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Swabbing cesarean-born babies with vaginal fluids potentially unsafe and unnecessary

Microbiome differences in cesarean and vaginally born babies are most likely due to antibiotics given to mothers delivering by C-section: Frontiers in Medicine [...]
Social ties could preserve memory, slow brain aging

Research suggests that merely having a larger social network can positively influence the aging brain: Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience [...]
Frequent football ‘headers’ do more harm than occasional head impact accidents

The study is the first to compare the cognitive effects of ball heading and unintentional head impacts in soccer players: Frontiers in Neurology [...]
New agility tests can discriminate between football players at different performance levels

The tests could be more accurate than conventional measurements like sprinting and jumping ability: Frontiers in Physiology [...]
Basketball teams playing for survival in critical NBA playoffs are more likely to lose

The first study using data from real games shows NBA teams are more likely to lose when losing means elimination: Frontiers in Psychology [...]

Kamila Markram’s Euroscientist Interview: Changing the way academics work

April 21, 2015

Frontiers Co-Founder and CEO Kamila Markram sat down with Euroscientist to discuss how Frontiers is designed to remedy some of the shortcomings of the academic publishing process [...]
Publishers stand together in the fight against fraudulent peer review

September 1, 2015

In recent months, several academic publishers have been forced to retract a combined total of over 250 published articles across a number of disciplines due to irregularities [...]
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 [...]

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