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Frontiers in Blockchain: first peer-reviewed journal dedicated to blockchain from a scientific publisher

The journal will be led by blockchain experts Prof. Olinga Ta'eed, Centre for Citizenship, Enterprise and Governance and Dr Christopher Clack, University College London. [...]
Music lessons improve children’s cognitive skills and academic performance

Structured music lessons significantly enhance children's cognitive abilities which lead to improved academic performance: Frontiers in Neuroscience [...]
High levels of hazardous chemicals found in plastics collected from Lake Geneva

The first analysis of plastic from the lake's beaches finds cadmium, mercury and lead, sometimes at levels exceeding those permitted under EU law: Frontiers in Environmental Science [...]
Frontiers in Big Data: A new open-access journal to lead the big data revolution

The journal welcomes research on data mining, cybersecurity, machine learning, AI, big data networks, and data-driven climate science, health and medicine [...]
Analyzing past failures may boost future performance by reducing stress

Duke, Rutgers & University of Pennsylvania researchers show for first time how writing about past failures helps boost future performance: Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience [...]

The silent revolution in peer review

August 3, 2015

Changes in scholarly publishing over the last 20 y include the emergence of preprint servers and the growth of OA. But other important changes have received less publicity. Richard Walker and Pascal Rocha da Silva discuss. [...]
A History of Academic Peer Review

September 15, 2016

Although peer review is now a fundamental quality control measure implemented during the publishing process, the practice as we know it today is quite different from how it [...]
Achieving quality at scale: here’s how we do it with our Collaborative Peer Review

August 21, 2016

Frontiers has several key strategies to ensure the highest quality standards possible through our collaborative peer review. [...]

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