Dear ECOLOG list members,
Following Craig Beatty's message from 1 February 2016, I would like to add that
MDPI was
removed from Mr. Beall's list in November 2015, following a successful appeal
(e.g. MDPI is
no longer listed at: https://scholarlyoa.com/publishers/). We demonstrated that
MDPI does
not violate any of the criteria set forth by Mr. Beall for so-called "predatory
publishers”
(https://scholarlyoa.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/criteria-2015.pdf).
In 2015, MDPI published around 17'300 articles, more than 75% of which is
covered by
Web of Science. If we were not adhering to industry standards, Web of Science,
or
Publishers associations like COPE, STM and OASPA - of which MDPI is a member -
would
long have withdrawn their support. Unfortunately, there are indeed some
“publishers"
out there with poor practices, and those practices are not helpful to the
reputation of
legitimate publishers who adhere to industry standards and ethical publication
policies.
However, whitelists such as WoS, PubMed, SCOPUS have been around for some time
now and,
first and foremost, I think the quality of the content published will provide
authors with
a sense of the standards a journal maintains.
The Special Issue on "Land and Food Policy", which is kindly guest edited by
Dr. Azadi, will be
published in /Sustainability/. The journal is covered by the Science Citation
Index Expanded and
the Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of Science), Scopus, Inspec, DOAJ and
other databases
(see: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/indexing).
Thank you for your time and consideration,
Best wishes,
Franck
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Chief Scientific Officer,
MDPI AG - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
Klybeckstrassse 64, CH-4057 Basel, Switzerland.
Tel. +41 61 683 77 34
http://www.mdpi.com
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*From: *BEATTY Craig <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>
*Subject: **RE: Special Issue: "Land and Food Policy"*
*Date: *February 1, 2016 3:11:15 PM EST
*To: *Hossein Azadi <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>>, "[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>" <[email protected]
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Hi Ecologers.
After passing long this note it has been suggested by some colleagues
not to submit articles to journals published by MDPI. They directed me
to the following reviews, which question MDPI’s business practices.
http://scholarlyoa.com/2014/02/18/chinese-publishner-mdpi-added-to-list-of-questionable-publishers/
http://scholarlyoa.com/2015/01/02/bealls-list-of-predatory-publishers-2015/
That said, I’m sure many of you have read and/or published great work
in MDPI publications.
Cheers,
*Craig R. Beatty*
Programme Officer
International Union for Conservation of Nature
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Washington DC 20009
+1 (202) 518-2078
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[mailto:[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>]*On
Behalf Of*Hossein Azadi
*Sent:*Monday, February 1, 2016 9:07 AM
*To:*[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
*Subject:*[ECOLOG-L] Special Issue: "Land and Food Policy"
Dear colleagues,
Hope you are doing well.
I would be grateful if you could take a look at, and forward the
following link
(http://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/food_policy) to
your network.
Kind regards,
Hossein
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Department of Geography
Ghent University, Belgium
Email: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
Tel: +32 (0)9 264 45 70
_http://geoweb.ugent.be/seg/people/hazadina_
Skype: hossein-azadi
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Senior researcher
Department of Geography
Ghent University, Belgium
Email: [email protected]
Tel: +32 (0)9 264 45 70
http://geoweb.ugent.be/seg/people/hazadina
Skype: hossein-azadi
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Hossein Azadi, PhD
Senior researcher
Department of Geography
Ghent University, Belgium
Email: [email protected]
Tel: +32 (0)9 264 45 70
http://geoweb.ugent.be/staff/000121131374
Skype: hossein-azadi
