Electronics

If the article has a large number of negative opinions as stated by the editor, the editor reluctantly helps the author polish it into a positive opinion to estimate the author's fragile heart. In theory, when this Scopus journal comes to the door, I should have to review your article again, go through a series of reviews, and then pay 1000 CHF for publication.

Surprisingly, none of this is needed, and the article is directly accepted without any publication fees. This obviously means that the journal intentionally accepts articles that can enhance the influence and citations of this Scopus journal, diverting a part that meets their magazine's SCI standards (or needs major revisions), using the bait of waiving publication fees to see if they can catch some suitable articles.

Although this article is purely written to meet the temporary requirements of the project, it has also allowed me to see the sneaky operations of MDPI and learn a lot about the dark side of publishing houses.

Received email:
2023-01-04 Submission Received
2023-01-05 Assistant Editor Assigned
2023-01-10 Authorship Statement Form
2023-01-23 Major Revisions (Deadline: 30 January 2023)
2023-01-26 Revised Version Received
2023-01-31 Accepted for Publication
2023-01-31 Payment Confirmation
2023-02-01 Final Proofreading Before Publication
2023-02-02 Manuscript Resubmitted
2023-02-02 Paper has been published.
The speed is extremely fast; however, during the major revisions period, an additional fee was paid to the publishing house for proofreading (protection fee), even though it had already been done.
The proofreading didn't have much content and there were some errors in the proofreading; fortunately, after it was done, there was no further discussion and it was directly accepted.
Originally, there was a discount from IOAP, but now it has all been withdrawn.