(6 Oct 2026) MDPI and Research Solutions have announced a collaboration to make MDPI’s open access journal content discoverable through Scite and the Scite MCP, a platform that connects scholarly content with AI-powered research tools. Under the agreement, MDPI’s journal portfolio has been indexed in Scite, enabling researchers to access and discover content through AI…
(24 Dec 2024) A committee of scholars in Finland has decided to downgrade 271 journals from Frontiers and MDPI in their quality rating system, in a move that may discourage researchers from submitting manuscripts to the outlets. Finland’s Publication Forum (JUFO) “is a rating and classification system to support the quality assessment of research…
(27 Sep 2023) The Ministry of Universities Malaysia has just issued a notice prohibiting the country’s public universities from using funding from the state budget to pay for publishing articles in all journals belonging to the three publishers MDPI, Hindawi and Frontiers. According to the Ministry of Universities Malaysia, this decision was made due…
(30 Mar 2023) “Some call them Special Issues (MDPI & Hindawi), others call them Research Topics (Frontiers), and others Collections (Springer Nature). In this post, I will refer to them as articles published via the Guest Editor model, whereby a journal invites a scholar or a group of scholars to serve as guest editors for…