Dave, +1

Somewhat surprisingly, the journal is included in Scopus.

Scopus shows that, since 2016, the journal has published 16,832
articles. The journal charges about 2,200 USD for publishing a paper.

Whether the journal should called "open access" is a question as the
publication fee is about the same as the major commercial publishers ask
for Gold Open Access.

ilkka

On 12.11.2020 18.16, Dave Touretzky wrote:
>>    The journal Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417, IF 2.474) is currently
>>    running a Special Issue entitled "The Impact of Artificial Intelligence
>>    on Education". Prof. Boris Aber��ek is serving as Guest Editor for this
>>    issue.
>>    ...
>>    Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417; http://www.mdpi.com/journal/applsci)
>>    is a journal published by MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
> MDPI was included in Jeffrey Beall'sl list of predatory open access
> publishers from 2014 to 2015.  When he was forced by employer pressure
> and legal threats to take the list down in 2017, Beall cited MDPI as one
> of the publishers pressuring his employer, the University of Colorado
> Denver.  A critical view of MDPI can be found here:
>
>    https://www.universityaffairs.ca/features/feature-article/beware-academics-getting-reeled-scam-journals/
>
> Further information on MDPI controversies is available on Wikipedia:
>
>    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDPI
>
> There are some highly reputable open access publishers, such as PLOS
> One.  And there are a lot of disreputable ones.
>
> -- Dave Touretzky
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