[phas-faculty_staff_others] Predatory journals

[Heungman Park]

I agree with Carlos' point.


A few years ago, I published a paper in an MDPI journal with my students and have participated as a reviewer.
MDPI was acceptable until a few years ago; however, they started accepting manuscripts that had received negative review comments, and they pushed reviewers to review manuscripts in a short time (1 week).
I think MDPI is primarily motivated by profit rather than contributing scientifically to the society.

Last year I informed them that I no longer participate in as a reviewer in MDPI journals.


As Carlos said, the upper academic administrators should announce this issue to all of the faculty members.


Thanks,


Heungman


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Heungman Park, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Physics & Astronomy
Texas A&M University-Commerce
Commerce, TX 75429, USA
www.tamuc.edu/physics

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Subject: [phas-faculty_staff_others] Predatory journals

Hello,

during the faculty assembly someone mentioned proudly a faculty who became editor of "Frontiers of …”

Please take a minute to read this report in Nature:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02553-1

University administrators should take this serious, as one puts scarce funds, time and effort in an activity of zero (or detrimental) value.

Google “list of predatory journals” and do a 10 minutes research before accepting invitations for editorial boards. You surely get invitations almost every week. One example of the google search:

https://predatoryreports.org/news/f/mdpi-frontiers-and-hindawi-are-blacklisted-by-a-university?blogcategory=MDPI

Carlos















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Texas A&M University-Commerce
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