Open Science and Peer Review – Science & research news

The Geological Society of London and Frontiers: Publishing Partnership Announcement

August 13, 2020

Frontiers and the Geological Society of London are thrilled to announce that they have formed a publishing partnership to facilitate the launch of a new Gold Open Access journal Earth Science, Systems and Society (also known as ES3). [...]

Artificial Intelligence to help meet global demand for high-quality, objective peer-review in publishing

July 1, 2020

In an industry first, we are delighted to announce our Artificial Intelligence Review Assistant (AIRA) platform is available to support editors, reviewers and authors evaluate the quality of manuscripts and help meet global demand for high-quality, objective peer-review in publishing. [...]

Artificial Intelligence to help meet global demand for high-quality, objective peer-review in publishing

July 1, 2020

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

Submitting your paper to Frontiers? Find out what happens next.

June 3, 2020

What happens when you submit a paper to Frontiers? Here, our team take a closer look at what happens between submission and publication. [...]

Peer Review: Editors at Frontiers

May 25, 2020

Considering becoming an editor for journals in your research community? What are the different editor roles at Frontiers and how do we support you? Find out more. [...]

The role of peer review in publishing

May 18, 2020

Peer review plays an integral role in the proliferation of knowledge. Find out more about Frontier's rigorous and transparent peer review process. [...]

Frontiers partners with Clarivate on new Reviewer Recognition Service

April 28, 2020

New service provides greater recognition for reviewers and their contributions to scholarly publishing. [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]