MDPI Journals Of Scientific Publications

MDPI Journals of Scientific Publications compared with Elsevier ScienceDirect, Springer Nature and Wiley Online Library
MDPI Journals of Scientific Publications	Elsevier ScienceDirect	Springer Nature	Wiley Online Library
Reader access model: All MDPI content is free to read. The service is financed by article processing charges, usually paid by the authors institutes or funding bodies.	Reader access model: The platform hosts journals, articles and book chapters. Open access articles (over 250,000 according to the site) are free to read and download.	Reader access model: Both fully open access journals and hybrid journals exist. Hybrid titles let authors make single articles open access inside a subscription journal.	Reader access model: Open access is offered through fully open access journals and through hybrid journals, next to the subscription content of the platform.
Scope and size: MDPI lists 545 journals, of which 536 are peer reviewed and 9 are conference journals. Titles are topical, for example sensors, micromachines and sustainability. The publisher is based in Basel and has operated since 1996.	Scope and size: Content is grouped into Physical Sciences and Engineering, Life Sciences, and Social Sciences and Humanities. The site does not state a journal count on the page consulted.	Scope and size: The publisher lists more than 600 fully open access journals across all disciplines, plus hybrid titles through Springer Open Choice, nature.com and Palgrave Macmillan.	Scope and size: The platform covers journals, books and reference works. The vendor pages consulted give no total count.
Licence for reuse: Articles are published under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence, so reuse is allowed with citation.	Licence for reuse: Reuse rights for open access articles depend on the user licence chosen by the authors.	Licence for reuse: Open access articles are published under an open access licence. The available licences are listed on each journal website.
Cost to authors: Article processing charges apply to every paper. Amounts are on a separate APC page of the publisher.		Cost to authors: Article processing charges are published as PDF price lists for 2026 and 2027. They are due on acceptance, may change, and tax is added where applicable.
Review and quality control: Submissions are screened for originality with iThenticate and MDPI is a COPE member. The publisher reports median times of under 18 days to first decision in the first half of 2026 (self reported).

MDPI Journals of Scientific Publications compared with Elsevier ScienceDirect, Springer Nature and Wiley Online Library

MDPI Journals of Scientific Publications

Elsevier ScienceDirect

Springer Nature

Wiley Online Library

Reader access model: All MDPI content is free to read. The service is financed by article processing charges, usually paid by the authors institutes or funding bodies.

Reader access model: The platform hosts journals, articles and book chapters. Open access articles (over 250,000 according to the site) are free to read and download.

Reader access model: Both fully open access journals and hybrid journals exist. Hybrid titles let authors make single articles open access inside a subscription journal.

Reader access model: Open access is offered through fully open access journals and through hybrid journals, next to the subscription content of the platform.

Scope and size: MDPI lists 545 journals, of which 536 are peer reviewed and 9 are conference journals. Titles are topical, for example sensors, micromachines and sustainability. The publisher is based in Basel and has operated since 1996.

Scope and size: Content is grouped into Physical Sciences and Engineering, Life Sciences, and Social Sciences and Humanities. The site does not state a journal count on the page consulted.

Scope and size: The publisher lists more than 600 fully open access journals across all disciplines, plus hybrid titles through Springer Open Choice, nature.com and Palgrave Macmillan.

Scope and size: The platform covers journals, books and reference works. The vendor pages consulted give no total count.

Licence for reuse: Articles are published under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence, so reuse is allowed with citation.

Licence for reuse: Reuse rights for open access articles depend on the user licence chosen by the authors.

Licence for reuse: Open access articles are published under an open access licence. The available licences are listed on each journal website.

Cost to authors: Article processing charges apply to every paper. Amounts are on a separate APC page of the publisher.

Cost to authors: Article processing charges are published as PDF price lists for 2026 and 2027. They are due on acceptance, may change, and tax is added where applicable.

Review and quality control: Submissions are screened for originality with iThenticate and MDPI is a COPE member. The publisher reports median times of under 18 days to first decision in the first half of 2026 (self reported).