Open Science Drives Impact: Frontiers Reports 2017
The latest Frontiers Reports with key facts and contributions, and details on our leading journals, their impact and outstanding researchers on board. [...]
Open Science and Peer Review
Frontiers journal ranking analysis: Microbiology
With an Impact Factor of 4.076, Frontiers in Microbiology is the 3rd most cited Microbiology journal in the world This year, 124 journals are listed in the category of [...]
Podcast: Peer Review Recognition
Peer review recognition provides transparency and accountability which are key to achieving high quality research. In this Frontiers podcast, guest host Pamela Valdes, [...]
Most-cited articles in Frontiers
To celebrate the publication of 50,000 peer-reviewed articles in Frontiers, we take a peek at the Top 10 most-cited Original Research articles in Engineering, Health and Science. We also included the Latest Original Research articles in Humanities and Social Sciences, to honour our youngest program. [...]
Reject or publish? Kids discuss peer-review
Is the paper fact or fiction? Is the paper boring? These are all things this panel of children look for when reviewing a paper for our journal for kids, Frontiers for Young [...]
Open Science and scholarly publishing roundup – April 22, 2016
The Guardian Opening up scientific publishing for the Flickr generation Nature Peer review: troubled from the start Science Magazine New research ship highlight of otherwise [...]
Highlights from Experiences with Open Access Journals
by Sandra Hausmann, Frontiers Business Development Manager On March 31st we brought five high profile Frontiers editors together for a panel discussion at the ICIS hosted [...]
What is Peer Review? It Depends Who is Asking!
Frontiers for Young Minds and Knowing Neurons are excited to share the results of their collaboration on the question, “What is Peer Review?” In creating an [...]
Experiences with Open Access Journals: Panel discussion at UC Davis
Innovating Communication in Scholarship (ICIS) brings you "Frontiers in Publishing – Experiences with Open Access Journals. [...]
New Data Debunks Old Beliefs: Part 2
Our original New data debunks old beliefs blog post plotted the impact factors of 570 randomly selected journals indexed in the 2014 Journal Citation Reports (Thomson [...]
SciComm meet-up in San Francisco March 9
Part of the Frontiers Communication team will be in San Francisco on March 9, and together with swissnex San Francisco, we are hosting a Science Communication Meet-Up at [...]
Article Processing Charges: Open Access could save global research
The total number of peer-reviewed research articles published each year increases by approximately 4% [Scopus]. In 2014, nearly 400,000 published research articles were Gold [...]
Selecting for impact: new data debunks old beliefs
One of the strongest beliefs in scholarly publishing is that journals seeking a high impact factor (IF) should be highly selective, accepting only papers predicted to become [...]
Quality and Impact Analysis: Frontiers in Neuroscience
By Pascal Rocha da Silva, Frontiers analyst The field of Frontiers in Neuroscience, established in 2008, has become the #1 most cited and #1 largest Open Access publisher of [...]
Quality and Impact Analysis: Frontiers in Physiology
By Pascal Rocha da Silva, Frontiers analyst Frontiers in Physiology was launched in 2010. In just 4 years, it has become the second largest and the 4th most cited Physiology [...]
Key discussion points from Open Access Days in Zurich
Frontiers had the pleasure of attending The Open Access Tage 2015 on the 7th and 8th of September, this year at the University of Zurich. [...]
Frontiers’ financial commitment to open access publishing
As a publisher, it is our duty to ensure that the business fundamentals behind Frontiers are sound and sustainable. We are responsible towards the community, to the more than 60,000 researchers who have formally joined our editorial boards, to the 140,000 authors who have published with us, and to our employees. [...]
What people were talking about at spring OA conferences
This is a short point-by-point discussion of the major issues and discussion points which arose at spring conferences and which would seem to represent key concerns regarding open-access publishing. [...]
