Reach and Impact
Our fully open access scientific content platform has continued to gain reach within scientific communities and beyond. In 2023, mdpi.com boasted an impressive 13.9 million monthly users and 3.3 million monthly article downloads, all of which are freely accessible to readers.
To ensure the discoverability of our content in all major academic databases, our dedicated team was actively working on progressively and reliably increasing the coverage of journal content.
A noteworthy achievement in 2023 was the inclusion of 77 of our more recently established journals in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), a key registry for gold open access journals. This addition brought the total number of MDPI journals in the DOAJ to 399, marking the second-highest count for any publisher. We will keep building on this foundation. Meanwhile, we reflect on the shared history with DOAJ since its foundation in 2003, celebrating the 20-year anniversary in 2023.
To ensure the discoverability of our content in all major academic databases, our dedicated team was actively working on progressively and reliably increasing the coverage of journal content.
A noteworthy achievement in 2023 was the inclusion of 77 of our more recently established journals in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), a key registry for gold open access journals. This addition brought the total number of MDPI journals in the DOAJ to 399, marking the second-highest count for any publisher. We will keep building on this foundation. Meanwhile, we reflect on the shared history with DOAJ since its foundation in 2003, celebrating the 20-year anniversary in 2023.
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journals newly accepted for inclusion in Scopus (Elsevier)29
journals newly accepted for inclusion in Web of Science (Clarivate)77
journals newly accepted for inclusion in DOAJCoverage Beyond Journal Articles
Our continuous efforts to expand the coverage were not limited to our journal portfolio. Four edited open access books (originals) were included in Clarivate’s Book Citation Index (BKCI) and more books were covered in EBSCO’s eBook platform.
MDPI Books published eleven peer-reviewed open access books in 2023, eight of which were edited books and three of which were monographs. Seven books covered subjects in “Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities”, and four books covered natural science subjects
As part of the effort to provide a more complete picture of the scientific record, Clarivate also added preprint papers from our own Preprints.org into its newly created Preprint Citation Index – the other repositories being arXiv, bioRxiv, medRxiv, and chemRxiv.