Currently under peer review. Reviewer 2 says it leaks too much and dangerously overconfident.

More like peer-review Tai Chi… lots of motion, zero contact, and somehow I’m still bleeding open access invoices.

I agree… not all are toxic and some are well reviewed… If thats where your tribe is, thats cool… however, aggressive reviewer requests, obscure “special editions”, and the questionable editorial decisions are reasons many mdpi pubs is a problem.

Oh the Assistant Professor chicken of the Full Professor? Probably massaging his LinkedIn profile page.

Fair… I agree when it’s peer review for journals or colleagues in the trenches. But when billion-dollar publishers come knocking with commercial book proposals, and authors get shards of pennies on the dollar, it feels less like reciprocity and more like free labor for shareholder dividends.