Frontiers forms publishing agreement with the University of Manchester

ANNOUNCEMENT: University of Manchester now holds a Central Invoicing agreement with Frontiers. For information on how to submit or to see if you qualify for funding, please visit their Open Access page at http://bit.ly/1ar09Wh

Happy Pi Day and new Applied Mathematics & Statistics Journal

3-14-’15-9:26 — Happy Pi Day ! We celebrated in style yesterday at our Lausanne office, thanks to the impressive and delicious efforts of our colleagues Marie Soulière, Shaun Evans, and Marc Bettex. And while we’re at it: pi lovers, watch out for our upcoming OA journal Frontiers in Applied Mathematics & Statistics. As a journal driven and directed by working scientists, for working scientists, Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics will be your portal to fast, high quality peer-reviewed publication – a journal in which authors retain copyright to their work and reach a wide audience through open access. Recruitment of the editorial board is under way: Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics is sending a call to all top active researchers and applied mathematics and statistics experts, to help us build a dynamic, highly regarded editorial board! Apply to become either an Associate Editor or a Review Editor. Read more: http://fron.tiers.in/go/f6gTPB

Infographic: Frontiers’ authors by the numbers

Frontiers has published over 39,000 articles on our innovative open-access platform. With over 91,000 authors and 65 million article views and downloads, Frontiers’ dream of publishing research that is sound — and making it freely available has quickly transformed into a successful reality. Frontiers is now one of the largest and fastest-growing open-access scholarly publishers with over 54 community-driven journals across more than 410 specialty niches in science, medicine and technology. Many of these journals are the most-cited and the largest in their fields (see complete analysis) and over 70 percent of Frontiers articles are published in journals that have been listed in Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports (JCR) (see Frontiers journals with impact factors).  

Frontiers articles published by year

Frontiers redesigns article pages

Frontiers is rooted in technology and develops online tools to maximize impact and outreach of articles. We are pleased to announce that our article webpages have been enhanced to boost the visibility of authors and their research. The redesign is part of Frontiers’ ongoing improvement of its unique open-science platform and offers a new sleek, smooth and easy-to-navigate interface. Article-level impact analytics take center stage. Improved features include an informative dashboard with advanced article-level impact analytics – a popular way of measuring the reach and impact of articles. Traditionally, the impact of an article was measured through Impact Factors at the journal level, but article-level metrics offer a fairer and more relevant measurement. Frontiers’ state-of-the-art article-level impact analytics, first introduced in 2008, are presented in a new interface with a detailed breakdown of the number of abstract views, article downloads, demographics of readers, top referral sites, top viewing countries and more. An Altmetrics tab charts the ‘buzz’ around articles, measured as the number of mentions, shares, and ‘likes’ on websites such as Facebook, Twitter, Mendeley, news outlets and science blogs. But it doesn’t stop there: based on these analytics, advanced crowd-based algorithms drive Frontiers’ unique Tiering Process, which democratically selects […]

Frontiers in Built Environment, a new open-access journal from Frontiers

Frontiers in Built Environment, the latest journal from the award-winning open-access publisher Frontiers, calls for submissions. Frontiers in Built Environment is now open for theoretical, computational, and experimental submissions across the spectrum of built environment research, including inter- and multidisciplinary studies. Submissions are peer-reviewed on Frontiers’ Interactive Forum, through a collaborative, fast, transparent, and objective review process. Articles are published as Open Access under the Creative Commons CC-BY license. “Frontiers is for serious authors who want a balanced and insightful review, rapid turnaround, and visibility for their findings. Its review process was built from the ground up to promote rigor and accountability,” says Forrest Masters, Associate Professor and Program Director at the University of Florida and Chief Editor of the Specialty section Wind Engineering and Science. Frontiers in Built Environment also boasts advanced article-level impact analytics and post-publication commenting on all articles. Frontiers’ unique Tiering System showcases the studies with the greatest impact to a wider audience. “Enjoy this new open-access journal, where you will be able to find cutting-edge trends in built environment research,” says Izuru Takewaki, Professor at Kyoto University and Chief Editor of the specialty section Earthquake Engineering. Specialty sections currently open for submissions are: Bridge Engineering | Specialty Chief Editor: Joan Ramon […]

Data Reports, a new type of peer-reviewed article in Frontiers journals

Data Reports are a new type of Frontiers article: peer-reviewed, citable, and suitable for all publicly available sets of research data. As an open-science publisher, Frontiers is keen to improve access to data. Too valuable to slumber in files, data sets should be curated and sharedreuse. That is why we are glad to introduce a new article type: Frontiers Data Reports. Data Reports are short, peer-reviewed, citable articles that describe a set of scientifically relevant data. The data must be deposited in a repository before submission of the Data Report, and become publicly available upon publication. Data Reports should mention the methods used to collect the data and include suggestions for interpretation or reuse. The data may be analysed in a separate, past or future study, not necessarily published by Frontiers, but this is optional. As of today, Data Reports can be submitted to most Frontiers journals. The introductory article-processing fee is 250 US$ per accepted Data Report. Read more about Data Reports: http://www.frontiersin.org/neuroscience/authorguidelines#_DataReport Read more about the different article types published by Frontiers: http://www.frontiersin.org/Neuroscience/articletype Questions?  Please contact: editorial.office@frontiersin.org

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution Recruiting Female Editors

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution is actively recruiting female ecologists to fill roles on our world-class editorial boards. Interested? E-mail us.

Frontiers launches Loop

Frontiers is pleased to announce the release of Loop, a social network for academics. Loop’s architecture is inspired by the principles of open science and as such is the only network that integrates into third-party websites. For the first time, scientists and academics are discoverable via their published content and across all participating publishers and organizations. Kamila Markram, co-founder and CEO of Frontiers says “Our mission has always been to spotlight the people behind the research in the most open and effective way possible to increase their work’s impact, and with Loop we are offering this opportunity. We are excited to announce that our first partner is Nature Publishing Group, with whom we share these same principles”. The platform offers a rich set of features. Detailed impact metrics, monitored 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, are available on each researcher’s profile. Machine-learning algorithms ensure that relevant research is highlighted to members based on their interests and publication history, thus disseminating articles to the people that matter and increasing the impact of those articles and their authors. Steven Inchcoombe, CEO, Nature Publishing Group and Palgrave Macmillan: “We were looking for a solution for author profiles, but with Loop we […]

Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering opens for submissions

We are proud to announce that the newest addition to our Open Access‪‎‬ family. Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering has launched and is now open for submissions. http://fron.tiers.in/go/Ovs9No

Frontiers forms publishing agreement with the University of Bristol

We are delighted to inform you that the University of Bristol holds a Central Invoicing agreement with Frontiers. For corresponding authors affiliated with the University, if you are funded by one of the UK Research Councils (UKRI) or the Charities Open Access Fund (COAF) then your article processing charge may be covered by the University of Bristol. For further information, requirements and whether you qualify for funding,  please visit Open Access at the University of Bristol or contact the library at open-access@bristol.ac.uk

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, […]

The ETH-Zurich forms publishing agreement with Frontiers

We are delighted to inform you that ETH Zurich holds a Central Invoicing agreement with Frontiers

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 […]