Journal impact: Frontiers in Materials
Frontiers in Materials makes a strong start with its first Impact Factor [...]
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Scientific Excellence at Scale: Open Access journals have a clear citation advantage over subscription journals
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. [...]
Journal impact: Frontiers in Oncology
Receiving its first Impact Factor in 2018, Frontiers in Oncology ranks in the top journal impact metrics [...]
Journal impact: Frontiers in Neuroscience journal series
The Frontiers in Neuroscience journal series is the most-cited in its field [...]
Journal impact: Frontiers in Genetics
With an Impact Factor of 4.151, Frontiers in Genetics is the 4th most-cited open-access journal in its field [...]
Journal impact: Frontiers in Psychiatry
With an Impact Factor of 2.857, Frontiers in Psychiatry is the 4th most-cited open-access journal in its field [...]
Journal impact: Frontiers in Endocrinology
With an Impact Factor of 3.519, Frontiers in Endocrinology is the 4th most-cited open-access journal in its field [...]
Journal impact: Frontiers in Neurology
With an Impact Factor of 3.508, Frontiers in Neurology is the most-cited open-access journal in its field [...]
Journal impact: Frontiers in Pediatrics
With an Impact Factor of 2.335, Frontiers in Pediatrics is the world's 2nd most-cited open-access journal in its field [...]
Journal impact: Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
With an Impact Factor of 2.871, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience is the most-cited journal in its field [...]
Journal impact: Frontiers in Psychology
With an Impact Factor of 2.089, Frontiers in Psychology is the most-cited journal in its field [...]
Journal impact: Frontiers in Physiology
With an Impact Factor of 3.394, Frontiers in Physiology is the 3rd most-cited journal in its field [...]
Journal impact: Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
With an Impact Factor of 3.520, Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology ranks among the top 10 most-cited open-access journals in its field [...]
Journal impact: Frontiers in Immunology
With an Impact Factor of 5.511, Frontiers in Immunology is among the top 10 most-cited journals in its field [...]
Journal impact: Frontiers in Microbiology
With an Impact Factor of 4.019, Frontiers in Microbiology is the most-cited journal in its field [...]
Journal impact: Frontiers in Plant Science
With an Impact Factor of 3.678, Frontiers in Plant Science is the most-cited journal in its field
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Journal impact factors: Frontiers at the top of citation and impact metrics
Frontiers journals lead in citations & rank in the top Impact Factor and CiteScore percentiles [...]
Frontiers 2017 – a year in review
With the end of the year in sight, we would like to thank the Frontiers community for the amazing accomplishments of 2017. [...]
Frontiers journals in the top of CiteScore impact metrics
Frontiers journals consistently rank among the best performing journals in their categories, in new CiteScore impact metrics from Scopus [...]
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. [...]
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. [...]
Frontiers journals in the top of impact metrics
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
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
The Frontiers in Neuroscience journal series is the 1st-most cited in Neurosciences [...]
Frontiers journal ranking analysis: Pharmacology & Pharmacy
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
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
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
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
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
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
With an Impact Factor of 6.429, Frontiers in Immunology is the 5th most cited Immunology journal in the world [...]
Quality and Impact Analysis: Frontiers in Immunology
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
Coming soon: 2017 analysis based on the most recent Journal Citation Reports by Clarivate Analytics (formerly published by Thomson Reuters). Frontiers in Neurology, launched [...]
Frontiers Impact Factors rise as volume increases: quality at scale
In the 2015-JCR, Frontiers has 19 journals with Impact Factors, and several more have already been approved for the 2016 edition. [...]
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 [...]
Changing ways: High impact, fast decisions and reasonable rejection rates in scholarly publishing
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. [...]
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 [...]
Born Digital: building the ultimate open-access publisher
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
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: the Field of Frontiers in Neuroscience
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 Pharmacology
Frontiers in Pharmacology has an Impact Factor of 4.418 and is the #2 most cited open-access journal in Pharmacology. [...]
Quality and Impact Analysis: Frontiers in Physiology
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
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
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
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
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
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 Pharmacology
Frontiers in Pharmacology was launched in 2010. In just 4 years, it has become the 3rd largest and the 2nd most cited open access journal in Pharmacology & [...]
Quality and Impact Analysis: Frontiers in Psychology
By Pascal Rocha da Silva, Frontiers analyst Frontiers in Psychology was launched in 2010. In just 4 years, it has become the largest and the 2nd most-cited psychology journal [...]
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 [...]