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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)

Frontiers news

09 Feb 2012

Frontiers launches social networking for scientists

Today is quite a monumental and exciting day in the short history of Frontiers. The social networking platform for researchers was launched. So far Frontiers has been publishing high-quality, peer-reviewed scientific research articles freely accessible to anybody in the world. In the 4 years of existence, Frontiers became the fastest-growing open-access publisher world-wide, with over 3 million monthly page views and over 5 millions article views and downloads. This tremendous success is due to the strong rooting in the scientific communities. Frontiers was founded by scientists and is run by scientists. With over 25,000 world-renowned scientists on the Frontiers editorial boards and almost 50,000 high-profile academic users, Frontiers is deeply rooted in the scientific community. The Frontiers users are mainly successful and famous scientists, are opinionated, they publish articles, participate in the peer-review and provide constant and enthusiastic feedback about what features should be improved or added. Frontiers has always been and will always remain a grass-roots initiative, serving the scientific communities.Thus, it only came naturally to expand the Frontiers platform from open-access publishing toscientific social networking. Today we launched the Frontiers Research Network, a social networking platform for scientists, researchers, academics and anybody whose mind is eager to know […]