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

January 27, 2016 // 6 Comments

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 // 4 Comments

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

Frontiers predicts enhanced services will be the future of scholarly publishing

January 27, 2016 // 2 Comments

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 // 8 Comments

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 // 17 Comments

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 // 53 Comments

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 [...]

FLOWCHART: Should I take on this review assignment?

November 3, 2015 // 0 Comments

By Chloe Schmidt and Katherine Lawson You’ve just received an invitation to review a manuscript. Coincidentally, your expertise matches perfectly with its content! But [...]

Open Science and scholarly publishing roundup – October 17, 2015

October 20, 2015 // 0 Comments

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 // 0 Comments

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 // 6 Comments

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. [...]

Open Science and scholarly publishing roundup – October 9, 2015

October 13, 2015 // 0 Comments

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

Open Access, a fortune to less developed countries

October 7, 2015 // 1 Comment

Not all people have equal access to science. In places where funds are particularly scarce, open access to science could bring fortune. Defining fortune The development of a [...]

Open Science and scholarly publishing roundup – October 02, 2015

October 2, 2015 // 0 Comments

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

Chinese science: an open book?

September 23, 2015 // 0 Comments

By Anthony King, science journalist. Chinese scientists are increasingly attracted to open access journals, particularly those with international reach and recognized kudos. [...]

Open Science and scholarly publishing roundup – September 12, 2015

September 12, 2015 // 0 Comments

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

Frontiers tops open-access journal ranking in several JCR categories

September 11, 2015 // 32 Comments

Click here for the 2017 analysis of the 2016 Journal Citation Reports by Clarivate Analytics (f.k.a. Thomson Reuters). July 16, 2016: An analysis of open-access journal [...]

Open Science and scholarly publishing roundup – September 04, 2015

September 7, 2015 // 0 Comments

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

Publishers stand together in the fight against fraudulent peer review

September 1, 2015 // 0 Comments

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 [...]

Open Science and scholarly publishing roundup – August 28, 2015

August 28, 2015 // 0 Comments

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

ILLUSTRATION: Beginner’s Guide to Peer Review

August 14, 2015 // 0 Comments

By Chloe Schmidt and Katherine Lawson Submitting your first manuscript can be daunting to those who are unfamiliar with the process. To help clear up any uncertainty [...]

Open Science and scholarly publishing roundup – August 07, 2015

August 11, 2015 // 0 Comments

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

The silent revolution in peer review

August 3, 2015 // 1 Comment

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. [...]

Open Science and scholarly publishing roundup – July 31, 2015

July 31, 2015 // 0 Comments

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

Open Science and scholarly publishing roundup – July 24, 2015

July 28, 2015 // 0 Comments

Open Science and scholarly publishing roundup - May 22, 2015 Selected news, views and information on Open Science and scholarly publishing from the past week [...]

EC endorses Gold Open Access with new pilot project

July 20, 2015 // 0 Comments

By Frontiers The European Commission (EC) recently announced a new pilot project that supports publishing with Gold Open Access publishers like Frontiers. The pilot, [...]

Open Science and scholarly publishing roundup – July 17, 2015

July 17, 2015 // 0 Comments

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

Open Science and scholarly publishing roundup – July 10, 2015

July 13, 2015 // 0 Comments

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

Open Science and scholarly publishing roundup – July 03, 2015

July 3, 2015 // 0 Comments

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

Open Science and scholarly publishing roundup – June 19, 2015

June 19, 2015 // 0 Comments

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

Open Science and scholarly publishing roundup – June 12, 2015

June 12, 2015 // 0 Comments

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

What people were talking about at spring OA conferences

June 8, 2015 // 0 Comments

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. [...]

Open Science and scholarly publishing roundup – June 05, 2015

June 8, 2015 // 0 Comments

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Open Science and scholarly publishing roundup – May 29, 2015

May 29, 2015 // 0 Comments

Selected news, views and information on Open Science and scholarly publishing from the past week Discover Magazine Blog What to do about a slow peer reviewer? The Guardian [...]

Open Science and scholarly publishing roundup – May 22, 2015

May 22, 2015 // 0 Comments

Selected news, views and information on Open Science and scholarly publishing from the past week Chronicle of Higher Education ‘We need to take a look at the data’: how 2 [...]

Open Science and scholarly publishing roundup – May 15, 2015

May 20, 2015 // 0 Comments

Selected news, views and information on Open Science and scholarly publishing from the past week The Guardian Will traditional science journals disappear? Fusion This [...]

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

April 21, 2015 // 0 Comments

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 [...]

Why you should review papers for Frontiers in Educational Psychology

October 5, 2014 // 0 Comments

By Carl Senior By encouraging the generation of a co-authored commentary both the reviewer and the author can work together in a collegial and constructive environment to [...]

Frontiers releases new Interactive Review Forum

February 12, 2014 // 0 Comments

Frontiers is pleased to announce the release of its new, revolutionary Interactive Review Forum with enhanced features and upgraded software to enhance and ease the [...]

Open access and the Science “sting”

October 22, 2013 // 0 Comments

Open Letter to the Frontiers Editorial Boards On October 4, Science magazine published a news item describing the submission of a fake research article to more than 250 [...]