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Jocelyn's avatar

I read about these ghoulish practices in Poland, too… extremely disturbing—and thanks for sharing the expose and the disgusting ‘research’ that gets published. Terribly sad. Of course we’re right on course with it, here in the US…

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Sam's avatar

I get review requests from MDPI and I always decline. I see more and more articles from them in my Google Scholar feed though. It's disturbing. There are some great things about OA but I agree that even in the best cases (a society journal) there is this incentive to publish the article (I was an editor on an OA journal). Sadly, lots of good OA articles just languish (there are too many journals). So maybe the bright side is that no one will read this crap.

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