MDPI
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MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute) is a publisher of open-access scientific journals. It publishes over 390 peer-reviewed, open-access journals. MDPI is among the largest publishers in the world in terms of journal article output, and was the largest publisher of open access articles in 2020.
Key facts
- Publisher.name
- MDPI
- Publisher.image
- 100px
- Publisher.status
- Active
- Publisher.founded
- 1996
- Publisher.founder
- Shu-Kun Lin
- Publisher.headquarters
- Basel, Switzerland
- Publisher.distribution
- Worldwide
- Publisher.publications
- Open access scientific journals
- Publisher.numemployees
- 6,750 (in 2022)
via Wikipedia infobox
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Company
- Founded
- 1996
- Location
- Basel, Switzerland
- Also known as
- MDPI, Molecular Diversity Preservation International
- Status
- Active
GRID grid.431496.d · ISNI 0000 0000 8721 8088
Wikidata facts
- Country
- Switzerland
- Headquarters
- Basel
- Legal form
- joint-stock company
- Official website
- www.mdpi.com
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- inception
- 1996-06-00
- Commons category
- Media from MDPI journals
- Alexa rank
- 3397
- social media followers
- 14614
- short name
- MDPI
- privacy policy URL
- www.mdpi.com/about/data-protection
- official blog URL
- blog.mdpi.com
- location of formation
- Basel
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Encyclopedic overview
23 sectionsContents
- History
- Molecular Diversity Preservation International
- MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute)
- Challenges
- Who's Afraid of Peer Review?
- Inclusion in Beall's list
- 2014 OASPA evaluation
- 2016 data breach
- Resignations of editors
- Withdrawals of support by faculties and universities
- Inclusion in Early Warning List of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Perception of Hungarian researchers
- Assessments in the Nordic countries
- Allegation of anomalous citation patterns
- Concerns over papers connected to a research paper mill
- 2023 Clarivate delistings
- 2024 Finnish downgrading
- Controversial articles
- Stealth corrections
- Proliferation of special issues
- See also
- References
- External links
MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute) is a publisher of open-access scientific journals. It publishes over 390 peer-reviewed, open-access journals. MDPI is among the largest publishers in the world in terms of journal article output, and was the largest publisher of open access articles in 2020.
It was founded by Shu-Kun Lin as a chemical sample archive. Between 2016 and 2020, the number of peer-reviewed papers published by MDPI grew significantly, with year-over-year growth of over 50% in 2017, 2018 and 2019, attracting attention to their very fast article processing times. In a review of 26 open-access "mega-journals" that published over 3,500 papers in 2022, 11 (42%) of the journals were from MDPI. Besides launching its own journals, MDPI has acquired journals from other publishers, such as Tomography from Grapho Publications in 2021, and Nursing Reports and Audiology Research from PagePress Publications in 2020.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “MDPI” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.