Ser i LIBRIS  att 15 bibliotek har tidskriften Sustainability i sina kataloger med hänvisning till DOAJ. Tidskriften är utgiven av

förlaget MDPI som BIBSAM som bekant tecknat avtal med.

Retraction Watch skriver att

In 2022, Norway removed Sustainability from its list of journals that researchers get credit for publishing in, and Finland followed suit at the beginning of 2023. In the announcement of its decision, the Finnish Publication Forum wrote:

Sustainability also publishes high-quality articles, but the wide scope, large publication volume and fast publication processes have undermined confidence that the journal’s procedures to ensure scientific quality work reliably down the line. The large variability in quality is partly the result of thousands of special issues that are common also in other MDPI journals

https://kanalregister.hkdir.no/publiseringskanaler/Forside.action?request_locale=no

https://julkaisufoorumi.fi/en

Nu har även Scopus börjat närgranska tidskriften

Elsevier’s Scopus database has paused indexing content from Sustainability, an MDPI journal, while it reevaluates whether to include the title, Retraction Watch has learned.

Other MDPI titles were reevaluated in 2023, and its mathematics journal Axioms is no longer included in Scopus’ nearly 30,000 titles. Clarivate also delisted two MDPI journals, including the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, from its Web of Science index earlier this year, meaning those journals will no longer receive impact factors.

Det är svårt att dela BIBSAM:s glädje över avtalet med MDPI, en paper mill som sätter profiten före kvalitén

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