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popplesan t1_j1pegew wrote

It’s an MDPI paper, can’t expect much. I read a paper in one of their journals that explicitly described p-hacking in the methods. The reviewer’s comments were public, except they had no comments. It was mind boggling. Then I saw that the advisor had 100+ papers in sketchy journals, was at a fairly weak university and decided to Google if MDPI was a conglomerate of fake/predatory journals. They’re in a gray area for sure. Some of their journals are laughable, and some are pretty decent. But as a rule of thumb, if I see MDPI I bust out the fine-toothed comb even from their good journals.

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B_lintu t1_j1qo7gn wrote

Wow that's so effed up. I was recently reading one of their economics journals with 3.9 impact-factor and I would never think such things would slip in this kind of journal, I though it was quite decent.

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