According toScopus’ title reevaluation policy, the index identifies “outlier and underperforming journals” for scrutiny based on citation metrics and benchmarks compared to other titles in the same field, when “legitimate” concerns are raised about the journal or publisher, or if Scopus’...
We would have preferred rational discourse so the scientific community could make their own assessment of the issues at hand. Instead, we have to assess the journal’s integrity, or at least their ability to discern that they have been...
MDPI’s median publication time is 40 days from submission to publication, which includes around 16–17 days for a first decision, and just 5 days for final production. However, each paper is unique. Authors can find out more about the publication time of a particular journal by locating tha...
Rapid Publication: manuscripts are peer-reviewed and a first decision is provided to authors approximately 17.6 days after submission; acceptance to publication is undertaken in 2.6 days (median values for papers published in this journal in the first half of 2024). Recognition of Reviewers: APC di...
A predatory journal will exploit this model to its own benefit with an inexistent or practically inexistent peer-review process (Beall 2015; Frandsen 2017; Demir 2018), which permits the rapid publication of academic papers without due guarantees, with an associated risk to the quality of the ...
2. Journal publicationTriaging: Filtering of papers upon submission by internal staff and editorial board members. Organization of peer-review: MDPI provides a high degree of assistance to Academic Editors so that they can only focus on editorial decisions. We employ in-house editors to invite ...
2. Journal publicationTriaging: Filtering of papers upon submission by internal staff and editorial board members. Organization of peer-review: MDPI provides a high degree of assistance to Academic Editors so that they can only focus on editorial decisions. We employ in-house editors to invite ...
“Reject and Encourage Resubmission”, authors may choose to resubmit their manuscript to the same journal in their own time upon completion of comprehensive revisions. Revised manuscripts submitted to the same journal will be assigned a new manuscript ID and linked to the original submission in our...
During the manuscript evaluation, please rate the following aspects: Novelty:Is the question original and well-defined? Do the results provide an advancement of the current knowledge? Scope: Does the work fit the journal scope*? Significance:Are the results interpreted appropriately? Are they signifi...
We read the article ‘Journal citation reports and the definition of a predatory journal: The case of the Multidisciplinary Digital...