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On 3rd December, the founder of Open-Access publisher MDPI, Shu-Kun Lin, posted a controversial message to a public mailing list. This led to some pushback. See the thread on the list: https://list.indiana.edu/sympa/arc/chminf-l/2020-12/msg00004.html 1/6
When I contacted Delia Mihaila, Chief Executive Officer, MDPI she kindly provided the following quote. 2/6
Shu-Kun Lin posted the controversial message from his MDPI account and signed it as the President of MDPI. 3/6
It has been put to me that Shu-Kun Lin’s post was no different to Nature publicly expressing support for Joe Biden https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02852-x. Is this a fair comparison? Thoughts? 4/6
A @scholarlykitchn post rehearsed some historical MDPI controversies & noted, “71 of MDPI’s 250 journals have an Impact Factor, an indication of rigorous peer review and impact (measured in citations), and MDPI has become the 5th largest publisher.” https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2020/08/10/guest-post-mdpis-remarkable-growth/ 5/6
I hope to interview MDPI CEO Delia Mihaila early next year. Feel free to suggest questions. 6/6
