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Frontiers news

15 Dec 2025

Most peer reviewers now use AI, and publishing policy must keep pace

A new whitepaper from Frontiers shows that AI has rapidly become part of everyday peer review, with 53% of reviewers now using AI tools. The findings in Unlocking AI’s untapped potential: responsible innovation in research and publishing point to a pivotal moment for research publishing. Adoption is accelerating and the opportunity now is to translate this momentum into stronger, more transparent, and more equitable research practices as demonstrated in Frontiers’ policy outlines.

Frontiers news

03 Dec 2025

Frontiers Science House launches at Davos to accelerate global science initiatives

Frontiers today announces the launch of the Frontiers Science House, an innovative meeting venue on the Davos Promenade, created for participants of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting (19–23 January 2026). Supported by over 30 global partners, it will connect breakthrough science to government, business executives, investors, and philanthropists to shape decisions affecting people and the planet. 

Frontiers news

20 Nov 2025

Angela W. Muriithi – Bridging rights-based agendas and development realities: A regional perspective on children’s rights

Angela W. Muriithi is the Regional Director for the Middle East, North Africa, and the Horn at Plan International. Previously, she led Plan International’s East and Southern Africa region. She’s also worked with BBC Media Action as Country Director for Kenya and Somalia and Research Manager for East Africa. She began her career as a teacher and brings deep, hands-on experience with children to everything she does. Her work spans education, health, protection, governance, youth livelihoods, and water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) in both development and humanitarian settings.

Frontiers news

30 Oct 2025

Janna Wale - Bridging worlds: Indigenous leadership in climate change

Janna Wale is a Gitxsan (Gitanmaax First Nation) and Cree-Métis climate researcher, working as the Indigenous Research and Partnerships Lead at the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions (PICS). Her work bridges Western science and Indigenous Knowledges to advance holistic, community-led climate resilience. Recognized as a 2024 Corporate Knights Top 30 Under 30 Sustainable Youth Leader, through research, mentorship, and advocacy, she pushes for co-governance and the meaningful inclusion of Indigenous knowledge in Canada’s climate strategies, challenging “fast-tracking” policies that risk sidelining Indigenous rights and environmental protections, and inspiring a new generation to see science as a relationship with the Earth.

Frontiers news

15 Oct 2025

Frontiers and World Economic Forum unveil top technologies to accelerate global climate and planetary health solutions

The World Economic Forum and leading open science publisher Frontiers today launched the inaugural 10 Emerging Technology Solutions for Planetary Health report, a landmark publication spotlighting ten breakthrough innovations that could accelerate global efforts to tackle climate change, restore ecosystems, and build long-term resilience. These technologies offer scalable, science-based solutions to help society operate within planetary boundaries and foster a more sustainable relationship with Earth's systems.

Frontiers news

13 Oct 2025

90% of Science Is Lost: Frontiers’ revolutionary AI-powered service transforms data sharing to deliver breakthroughs faster

Frontiers, the open-science publisher, is tackling this problem with the launch of Frontiers FAIR² Data Management, the world’s first all-in-one, AI-powered service for research data. Designed to transform how data is shared so it is reusable and credited, it brings together curation, compliance checks, AI-ready packaging, peer review, an interactive portal, certification, and lifetime hosting in a single workflow — ensuring that research funded today delivers faster breakthroughs in health, sustainability, and technology tomorrow.

Frontiers news

08 Oct 2025

Frontiers champions research integrity and responsible AI at Indo-Swiss workshop in New Delhi

Frontiers, one of the world’s leading open-access publishers, brings its global expertise in research integrity and responsible AI to the Indo-Swiss Workshop on Research Integrity in the Age of AI, held on 10 October 2025 at the Bharat Mandapam Convention Centre, New Delhi. Organized by Frontiers in partnership with the Indian National Young Academy of Sciences (INYAS) and Swissnex in India, the event convenes policymakers, scientists, and publishers from India and Switzerland to explore how artificial intelligence can be used responsibly in research and strengthen trust in science.

Frontiers news

02 Oct 2025

Make openness Europe’s scientific strength: Frontiers urges action at European Parliament

Speaking at the European Parliament’s Panel for the Science and Technology Options Assessment (STOA) workshop ‘Data Sovereignty in Research: Global Dependencies, Risks, and the European Response’, Mehmet Toral, Chief Corporate Officer and General Counsel of Frontiers, encouraged Europe to look beyond guaranteeing data resilience and access, and continue to position itself as the global leader in science.

Institutional partnerships

24 Sep 2025

Libraries and AI: building trusted partnerships for open research

Artificial intelligence (AI) is now a present force, reshaping the landscape of higher education and scholarly communication as it unfolds. For academic libraries, the implications are profound. On one hand, AI holds the potential to accelerate discovery, streamline metadata curation, and empower research analytics. On the other, it brings new questions of ethics, reliability, copyright, data governance, and equity.

Institutional partnerships

17 Sep 2025

Library-led open science: collaborating to support an equitable publishing landscape

The world is on the brink of an open science revolution. By 2030, the global research landscape will look fundamentally different, driven by a shared ambition to make scientific knowledge freely accessible to all. Its successful implementation hinges not just on policy shifts or publisher commitments, but on the sustained engagement of those who work daily to bring together research, access, and infrastructure: librarians.