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Dear Colleague,
I am delighted to announce the launch of a new open access journal, Frontiers in Microbiology, which is part of the Frontiers Journal Series, a novel and revolutionary academic publishing system.
As we are taking much better account of the unseen majority of life, unravel the biogeochemical processes that microbes facilitate, thereby making planet Earth habitable for all forms of life; as we increasingly identify the rules by which microorganisms interact with co-evolving viruses and macroorganisms in health and disease; and as we find more and better strategies to mitigate the detrimental effects of anthropogenic activities on the abundance, diversity, distribution and activity of microbial communities, Frontiers in Microbiology will be the 21st century approach to communicate all this progress to both the specialist and a wider audience of readers in the field.
Frontiers in Microbiology publishes tier 1 and tier 2 article types on the most outstanding discoveries across the entire research spectrum of Microbiology. The mission of Frontiers in Microbiology is to bring all relevant specialties in Microbiology together on a single platform. It is, therefore, composed of the specialty sections listed below:
with several other specialties such as Frontiers in Microbiological Chemistry (Editors-in-Chief: Bradley M. Tebo, Ariel D. Anbar), Frontiers in Symbiotic Microbiology, Frontiers in Disease Dynamics and others to come.
The following article types are welcome: original research articles, review articles, hypothesis and theory articles, methods articles, mini-reviews, commentaries, perspective articles, opinion articles and book reviews.
Frontiers in Microbiology brings you the excitement of microbiological 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 me or the Frontiers Editorial Office (microbiology.editorial.office@frontiersin.org).
We are looking forward to receiving your article for review,
Martin G. Klotz
Editor-in Chief, Frontiers in Microbiology
http://www.frontiersin.org/microbiology/about
WHY PUBLISH IN FRONTIERS IN MICROBIOLOGY?
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 the 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
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 articles are invited and highlighted as prestigious Frontiers Focused Reviews in the second-tier field journal.
This Frontiers initiative is a grass-roots project that started in the neuroscience community 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. Over 24,000 academic journals are published nowadays, and 80-90% of these require subscriptions. Not even the wealthiest university can afford access to all these research results, most of which are publicly funded.
The first field journal to be launched was Frontiers in Neuroscience in 2007. Within the first two years, Frontiers in Neuroscience became the fastest-growing open access journal in neuroscience and it is now run by over 2,800 of the world's top neuroscientists. The journal is now read by essentially 100% of researchers in the field, with over 100,000 neuroscientists accessing the website and over 60,000 using its resources regularly.
Frontiers has now launched many other journals patterned after the great success of Frontiers in Neuroscience 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.
The twenty-first century is demanding a new approach to scholarly publishing - and Frontiers is the solution.
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