MDPI

Article summary

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. As of January 2024, MDPI publishes 433 academic journals, including 92 journals indexed within the Science Citation Index Expanded, 7 journals indexed within the Social Sciences Citation Index, 138 journals listed in SciFinder, and 270 in Scopus. Its journals are included in the DOAJ. MDPI also publishes open access books indexed in DOAB, OAPEN and BCI.…

Key claims

1. publication date: 2017 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
2. publication date: 2022 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
3. publication date: 2025 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
4. publication date: 2021 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
5. publication date: 2021 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
6. publication date: 2019 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

Discussion questions

1. Summarise the article in your own words. Which single claim would you verify first, and why?
2. The record states that the publication date is "2017". What evidence would count against this claim?
3. The record states that the publication date is "2022". What evidence would count against this claim?
4. The record states that the publication date is "2025". What evidence would count against this claim?
5. The record states that the publication date is "2021". What evidence would count against this claim?
6. The record states that the publication date is "2021". What evidence would count against this claim?
7. The record states that the publication date is "2019". What evidence would count against this claim?
8. Which claim in this article is most likely to be revised as the sources update? How would you check its current status?
9. If two sources disagreed about one of these facts, what would you need in order to trust one over the other?

Bibliography

1. Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1378385916