Frontiers news
03 Sep 2025
Frontiers institutional partnerships update – summer 2025
The latest news on our collaborations with research institutions, libraries, consortia and funders.
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Frontiers news
03 Sep 2025
Strengthening publishing integrity: industry collaboration and new guidelines for guest-edited collections
Publishing research within thematic collections- such as special issues, research topics, and guest-edited volumes- has become an integral part of scholarly communication. These formats offer established benefits: they support community building, increase the visibility and impact of research, and allow for deeper exploration of emerging or interdisciplinary topics - accelerating discussion and discovery. At Frontiers, Research Topics are our model for these article collections. Defined and led by expert researchers, they unite global communities around a common theme and ensure the outcomes are openly available. This approach not only supports scientific progress but also ensures that new knowledge can be rapidly translated into real-world change.
Frontiers news
19 Aug 2025
Lucia Berdondini – Science in service, beyond borders: Celebrating women leaders in global humanitarian efforts
Dr Lucia Berdondini is an associate professor of psychology at the University of East London and course leader of DL MSc Humanitarian Intervention at the School of Childhood and Social Care. She is also a British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) Accredited Gestalt Physiotherapist. She has worked extensively with psychosocial intervention in countries in war and conflict, existential therapies, and intercultural counselling. With over two decades of experience, Dr Berdondini’s research and teaching focuses on psychosocial support, trauma, and counselling in international and humanitarian contexts. Her global fieldwork spans conflict-affected regions in Africa and Asia, where she has contributed to capacity-building and mental health projects for displaced populations and communities in crisis. Recently, she has been involved in creating a portal with online resources for humanitarian professionals, which can be found here. She has also been collaborating with Vilnosvita, a Ukrainian non-governmental organization (NGO) focused on playback theater as a form of crisis intervention.
Frontiers news
12 Aug 2025
TU Delft and Frontiers expand long-standing partnership with flat fee publishing agreement
Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) and leading open-access publisher Frontiers have expanded their collaboration with a flat fee open access publishing agreement for 2025. This marks the latest phase of a partnership that has been in place since 2014, reaffirming TU Delft’s commitment to open science, research accessibility, and sustainable academic publishing.
Frontiers news
29 Jul 2025
Frontiers' Research Integrity team uncovers peer review manipulation network
Frontiers Research Integrity Auditing team has uncovered a network of authors and editors who conducted peer review with undisclosed conflicts of interest and who have engaged in citation manipulation. The unethical actions of this network have been confirmed in 122 articles published in Frontiers, across 5 journals, and has led to their retraction.
Frontiers news
21 Jul 2025
Frontiers supports Alzheimer's research with expert-led interview series focused on open data and drug discovery
Frontiers today announces the launch of a new interview series ‘Empowering proteomics and transcriptomics in Alzheimer’s drug discovery’. The series is hosted by Dr Ornit Chiba-Falek, Specialty Chief Editor of Frontiers in Molecular Medicine and Division Chief of Translational Brain Sciences in the Department of Neurology at Duke University, and Dr Ara Khachaturian, Executive Vice President of the Campaign to Prevent Alzheimer’s Disease.
Frontiers news
07 Jul 2025
Frontiers broadens AI‑driven integrity checks with integration of Cactus’ Paperpal Preflight and Clear Skies’ Papermill Alarm and Oversight into AIRA
Frontiers announced today that external industry‑leading fraud‑screening tools – Cactus Communications’ Paperpal Preflight and Clear Skies’ Papermill Alarm and Oversight – have been integrated into its own Artificial Intelligence Review Assistant (AIRA) submission-screening system. The expansion delivers an unprecedented, multilayered defense against organized research fraud, strengthening the reliability and integrity of every manuscript submitted to Frontiers.
Frontiers news
01 Jul 2025
University of Miami and Frontiers partner on a flat fee open access agreement
Frontiers and the University of Miami are pleased to announce a new flat fee open access publishing agreement. Through this partnership, affiliated researchers can publish in a selection of leading peer-reviewed journals without incurring article processing charges (APCs), which are fully covered by the University.
Frontiers news
25 Jun 2025
Rhiannon Nichol – Beneath retreating glaciers: Science and stewardship in South Georgia
In honor of World Ocean Day 2025, I spoke with Rhiannon Nichol, a young marine biologist currently on a 24-month research deployment at King Edward Point Research Station in South Georgia. Her work is part of a long-term project for the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), helping to guide the management of the South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands Marine Protected Area by the South Georgia Government. Surrounded by mountains and glaciers, the subantarctic island of South Georgia is a critical haven for wildlife: it hosts five million seals across four species, 65 million breeding birds from 30 species, and supports thriving populations of migratory whales, fish, and Antarctic krill. These krill form a vital link in the Southern Ocean food web. I spoke with Rhi about her work at the station, the challenges of conducting research in such a remote region, and the impacts of climate change on local ecosystems.
Frontiers news
24 Jun 2025
Frontiers extends ZBMed partnership as first publisher to sign up to the Open Life Science Database (OLSPub)
Frontiers has expanded its publishing partnership with ZBMed, the Germany-based life sciences centre, and signed an agreement to deposit article metadata in its new Open Life Science Publication Database (OLSPub), being the first publisher to agree to supply this information to the new database.
Frontiers news
24 Jun 2025
Shaping the future: World Economic Forum and Frontiers reveal Top 10 Emerging Technologies for 2025
Cutting-edge technologies addressing climate, healthcare, and digital authenticity are spotlighted in the report co-published by the World Economic Forum and Frontiers. Pooling the expertise of hundreds of leading scientists from around the world, the report identifies early-stage technologies with the potential to become fully developed and adopted within the next five years.
Frontiers news
28 May 2025
Frontiers and the University of Padua establish flat fee open access agreement for 2025
Frontiers announces a new open access publishing agreement with the University of Padua, supported by its Open Science Committee, ensuring that affiliated researchers can publish their work seamlessly in any of Frontiers’ journals without incurring individual article processing charges (APCs). This one-year agreement, with the possibility of renewal, reinforces the university’s commitment to fostering open science and global knowledge sharing.
Frontiers news
15 May 2025
Anthonia Andoh-Odoom - The science of safety and the future of food
As the world marks World Hunger Day on May 28, 2025, attention turns not only to the millions of people facing food insecurity but also to those working tirelessly behind the scenes to find lasting solutions. I spoke with Dr Anthonia Andoh-Odoom about her research on food safety in Accra, Ghana, as well as her inspirations and hopes for the future of food science.
Frontiers news
22 Apr 2025
Powering climate action: Frontiers and the Frontiers Planet Prize push for adoption of open science solutions at San Francisco Climate Week
Frontiers and the Frontiers Research Foundation, in partnership with Swissnex, will host a high-impact event during San Francisco Climate Week titled “Achieving a Global Green Renaissance: Closing the Climate Implementation Gap with Breakthrough Research.” The event will bring together leading experts, innovators, and researchers to explore how open science and transformative research can accelerate solutions to the climate crisis. With a focus on addressing the gap between scientific advancements and real-world action, the event will provide a platform for shaping the future of planetary health research and sustainability.
Frontiers news
08 Apr 2025
New APC Payment Service in China: Frontiers Partners with CEPIEC and SOCOPAY
Frontiers now offers a new payment solution for article publishing charges (APCs) in mainland China. Through our new partnership with CEPIEC, all APC payments for Frontiers journals from mainland China will now be processed via the SOCOPAY service. This new service streamlines the APC payment process and is tailored specifically for authors in mainland China.