كلية أيلول الجامعية : نشر بحثًا علميًا متميزًا باسم الكلية في مجلة علمية سويسرية مرموقة ومصنفة ضمن فئة Q2. بعنوان البحث:Historical Manuscripts Analysis: A Deep Learning System for Writer Identification Using Intelligent Feature Selection with Vision Transformers

🌟 إنجاز علمي جديد لكلية أيلول الجامعية – يريم 🌟

إنطلاقًا من رؤية ورسالة وأهداف الكلية المتعلقة في دعم وتشجيع البحث العلمي.

نُهنئ وبكل فخر
الأستاذ الدكتور محمد الصارم
عضو الهيئة الاستشارية للكلية،
بمناسبة نشره بحثًا علميًا متميزًا باسم الكلية في مجلة علمية سويسرية مرموقة ومصنفة ضمن فئة Q2.

🔬 عنوان البحث:
Historical Manuscripts Analysis: A Deep Learning System for Writer Identification Using Intelligent Feature Selection with Vision Transformers

📚 تفاصيل النشر:
✔ المجلة: J. Imaging 2025, 11, 204
✔ التصنيف: Q2
✔ مفهرسة في: Scopus و Web of Science
✔ معامل التأثير: 3.3
✔ دار النشر: MDPI

📎 للاطلاع على البحث:
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https://www.mdpi.com/2313-433X/11/6/204

كلية أيلول الجامعية حيث الطموح وجودة التعليم يلتقيان .

📍 العنوان: يريم – الدائري الغربي – أمام مستشفى يريم العام
📞 للتواصل: 779944553

كلية أيلول الجامعية #إنجاز علمي #MDPI #JImaging #Yareem #VisionTransformers #بحثعلمي

#يمنأكاديميك #انشطةالجامعاتالاهلية #بحوثعلمية #JImaging #MDPI #VisionTransformers #Yareem

I am a member of the German Association for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (to stay in the loop and be able to attend conferences). Today, I received an email from them distributing a mail from FEBS letters. They remind us scientists that they (the FEBS association) use their revenue from the journals to support meetings, fund fellowships, courses, etc.

They state that German scientists seem rather to publish with PLOS, Elsevier and MDPI. Now, while we can certainly all agree that publishing with #Elsevier and #MDPI is NOT a good idea.

Yet, FEBS' APCs are so high, that my uni would not support publishing with them. 🤷‍♂️

#academicpublishing #academicchatter

"Springer Nature Discovers MDPI" https://the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/posts/discover_nature/ #OpenAccess #Springer #Nature #MDPI
[via @aufdroeseler]

New publication on persistent atrial fibrillation and cardioversion outcomes
Can signal complexity help predict early recurrence after electrical cardioversion?

We explored this question using Multi-Scale Entropy (MSE) on ECG signals.

https://doi.org/10.1155/2018/1874651

#cardiology #Afib #Electrophyisiology #ComplexityScience #AtrialFibrillation #cardioversion #SignalProcessing #BiomedicalEngineering #URJC #mdpi #OpenAccess #OA #AfibResearch #MedScience #MastodonMed #AcademicResearch

Just had a paper co-written with a colleague accepted by #MDPI's Cosmology Issue. Mixed feelings about this publisher, but in this case (and tbh also in the previous case I recently had) the overall reviewing process was tougher than I had in more standard journals (A&A, MNRAS):

3 reports by 3 different reviewer:
Ref1 - 8 shallow points/comments
Ref2 - ~60(!) different points/comments
Ref3 - 9 + 2 points/comments spread in two rounds.

Other experiences?

#astronomy #astrodon #science

🆕📖 von Ufuk Topkara in "Religions" (#MDPI) über "On Responsibility: Islamic Ethical Thought Engages with Jewish Ethical Thought". 🙂 Der Beitrag ist 🔓 Open Access verfügbar.

🔓 https://doi.org/10.3390/rel16030274

#Verantwortung, #Denken, #Handeln, #Islam, #Judentum, #TahaAbdurrahman, #HansJonas

Pro: Mein neustes Paper wurde bereits zitiert.
Con: Ein #mdpi Journal, das eher in der Kathegorie #Raubjournal diskutiert wird.

Eingereicht: 2 Tage vor Veröffentlichung meines Papers.
Review: 6 Tage nach Einreichung, SECHS TAGE FÜR EIN REVIEW!
Wie soll das realistisch sein?
#academia #academicchatter

MDPI as a corruption indicator? A new preprint shows a striking trend across Europe 🇪🇺: more MDPI papers → higher perceived corruption → lower innovation.

👉 https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.06282v1

It’s not that MDPI = bad. But when it dominates, it signals a broken system chasing quantity over quality.

Ukraine? 🇺🇦 Not in the study, but we see the same rise of #MDPI. We could build better. Instead, we copy the worst.

#AcademicPublishing #SciencePolicy #ResearchAssessment #Bibliometrics #CorruptionIndex

📢 New Paper Alert!

Using Citizen Science Data as Pre-Training for #Semantic #Segmentation of High-Resolution #UAV Images for Natural #Forests Post-Disturbance Assessment

Paper 📄: https://doi.org/10.3390/f16040616
Blog post 🌐: https://damienlarocque.gitlab.io/blog/forests2025
Code 💻: https://github.com/norlab-ulaval/droneSegmentation

#AI #RemoteSensing #ComputerVision #Research #MDPI

A new paper published on #MDPI titled "#OpenStreetMap as the Data Source for Territorial Innovation Potential Assessment" concludes that "OSM-based assessments provide spatially detailed targeted, flexible, and replicable insights into regional innovation potential compared to traditional methods. However, the limitations of crowdsourced data, such as variability in quality and completeness, are acknowledged."

https://www.mdpi.com/2220-9964/14/3/127

@rmounce Should #MDPI be considered a Scopus competitor? They sure try.
https://www.scilit.com/

Endspurt: Noch bis Freitag läuft eine NRW-weite Umfrage zur Qualität einiger wissenschaftlicher Verlage: https://www.ulb.uni-muenster.de/fachblog/archiv/9003
Wir wünschen uns zahlreiche Teilnahmen, um unsere Überlegungen zu Services v.a. rund um #OpenAccess weiter verbessern zu können!
#DeGruyter #Elsevier #Frontiers #MDPI #SpringerNature #TaylorFrancis #Wiley

@tg9541

I'd call Levin "one of the worst.". Master-bullshitter. A sign of the times: even in science, it is mainly shamelessness that will get you noted and promoted these days.

And he *will* get this published, even if it's in one of these shitty #MDPI spam journals he likes so much.

There is system behind this apparent madness. And it works like a charm in these deluded times. People crave a optimist "visionary."

Steve Bannon, on the other hand, calls it "flooding the zone with shit."

Auf der gefallenen Kurznachrichtenplattform (Twitter) habe ich eben Werbung für #MDPI #OpenAccess gesehen, die ihr Open-Access-Agreement für 60+ britische Universitäten und Forschungseinrichtungen nach Verhandlungen mit #Jisc bis Ende 2025 verlängert haben.

Vielleicht eine nette anekdotische Illustration für eine Präsentation :)

Ukrainian universities are racing up the #QS Rankings, but at what cost? 📊 More papers, less quality, and a science system stuck in a loop of self-citations and #MDPI binge-publishing:

👉 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-024-05165-2

#Rankings turn means into ends: publishing is no longer about advancing knowledge but climbing charts. Ukrainian universities show how chasing #metrics can derail true academic impact. Can we 🇺🇦 rethink the system before it’s too late?

#journals #university #scientometrics

💣💣 Call for Papers for IDEAS 2025.
🗺️ Location: School of Computing at Newcastle University
📅 When: 14ᵗʰ - 16ᵗʰ of July, 2025

📌 Submission Deadline: 15ᵗʰ of May, 2025
🔔 Notification of Acceptance: 13ᵗʰ of June, 2025

The annual IDEAS conference is a top international forum for data engineering researchers, practitioners, developers, and application users to explore revolutionary ideas and results and exchange techniques, tools, and experiences. We invite the participation of all interested in this event, which provides insight into original research contributions relating to all aspects of #databaseengineering defined broadly, and particularly topics of emerging interest describing work on integrating new #technologies into #products and #applications, on experiences with existing and novel techniques, and on the identification of unsolved #challenges.

For the time being, we will have the honour of presenting an invited talk by Jim Webber from Neo4j, and we will also have an #EDI session organized by Laura Heels, so do not miss this! I will update you all via my social media for new exciting updates.

More information concerning the CfP can be found on the Conference Website: https://lnkd.in/dEFJ8dGZ. We are also welcoming Sponsoring Opportunities for companies, for which do not hesitate to contact me (more information on: https://lnkd.in/dPbu7H27)

Selected papers will be invited to an #MDPI Information Special Issue (https://lnkd.in/dXrM-zhE).

So, what are you waiting for? Plan ahead for your next paper. I hope to see you all soon in Newcastle!!!

#databases #bigdata #datamining #informationsystems #verifiedartificialintelligence #xai

@deevybee
Oh wow! Thanks for this.

"Finland had downgraded its classification of 187 MDPI journals because of evidence of "minimum time spend for editorial work and quality assessment", at the same time that German universities had secured a national publishing agreement with MDPI"

Why did German universities deal with #MDPI ? I thought its obviously #predatory and not be given anything

@babelcarp Yeah, they're a really shady publisher, although that doesn't necessarily mean everything they publish is junk. I have personal bad experience as a reviewer for #MDPI. It was a paper on cold stress in tea and they used Anji Bai Cha, which as you probably know, is a cold temperature "albino" cultivar. I commented that the authors should limit the scope of their conclusions since that is such an odd cultivar and they responded by *removing all mention of what cultivar they used*

I hate that this is in an #MDPI journal, but I'm still excited to read this! Moving to the top of my pile of #tea papers to read: https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1729/15/1/133

A committee of scholars in #Finland has decided to downgrade 271 #journals from #Frontiers and #MDPI in their #quality rating system, in a move that may discourage researchers from submitting manuscripts to the outlets.

https://retractionwatch.com/2024/12/24/finland-publication-forum-will-downgrade-hundreds-of-frontiers-and-mdpi-journals/

#research #publishing #highered #highereducation #qualitycontrol #scholcomm #universities #transparency #OpenAccess