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MDPI topic overview

The analysis highlights History, Science and Art as prominent areas in the source structure around MDPI.

Related topics: 105
Source areas: 4
Connected nodes: 110
Extracted relationships: 222
Concept neighborhoods: 36
Bridge connections: 110

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Challenges · 61 topics

Overview · 21 topics

History · 17 topics

Proliferation of special issues · 6 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Founded: 1996
Country of origin: Switzerland
Distribution: Worldwide
Founder: Shu-Kun Lin
Headquarters location: Basel, Switzerland
No. of employees: 6,750 (in 2022)

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Proliferation of special issues

INRAE Institut national de la recherche agronomique
GAEL Grenoble Applied Economics Laboratory?action=edit&redlink=1
Sic
Applied Sciences Applied Sciences (journal)
Materials Materials (journal)
Inside Higher Ed

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How MDPI connects Entity context

The extracted context around MDPI shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, MDPI → Alzheimer's, Andrulis, Anthony Samsel, Ars Technica, Discover, Entropy, Erik, Evolution, In, In December, It, Jeffrey Beall, Life, Life's, Nature, Origin, Parkinson's, Popular Science, Stephanie Seneff, The Another extracted example is MDPI → Basel, Benoit, Business Media, Entropy, Environmental Research, International Journal, Marine Drugs, MDPI AG, MDPI Verein, Molecular Diversity Preservation International, Molecular Sciences, Molecules, Public Health, Sensors, Several, Shu-Kun Lin, Springer Science, Springer-Verlag, The, Turin. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Top relations

related to Controversial articles · 23

MDPI → Alzheimer's, Andrulis, Anthony Samsel, Ars Technica, Discover, Entropy, Erik, Evolution, In, In December, It, Jeffrey Beall, Life, Life's, Nature, Origin, Parkinson's, Popular Science, Stephanie Seneff, The

related to Molecular Diversity Preservation International · 21

MDPI → Basel, Benoit, Business Media, Entropy, Environmental Research, International Journal, Marine Drugs, MDPI AG, MDPI Verein, Molecular Diversity Preservation International, Molecular Sciences, Molecules, Public Health, Sensors, Several, Shu-Kun Lin, Springer Science, Springer-Verlag, The, Turin

related to MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute) · 20

MDPI → Basel, Canada, China, Dietrich Rordorf, In, Including Switzerland, It, Japan, May, Molecular Diversity Preservation International, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Shu-Kun Lin, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, The, United Kingdom

related to Assessments in the Nordic countries · 19

MDPI → Among, Chinese, CV, Danish, Denmark, Finland, Finnish, In, MDPI's, National Publication Committee, Nordic, Norway, Norwegian, Norwegian Scientific Index, Sustainability, Switzerland, The, The Norwegian Scientific Index, They

related to Concerns over papers connected to a research paper mill · 19

MDPI → Also, Applied Commerce Research, Brian Perron, Damaris Critchlow, December, Dr, Emerging Technologies, Energies, In, In December, International Journal, International Publisher Ltd, Journal, Learning, Mathematics, Perron, Sustainability, The, Theoretical

related to 2023 Clarivate delistings · 13

MDPI → Also, As, Clarivate, Clarivate Web, Environmental Research, Financial Management, In February, International Journal, Journal, Public Health, Risk, Science, Web

related to Inclusion in Beall's list · 13

MDPI → Beall, Beall's, Chemist Peter Murray-Rust, China, Commenters, December, Even, February, Jeffrey Beall's, MDPI's, Murray-Rust, Nobel, October

related to Withdrawals of support by faculties and universities · 12

MDPI → Budějovice, China, Faculty, Frontiers, Hangzhou, Hindawi, In December, In January, Science, South Bohemia, University, Zhejiang Gongshang University

related to 2014 OASPA evaluation · 11

MDPI → April, Association, Following Beall's, Life, Nobel Prize, Nutrients, OASPA, OASPA Membership Criteria, Open Access Scholarly Publishers, Shu-Kun Lin, This

related to Allegation of anomalous citation patterns · 10

MDPI → April, Changes, In July, Maria, OUP, Oviedo-García, Oviedo-García's, Research Evaluation, September, The

Important terminology

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Important terminology

journals published journal article special issues scientific paper research publishing papers list 2021 editorial publisher international open access publishers also

MDPI relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 222 structured relationships around MDPI. Examples in this analysis include MDPI → Country of origin → Switzerland and MDPI → Distribution → Worldwide. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

Subject	Predicate	Object	Confidence	Src
MDPI	Country of origin	Switzerland	1.00	infobox
MDPI	Distribution	Worldwide	1.00	infobox
MDPI	Founded	1996	1.00	infobox
MDPI	Founder	Shu-Kun Lin	1.00	infobox
MDPI	Headquarters location	Basel, Switzerland	1.00	infobox
MDPI	No. of employees	6,750 (in 2022)	1.00	infobox
MDPI	Official website	mdpi.com	1.00	infobox
MDPI	Publication types	Open access scientific journals	1.00	infobox
MDPI	Status	Active	1.00	infobox
Web of Science	instance of	while noting limitations compared with commercial bibliographic databases	0.80	text
Scopus	instance of	while noting limitations compared with commercial bibliographic databases	0.80	text
MDPI	related to "Who's Afraid of Peer Review?" sting	In	0.60	section

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around MDPI bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Journals, Published and Journal. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

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- Published
- Journal
- List
- Research
- Publishing
- Scientific
- Special
- Beall's
- Including
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publisher
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scientific journals
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open access books
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- Mdpi's
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- Also
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open access scholarly publishers association
- Open
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- Research
- Publishing
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- Mdpi's
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international association of scientific, technical, and medical publishers
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jeffrey beall's list
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Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For MDPI, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects MDPI with Challenges. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3

MDPI — Challenges · splits 48 ⟂ 63

MDPI — Overview · splits 89 ⟂ 22

MDPI — History · splits 93 ⟂ 18

MDPI — Proliferation of special issues · splits 104 ⟂ 7

Map overview Semantic statistics

MDPI

Nodes111

Edges110

Triples222

Avg. degree1.98

Density0.018018

Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around MDPI to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Science & Art, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — MDPI · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout