Web Scraping and Bibliometric Analysis of MDPI Journals R package MDPIexploreR version 0.3.0 Provides comprehensive tools to scrape and analyze data from the MDPI journals. It allows users to extract metrics such as submission-to-acceptance times, article types, and whether articles are part of special issues. The package can also visualize this information through plots. Additionally, 'MDPIexploreR' offers tools to explore patterns of self-citations within articles and provides insights into guest-edited special issues. Software Depends: R (>= 3.5.0) Imports: dplyr, ggplot2, lubridate, magrittr, rvest, scales, stringr, tidyr Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown Pablo Gómez Barreiro <pablogomezbr@hotmail.es> Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) Pablo Gómez Barreiro [aut, cre] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3140-3326>) CC BY 4.0 2025-03-19 application/tgz https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=MDPIexploreR doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.MDPIexploreR