Tuesday, MAY 31, 2011  

 

Frontiers Announcement

 
 

 

 

 
 

Dear Colleague,

 

We are delighted to announce the launch of a new open access journal, Frontiers in Plant Science, which is part of the Frontiers Journal Series, a novel and revolutionary academic publishing system.

 

 

 

MISSION STATEMENT -Within an ever changing world, plant Science is of outmost importance to secure the future wellbeing of humankind. Plants provide the oxygen to breath, they are used as food and feed source, as building materials and to produce cloths and paper. In addition, they serve as flavors and fragrances, and provide decoration as well as medicine. In times of declining fossil resources, they offer sustainable solutions for a bio-based economy. This requires deciphering the secret life of plants before the extinction of most biodiversity. Therefore, the field is very interdisciplinary and reaches from agricultural science to paleobotany. It uses the latest developments in computer science, molecular biology and genomics to address challenges in model or ecosystems. Central research questions deal with the study and inquiry into the form, function, development, diversity, reproduction, evolution and uses of lower and higher plants and their interactions within the biosphere. Frontiers in Plant Science, therefore, welcomes outstanding contributions in any field of plant science from applied to basic research, from organismic to molecular studies, from single plant analysis to studies of whole ecosystems, and from biochemical to computational approaches.

Frontiers in Plant Science publishes articles on the most outstanding discoveries across the entire research spectrum of Plant Science. The mission of Frontiers in Plant Science is to bring all relevant specialties in Plant Science together on a single platform. It is, therefore, composed of the many specialty sections listed below:

Further Specialty Sections will be launched soon.

 

The following article types are welcome: original research articles, clinical case studies, review articles, hypothesis and theory articles, methods articles, commentaries, perspective articles, opinion articles, book reviews and conference proceedings.

 

Frontiers in Plant Science brings you the excitement of research at the dawn of the third millennium. Be among the first to publish!

 

If you have any questions or comments, do not hesitate to contact us or the Frontiers Editorial Office (plantscience.editorial.office@frontiersin.org).

 

We look forward to receiving your article for review!

 

 

Wolf Frommer,

Carnegie Institution for Science, USA

 

 

Uwe Sonnewald,

Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany

 

Editors-in-Chief, Frontiers in Plant Science

http://www.frontiersin.org/plant_science/


 

About Frontiers special topics

 
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Frontiers Special Topics

With their unique mixes of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Special Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Special Topic or contribute to one as an author.

 

 

 

 

 

Frontiers Jobs

 
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Frontiers Jobs

As a service to the community of job candidates and employers, Frontiers Jobs offers a multifunctional portal with hundreds of academic positions of all levels customized by field. Job candidates can browse through the many job offers, find all information required to immediately apply for a position and also upload their profiles to be viewed by potential employers. Potential employers can post and advertise their academic vacancies and find the best candidate for their vacancy among the many highly qualified researchers at Frontiers.

 

benefits of publishing in frontiers in Plant Science

 

The Frontiers Journal Series was designed to bring you, the author, various benefits, and to give your research findings the widest readership and visibility.

 

Indeed, publishing with Frontiers has many advantages, including:

  • Open Access to all published articles, permanently
  • Only top scholars are appointed to Boards of Editors
  • The only real-time interactive review system in publishing
  • Unbiased, quality-oriented, and transparent reviews (reviewers are disclosed on accepted articles)
  • Unmatched efficiency, with an average of 3 months from submission to publication
  • Reviewers focus on certifying accuracy of articles, not evaluating significance
  • Significance democratically judged by the reading activity of the community through advanced analytics
  • Truly impartial recognition of the best papers
  • Feedback on the impact of every article
  • Instantaneous online publication and an average of 7 days from acceptance until final pdf
  • Indexing of articles with PubMed Central and other archiving systems
  • Being part of a community journal initiative by researchers for researchers

 

 
 

 

 

Frontiers Who's Who

 
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Join the Frontiers Community

You will be able to maintain your academic profile, keep track of your publications, connect to your colleagues, organize events and much, much more. Registration is free and swift.

 

more about frontiers

 

Frontiers operates on a tier publishing system. Starting with the most specialized areas of academia, the first real-time review system in publishing operates to ensure a rapid and high-quality review process in which reviewers are given a fresh new mandate and responsibility. After undergoing rigorous peer-reviewing, automated Internet analytics allow the entire community to participate in evaluating the novelty and the significance of the published research. The most outstanding research is highlighted as prestigious Frontiers Focused Reviews in the field journal.

 

This Frontiers initiative is a grass-roots project that started in the neuroscience community in 2007, as a reaction to the severe restriction of knowledge distribution imposed by subscription publishing models, as well as the relatively old-fashioned and low-tech services offered to researchers. Within the first two years, Frontiers became one of the fastest-growing open access publishers and it is now run by almost 15,000 of the world's top scientists.

 

Frontiers has successfully launched 12 online journals and the IT platform of Frontiers is rapidly innovating to bring researchers more functionalities, services and transparency in the processing of their articles than any other publisher. Our journals receive well above 400,000 monthly views and their free resources are used regularly by about 100,000 researchers worldwide.

 

The twenty-first century is demanding a new approach to scholarly publishing - and Frontiers is the solution!

 

 

 

 

 

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About Frontiers Events

 
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Frontiers Events

Frontiers Events is a rapidly growing system dedicated to the scheduling of academic events, which includes services such as announcement and invitation to events, abstract handling and publication, listing and search of event participants, an exhaustive calendar of related events in each field, post-event exchanges, and many other practical features. Whether you are an organizer or a participant, make your event all-round with Frontiers Events!

 
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