Any time a certain entity claims 'points of view' anonymously is a suspect of fraud itself! This applies to all entities who use reasoning against others, but are Anonymous!!!

• I just added this piece to another discussion about MDPI

"It seems no one is eager to share info. But I just give some stats and a little more. Lets compare Elsevier with MDPI.

Elsevier was founded 1880. In 2022, the company had 8700 employees. and now publishes over 2960 journals (1,2,3).

MDPI was founded in 1996. In its history page we read, at the end of 2022, our global workforce grew to 6750 people. In its journal page, MDPI has listed 427 journals (4,5,6).

1- https://www.elsevier.com/about/history

2-https://www.elsevier.com/about/careers

3- https://www.elsevier.com/books-and-journals

4-https://www.mdpi.com/about

5- https://www.mdpi.com/about/history

6- https://www.mdpi.com/about/journals

But my long years of deep familiarity and research on academic publishing, peer review, plagiarism and frauds, all in non fiction, dictates me that even in theory it is pure impossible to have such a company, publisher, organization or what so ever, if we want and seek "healthy research and science". It is more like a bitter joke, that destroys pillars of science for personal gains. Many honest scientists know what a complicated and complex plan must be followed to start just one peer reviewed journal. Less that 30 years and 427 journals?

That is universities want published papers from their faculty members, Also students want for their future, for finding jobs having a so called rich CV.

University rankings, impact factor, H index, Q1..., are putting every one in the world of academia in unbelievable pressure to have published items.

The part of unseen story is, as we monitor such publishers, they are monitoring us, they know we are in need and needy for published articles. They have sophisticated experts to advise them for future steps, but we do not!

Put away that if we go inside any MDPI journal and investigates carefully, we see, hidden darkness, unfortunately."

I am definitely open and welcome scientific debates over this topic.

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