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Open science policy

19 Feb 2019

Frontiers’ feedback on the implementation guidance of Plan S

Frontiers’response to the call for public feedback on the Guidance on the Implementation of Plan S

Frontiers news

14 Feb 2019

Specialty on Pests, Pathogens and Invasions to explore solutions to forest ecosystem threats

By Tim Gardner Frontiers in Forests and Global Change has launched its newest specialty on Pests, Pathogens and Invasions, led by Enrico Bonello of the Ohio State University and Kimberly Wallin of the University of Vermont and USDA Forest Service. With an increasingly interconnected modern world, the threat of pests, pathogens and invasions to forest ecosystems is growing due to international travel, economic globalization and the effects of climate change. The introduction and spread of invasive species into environments where there are few natural checks and balances can have severe detrimental outcomes for forest ecosystems, ecosystem services and productivity, and the human communities that depend on them. If the future health of the world’s forests is to be assured, now is a critical time to understand the characteristics of these threats and to develop management strategies and solutions to prevent or mitigate ecosystem, economic and societal damage. The objective of Pests, Pathogens and Invasions‘ is to publish high-quality, hypothesis-driven, fundamental and translational research related to forest pathogens (including fungi, oomycetes, bacteria, phytoplasmas, viruses, nematodes, and parasitic plants) and insect pests, with a special interest in research aimed at providing short-, mid-, and long-term solutions to the ecological and social costs associated […]

Frontiers news

11 Feb 2019

Where are all the women in science?

While female participation in science has increased, STEM is still largely male-dominated, and a lot more needs to be done to shift the balance. Join our celebration of women and girls in science by lending your voice on social media

Frontiers news

07 Feb 2019

Field Chief Editors of Frontiers’ journals honored as Fellows of American Academy of Microbiology

Field Chief Editors of Frontiers in Microbiology and Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology have been awarded the prestigious honor of being named Fellows of the American Academy of Microbiology (AAM).

Call for articles: research on theater neuroscience & psychology

A new special issue provides the first platform in a peer-reviewed psychology journal for contemporary empirical research in and on theater practices.

Frontiers news

04 Feb 2019

Professor Steffen Petersen leads Cardiovascular Imaging

Cardiovascular Imaging specialty in Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine is now being led by Professor Steffen Petersen of Queen Mary University of London.

Frontiers news

30 Jan 2019

New specialty on social psychiatry and psychiatric rehabilitation to bridge the science-to-service gap

Led by Prof Antonio Vita, Prof Tom Craig and Dr Andrew Molodynski, Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Rehabilitation is a new specialty in Frontiers in Psychiatry

Frontiers news

30 Jan 2019

Submit to Frontiers directly from Chronos and bioRxiv

Integration with two leading grantee and pre-publication platforms further simplifies the submission process for Frontiers’ authors.

Open science policy

29 Jan 2019

Making Open Science the modus operandi in Europe

How to foster a transparent and competitive scholarly communication market in the digital era and incentivize researchers to use open science practices

Frontiers news

21 Jan 2019

Fernando Cendes is new Chief Editor of Epilepsy specialty in Frontiers in Neurology

Fernando Cendes is new Chief Editor of Frontiers in Neurology’s Epilepsy specialty

Frontiers news

09 Jan 2019

What role for genomics in medicine? Chief Editors Aarno Palotie and Taru Tukiainen lead new specialty in Frontiers in Genetics

Chief Editors Aarno Palotie and Taru Tukiainen lead a new specialty in Frontiers in Genetics exploring the role genomics can play in medicine.

Frontiers news

20 Dec 2018

Frontiers in Psychology celebrates Young Researcher Award

Frontiers in Psychology bestows the Young Researcher Award on three scientists in Clinical and Health Psychology

10 ways your research shaped the last decade

As Frontiers celebrates its 10th anniversary, we look back at 10 ways our authors’ research has contributed to, and built on, breakthroughs of the past decade.