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Fourth: play our funny guessing game #DiscoverOrMDPI.

Can you outguess marketing operatives from publishers by telling apart MDPI from Discover journals?

We wrote the game and the blog, and cannot win.

pagoba.shinyapps.io/publi_guess/
June 15, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Springer-Nature launched a series of "Discover" journals that closely mimic MDPI titles -- sharing *identical* journal names, and likely similar business model.

What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it?

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the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...
Springer Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing
Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro
the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io
June 15, 2025 at 2:21 PM