From the annual report of MDPI, the Swiss-based for-profit OA bohemoth:
- 165.2K peer-reviewed manuscripts published online, an increase of 55.6% in comparison to the previous year;
- 50 new journals launched, and 13 journals transferred to MDPI;
- 35 days used from submission to publication (median values for papers published in 2020);
- 15 journals newly covered by Web of Sciences, 10 journals indexed in Science Citation Index Expanded, and 29 journals indexed by Scopus;
- 33 newly affiliated societies;
- 32 conferences held and 51 stand-alone webinars.
MDPI is now the largest OA publisher in the world—a dubious marker of its quantity-over-quality hustle.