MDPI

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MDPI ( M ultidisciplinary D igital P ublishing I nstitute) is a publisher of scientific Open Access - journals based in Basel in Switzerland . As of August 2019, the publisher is issuing 206 magazines.

MDPI is led by Dr. Shu-Kun Lin leads and attends the M olecular D iversity P reservation I nternational e. V., who had the goal of building up a collection of rare natural substances . To this end, the magazine Molecules was founded in 1996 together with Springer Verlag . In the following year, MDPI took over sole editing of the journal. According to its own information, MDPI has offices in Beijing , Wuhan , Barcelona and Belgrade .

All articles in MDPI journals are under a free Creative Commons license.

Molecular Diversity Preservation International

Collection and storage of natural substances

The registered association Molecular Diversity Preservation International was founded in 1996 by Shu-Kun Lin and Benoit R. Turin in Basel. The aim of this association was to build up and preserve a collection of rare natural substances . This collection was handed over to the MDPI Sustainability Foundation in 2012, whereby the Molecular Diversity Preservation International e. V. was dissolved. The collection and storage of these rare natural substances is currently being supervised by MolMall Sarl on behalf of the MDPI Sustainability Foundation.

Molecules journal

The specialist journal Molecules was founded in 1996 in cooperation with Springer-Verlag to record the documentation of the collected natural substances. It was the first scientific journal of the Open Access Verlag. The journal was focused on synthetic - organic chemistry and natural products, but according to its own information, it covers the entire spectrum of chemistry in 2019.

MDPI AG (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute)

Emergence

MDPI AG, a commercial publisher for open access journals, was founded out of the Molecular Diversity Preservation International Organization. It was officially registered in May 2010 in Basel, Switzerland, by Shu-Kun Lin and Dietrich Rordorf and now operates two offices in China and two further offices in Spain and Serbia in addition to the headquarters in Basel.

MDPI mainly relies on article processing fees to control the review and publication of the scientific articles. MDPI is supported by more than 12,800 active scholars and academic editors. Over 216,400 authors have published with MDPI (as of August 2016). MDPI is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics ( COPE ), the International Association of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers (STM), and the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association ( OASPA ).

Scientific journals

As of August 2019, MDPI publishes 206 academic journals from various subject areas; 136 of them - more than half - are indexed in the scientific database Web of Science . In the Journal Citation Reports , which are run by Thomson Reuters like Web of Science , an impact factor is reported for 59 MDPI journals in 2019, according to MDPI . In addition, according to the MDPI, 63 journals from the field of biomedicine and life sciences are archived in PubMed Central , the largest freely accessible archive for biomedical specialist literature. Articles from 128 journals are also indexed in Scopus and 14 in the Ei Compendex database, which is specialized in engineering .

In accordance with the OASPA guidelines, since 2008 all articles in MDPI journals have been published under the CC-BY license and stored in the digital archives of the Swiss National Library and CLOCKSS.

Controversy

The publisher was rated dubious in February 2014 by Jeffrey Beall , a critic of the proliferation of open access publishing . This assessment was revised in November 2015 after objections from various quarters. This is what chemist Peter Murray-Rust called Beall's criticism irresponsible and not based on facts. A study carried out by the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association in response to Beall's criticism found that MDPI complied with the standards of their organization. After Beall took his list offline, he wrote that Predatory Publishers had put pressure on him, specifically mentioning MDPI as a publisher “trying to be as annoying as possible for the university so that they could manage the emails got so fed up that they would silence [him] to get rid of the problem ”.

Magazines (selection)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b MDPI | Journals A – Z. In: MDPI. MDPI (Basel, Switzerland), accessed on August 19, 2019 (English).
  2. ↑ MDPI | History. In: MDPI. MDPI (Basel, Switzerland), accessed on August 19, 2019 (English).
  3. ↑ a b c MDPI | About. In: MDPI. MDPI (Basel, Switzerland), accessed on August 19, 2019 (English).
  4. ↑ MDPI | Open Access Information. In: MDPI. MDPI (Basel, Switzerland), accessed on August 19, 2019 (English).
  5. ^ Molecular Diversity Preservation International
  6. ^ MDPI Sustainability Foundation
  7. ↑ MolMall. In: MolMall. Molmall Sarl, Lonay, Switzerland, accessed August 19, 2019 .
  8. ↑ MolMall - About us. Retrieved August 19, 2019 .
  9. ^ Molecules. Journal Menu - Aims & Scope - About Molecules. In: MDPI Molecules. MDPI (Basel, Switzerland), accessed on August 19, 2019 (English).
  10. ↑ MDPI | Article Processing Charges (APC) Information and FAQ. In: MDPI. MDPI (Basel, Switzerland), accessed on August 19, 2019 (English).
  11. ↑ Member Record: MDPI AG. In: Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association OASPA. OASPA, accessed August 19, 2019 (UK English).
  12. ↑ Web of Science Master Journal List Beta. In: Web of Science Group, a Clarivate Analytics company. Clarivate Analytics, accessed August 19, 2019 .
  13. ↑ MDPI | Open Access Journals A – Z. 59 SCI-covered journals. In: MDPI. MDPI (Basel, Switzerland), accessed on August 19, 2019 (English).
  14. ↑ MDPI | Journals A – Z. 63 PubMed (NLM) -covered journals. In: MDPI. MDPI (Basel, Switzerland), accessed on August 19, 2019 (English).
  15. ↑ MDPI | Journals A – Z. 128 Scopus (Elsevier) -covered journals. In: MDPI. MDPI (Basel, Switzerland), accessed on August 19, 2019 (English).
  16. ↑ MDPI | Journals A – Z. 14 Egg Compendex-covered journals. In: MDPI. MDPI (Basel, Switzerland), accessed on August 19, 2019 (English).
  17. ↑ clockss.org ( Memento of the original from August 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.clockss.org
  18. ↑ Jeffrey Beall: Chinese Publisher MDPI Added to List of Questionable Publishers. (No longer available online.) In: scholarlyoa.com. November 13, 2015, archived from the original on March 6, 2014 ; Retrieved January 3, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / scholarlyoa.com
  19. ↑ Peter Murray-Rust: Beall's criticism of MDPI lacks evidence and is irresponsible. In: blogs.ch.cam.ac.uk. petermr's, accessed March 21, 2016 .
  20. ↑ Conclusions from OASPA Membership Committee Investigation into MDPI
  21. ↑ Jeffrey Beall: What I learned from predatory publishers . In: Biochemia Medica , 2017, 27, 2, pp. 273–279, PMC 5493177 (free full text)

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