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Frontiers in ICT: Computer Image Analysis open for submission

Computer Image Analysis is a new specialty section in the community-run open-access journal Frontiers in ICT. This section is led by Specialty Chief Editors Drs Christian Barillot and Patrick Bouthemy. The challenge of Computer Image Analysis is to handle overflowing sets of images that convey imperfect, partial or noisy information, while aiming at recognition, decision or prediction. To achieve these goals, image analysis must ensure quality and performance capable of producing robust and accurate perception of physical or human processes. We publish research addressing the scientific and engineering challenges of Image Processing, Image Analysis, Computer Vision, and Image Perception and their related application fields, with a specific attention to emerging interdisciplinary areas. Our specialty welcomes papers both in basic research and applications related to environmental sciences, life sciences, multimedia, video surveillance and biometrics. Frontiers in ICT offers: –      Interactive and collaborative review to ensure quality, rigor, and fairness –      Open access for maximum visibility and discoverability –      Advanced article-level analytics and demographics to track reach and impact, –      Fast publication –      Editors and reviewers disclosed on all published articles for maximum transparency –      Commenting systems enabled on all articles to boost post-publication feedback The editorial board of Computer Image Analysis is composed of the following Associate Editors: –      Marleen De Bruijne, Erasmus MC, The Netherlands –      Rita Cucchiara, […]

Social Robotics: An Interview with Sebastian Loth

Frontiers presents an exclusive interview with Sebastian Loth, part of the Psycholinguistics research group at Bielefeld University, Germany. Sebastian is a member of the EU-funded JAMES project (Joint Action for Multimodal Embodied Social Systems), formed to further research into social robotics and human-robot interactions. How did you first get interested in social robotics?  Social robotics investigates the predictability of social behavior, asking which signals are most informative for understanding behavior. I started with a degree in Linguistics and Informatics and then moved on to a PhD in Psychology with a focus on visual word recognition. From there it was clear that social robotics and psycholinguistics are related on an abstract level. For example, in visual word recognition you might be interested in the predictability of letters. In social robotics, “letters” are events, behaviors, signals and so on. However, the question of how predictable certain events are and how they relate to other events is similar. This is interesting, because the ability to anticipate and rely on expectations is fundamental to the human condition. Exceeding or falling short of expectations is what defines a success versus a failure. This makes it very intriguing to understand how expectations are formed and how […]

Frontiers Launches its First Open Access Journal in the Humanities and Social Sciences

Frontiers is pleased to announce the launch of a series of interdisciplinary open access journals across the whole spectrum of the humanities and social sciences. The first journal, Frontiers in Digital Humanities, is now open for submissions. The first journal to launch, Frontiers in Digital Humanities, will publish a range of article types across all research areas where computer science and the humanities intersect. All Digital Humanities specialties will be on a single open science platform. Further titles in the series include Frontiers in Economics and Frontiers in Management. In the last year Frontiers has launched 20 new open access journals across science, medicine and engineering. With 50 open access titles and 26,000 peer reviewed articles published, Frontiers is the fourth leading open access academic publisher worldwide.  Today marks a new frontier: the first community-driven open access journal in the humanities and social sciences. “Through new journals in the humanities and social sciences, Frontiers bring its successful and innovative publishing model to these rapidly evolving fields,” says Fred Fenter, Executive Editor at Frontiers. “Our aim is to drive scholarly publishing with innovative web tools for open science across all of academia.” The first to launch, Frontiers in Digital Humanities, will publish a range of article types across […]

New Specialty sections in Frontiers in Veterinary Science

Frontiers is pleased to announce that new Specialty sections are open for submissions in the open-access journal Frontiers in Veterinary Science. Frontiers in Veterinary Science is an international, online-only, open-access journal that publishes articles across the broad spectrum of veterinary sciences. The journal bridges animal and human health, brings a comparative approach to medical and surgical challenges, and advances innovative biotechnology and therapy. All relevant specialties within veterinary science are brought together on a single open-science platform and led by dedicated teams of international researchers. The current list of Specialty sections open for submissions within Frontiers in Veterinary Science is: •    Animal Behavior and Welfare (Specialty Chief Editor: Jeremy Marchant-Forde) •    Animal Nutrition and Metabolism (Specialty Chief Editor: Toshiro Arai) •    Livestock Genomics (Specialty Chief Editors: Steve Bishop and Guilherme J. M. Rosa) •    One Health (Specialty Chief Editor: Ali Mobasheri) •    Parasitology (Specialty Chief Editor: Hany M. Elsheikha) •    Veterinary Dentistry and Oromaxillofacial Surgery (Specialty Chief Editor: Frank J.M.   Verstraete) •    Veterinary Infectious Diseases (Specialty Chief Editor: Michael Kogut) •    Veterinary Pathology (Specialty Chief Editor: Dorothee Bienzle) “Frontiers in Veterinary Science provides a truly innovative and collaborative platform to enable global access to high-quality, relevant research and facilitates interdisciplinary […]

Frontiers offers new Impact Metrics and access to Altmetric data

Lausanne, Switzerland, November 28, 2014 – Frontiers, a community-rooted open-access publisher, announces the release of an expanded suite of Impact Metrics and fully integrated Altmetric data. Authors and readers can track and analyze online activity around Frontiers articles, including news, references in policy documents, social media, bookmarking, post-publication peer review and forums.  This activity is displayed via the ‘View Article Impact’ tab and readers and authors can click through to view and explore all of the original posts and shares for themselves. “Altmetric is a pioneer of tracking online conversations around articles. The full integration of Altmetric data into our suite of impact metrics is a fantastic addition, because it enables our authors to follow the broader online impact of their articles and track conversations they may not otherwise have been aware of,” says Kamila Markram, co-founder and CEO of Frontiers, who is also an active researcher. “Frontiers have championed the inclusion of article-level metric data for many years, and the inclusion of Altmetric visualizations and associated mentions across their research articles will offer their users further concrete evidence of where their work is being reported in global news outlets, and having an influence on public policy,” emphasizes Altmetric founder Euan Adie. Frontiers […]

Frontiers has a new Logo!

Here is a snapshot of the evolution of our logo! The Origins Our logo and tag line were created to represent our mission: to build an open science platform that empowers researchers and where researchers have equal opportunity to seek, share and generate knowledge. The initial logo contained a pyramid concept with four layers each one representative of a different stage in Frontiers’ unique Tiering feature. Snapshot of the tiering The logo contained a pyramid concept with four layers each one representative of a different stage in Frontiers’ unique Tiering feature. Tiering is a crowdsourced mechanism we use to distil research.  Following the publication of an article, impact metric data is collected, evaluated and used as a basis to invite selected the authors to write “Focused Review”. Through this process the research climbs the tiers in increasingly accessible format reaching a broader public and becoming more socially relevant with each step. Establishing the brand As Frontiers established itself and opened field journals covering more and more subject fields we decided, in 2009, to modify the logo into a more customized version. The Pyramid moved to the left and we used a softer grey for the font color. Simplicity This was […]

Glass Science open for submissions

Today marks the launch of Glass Science, a new specialty section in the community-run open-access journal Frontiers in Materials. The new section Glass Science is led by Specialty Chief Editor Dr John Mauro, Corning Inc, US. Glass Science provides a high-visibility, interactive forum for the publication and discussion of the latest, most important advances in fundamental and applied glass science, including glass physics, chemistry and engineering technology as well as innovative new applications for glassy materials. Its mission is to accelerate the ongoing evolution of glass science from a purely empirical science to one built upon a rigorous, interdisciplinary approach, with the ultimate goal of achieving atomic-level understanding and design of novel glassy materials. Part of the “Frontiers in” journal series, Frontiers in Materials offers: – Interactive and collaborative review to ensure quality, rigor, and fairness – World-class editorial boards for all specialty sections – Open Access for maximum visibility and discoverability – Advanced article-level analytics and demographics to track reach and impact, including social media buzz – Fast publication, with an average of 84 days from submission to publication – Editors and reviewers disclosed on all published articles for maximum transparency – Commenting systems enabled on all articles to boost post-publication feedback The editorial board of the specialty Glass Science is composed of […]

A Living History of Immunology: New Frontiers in Immunology Research Topic

A new Frontiers in Immunology Research Topic brings together the stories of those at the forefront of modern-day immunology “In the highly competitive world of biomedical science, often the rush to publish and to be recognized as ‘first’ with a new discovery, concept or method is lost in the hurly burly of the moment, as ‘the maddening crowd’ moves on to the next ‘new thing’. One of the great things about immunology today is that it has only matured as a science within the last half-century, and especially within the past 35 years as a consequence of the revolution of molecular immunology, which has taken place only since 1980. Consequently, most of those who have contributed to our new understanding of how the immune system functions are still alive and well, and still contributing. “‘A Living History of Immunology’ intends to collate as many stories as possible from the investigators who actually performed the experiments that have established the frontiers of immunology. Accordingly, we are after the ‘truth’, to combat ‘revisionist science’, by those who want to alter history by telling the stories a different way than actually happened. In this regard, one of the good things about science versus […]

Frontiers Launches Frontiers in ICT

Frontiers – a community driven open-access publisher and research networking platform – is pleased to launch Frontiers in ICT. It is now open for submissions. Frontiers in ICT is an international, multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed open-access journal that brings all specialisms across information and communications technologies together on a single platform. From big data to digital health and quantum computing to digital education, each relevant specialty will be led by dedicated team of international researchers. Nick Duffield, Specialty Chief Editor of the section Big Data and Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Texas A&M University, US, says: “The Big Data field is exciting because advances in computational platforms and the emergence of data sources across new domains provide fresh motivation and opportunities for research in data science and systems.” “Research in Big Data will increasingly involve multiple disciplines and integrate both methods and applications. This presents a challenge for any journal, of how to draw from a sufficiently wide base of reviewers to fairly evaluate submissions. Frontiers in ICT provides an attractive solution by establishing a social network of reviewers whose collective expertise covers many technical areas.” Like the other titles in the “Frontiers in” journal series, manuscripts will […]

Why you should review papers for Frontiers in Educational Psychology

By Carl Senior By encouraging the generation of a co-authored commentary both the reviewer and the author can work together in a collegial and constructive environment to expand personal networks and in turn support the continued development of science. The Frontier’s portfolio continues to expand and as it does our innovative review strategy is being recognised more and more as being at the very edge of cutting-edge innovation. Recently such innovation was recognised with the prestigious Gold Award from the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP). Such a recognition acknowledges the most innovative strategies that support the open-access publication process and those individuals who drive it forward. Indeed, in receiving the award Professor Kamila Markram dedicated it to the community of open-access researchers who support the Frontier’s process and noted that ‘…their continued dedication and faith in the Frontier’s open-science platform that is helping to transform scholarly publishing and the dissemination of articles in the Internet era’ (Markram, 2014). Yet even with the acknowledgement of the ALPSP Gold Award we should not stand idle but continue to expand the boundaries of innovation. This is especially relevant for the more ‘junior’ journals in the Frontier’s canon such as Frontiers […]

Frontiers receives Gold Prize for the ALPSP Award for Innovation in Publishing 2014

Frontiers has won the ALPSP Innovation in Publishing Award in recognition of its innovative Open-Science platform that provides open-access academic publishing and research networking for scientists. The prestigious award, issued by the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP), acknowledges the best innovators in the scholarly publishing industry and Frontiers received the top Gold prize at the awards ceremony in London, UK, last week (Thursday, 11 September). Kamila Markram, co-Founder and CEO of Frontiers, has dedicated the award to the Frontiers community of 50,000 editors, 100,000 authors and over 160,000 researchers on the Frontiers Network, noting “their continued dedication and faith in the Frontiers Open-Science platform that is helping to transform scholarly publishing and the dissemination of articles in the Internet era.” Formed by a group of scientists in 2007, Frontiers empowers academic communities to take scholarly publishing into their own hands and provides innovative solutions on how science is reviewed, published, evaluated, communicated and disseminated to both academics as well as the general public. The Frontiers Collaborative Peer Review facilitates a fair, fast, rigorous and transparent review and takes place in an online Review Forum that enables reviewers and authors to interact directly in real-time. Over 24,000 high-quality peer-reviewed articles have […]

Frontiers in Robotics and AI in collaboration with FutureTechLabs

Frontiers in Robotics and AI is delighted to collaborate with FutureTechLabs, a unique 3D Design & Bionics workshop aimed at budding young researchers Frontiers in Robotics and AI and FutureTechLabs are joining forces to promote open knowledge to the next generation of robotics researchers. Organized by Imre Bárd, a PhD student at the London School of Economics, the FutureTechLabs project is set up to prepare and educate young people to flourish in the 21st century. The 3D Design & Bionics workshop will take place over five days (27-31 October, 2014) in London, and is aimed at inquisitive and enthusiastic young people who are interested in engineering and computers. Participants will work in groups of 3 to design, 3D print, solder, assemble and program a robotic bionic hand. The course is run by Emil Bülow, the winner of the 2014 Danish Young Scientist competition, and Peter Eduard, Emil’s tutor and science teacher. “The 20th century and the breakthrough of (personal) computers lie behind us,” says Professor A.E. (Gusz) Eiben, Specialty Chief Editor of Evolutionary Robotics and head of the Computational Intelligence Group at VU University Amsterdam. “Ahead of us: the breakthrough of robots in the 21st century. Training the new generation of developers needs to start now.“ To find out more about the project and to apply, […]

Frontiers Research Topics has a new look

We are excited to present the new design of Frontiers Research Topics. Organized by leading researchers, Research Topics are collections of peer-reviewed open-access articles on important themes at the cutting edge of knowledge. Research Topics let you drive new ideas, highlight progress and catalyze developments in your research field. Over 2,300 Research Topics, curated by almost 6,000 leading scientists, physicians, and engineers, have already been hosted on the Frontiers open-science platform. Watch our new video and scroll down for the new and enhanced features of your Frontiers Research Topics. New and enhanced features The redesign offers a new look for an easy and intuitive reader experience, with maximum visibility and impact for editors, authors and their publications. New and enhanced features include:  Impact panel – At a glance, the reach and impact of the Research Topic, including views, likes, comments, shares, and social media buzz. “Editors” panel – Presents the Topic Editors with a photo, affiliation, profile views and publications, for maximum discoverability and impact. Click on the names to read their full Frontiers profile. “Overview” tab – Includes the title, scope and objectives of the Research Topic, as defined by the Topic Editors. “Articles” tab – Showcases published articles, including the […]

Top Frontiers Research Topics as of Sept 2014

We have just redesigned our Research Topic pages. To celebrate, here are a selection of our most successful Research Topics. Happy reading! Neuropeptide GPCRs in neuroendocrinology Frontiers in Endocrinology Edited by: Hubert Vaudry and Jae Young Seong The Impact of Emotion on Cognition – Dissociating between Enhancing and Impairing Effects Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience/Frontiers in Psychology Edited by: Florin Dolcos, Lihong Wang and Mara Mather Augmentation of Brain Function: Facts, Fiction and Controversy [Open for submissions] Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience Edited by: Mikhail Lebedev, Ioan Opris and Manuel Casanova Interval Timing and Time-Based Decision Making Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience Edited by: Warren H. Meck, Valérie Doyère and Agnes Gruart Towards a neuroscience of social interaction Frontiers in Human Neuroscience Edited by: Ulrich Pfeiffer, Bert Timmermans, Kai Vogeley, Chris Frith and Leonhard Schilbach Modularity in motor control: from muscle synergies to cognitive action representation Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience Edited by: Andrea D’Avella, Martin Giese, Yuri P. Ivanenko, Thomas Schack and Tamar Flash Immune system modeling and analysis Frontiers in Immunology Edited by: Ramit Mehr, Miles Davenport, Carmen Molina-París, Michal Or-Guil, Veronika Zarnitsyna and Rob J. De Boer Basal Ganglia X – Proceedings of the 10th Triennial Meeting of the International Basal Ganglia Society Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience Edited by: Charles J. Wilson, Jose Bargas, James M. Tepper, Elizabeth Abercrombie Biology of NK cells and NK cell receptors Frontiers in Immunology Edited by: Eric Vivier and Hans-Gustaf Ljunggren The Importance Of Iron In […]