mdpi.com
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MDPI - Publisher of Open Access JournalsMDPI is a publisher of peer-reviewed, open access journals since its establishment in 1996.
MDPI - Publisher of Open Access JournalsMDPI is a publisher of peer-reviewed, open access journals since its establishment in 1996.
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Truth score
Business details
- Founded
- 2010
- Sells
- Digital services
- Sells to
- Businesses
- Kind of seller
- Sells its own goods or services
- Licensed trade
- No licence normally needed
- Domain age
- 22 years
- Address
- Basel, Switzerland
- Email address
- Not found
- Phone number
- +44 161 513 4078
- Contact page
- mdpi.com/
about/ contact - Website
- mdpi.com
Customer reviews, accreditations and complaints
No reviews we could readWe looked on SmartCustomer, G2, Capterra, Reviews.io, Feefo, Trustindex, ComplaintsBoard and ConsumerAffairs
Trustpilot reviews are not included in this assessment. This business also has a Trustpilot page, which may contain additional customer reviews. We recommend checking these alongside the reviews shown here.
Summary
Is mdpi.com legit and trustworthy? Truth score 75 out of 100, high truth signals: 9 public checks clear, 1 for information. Legitimacy confidence: high. App experience: insufficient evidence. Customer satisfaction: insufficient evidence.
We read 2 of its pages: contact and privacy. Its website address was registered 22 years ago, and is locked against transfer to someone else. No malware or phishing warnings found for its website. We could not find a customer rating or an email address.
Positives
- We read 2 of its pages · contact and privacy.
- Its website address was registered 22 years ago.
- No malware or phishing warnings found for its website.
Not found
- Reviews information was not found from our checks.
- Email address information was not found from our checks.
Important context: Truth Signal weighs public evidence about this business. A high score means strong evidence that the business is established and legitimate, not a promise that it is safe to buy from or that every purchase will go well. A low score means the evidence is thin or raises concerns, not that the business is unsafe or a scam.
What they offer
MDPI is a publisher of peer-reviewed, open access journals since its establishment in 1996.
- Best for
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- What makes them different
- “Unlike previous Aspen Plus studies mainly directed toward overall IS production and recovery processes, the present work focuses specifically on the pilot-scale quenching stage and integrates single-factor thermodynamic analysis with a simulation-based orthogonal design to quantitatively rank the effects of the circulating liquid operating parameters.”
- Customer stories
- Testimonials
How to check if mdpi.com is legit
To check if mdpi.com is legit yourself, look at the same public records we did: the company register, who owns the web address and since when, customer reviews (where buyers leave praise and complaints), visitor numbers, how long the site has existed, social profiles, malware lists, data breaches and email security. Each row below shows what that record says about mdpi.com; open a row to see the facts and the source to check them yourself. Step by step: how to know if a shopping site is legit.
Who they are
Company detailsFounded in 2010 (Wikipedia)
- Registered with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) to handle personal data
- Where the company is based
- UK
- Why we believe that
- its phone number starts +44
- Data protection registration (ICO)
- Registered, number ZB400910
- VAT number
- Not found
- ICO data-protection fee payer
- Yes
- Trade name
- text: MDPI, language: en
- Type (Wikipedia)
- joint-stock company
- Founded
- 2010
Domain registrationIts website address was registered 22 years ago
- Its website address is locked against being transferred to someone else
- Domain age
- 22 years
- Domain transfer lock enabled
- Yes
Website detailsWe read 2 of its pages: contact and privacy
- HTTPS enabled
- Yes
- Contact phone number found
- +44 161 513 4078
- Contact page found
- Yes
- Hosting company
- Akamai Technologies
Search engines and AIBlocks automated visitors: its bot protection turned us away
Which search engines and AI tools its robots.txt file lets read the website. Search engines list it in results; AI training tools learn from it; AI answer tools read it to answer someone’s question.
All blocked
- Google Search
- Blocked by its bot protectionGooglebot
- Bing
- Blocked by its bot protectionBingbot
All blocked
- OpenAI
- Blocked by its bot protectionGPTBot
- Anthropic
- Blocked by its bot protectionClaudeBot
- Google AI
- Blocked by its bot protectionGoogle-Extended
- Apple AI
- Blocked by its bot protectionApplebot-Extended
- Common Crawl
- Blocked by its bot protectionCCBot
- Meta
- Blocked by its bot protectionmeta-externalagent
- ByteDance (TikTok)
- Blocked by its bot protectionBytespider
All blocked
- ChatGPT search
- Blocked by its bot protectionOAI-SearchBot
- ChatGPT
- Blocked by its bot protectionChatGPT-User
- Claude search
- Blocked by its bot protectionClaude-SearchBot
- Claude
- Blocked by its bot protectionClaude-User
- Perplexity
- Blocked by its bot protectionPerplexityBot
Reputation and track record
Customer reviews, accreditations and complaintsIt has a review page on Trustpilot
| Platform | Rating | Reviews |
|---|---|---|
| Trustpilot | Unknown | Unknown |
Business mentions1 thread on Reddit mentions this business
| Platform | Thread | What it says |
|---|---|---|
| Reddit, r/AskAcademia | Is MDPI legit? | “There is some good research that gets published in MDPI journals, along with a ton of trash. There isn't a ton of emphasis on quality peer review - the publisher's goal is to get as many articles published as quickly as possible so they can get the money from the APCs.” |
Visitor trafficReal people visited its website in 24 of the last 24 months
- Real people have visited its website since February 2021 or earlier
- It is among the 5,000 most-visited sites on the internet (Cloudflare Radar)
- Popularity among Chrome users
- top 10,000 sites
- First known user traffic
- Feb 2021 or earlier
- Months with real traffic, of the last 24
- 24
- Traffic pattern
- sustained
- Rank jump in the last 12 months
- none
- Rank drop in the last 12 months
- none
- Popularity across the internet
- top 5,000 sites
Share of people looking up mdpi.com, by country, over the last 2 days.
- Over 50%
- 5 to 50%
- 1 to 5%
- 0.2 to 1%
- Under 0.2%
- None seen
- 1United States37.0%
- 2Singapore28.4%
- 3Germany4.9%
- 4Brazil3.4%
- 5Japan2.6%
- 6United Kingdom2.1%
- 7Netherlands1.9%
- 8India1.9%
- 9Hong Kong1.8%
- 10Canada1.5%
Top 10 of 100 countries.
Web history and authorityThe Internet Archive first saved a copy of its website 22 years ago
- Website archive history
- 22 years
What data this site collects about you
What its privacy policy saysWe found this business stores and uses your data
- May send your data to other countries.
- “If we transfer data to recipients in a third country (located outside the European Economic Area, “EEA”), we will only do so if there is an adequate data protection level in accordance with Art.”
- Has a data protection officer you can contact.
- “In the event of any data protection related inquiry, you can contact us at [email protected] or you can reach our data protection officer Mr.”data-protection
@mdpi.ch
Tracking tools on its homepageGoogle Tag Manager
Named in its homepage's code when we read it. Others may load later, so this list may not be complete.
- Google Tag Manager
- Loads other tracking tools, which may not be listed here.
Uses Usercentrics to ask which cookies you allow.
Safety
Malware and phishingNo malware or phishing warnings found for its websiteThis check is not perfect: it can miss a harmful site, and it can wrongly warn about a safe one.
- Malware or phishing threat status
- None found
Data breach historyOne known data breach involving the company: MDPI, the latest 10 years ago
- Known data breaches found
- 1
In August 2016, the Swiss scholarly open access publisher known as MDPI had 17.5GB of data obtained from an unprotected Mongo DB instance. The data contained email exchanges between MDPI and their authors and reviewers which included 845k unique email addresses. MDPI have confirmed that the system has since been protected and that no data of a sensitive nature was impacted. As such, they concluded that notification to their subscribers was not necessary due to the fact that all their authors and reviewers are available online on their website.
- Accounts affected
- 845,012
- Date
- 30 Aug 2016
- Data exposed
- Email addresses, Email messages, IP addresses, Names
Domain and email securityIts email is protected: mail forged in its name goes to spam
- MX records
- Yes
- SPF record
- Yes
- DKIM key
- Yes
- DMARC record
- Yes
- DMARC policy
- quarantine
- Security certificate browsers warn about
- No
- Certificate issuer
- DigiCert Inc
- Certificate type
- OV
- Certificate expires
- 3 May 2027
- Nameservers
- duke.ns.cloudflare.com
tia.ns.cloudflare.com - Address
- 2.23.92.14
2.23.92.34
Proof of ownership
What the business has done to prove it runs this website. Each proof adds points to its truth score, up to 5. A proof it has not added is never counted against it.
DNS recordNot added yet+3 possible
- What we check
- A record the business adds in its domain's settings. Only someone who runs the website can add one.
- When we check
- On every check. The points stay only while the record is there.
- Points
- 0 of 3 added
Email at its own domainNot added yet+1 possible
- What we check
- That someone at the business has confirmed an email address at its own website's domain.
- When we check
- When the address is confirmed. It counts from then on.
- Points
- 0 of 1 added
Lets our checker read itNot added yet+1 possible
- What we check
- That its robots.txt file names our checker, TruthSignal, and lets it read the whole website.
- When we check
- On every check. The point stays only while the file allows it.
- Points
- 0 of 1 added
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