There appears to be some concerns regarding the reputation of the journal (Sustainability) and it's publisher (MDPI) per my online readings. However, I want to ask my learned colleagues on this platform what they think? I'm planning of submitting a paper to an SI there.
Peter, as I ve heard from some reviewers, they don't reject the paper although been rejected by the reviewers. They keep ask authors to address comments somehow till the editor accept it at the end of the day. No harm to try yourself. Best wishes, Ahmed
Sustainability and its editor (MDPI) are ethically correct!
Some years ago I published on this Journal. The review process is transparent and so fast! This does not mean that the reviewer process is easy! The reviewers provide precious suggestions in order to improve the manuscript.
Currently, I am a member of reviewer board for Sustainability and other MDPI Journals. The policy consists in to be fast to provide the feedback to the authors and editor. The reviewers activity is always checked by the Editor.
I suggest you to submit your paper! Best regards Assunta
Hello Mr. Peter, Sustainability is index by DOAJ (www.doaj.org). So, it must be a genuine journal not a predatory. You can check.
Pls, see here below
https://www.scimagojr.com/journalsearch.php?q=21100240100&tip=sid&clean=0
Is a genuine journal my brother. Check from scimago Scopus ranking@ peter
Dear Peter Adjei-Bamfo ,
Some facts about the publisher behind the journal: As of September 2019, MDPI publishes 208 academic journals, including 53 with an impact factor out of 63 covered by the Science Citation Index Expanded. Even more of their journals are Scopus indexed and depending on the scope quite a number of their journals are included in PubMed as well.
The issues in the past, to a large degree caused by the fact that they used to be a new and rapidly growing publisher, are described elsewhere:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDPI
Nowadays they are together with Frontiers and PLOS established publishers fully dedicated to open access publishing.
The journal Sustainability is currently having an impact factor of 2.592 and is indexed in Scopus as well as member of DOAJ. So a pretty safe choice.
Best regards.
Rob Keller, many thanks for the facts you shared. It's a pretty enlightenment!
I have a paper there, topic :
Towards Understanding the Initial Adoption of Online Retail Stores in a Low Internet Penetration Context: An Exploratory Work in Ghana
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