to an #MDPI journal? Maybe think again 👇
http://deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/07/trouble-at-t-review-mill-how-mdpi-lets.html

The next day I receive an invite to guest edit a special issue, impact factor in subject. First off, do we honestly need more special issues!? 🤨
Then, the tentative title suggests a field of science that only slightly links to my expertise, 7+ years ago. A reminder email mentioning my "expertise and reputation in this field" apparently is meant to convince me otherwise.

ACP charge for one paper waived, ACP discounts for other papers, if I arrange enough papers they can print me a book.

#mdpi

First time that I'm involved in an #mdpi submission, and my my, just the first n emails from them are "interesting".

Paper submitted by a former colleague; I'm somewhere in the middle of the authors list.
At the same time stamp, an automated reply offering "30% discount on professional English language editing". Not because the paper is badly written, since they have not had time to read the actual paper. Generating income, I guess?

@deevybee really no one should publish with #MDPI

I am a member of the German Association for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (to stay in the loop and be able to attend conferences). Today, I received an email from them distributing a mail from FEBS letters. They remind us scientists that they (the FEBS association) use their revenue from the journals to support meetings, fund fellowships, courses, etc.

They state that German scientists seem rather to publish with PLOS, Elsevier and MDPI. Now, while we can certainly all agree that publishing with #Elsevier and #MDPI is NOT a good idea.

Yet, FEBS' APCs are so high, that my uni would not support publishing with them. 🤷‍♂️

#academicpublishing #academicchatter

"Springer Nature Discovers MDPI" https://the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/posts/discover_nature/ #OpenAccess #Springer #Nature #MDPI
[via @aufdroeseler]

New publication on persistent atrial fibrillation and cardioversion outcomes
Can signal complexity help predict early recurrence after electrical cardioversion?

We explored this question using Multi-Scale Entropy (MSE) on ECG signals.

https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/1874651

#cardiology #Afib #Electrophyisiology #ComplexityScience #AtrialFibrillation #cardioversion #SignalProcessing #BiomedicalEngineering #URJC #mdpi #OpenAccess #OA #AfibResearch #MedScience #MastodonMed #AcademicResearch

Just had a paper co-written with a colleague accepted by #MDPI's Cosmology Issue. Mixed feelings about this publisher, but in this case (and tbh also in the previous case I recently had) the overall reviewing process was tougher than I had in more standard journals (A&A, MNRAS):

3 reports by 3 different reviewer:
Ref1 - 8 shallow points/comments
Ref2 - ~60(!) different points/comments
Ref3 - 9 + 2 points/comments spread in two rounds.

Other experiences?

#astronomy #astrodon #science

MDPI as a corruption indicator? A new preprint shows a striking trend across Europe 🇪🇺: more MDPI papers → higher perceived corruption → lower innovation.

👉 https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.06282v1

It’s not that MDPI = bad. But when it dominates, it signals a broken system chasing quantity over quality.

Ukraine? 🇺🇦 Not in the study, but we see the same rise of #MDPI. We could build better. Instead, we copy the worst.

#AcademicPublishing #SciencePolicy #ResearchAssessment #Bibliometrics #CorruptionIndex

📢 New Paper Alert!

Using Citizen Science Data as Pre-Training for #Semantic #Segmentation of High-Resolution #UAV Images for Natural #Forests Post-Disturbance Assessment

Paper 📄: https://doi.org/10.3390/f16040616
Blog post 🌐: https://damienlarocque.gitlab.io/blog/forests2025
Code 💻: https://github.com/norlab-ulaval/droneSegmentation

#AI #RemoteSensing #ComputerVision #Research #MDPI

A new paper published on #MDPI titled "#OpenStreetMap as the Data Source for Territorial Innovation Potential Assessment" concludes that "OSM-based assessments provide spatially detailed targeted, flexible, and replicable insights into regional innovation potential compared to traditional methods. However, the limitations of crowdsourced data, such as variability in quality and completeness, are acknowledged."

https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/14/3/127

@rmounce Should #MDPI be considered a Scopus competitor? They sure try.
https://www.scilit.com/

Endspurt: Noch bis Freitag läuft eine NRW-weite Umfrage zur Qualität einiger wissenschaftlicher Verlage: https://www.ulb.uni-muenster.de/fachblog/archiv/9003
Wir wünschen uns zahlreiche Teilnahmen, um unsere Überlegungen zu Services v.a. rund um #OpenAccess weiter verbessern zu können!
#DeGruyter #Elsevier #Frontiers #MDPI #SpringerNature #TaylorFrancis #Wiley

@tg9541

I'd call Levin "one of the worst.". Master-bullshitter. A sign of the times: even in science, it is mainly shamelessness that will get you noted and promoted these days.

And he *will* get this published, even if it's in one of these shitty #MDPI spam journals he likes so much.

There is system behind this apparent madness. And it works like a charm in these deluded times. People crave a optimist "visionary."

Steve Bannon, on the other hand, calls it "flooding the zone with shit."

Auf der gefallenen Kurznachrichtenplattform (Twitter) habe ich eben Werbung für #MDPI #OpenAccess gesehen, die ihr Open-Access-Agreement für 60+ britische Universitäten und Forschungseinrichtungen nach Verhandlungen mit #Jisc bis Ende 2025 verlängert haben.

Vielleicht eine nette anekdotische Illustration für eine Präsentation :)

💣💣 Call for Papers for IDEAS 2025.
🗺️ Location: School of Computing at Newcastle University
📅 When: 14ᵗʰ - 16ᵗʰ of July, 2025

📌 Submission Deadline: 15ᵗʰ of May, 2025
🔔 Notification of Acceptance: 13ᵗʰ of June, 2025

The annual IDEAS conference is a top international forum for data engineering researchers, practitioners, developers, and application users to explore revolutionary ideas and results and exchange techniques, tools, and experiences. We invite the participation of all interested in this event, which provides insight into original research contributions relating to all aspects of #databaseengineering defined broadly, and particularly topics of emerging interest describing work on integrating new #technologies into #products and #applications, on experiences with existing and novel techniques, and on the identification of unsolved #challenges.

For the time being, we will have the honour of presenting an invited talk by Jim Webber from Neo4j, and we will also have an #EDI session organized by Laura Heels, so do not miss this! I will update you all via my social media for new exciting updates.

More information concerning the CfP can be found on the Conference Website: https://lnkd.in/dEFJ8dGZ. We are also welcoming Sponsoring Opportunities for companies, for which do not hesitate to contact me (more information on: https://lnkd.in/dPbu7H27)

Selected papers will be invited to an #MDPI Information Special Issue (https://lnkd.in/dXrM-zhE).

So, what are you waiting for? Plan ahead for your next paper. I hope to see you all soon in Newcastle!!!

#databases #bigdata #datamining #informationsystems #verifiedartificialintelligence #xai

An interesting study on the percentage of Eurpean #openacccess publications in #MDPI journals. There are significant differences between counties and a clear correlation with the rank of the University.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.06282

@gkalinkat @SciMag

To clarify: I think these #mdpi #frontiers #SciRep should be treated as #preprints. I agree there are some really good preprints!

Regarding options for #openreview publishing, there's now @PeerCommunityIn and @PeerCommunityJournal for many fields!

@gkalinkat @SciMag

To clarify: I think these #mdpi #frontiers #SciRep should be treated as #preprints. I agree there are some really good preprints!

Regarding options for #openreview publishing, there's now @PeerCommunityIn and @PeerCommunityJournal for many fields!

@gkalinkat @SciMag

To clarify: I think these #mdpi #frontiers #SciRep should be treated as #preprints. I agree there are some really good preprints!

Regarding options for #openreview publishing, there's now @PeerCommunityIn and @PeerCommunityJournal for many fields!

@gkalinkat @SciMag

To clarify: I think these #mdpi #frontiers #SciRep should be treated as #preprints. I agree there are some really good preprints!

Regarding options for #openreview publishing, there's now @PeerCommunityIn and @PeerCommunityJournal for many fields!

@gkalinkat @SciMag

To clarify: I think these #mdpi #frontiers #SciRep should be treated as #preprints. I agree there are some really good preprints!

Regarding options for #openreview publishing, there's now @PeerCommunityIn and @PeerCommunityJournal for many fields!

@SciMag is alarmed that low quality articles are flawing #SystematicReviews.

One solution is to only include studies that are in #opendata.

Another is to ignore #predatory and journals in the "gray zone" (e.g. all #MDPI, #Frontiers, #ScientificReports, etc.) as we already do in evaluation committees.

https://www.science.org/content/article/systematic-reviews-aim-extract-broad-conclusions-many-studies-are-peril

Our dialogue with Vasyl Cernat regarding Romania's evaluation reform continues in the pages of #Scientometrics. Dr. Cernat argues that MDPI’s practices - such as inflated impact factors, an abundance of special issues, low rejection rates, and rapid manuscript processing times - raise questions about the quality of 🇷🇴 publications:

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-024-05187-w

#ImpactFactor #ResearchPolicy #ResearchFunding #MDPI #journals #Romania

@petersuber MDPI, one of the biggest, if not the biggest fraudulent publisher in academia. It's a nightmare for science. #MDPI #science #academica #academics #publishing

Update. This announcement from #CHORUS and #MDPI spreads the same misinformation about the US federal #OpenAccess policies. https://www.mdpi.com/about/announcements/9226

"The [#NelsonMemo]…shifts library budgets towards supporting #OpenAccess publishing, necessitating reallocation of funds traditionally spent on subscriptions to support the funding of article processing charges (#APCs)."

It necessitates nothing of the kind. The policies require #GreenOA, not APC-based #GoldOA.

#OAintheUSA, #OSTP

From Retraction Watch:
"Six of the main publishing groups have increased the average price for publishing articles by 26.6% in the last four years," according to an APC dataset that was part of a recent paper. 

https://www.eldiario.es/sociedad/mejor-negocio-mundo-editoriales-cientificas-disparan-precios-multiplican-facturacion_1_11532874.html

https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataset.xhtml?persistentId=doi:10.7910/DVN/CR1MMV

https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.08356

#academicpublishing #academia #academicchatter #elsevier #MDPI #PLOS

"Collapse of scientific standards at MDPI journals: a case study"

@deevybee

(adding hashtags :anarchoheart3: )

#AcademicChatter #ScientificPublishing #SciComm #ScientificArticles #PaperMills #MDPI #AcademicPublishers #ScienctificPublications

If you’re interested in how Article Processing Charges (APCs) have changed over the past five years, the data from six major publishers are now available accompanied by a paper on the arXiv with the abstract:

This paper introduces a dataset of article processing charges (APCs) produced from the price lists of six large scholarly publishers – Elsevier, Frontiers, PLOS, MDPI, Springer Nature and Wiley – between 2019 and 2023. APC price lists were downloaded from publisher websites each year as well as via Wayback Machine snapshots to retrieve fees per journal per year. The dataset includes journal metadata, APC collection method, and annual APC price list information in several currencies (USD, EUR, GBP, CHF, JPY, CAD) for 8,712 unique journals and 36,618 journal-year combinations. The dataset was generated to allow for more precise analysis of APCs and can support library collection development and scientometric analysis estimating APCs paid in gold and hybrid OA journals.

There’s even an interactive data explorer here, at which link you can also find this very informative summary graphic:

Surprise, surprise: the vast majority have gone up!

These figures apply to Gold and Hybrid Open Access publications, but not to Diamond Open Access journals which are free to both authors and readers and avoid these rip-off charges. In my opinion research institutions would be much better off investing in Diamond Open Access publishing than sending their hard-earned cash to profiteering outfits such as Elsevier.

https://telescoper.blog/2024/07/10/counting-the-cost-of-gold-open-access/

#APC #ArticleProcessingCharges #Elsevier #Frontiers #GoldOpenAccess #MDPI #PLOS #SpringerNature #Wiley

An open dataset of article processing charges from six large scholarly publishers

https://microblogging.infodocs.eu/2024/06/21/an-open-dataset-of-article-processing-charges-from-six-large-scholarly-publishers/

#ArticleprocessingCharges #Elsevier #EricSchares #Frontiers #GoldOpenAccess #JuanPabloAlperin #LeighAnnButler #MadelaineHare #MDPI #MonitoringArticleProcessingCharges #NinaSchnfelder #OpenAccess #OpenAccessPublishing #PLOS #SpringerNatureAndWiley #StefanieHaustein