Open Science and Peer Review – Science & research news

Forschungszentrum Jülich and Frontiers develop world’s largest pure open access framework agreement

February 18, 2020

Forschungszentrum Jülich and open access publisher Frontiers signed on 17 February 2020 a Memorandum of Understanding for a pilot National Open Access Publishing Framework for Germany. [...]

Coral Reef Research Collection wins $100,000 International Science Prize

February 4, 2020

A team of scientific editors has been awarded US $100,000 by Swiss open-access publisher Frontiers in recognition of an outstanding special issue research collection on coral reef science and conservation. [...]

UK universities reach new national open access deal

November 26, 2019

Researchers from 180 UK universities can now benefit from a simplified and streamlined route to open access publishing [...]

Frontiers partners with journal policy database TRANSPOSE

November 21, 2019

Partnership with TRANSPOSE enables Frontiers’ open-access policies to reach a wider audience [...]

Frontiers joins the National Academy of Sciences’ list for author transparency

November 20, 2019

Publishers and funders on the NAS list commit to transparent publishing practices [...]

AI-enhanced peer review: Frontiers launches next generation of efficient, high-quality peer review

December 14, 2018

AIRA is the Artificial Intelligence Review Assistant integrated into the Frontiers Peer Review Platform

The integration of AIRA -- Artificial Intelligence Review Assistant -- into Frontiers’ digital peer-review platform enables faster, more efficient quality control and manuscript handling [...]

Open Access: the time is now, the place is Europe!

August 29, 2018

Dr Kamila Markram joined the stage with Robert Jan Smits from the European Commission and leading academics at the 2018 EuroScience Open Forum. [...]

Scientific Excellence at Scale: Open Access journals have a clear citation advantage over subscription journals

July 11, 2018

Frontiers is the 4th most cited publisher amongst the 20 largest publishers, ranked by average citations over a three-year period (2015-2017). The same analysis also reveals a citation advantage of Open Access journals over subscription journals in the last three years. [...]

Sweden commits to Open Science with new Open Access publishing deal

June 1, 2018

The national agreement allows researchers in Sweden to publish in Frontiers’ journals through a simplified process with discounted fees. [...]

Frontiers Data Services Workshop 2018: Open Research Data to Support Sustainable Health Initiatives

March 6, 2018

Frontiers will host its second Data Services Workshop on 24 April 2018, in collaboration with the EU Horizon 2020 projects OpenMinTed and OpenUp and SwissCor [...]

New Open Access publishing deal for Austrian researchers

December 20, 2017

Landmark Open Access Publishing Framework Agreement signed between Frontiers, the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) & University of Vienna [...]

Gender bias in science – new data on a man’s world

December 8, 2017

Gender bias in science – the need for data

Eradicating gender bias in science requires evidence-based action - which in turn requires open data on the inner workings of science. [...]

Frontiers APCs: Structure and Rationale

December 8, 2017

In the past ten years since the founding of Frontiers, Article Processing Charges (APCs) have become widely accepted as the most transparent and sustainable mechanism of [...]

Frontiers Open Science Platform enables scientific excellence at scale

December 5, 2017

Our state-of the-art Open Science Platform is a key strategy to review, publish, evaluate and disseminate research efficiently and at high quality. [...]

Frontiers at Web Summit 2017: Openness key for trust in science

November 14, 2017

Frontiers CEO as invited panel member at Web Summit 2017

Speaking in a panel discussion, Frontiers CEO Kamila Markram emphasized the key role of open science in enhancing public trust in scientific expertise [...]

Competing interests in Peer Review: The importance of transparency

September 12, 2017

Frontiers is committed to fair, rigorous, and transparent peer review, and we are constantly evaluating our processes to ensure that we provide the highest standards. Transparency is the central theme of Peer Review Week 2017, so we take this opportunity to highlight how we raise the standard for transparency in peer review, with the support of our policies on competing interests.

Transparency is the central theme of Peer Review Week 2017, we highlight how we raise the standard for transparency in Frontiers peer review [...]

Frontiers journal ranking analysis: Microbiology

June 28, 2017

With an Impact Factor of 4.076, Frontiers in Microbiology is the 3rd most cited Microbiology journal in the world. [...]

Frontiers included in the OAPEN List of Compliant Open Access Book Publishers

March 24, 2017

Frontiers invited by the OAPEN Foundation to be included in a list of book publishers that comply with the Open Access requirements of ERC, Wellcome and FWF. [...]

160-million Papers and Counting: The World’s Information Deluge

March 6, 2017

Academic output has exploded over the last 100 years but how can the most relevant research be found? — by Melissa Cochrane In 2009, it’s estimated there were at [...]

Open Science will take us into a new world

March 3, 2017

Open Science: Removing the limits on science to drive innovation and advance knowledge. [...]

Germany setting a precedent for Open Access

December 20, 2016

Frontiers was very pleased to announce a new publishing agreement with Universität Tübingen. Established in 1477, not only is the university one of Europe’s oldest [...]

Open Access in Germany – improving all the time

November 25, 2016

A recent study analyzes the investment in OA publishing by German research institutions, indicating a growing trend toward full open access and raising important questions about hybrid OA journals. [...]

Frontiers Collaborative Peer Review: criteria to accept and reject manuscripts

September 20, 2016

Frontiers’ founding principle is to empower researchers in the publishing process. We distribute editorial responsibility to our Editorial Boards, to which we appoint leading experts according to strict criteria of excellence. [...]

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 [...]

Podcast: Peer Review Recognition

September 15, 2016

Peer review recognition provides transparency and accountability which are key to achieving high quality research. In this Frontiers podcast, guest host Pamela Valdes, [...]

Why peer review needs to be recognized

September 14, 2016

Peer review plays a pivotal role in the advancement of scholarly literature. Around 2 million research papers are currently published every year, all assessed by expert [...]

Most-cited articles in Frontiers

August 25, 2016

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. [...]

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. [...]

Reject or publish? Kids discuss peer-review

August 16, 2016

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 – May 20, 2016

May 20, 2016

What's new in Open Science, peer review & academic publishing? [...]

Open Science and scholarly publishing roundup – April 22, 2016

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

April 6, 2016

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 [...]

Frontiers launches new Digital Editorial Office

March 29, 2016

Frontiers has launched a new innovative service that allows for complete operational independence in academic publishing for their over 60,000 editors around the world. The [...]

Digital repositorian’s vision sets new standards for open access in the Gulf region

March 24, 2016

By Michelle Ponto, Frontiers science writer The Open Access movement is becoming a standard for many universities around the world. But just a few years ago, the concept of [...]

What is Peer Review? It Depends Who is Asking!

March 23, 2016

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

March 20, 2016

Innovating Communication in Scholarship (ICIS) brings you "Frontiers in Publishing – Experiences with Open Access Journals. [...]

New Data Debunks Old Beliefs: Part 2

March 4, 2016

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

February 16, 2016

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 [...]

Changing ways: High impact, fast decisions and reasonable rejection rates in scholarly publishing

January 27, 2016

Rejection rates in Frontiers journals are around ~27%, most manuscripts are published within 3 months, and yet, Frontiers' citations rates are amongst the very highest. [...]

Peer-reviewing Frontiers

January 27, 2016

Surveys among thousands of our authors, editors, reviewers show high overall satisfaction with Frontiers, but also yield constructive criticisms which help us to improve [...]

Frontiers predicts enhanced services will be the future of scholarly publishing

January 27, 2016

In addition to the basic services all OA publishers provide, Frontiers has developed 14 premier services to offer a more service-orientated approach to scholarly publishing. [...]

Article Processing Charges: Open Access could save global research

December 24, 2015

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 [...]

Born Digital: building the ultimate open-access publisher

December 22, 2015

By Pascal Rocha da Silva, Frontiers The digital disruption for analog film started in 1975 with the invention of the digital camera by Steven Sasson and ended with the [...]

Selecting for impact: new data debunks old beliefs

December 21, 2015

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 [...]

Open Science and scholarly publishing roundup – October 17, 2015

October 20, 2015

Selected news, views and information on Open Science and scholarly publishing from the past week [...]

Key discussion points from Open Access Days in Zurich

October 15, 2015

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

October 13, 2015

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. [...]