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

    👉 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