"Ambiguous one-word journal titles are a MDPI trademark (“Foods”, “Plants”). In the spirit of “if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em”, Springer Nature has launched a series of journals, the “Discover” series, with near-identical names (Discover Food, Discover Plants).

(...) You can try it yourself in our “Guess Who Is Who” mini-game (...)

Why? How? And let’s ask the most important question of all: who will this benefit? It’s certainly not the authors."

https://the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/posts/discover_nature/#springer-nature-discovers-mdpi

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