Frontiers Journal Series

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Frontiers

language English
publishing company Frontiers Media SA ( Switzerland )
First edition 2007
editor Frontiers Research Foundation
Web link www.frontiersin.org
ISSN 1662-4548

The Frontiers Journal Series are scientific open access - journals that are published by the Frontiers Media SA, a company based in the Swiss Lausanne .

history

Frontiers was founded in 2007 as a non-profit organization by neuroscientists at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL) . From 2008 the project was continued as a commercial company Frontiers Media SA.

The business model provides that scientists publish their articles for a fee. The journals ensure compliance with scientific standards and make accepted articles generally available on the Internet free of charge. The scientific editors and reviewers who assess the quality of the manuscripts work free of charge. The first journal published online was Frontiers in Neuroscience in 2007 . Over time, other journals on medical and scientific subjects were added. In addition, Frontiers Research Topics is published , in which - analogous to special editions of specialist journals - several articles appear on a specific research topic. Publication fees are usually in the range of around $ 2,000 to $ 3,000.

In 2013 the Nature Publishing Group (NPG) acquired shares in Frontiers Media SA. NPG is part of the Holtzbrinck publishing group .

criticism

In 2015, the scientific editors of the journals Frontiers in Medicine and Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine were suspended after complaining about corporate employees meddling in their decisions and violating the principles of medical publication.

In 2015, Jeffrey Beall's Frontiers Journal Series was added to his list of possible predatory open-access publishers .

In a contribution to the 2018 anthology, Pseudoscience: The Conspiracy Against Science , Jeffrey Beall reported that Frontiers had used in-house software that did not allow peer reviewers of manuscripts submitted for publication to recommend that a manuscript be rejected. The publishing systems are set up in such a way that it is almost impossible to reject manuscripts.

Publications (selection)

  • Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
  • Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics
  • Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences
  • Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
  • Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology
  • Frontiers in blockchain
  • Frontiers in Built Environment
  • Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
  • Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology
  • Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
  • Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience
  • Frontiers in Chemistry
  • Frontiers in Communication
  • Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience
  • Frontiers in Digital Humanities
  • Frontiers in Earth Science
  • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • Frontiers in Education
  • Frontiers in Endocrinology
  • Frontiers in Energy Research
  • Frontiers in Environmental Science
  • Frontiers in Evolutionary Neuroscience
  • Frontiers in Genetics
  • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
  • Frontiers in ICT
  • Frontiers in Immunology
  • Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Frontiers in Materials
  • Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering
  • Frontiers in Medicine
  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences
  • Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience
  • Frontiers in Neural Circuits
  • Frontiers in Neuroanatomy
  • Frontiers in Neuroenergetics
  • Frontiers in Neuroengineering
  • Frontiers in Neuroinformatics
  • Frontiers in Neurology
  • Frontiers in Neurorobotics
  • Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • Frontiers in Nutrition
  • Frontiers in Oncology
  • Frontiers in Pediatrics
  • Frontiers in Pharmacology
  • Frontiers in Physics
  • Frontiers in Physiology
  • Frontiers in Plant Science
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Frontiers in Public Health
  • Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics
  • Frontiers in Robotics and AI
  • Frontiers in Surgery
  • Frontiers in Synaptic Neuroscience
  • Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience
  • Frontiers in Veterinary Science
  • Frontiers for Young Minds

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.richardpoynder.co.uk/Markram_Interview.pdf
  2. ^ Journals AZ
  3. ↑ Publishing fees . frontiersin.org, accessed February 19, 2019
  4. ^ Changing Nature . Economist, Feb. 27, 2013
  5. ↑ Open-access publisher sacks 31 editors amid fierce row over independence . Science, May 20, 2015
  6. ↑ Bloudoff-Indelicato M: Backlash after Frontiers journals added to list of questionable publishers . In: Nature . 525, No. 7575, 2015. doi : 10.1038 / 526613f .
  7. ↑ Jeffrey Beall : LIST OF PUBLISHERS . In: Scholarly Open Access . Retrieved October 21, 2015.
  8. ↑ Jeffrey Beall : Scientific Soundness and the Problem of Predatory Journals , in: Allison B. Kaufman, James C. Kaufman (Eds.): Pseudoscience: The Conspiracy Against Science , MIT Press, Cambridge / Massachusetts 2018, pp. 283-300, ISBN 9780262037426 , S, 292.