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I just don't see how this is possible. Most journals have volunteer editors, that need to find and send the article to volunteer peer reviewers all by themselve

by _yb2s 4y ago

I just don't see how this is possible. Most journals have volunteer editors, that need to find and send the article to volunteer peer reviewers all by themselves. I don't see how that would cost anything at all. At most, there is software that handles all of this, but there are numerous competing companies that offer complete off the shelf already hosted solutions for this, so I really doubt this software costs more than $10 per paper. Most journals seem to use Aries Editorial Manager, which doesn't list prices online. It's hard for me to see what journals are actually doing or offering other than web hosting, the $6300 seems like just rent seeking with the journals name.

YuriNiyazov 4y ago
https://www.mdpi.com/editors https://www.mdpi.com/editors "MDPI is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland. The in-house staff consists of Managing Editors, Assistant Editors, Production Editors, English Editors, Copyeditors, Data Specialists, Software Engineers and Administrative Specialists. Except for most English Editors, all are employed by MDPI and its subsidiaries and work at the MDPI offices. Our collaborating editors on our Editorial Boards are typically employed at academic institutions or corporate research facilities located all over the world... Assistant Editors process manuscripts through the peer-review and production procedures..."
- _yb2s 4y ago
  There is a lot of diversity in journals, but MDPI has a very atypical model. More famous/prestigious journals, as well as more niche society journals are able to get PIs to work as editors for free just for the prestige of being affiliated with them. MDPI seems to have a very hard time finding volunteer editors and reviewers, to the point that they are aggressive and annoying- I was getting so many review requests from them (many per week) that I blocked e-mails from their domain, when polite requests to stop were ignored. That said, I did publish a paper with them once, and it was a positive experience.

by _yb2s 4y ago

YuriNiyazov 4y ago

https://www.mdpi.com/editors https://www.mdpi.com/editors "MDPI is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland. The in-house staff consists of Managing Editors, Assistant Editors, Production Editors, English Editors, Copyeditors, Data Specialists, Software Engineers and Administrative Specialists. Except for most English Editors, all are employed by MDPI and its subsidiaries and work at the MDPI offices. Our collaborating editors on our Editorial Boards are typically employed at academic institutions or corporate research facilities located all over the world... Assistant Editors process manuscripts through the peer-review and production procedures..."

_yb2s 4y ago
There is a lot of diversity in journals, but MDPI has a very atypical model. More famous/prestigious journals, as well as more niche society journals are able to get PIs to work as editors for free just for the prestige of being affiliated with them. MDPI seems to have a very hard time finding volunteer editors and reviewers, to the point that they are aggressive and annoying- I was getting so many review requests from them (many per week) that I blocked e-mails from their domain, when polite requests to stop were ignored. That said, I did publish a paper with them once, and it was a positive experience.