Taxacom: MDPI diversity et al

[John Grehan]

Interesting comment about getting spammed with random requests to review
papers that are outside one's expertise. I get that all the time. I assumed
these were from hackers, not actual journals. I also constantly get
'invites' to be on this or that editorial board, or to contribute a paper
or book (never any mention of the author having to pay for the privilige).
Crap like this is just a part of life I guess, but it distracts
(fortunately only for a few seconds) to make sure before deleting.

John Grehan

On Sat, Oct 22, 2022 at 11:30 AM Peter Uetz via Taxacom <
taxacom at lists.ku.edu> wrote:

> Mike said, "Don't attack the publisher or the author, it is not their
> fault.?
>
> Well, it?s clearly everybody?s fault who participates in bad publishing
> practices.
>
> ? Authors shouldn?t submit shoddy papers.
> ? Reviewers and editors shouldn?t be too lenient and accept inacceptable
> papers.
> ? Publishers shouldn?t be too greedy and dodge quality for profit.
> ? And readers shouldn?t cite sloppy papers or pay for crappy journals. In
> extreme cases we should name names and point out obvious flaws, e.g. in
> comments (if available) or via PubPeer, if not criticizing them in
> follow-up papers.
>
> ? BTW, taxonomic databases should be explicit and comment on such issues
> as well, so users can find flaws more easily :)
>      (and you should submit such problems to them so they can provide a
> more objective representation of the literature)
>
>
> As several of you said, it?s difficult to generalize across numerous
> journals of one publisher but MDPI does have one bad habit: they seem to
> send out reviewer requests almost randomly. Just 3 days ago I got a request
> from the MDPI journal ?Nutrients? to review a paper on the "Influence of
> sonication pretreatment on antiradical and anti-ACE activity of protein
> hydrolysates from fermented pork loins? ? seriously?
>
>
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> Peter Uetz
> Center for Biological Data Science
> Virginia Commonwealth University
> Richmond, VA 23284
> USA
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