News Summary

• MDPI Taxonomy is a five-level hierarchical taxonomy for classifying scholarly content across scientific domains.
• It builds on the OpenAlex hierarchy and extends it with an MDPI Concept layer for finer article classification and topic tagging.
• Each node has a name and a short explanation.
• Explanations are AI-generated (concise glosses, not expert-curated definitions) A concept can sit under more than one valid path.
• Example for Industry 5.0: Physical Sciences → Engineering → Electrical and Electronic Engineering.