by gill1109 » Fri Aug 27, 2021 2:53 am
Joy Christian wrote:gill1109 wrote:Joy Christian wrote:.
The journal
Entropy, where Richard D. Gill's critique of my work and his apology to me is published, is published by the MDPI publishers. There is much discussion online claiming that all journals published by MDPI are predatory journals. Now Oxford Academics have officially joined the debate. Last week, a paper was published about the legitimacy of MDPI in the Oxford Journal Research Evaluation, which concluded that all MDPI journals are predatory journals:
https://academic.oup.com/rev/advance-ar ... 20/6348133.
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Here is another paper published in an MDPI journal:
On the Role of Einstein–Cartan Gravity in Fundamental Particle Physicsby Carl F. Diether III and Joy Christian
Universe 2020, 6(8), 112;
https://doi.org/10.3390/universe6080112Received: 7 July 2020 / Revised: 2 August 2020 / Accepted: 3 August 2020 / Published: 5 August 2020
This article belongs to the Special Issue Torsion-Gravity and Spinors in Fundamental Theoretical Physics. The special issue contains just five papers. Three are by Italians from Genua one of whom is the editor of the special issue.
We had to pay 1,800 Swiss francs for this. MDPI journals are predatory journals. By contrast, I did not have to pay a penny to
IJTP,
RSOS, and
IEEE Access for my five papers in them.
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That's appalling, Joy. I'm glad you didn't have to pay those other journals. I suppose the editor (in the case of RSOS and IEEE) was so keen to publish your work that the fee could be waived. I did pay a strongly reduced fee for the publication of my two papers published by Entropy because of my refereeing and reviewing (co-editor) work for the journal. MDPI journals tend to have huge editorial boards because the idea is that journals will initially be filled by papers by those same editors.
I brought that Oxford paper to the attention of the editor-in-chief of Entropy. The editorial board will discuss it. We agree that we have to do more work to stop the MDPI organisation from corrupting the journal by too fast and too superficial reviewing and too many special issues filled by papers by friends of the guest editor after minimal review.
FrediFizzx wrote:Joy Christian wrote:We had to pay 1,800 Swiss francs for this. MDPI journals are predatory journals. By contrast, I did not have to pay a penny to IJTP, RSOS, and IEEE Access for my five papers in them.
Yeah, but our paper there is in the right special issue of Universe on torsion gravity. It was worth it. And Luca Fabbri, the guest editor, is no slouch about torsion gravity. 1264 full text views plus between the arXiv version and the published version I think we have 8 citations.
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I'm glad to hear that, Fred.
"Oxford Academic Journals" is a company, part of Oxford University Press, hence part of Oxford University; and it publishes a huge number of journals. Let's hope they hold to high publishing standards. But remember, they are a commercial company as well as formally part of Oxford University. They benefit from the allure of the name.
[quote="Joy Christian"][quote="gill1109"][quote="Joy Christian"].
The journal [i]Entropy[/i], where Richard D. Gill's critique of my work and his apology to me is published, is published by the MDPI publishers. There is much discussion online claiming that all journals published by MDPI are predatory journals. Now Oxford Academics have officially joined the debate. Last week, a paper was published about the legitimacy of MDPI in the Oxford Journal Research Evaluation, which concluded that all MDPI journals are predatory journals: https://academic.oup.com/rev/advance-article/doi/10.1093/reseval/rvab020/6348133.
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Here is another paper published in an MDPI journal:
[b]On the Role of Einstein–Cartan Gravity in Fundamental Particle Physics[/b]
by Carl F. Diether III and Joy Christian
Universe 2020, 6(8), 112; [url]https://doi.org/10.3390/universe6080112[/url]
Received: 7 July 2020 / Revised: 2 August 2020 / Accepted: 3 August 2020 / Published: 5 August 2020
This article belongs to the Special Issue Torsion-Gravity and Spinors in Fundamental Theoretical Physics. The special issue contains just five papers. Three are by Italians from Genua one of whom is the editor of the special issue.[/quote]
We had to pay 1,800 Swiss francs for this. MDPI journals are predatory journals. By contrast, I did not have to pay a penny to [i]IJTP[/i], [i]RSOS[/i], and [i]IEEE Access[/i] for my five papers in them.
.[/quote]
That's appalling, Joy. I'm glad you didn't have to pay those other journals. I suppose the editor (in the case of RSOS and IEEE) was so keen to publish your work that the fee could be waived. I did pay a strongly reduced fee for the publication of my two papers published by Entropy because of my refereeing and reviewing (co-editor) work for the journal. MDPI journals tend to have huge editorial boards because the idea is that journals will initially be filled by papers by those same editors.
I brought that Oxford paper to the attention of the editor-in-chief of Entropy. The editorial board will discuss it. We agree that we have to do more work to stop the MDPI organisation from corrupting the journal by too fast and too superficial reviewing and too many special issues filled by papers by friends of the guest editor after minimal review.
[quote="FrediFizzx"][quote="Joy Christian"]We had to pay 1,800 Swiss francs for this. MDPI journals are predatory journals. By contrast, I did not have to pay a penny to [i]IJTP[/i], [i]RSOS[/i], and [i]IEEE Access[/i] for my five papers in them.[/quote]
Yeah, but our paper there is in the right special issue of Universe on torsion gravity. It was worth it. And Luca Fabbri, the guest editor, is no slouch about torsion gravity. 1264 full text views plus between the arXiv version and the published version I think we have 8 citations.
.[/quote]
I'm glad to hear that, Fred.
"Oxford Academic Journals" is a company, part of Oxford University Press, hence part of Oxford University; and it publishes a huge number of journals. Let's hope they hold to high publishing standards. But remember, they are a commercial company as well as formally part of Oxford University. They benefit from the allure of the name.
