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

July 11, 2018 // 1 Comment

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. [...]

Frontiers journal ranking analysis: Microbiology

June 28, 2017 // 0 Comments

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

Frontiers journals in the top of impact metrics

June 28, 2017 // 13 Comments

Analysis of the 2016 Journal Citation Reports shows Frontiers journals lead in citations in their fields and rank in the top Impact Factor percentiles. [...]

Frontiers journal ranking analysis: Human Neuroscience

June 28, 2017 // 0 Comments

With an Impact Factor of 3.209, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience is the 1st most cited Psychology journal in the world. [...]

Frontiers journal ranking analysis: Neurosciences

June 28, 2017 // 1 Comment

The Frontiers in Neuroscience journal series is the 1st-most cited in Neurosciences [...]

Frontiers journal ranking analysis: Pharmacology & Pharmacy

June 28, 2017 // 0 Comments

Frontiers in Pharmacology is the world's 2nd most-cited open-access journal in its field and ranks in the top Impact Factor and CiteScore percentiles

Frontiers in Pharmacology continues to rank among the world’s top pharmacology journals in terms of influence and quality. [...]

Frontiers journal ranking analysis: Clinical Neurology

June 28, 2017 // 0 Comments

With an Impact Factor of 3.552, Frontiers in Neurology is the 2nd most cited open-access journal in Clinical Neurology. [...]

Frontiers journal ranking analysis: Endocrinology & Metabolism

June 28, 2017 // 0 Comments

With an Impact Factor of 3.675, Frontiers in Endocrinology is the 2nd most cited open-access journal in Endocrinology & Metabolism. [...]

Frontiers journal ranking analysis: Physiology

June 28, 2017 // 2 Comments

With an Impact Factor of 4.134, Frontiers in Physiology is the 2nd most cited Physiology journal in the world [...]

Frontiers journal ranking analysis: Plant Sciences

June 28, 2017 // 0 Comments

With an Impact Factor of 4.298, Frontiers in Plant Science is the 1st most cited Plant Sciences journal in the world. [...]

Frontiers journal ranking analysis: Multidisciplinary Psychology

June 28, 2017 // 4 Comments

With an Impact Factor of 2.323, Frontiers in Psychology is the #1 most-cited Multidisciplinary Psychology journal in the world. [...]

Frontiers journal ranking analysis: Immunology

June 28, 2017 // 0 Comments

With an Impact Factor of 6.429, Frontiers in Immunology is the 5th most cited Immunology journal in the world [...]

Citations cartels: an emerging problem in scientific publishing

January 3, 2017 // 0 Comments

Groups of authors citing each other is becoming an issue in scientific publishing. With a new approach, researchers discuss how to identify the problem [...]

Quality and Impact Analysis: Frontiers in Immunology

July 3, 2016 // 0 Comments

Coming soon: 2017 analysis based on the most recent Journal Citation Reports by Clarivate Analytics (formerly published by Thomson Reuters). Frontiers in Immunology, launched [...]

Quality and Impact Analysis: Frontiers in Neurology

July 3, 2016 // 0 Comments

Coming soon: 2017 analysis based on the most recent Journal Citation Reports by Clarivate Analytics (formerly published by Thomson Reuters). Frontiers in Neurology, launched [...]

Quality and Impact Analysis: the Field of Frontiers in Neuroscience

December 14, 2015 // 4 Comments

For the second year on a row, Frontiers is the #1 most cited and largest open-access publisher in the category of Neuroscience. [...]

Quality and Impact Analysis: Frontiers in Physiology

November 25, 2015 // 4 Comments

Frontiers in Physiology an Impact Factor of 4.031 and is the #1 most cited open-access Physiology journal. [...]

Quality and Impact Analysis: Frontiers in Psychology

November 25, 2015 // 6 Comments

For two years in a row, Frontiers in Psychology is the largest and the #2 most-cited psychology journal in the world. [...]

Quality and Impact Analysis: Frontiers in Microbiology

November 24, 2015 // 3 Comments

Frontiers in Microbiology has an Impact Factor of 4.165 and is the 2nd most-cited open-access journal in Microbiology. [...]

Quality and Impact Analysis: Frontiers in Plant Science

November 24, 2015 // 0 Comments

Frontiers in Plant Science has an Impact Factor of 4.495 and is the largest and the most cited open-access journal in Plant Science. [...]

Quality and Impact Analysis: Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

November 20, 2015 // 4 Comments

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience has an Impact Factor of 3.634 and is the #1 most-cited journal in psychology. [...]

Quality and Impact Analysis: Frontiers in Neuroscience

November 5, 2015 // 0 Comments

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 [...]