MDPI as a publisher of open-access scientific journals was spun off from the Molecular Diversity Preservation International organization. It was formally registered by Shu-Kun Lin and Dietrich Rordorf in May 2010 with its official headquarters in Basel, Switzerland.

Including Switzerland, MDPI has editorial offices in 11 countries, with five offices in China, two offices in both Romania and Serbia, and offices in the United Kingdom, Canada, Spain, Poland, Japan, Thailand, and Singapore. As of March 2024, MDPI publishes 436 journals (427 standard journals and 9 conference journals).

Based on a series of information published on our blog, we decided to include the MDPI journals on the predatory publications list.

Below you can see the full list of all MDPI predatory journals: