MDPI Partners with Research Solutions to Boost AI-Driven Research…

Event summary

MDPI's journal portfolio is now indexed in Scite, making its open-access research discoverable through AI tools like Claude, ChatGPT, and Microsoft Copilot.
The collaboration provides attribution, direct links to the Version of Record, and article-level usage reporting for MDPI content.
Scite MCP has served over 22 million requests since its launch earlier this year, with monthly volume growing more than 30% month over month.
Research Solutions will manage indexing, transformation, authentication, and integration for MDPI content with no technical lift required from MDPI.

The big picture

This collaboration addresses the growing trend of researchers using AI assistants for literature discovery, which currently lacks consistent attribution and publisher visibility. By indexing MDPI's content in Scite, the partnership aims to ground AI-generated answers in the scholarly record, providing direct links to verified article text and usage analytics. This move is part of Research Solutions' broader strategy to help publishers integrate research articles into AI environments, ensuring accessibility and proper attribution.

What we're watching

AI Adoption: How the pace of researchers adopting AI tools for literature discovery will impact traditional search interfaces.
Content Attribution: Whether the collaboration can sustain accurate attribution and reduce the risk of hallucinated or misattributed findings in AI responses.
Publisher Strategy: The extent to which other publishers will follow MDPI's lead in making open-access content discoverable through AI tools.