- [Home](https://truthsignal.com/) - [Business](https://truthsignal.com/business) - MDPI # mdpi.com Markdown: [Snapshot](https://truthsignal.com/business/mdpi.com/snapshot.md) [Full report](https://truthsignal.com/business/mdpi.com/report.md) ## Website mdpi.com MDPI - Publisher of Open Access Journals MDPI is a publisher of peer-reviewed, open access journals since its establishment in 1996. mdpi.com One of the first images collected of this website on 21 Nov 2008 Checked on 12 Nov 2026, 20:36 Unclaimed Own this business? Claim it now and get instant access to analytics, insights and further ways to improve your truth score. ## Truth score Truth score 75 out of 100, High truth signals. Customer satisfaction: insufficient evidence 75 / 100 High truth signals ## 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](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=Basel%2C%20Switzerland) Email address: Not found Phone number: [+44 161 513 4078](tel:+44%20161%20513%204078) Contact page: [mdpi.com/about/contact](https://mdpi.com/about/contact) Website: [mdpi.com](https://mdpi.com/?utm_source=truthsignal.com&utm_medium=referral) Social media: [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/MDPIOpenAccessPublishing) [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/mdpiopenaccess/) [X.com](https://x.com/MDPIOpenAccess) [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/mdpi) ## Customer reviews, accreditations and complaints No reviews we could read We 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](https://www.trustpilot.com/review/mdpi.com), which may contain additional customer reviews. We recommend checking these alongside the reviews shown here. Customer satisfaction Insufficient evidence · No reviews found App experience Insufficient evidence · No app ratings found ## 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. — MDPI, in their own words About them Best for: “The intervention profile identified in most studies is based on the classroom implementation of a short serious game, designed for individual play on a computer or mobile device, and aimed at developing STEM competencies.” 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](https://mdpi.com/testimonials) Sources [Its homepage](https://mdpi.com/) ### 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](https://truthsignal.com/guides/how-to-know-if-a-shopping-site-is-legit). ### Who they are Company details Founded in 2010 (Wikipedia) - Registered with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) to handle personal data Country Where the company is based: UK Why we believe that: its phone number starts +44 Registration Data protection registration (ICO): Registered, number ZB400910 VAT number: Not found Companies House register ICO data-protection fee payer: Yes From Wikipedia Trade name: text: MDPI, language: en Type (Wikipedia): joint-stock company Founded: 2010 Sources [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDPI) [ICO register entry](https://ico.org.uk/ESDWebPages/Entry/ZB400910) Domain registration Its 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 Sources [ICANN Lookup](https://lookup.icann.org/en/lookup?name=mdpi.com) Website details We read 2 of its pages: contact and privacy HTTPS enabled: Yes Contact phone number found: [+44 161 513 4078](tel:+441615134078) Contact page found: Yes Hosting company: Akamai Technologies Sources [Homepage](https://mdpi.com/) [Contact page](https://mdpi.com/about/contact) [Privacy page](https://mdpi.com/about/privacy) Search engines and AI Blocks 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. Search engines All blocked Google Search: Blocked by its bot protection Googlebot Bing: Blocked by its bot protection Bingbot AI training All blocked OpenAI: Blocked by its bot protection GPTBot Anthropic: Blocked by its bot protection ClaudeBot Google AI: Blocked by its bot protection Google-Extended Apple AI: Blocked by its bot protection Applebot-Extended Common Crawl: Blocked by its bot protection CCBot Meta: Blocked by its bot protection meta-externalagent ByteDance (TikTok): Blocked by its bot protection Bytespider AI answers All blocked ChatGPT search: Blocked by its bot protection OAI-SearchBot ChatGPT: Blocked by its bot protection ChatGPT-User Claude search: Blocked by its bot protection Claude-SearchBot Claude: Blocked by its bot protection Claude-User Perplexity: Blocked by its bot protection PerplexityBot Sources [robots.txt](https://mdpi.com/robots.txt) ### Reputation and track record Customer reviews, accreditations and complaints It has a review page on [Trustpilot](https://www.trustpilot.com/review/mdpi.com) Platform · Rating · Reviews [Trustpilot](https://www.trustpilot.com/review/mdpi.com) · Unknown · Unknown Business mentions 1 thread on Reddit mentions this business Platform · Thread · What it says Reddit, r/AskAcademia · [Is MDPI legit?](https://www.reddit.com/r/AskAcademia/comments/icnw6y/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 traffic Real 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) Monthly visitor data 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 Cloudflare Radar Popularity across the internet: top 5,000 sites Where its visitors are 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 - 1 United States 37.0% - 2 Singapore 28.4% - 3 Germany 4.9% - 4 Brazil 3.4% - 5 Japan 2.6% - 6 United Kingdom 2.1% - 7 Netherlands 1.9% - 8 India 1.9% - 9 Hong Kong 1.8% - 10 Canada 1.5% Top 10 of 100 countries. Sources [Chrome UX Report](https://developer.chrome.com/docs/crux) [Cloudflare Radar](https://radar.cloudflare.com/domains/domain/mdpi.com) Web history and authority The Internet Archive first saved a copy of its website 22 years ago Website archive history: 22 years Sources [First archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20040130/mdpi.com) Social presence It is on 4 social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and X.com); the largest audience is 29,000 followers on Instagram Found · Platform · Audience Found by Truth Signal · [Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/MDPIOpenAccessPublishing) · Unknown Found by Truth Signal · [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/mdpiopenaccess/) · 29,000 followers Found by Truth Signal · [X.com](https://x.com/MDPIOpenAccess) · Unknown Found by Truth Signal · [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/mdpi) · Unknown Not found · YouTube Not found · TikTok ### What data this site collects about you What its privacy policy says We 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 data-protection@mdpi.ch or you can reach our data protection officer Mr.” data-protection@mdpi.ch Source [Its privacy policy](https://mdpi.com/about/privacy) Tracking tools on its homepage Google 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. Source [Its homepage](https://mdpi.com/) ### Safety Malware and phishing No malware or phishing warnings found for its website This 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 Sources [Google Web Risk](https://docs.cloud.google.com/web-risk/docs/advisory) Data breach history One known data breach involving the company: MDPI, the latest 10 years ago Known data breaches found: 1 MDPI 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 Sources [Have I Been Pwned](https://haveibeenpwned.com/) [MDPI on Have I Been Pwned](https://haveibeenpwned.com/Breach/MDPI) Domain and email security Its email is protected: mail forged in its name goes to spam Email MX records: Yes SPF record: Yes DKIM key: Yes DMARC record: Yes DMARC policy: quarantine Certificate Security certificate browsers warn about: No Certificate issuer: DigiCert Inc Certificate type: OV Certificate expires: 3 May 2027 Hosting Nameservers: duke.ns.cloudflare.com tia.ns.cloudflare.com Address: 2.23.92.14 2.23.92.34 Sources [Its DNS records](https://dns.google/query?name=mdpi.com&rr_type=TXT) ### 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 record Not 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 Source mdpi.com's DNS records Run mdpi.com? Add the record and 3 points are added to its truth score. [Prove you run this website](https://truthsignal.com/claim/mdpi.com) Email at its own domain Not 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 Source Truth Signal's own records Run mdpi.com? Confirm an email address at the domain and 1 point is added to its truth score. [Prove you run this website](https://truthsignal.com/claim/mdpi.com) Lets our checker read it Not 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 Source mdpi.com/robots.txt Run mdpi.com? Let our checker read the whole website and 1 point is added to its truth score. [Prove you run this website](https://truthsignal.com/claim/mdpi.com) Points added to its truth score 0 of 5 Is this your business? Get the code to show this score on your website Truth Signal truth score for mdpi.com The badge always shows your latest score and links to your full report. Something wrong on this report? [Dispute this page](https://truthsignal.com/contact?dispute=mdpi.com). Tell us which row or warning is wrong and why. A person checks it against its source and replies by email; the report stays as it is until then. ### Change over time - Truth score - Social Followers - Data points [Register / log in to view](https://truthsignal.com/login?to=/business/mdpi.com%23change) ## Past reports The report as it read each month, newest first: - 2026-11: truth score 75, High: https://truthsignal.com/business/mdpi.com/report/2026-11.md ## Cite Truth Signal, MDPI: truth score 75 out of 100, legitimacy confidence High, assessed 2026-11-12, https://truthsignal.com/business/mdpi.com. Licence Truth Signal terms: free to read and quote with a link back; bulk copying, data sets, resale, white-label and model training need the paid API plan (https://truthsignal.com/terms). The same report as JSON: https://truthsignal.com/business/mdpi.com.json