[coccoliths] Why I won't accept the invitation for a MDPI special issue

Thu Feb 23 09:28:47 -03 2023

Dear colleagues,
I have been invited to edit a special issue on Nanno geochemistry for 
MDPI journal Minerals. Very likely that many people received similar 
request.
I won't accept it and I recommend not to do it. MDPI economic model – 
open access with APC – is based on high flux of edited papers. Hence, 
the peer review criteria are often reduced (if respected) to increase 
the flux of papers. MDPI also produce a vast amount of Special Issue and 
ask many scientists to edit those to increase the rate of submission by 
inviting the special issue editors to make call for submission within 
their scientific community. MDPI is a master in this economic model, 
flooding the system. Recent calculation in France has shown that mixing 
subscription journals model and open access with APC journals model cost 
more to institutions than subscription only. Moreover, a model only 
based on open access with APC journals model would cost also more than 
subscription model only.
Some may say the model is not bad, just trying to make (a lot) money. 
But the revision process has been shown to be light due to deadline 
pressure by MDPI. And those Special Issue in journal outside the topic 
divert submission to classical topical journals which may lead to some 
journal disparition. Finally, I am not defending subscription model. 
Actually, I defend green and diamond open access (without APC) models. 
Model like Peer Community In Journal <https://peercommunityin.org/> or 
Sedimentologika <https://oap.unige.ch/journals/sdk/index>.
This is why I won't accept the invitation from MDPI and I recommend to 
everybody not to do it. If you wish to edit a special issue on that 
topic, I recommend to contact Denise Kulhanek – new editor for JNR. 
She'll be able to help you.
Sorry if by sending my view I hurt anybody but I wanted to rise this 
issue to the whole NannoCommunity.
Sincerely
Baptiste Suchéras-Marx

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Sujet : 	[Minerals] (New IF: 2.818, ISSN 2075-163X) Invitation to be the 
Guest Editor of the Special Issue on Geochemistry of Calcareous 
Nannofossils and Coccoliths: Implications for the Reconstruction of Past 
Oceanic Conditions
Date : 	Thu, 23 Feb 2023 10:49:54 +0100
De : 	Leo Du <leo.du at mdpi.com>
Répondre à : 	leo.du at mdpi.com
Pour : 	Baptiste Suchéras-Marx <sucheras at cerege.fr>
Copie à : 	Minerals Editorial Office <minerals at mdpi.com>, Leo Du 
<leo.du at mdpi.com>

Dear Dr. Suchéras-Marx,

We are planning to set up a new Special Issue focused on "Geochemistry 
of Calcareous Nannofossils and Coccoliths: Implications for the 
Reconstruction of Past Oceanic Conditions" for the journal Minerals 
(http://www.mdpi.com/journal/minerals) and would like to invite you to 
be the Guest Editor.
Our editorial office takes care of the entire editorial process for 
manuscripts. As Guest Editor, you would be responsible for making the 
final decision on whether a paper submitted to your Special Issue is 
acceptable or not, after peer review and author's revision. If you are 
interested in this project, you may modify the proposed title to better 
fit your research interests.

As Guest Editor, you have the privilege of publishing one paper free of 
charge (in open access form) after acceptance. For this Special Issue, 
we will invite authors to publish research articles or comprehensive 
reviews on this topic. Papers accepted will be published immediately and 
gathered together on the Special Issue homepage.

Minerals is a peer-reviewed, open access journal of natural mineral 
systems, mineral resources, mining, and mineral processing (indexed in 
Web of Science, the 2021 impact factor of 2.818). The aims and topics 
can be found at http://www.mdpi.com/journal/minerals/about/. *JCR 
category rank*: 8/20 (Q2) in the ‘Mining & Mineral Processing' 
category,11/30 (Q2) in the ‘Mineralogy’ category and 42/87 (Q2) in the 
‘Geochemistry & Geophysics' category.
Should you require any additional information or have any questions, 
please feel free to contact us. We look forward to hearing from you.
Kind regards
Leo Du, M.Sc
Section Managing Editor
Minerals (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/minerals)
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