Infographic: Frontiers’ Editors by the numbers

Last updated July 1, 2016 Did you know Frontiers has the world’s largest editorial board with over 63,000 editors? The number is impressive, but what is even more impressive is the caliber of knowledge these editors bring to our journals. This is because at Frontiers our standards are high, but so are the standards of our editors as they are the ones who decide which articles are published. Each one of our editors, from the Chief Editors to the Associate Editors, Review Editors and the Topic Editors, represents the best in their fields which is why we are proud to say that our editorial board representatives are from the highest ranking institutes in the world. These include National Institutes of Health, Harvard, Stanford, The Max Planck Society, Oxford and many others. The board also represents 170 different countries, and is equally dispersed between North America and Europe to ensure a cross-section of scientific knowledge, background and opinion. Our Associate Editors and Review Editors are experts in their fields and are only asked to edit and review papers in their area of expertise.  Our Collaborative Review goes through a two-step process. Step one is an Independent Review Phase where the Review Editors evaluate independently from each other whether […]

Structural Materials open for submissions

OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS: Our new section Structural Materials is led by Specialty Chief Editor Prof. John L Provis from The University of Sheffield and is now open for submissions.

CALL FOR EDITORS: Marine Megafauna is looking for editors

Marine Megafauna, a specialty section of Frontiers in Marine Science, is looking for editors! The section is led by Mark Meekan of the Australian Institute of Marine Science and publishes research on the biology, physiology, ecology and evolution of megafauna inhabiting the world’s oceans. Details: bit.ly/1rhZ9em

Loop reaches 240,000 users

LOOP, a new research network for scientists, reached 200,000 users this week just 4 months after launch.

Happy Pi Day and new Applied Mathematics & Statistics Journal

3-14-’15-9:26 — Happy Pi Day ! We celebrated in style yesterday at our Lausanne office, thanks to the impressive and delicious efforts of our colleagues Marie Soulière, Shaun Evans, and Marc Bettex. And while we’re at it: pi lovers, watch out for our upcoming OA journal Frontiers in Applied Mathematics & Statistics. As a journal driven and directed by working scientists, for working scientists, Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics will be your portal to fast, high quality peer-reviewed publication – a journal in which authors retain copyright to their work and reach a wide audience through open access. Recruitment of the editorial board is under way: Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics is sending a call to all top active researchers and applied mathematics and statistics experts, to help us build a dynamic, highly regarded editorial board! Apply to become either an Associate Editor or a Review Editor. Read more: http://fron.tiers.in/go/f6gTPB

Infographic: Frontiers’ authors by the numbers

Frontiers has published over 39,000 articles on our innovative open-access platform. With over 91,000 authors and 65 million article views and downloads, Frontiers’ dream of publishing research that is sound — and making it freely available has quickly transformed into a successful reality. Frontiers is now one of the largest and fastest-growing open-access scholarly publishers with over 54 community-driven journals across more than 410 specialty niches in science, medicine and technology. Many of these journals are the most-cited and the largest in their fields (see complete analysis) and over 70 percent of Frontiers articles are published in journals that have been listed in Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports (JCR) (see Frontiers journals with impact factors).  

Frontiers articles published by year

Aiming Too High (Or Too Low) When Communicating Science

When one of the researchers asked how you should then go about scaling up to older audiences, the speaker laughed and delivered a punchline: “You don’t.”

Frontiers redesigns article pages

Frontiers is rooted in technology and develops online tools to maximize impact and outreach of articles. We are pleased to announce that our article webpages have been enhanced to boost the visibility of authors and their research. The redesign is part of Frontiers’ ongoing improvement of its unique open-science platform and offers a new sleek, smooth and easy-to-navigate interface. Article-level impact analytics take center stage. Improved features include an informative dashboard with advanced article-level impact analytics – a popular way of measuring the reach and impact of articles. Traditionally, the impact of an article was measured through Impact Factors at the journal level, but article-level metrics offer a fairer and more relevant measurement. Frontiers’ state-of-the-art article-level impact analytics, first introduced in 2008, are presented in a new interface with a detailed breakdown of the number of abstract views, article downloads, demographics of readers, top referral sites, top viewing countries and more. An Altmetrics tab charts the ‘buzz’ around articles, measured as the number of mentions, shares, and ‘likes’ on websites such as Facebook, Twitter, Mendeley, news outlets and science blogs. But it doesn’t stop there: based on these analytics, advanced crowd-based algorithms drive Frontiers’ unique Tiering Process, which democratically selects […]

What Rabbits and Martian Rovers Taught Me About Scale

Quite often when I am looking at photos, I just feel like something is missing. It is not a criticism of the light or the composition, but rather that something is, quite literally, missing: a scale.

Staff Pick: Scientists’ perspectives on global ocean research priorities

This is Nina Rothe, Journal Manager at Frontiers. Nina’s from Berlin and has a PhD in marine biology from the University of Southampton. We’ve invited her to highlight her personal favorite paper from Frontiers. Read the paper (OA): http://fron.tiers.in/go/eMyoEc Rudd MA (2014) Scientists’ perspectives on global ocean research priorities Frontiers in Marine Science 1:36 … Nina writes: “In this paper, Dr Murray Rudd, from the University of York Environment Department, presents a survey that asked 2,197 scientists from 94 countries, who ranged in background from marine geologists to anthropologists, to state what research was needed most urgently to help sustain global ocean health. Among the most pressing issues, declines in ocean productivity, increases in ocean acidification, and the cumulative effects of multiple stressors on ocean health ranked in the top five ocean research priorities by oceanographers and marine ecologists from around the globe. Social scientists thought that better communication between scientists, policy-makers and the public was the most important research priority.”

Frontiers in Built Environment, a new open-access journal from Frontiers

Frontiers in Built Environment, the latest journal from the award-winning open-access publisher Frontiers, calls for submissions. Frontiers in Built Environment is now open for theoretical, computational, and experimental submissions across the spectrum of built environment research, including inter- and multidisciplinary studies. Submissions are peer-reviewed on Frontiers’ Interactive Forum, through a collaborative, fast, transparent, and objective review process. Articles are published as Open Access under the Creative Commons CC-BY license. “Frontiers is for serious authors who want a balanced and insightful review, rapid turnaround, and visibility for their findings. Its review process was built from the ground up to promote rigor and accountability,” says Forrest Masters, Associate Professor and Program Director at the University of Florida and Chief Editor of the Specialty section Wind Engineering and Science. Frontiers in Built Environment also boasts advanced article-level impact analytics and post-publication commenting on all articles. Frontiers’ unique Tiering System showcases the studies with the greatest impact to a wider audience. “Enjoy this new open-access journal, where you will be able to find cutting-edge trends in built environment research,” says Izuru Takewaki, Professor at Kyoto University and Chief Editor of the specialty section Earthquake Engineering. Specialty sections currently open for submissions are: Bridge Engineering | Specialty Chief Editor: Joan Ramon […]

Data Reports, a new type of peer-reviewed article in Frontiers journals

Data Reports are a new type of Frontiers article: peer-reviewed, citable, and suitable for all publicly available sets of research data. As an open-science publisher, Frontiers is keen to improve access to data. Too valuable to slumber in files, data sets should be curated and sharedreuse. That is why we are glad to introduce a new article type: Frontiers Data Reports. Data Reports are short, peer-reviewed, citable articles that describe a set of scientifically relevant data. The data must be deposited in a repository before submission of the Data Report, and become publicly available upon publication. Data Reports should mention the methods used to collect the data and include suggestions for interpretation or reuse. The data may be analysed in a separate, past or future study, not necessarily published by Frontiers, but this is optional. As of today, Data Reports can be submitted to most Frontiers journals. The introductory article-processing fee is 250 US$ per accepted Data Report. Read more about Data Reports: http://www.frontiersin.org/neuroscience/authorguidelines#_DataReport Read more about the different article types published by Frontiers: http://www.frontiersin.org/Neuroscience/articletype Questions?  Please contact: editorial.office@frontiersin.org

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution Recruiting Female Editors

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution is actively recruiting female ecologists to fill roles on our world-class editorial boards. Interested? E-mail us.

Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering opens for submissions

We are proud to announce that the newest addition to our Open Access‪‎‬ family. Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering has launched and is now open for submissions. http://fron.tiers.in/go/Ovs9No