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02 Jul 2013

Frontiers in the News: Largest human cognitive performance dataset reveals insights

Media coverage of research published in Frontiers The largest human cognitive performance dataset reveals insights into the effects of lifestyle factors and aging.    Lumosity, the leading brain training company, announced a new web-based, big data methodology for conducting human cognitive performance research. The Human Cognition Project, Lumosity’s research platform, contains the world’s largest and continuously growing dataset of human cognitive performance, which currently includes more than 40 million people who have been tracked for up to 6 years. The article, published in Frontiers in Neuroscience, examined how Lumosity’s dataset can provide insights into the lifestyle correlates of cognitive performance and the impact of age on learning rate. Many leading media outlets covered this exciting news, including, Nature, Arts Technica,The Scientist, Information Week and Mescape. For the full list of media coverage, please click here. The paper is available here (open-access, of course!).

Frontiers news

10 Jun 2013

Frontiers in the News: Gestures of apes and human infants

Media coverage of research published in Frontiers. How similar are the gestures of apes and human infants? More than you might suspect, according to a new study published in Frontiers in Psychology.    Kristen Gillespie-Lynch and Patricia M. Greenfield, authors of a study published in Frontiers in Psychology, analyzed video footage of a female chimpanzee, a female bonobo and a female human infant to compare different types of gestures during communicative development. They found remarkable similarities among the three species, providing new evidence for the “gestures first” theory of the evolution of language. The study has received widespread media coverage, including, Slate, NBC, LA Times, Discovery News, Spiegel Online, redOrbit, Yahoo, Daily Mail and many more. For the full list of media coverage, please click here.   Slate : Human and Ape Babies Share Common Gestures http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1&isUI=1 Image courtesy of amalthya and originally published on Flickr.

Frontiers news

27 Feb 2013

Frontiers Peer Review

The Frontiers Review System promotes a mandate that is uniquely focused on the flawlessness and accuracy of research and is based on the unique Frontiers Review Guidelines. Review Editors – appointed to the Frontiers Editorial Boards from the community’s top experts worldwide – constructively collaborate with authors to ensure that studies are conducted in agreement with the standards of the specific community and to improve the quality of the paper where appropriate. The mandate maximizes the publication quality and protects the rights of authors of publishing their work in a fair and unbiased process. Review Editors focus on certifying the accuracy and validity of articles, not on evaluating their significance – the latter is done democratically by the community using the Frontiers Impact Metrics. To ensure a constructive review process and to acknowledge their significant contribution to a better paper, review editors are disclosed on accepted articles. http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=51066493 Frontiers full reviews are made up of two consecutive steps, an independent and an interactive review. In the independent review phase, review editors evaluate independently from each other whether the research is academically sound following a standardized review questionnaire. Then, Frontiers implemented for the first time the real-time Frontiers Interactive Review Forum, in […]

Frontiers news

27 Feb 2013

Article Impact in Frontiers

Democratic evaluation of the most outstanding research at Frontiers Frontiers has introduced a truly innovative feature to democratically judge its readers’ interests in academic publishing called Frontiers Impact Metrics. Following article acceptance by the Frontiers Review System and publication in one of the journals in the Frontiers Journal Series, advanced internet analytics automatically track down every article’s views and downloads. Every three months, the Frontiers platform analyzes the reading activity based on the inputs of the entire Frontiers Community. The Frontiers Evaluation System enables both the scholarly community and the general public to directly participate in scoring the academic excellence and social relevance of published research. Readers’ interests are then translated into new powerful bibliometric indicators and applied to select academically excellent and socially relevant articles, resulting in the most objective, unbiased and democratic assessment of research. At Frontiers, it is not the opinion of only 2-3 reviewers, however qualified, that determines the importance of a research work, but the entire academic community. Likewise, it is not the ranking of the journal in which an article is published to determine its impact, but the article itself. This assessment also provides the basis for the distillation of published articles in what […]

Frontiers news

27 Feb 2013

How can I host my own Frontiers Research Topic?

Here is a step by step guide on how to submit and host a Research Topic to drive scholarly communication in your research field For your online proposal, everything you need is listed below: 1. The Topic Editors: You can host a Research Topic on your own, but many of our most successful Topics were co-hosted by a senior researcher and one or two early-career scientists. 2. A Title:  A compelling and concise title. 3. A Description: Set up the scope of your Research Topic with a maximum of 500 words. Strive for encyclopedic coverage, considering a range of questions, theories, methods, areas of impact, historical perspectives, etc. 4. Deadlines: 6-8 months is often the best time frame, but this is flexible. Consider 2 months for abstract submissions and 4-6 for manuscript submissions. 5. A List of candidate contributors:  Compile a list of researchers that cover as many nuances of your Research Topic as you can think of. Ideally a Topic should receive at least 10-15 manuscripts. http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=52089266 All Frontiers publications are free to access (under a Creative Commons license). Like other high-quality open access journals, this means that accepted manuscripts for certain article types are subject to a publishing fee. In […]

Frontiers news

27 Feb 2013

Tier Climbing Publication in Frontiers

The Frontiers Tiering System is an efficient and transparent method to select outstanding research articles and make them more accessible to the wider research communities up to the general public When articles are first accepted for publication in Frontiers, they are published in the appropriate online Specialty Section or Specialty Journal, as tier 1 articles. Based on automatic Frontiers Impact Metrics, the top 10% articles in a tier are democratically selected for review as prestigious higher tier articles. At tier 2 level, they are referred to as either Focused Reviews or Frontiers Commentaries. The authors of the selected articles are therefore invited to revise their research article in a review style focused on the original discovery and with the support of the Frontiers peer review. Focused Reviews and Frontiers Commentaries aim at the broader audience of a field community and are published quarterly in the prestigious tier 2 sections of Field Journals. The system is designed to gradually distill the most outstanding research through the succession of the Frontiers tiers, evaluated democratically for its academic excellence and social relevance. While climbing up the tier journal system, the research gains more and more visibility and addresses an increasingly broader public.

Frontiers news

27 Feb 2013

How can I contribute a manuscript to a Frontiers Research Topic?

If you have received a message asking you to contribute a manuscript to a Frontiers research topic, the next step is easy. Simply submit your manuscript through the standard Frontiers manuscript submission, but be sure to note that your submission is part of a Research Topic. Select the Research Topic to which you would like to contribute and proceed through the next steps of the manuscript submission process. Even if you have not received a formal call for participation, your submission is still welcome. You should first submit an abstract (maximum one page) to the topic editor. You may do this through the relevant Research Topic homepage by clicking  “submit abstract.”  Following approval by the topic editor, you are welcome to submit the full manuscript. For author guidelines and manuscript instructions, click here. If you have any questions, please contact the Frontiers Editorial Office at: researchtopics@frontiersin.org FRONTIERS RESEARCH TOPICS JOURNAL PAGES Frontiers in Endocrinology Frontiers in Genetics Frontiers in Microbiology Frontiers in Immunology Frontiers in Neurology Frontiers in Neurosciences Frontiers in Oncology Frontiers in Pharmacology Frontiers in Physiology Frontiers in Plant Science Frontiers in Psychiatry Frontiers in Psychology Frontiers in Pediatrics (coming soon) Frontiers in Chemistry (coming soon)