Frontiers news

01 Jul 2020

Artificial Intelligence to help meet global demand for high-quality, objective peer-review in publishing

The integration of AIRA — Artificial Intelligence Review Assistant — into Frontiers’ digital peer-review platform enables faster, more efficient quality control and manuscript handling

Update on Plan S: Accelerating the transition to full and immediate Open Access to scientific publications

Open science policy

19 Feb 2019

Frontiers’ feedback on the implementation guidance of Plan S

Frontiers’response to the call for public feedback on the Guidance on the Implementation of Plan S

Chronos, the grantee platform of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and preprint server BioRxiv are now integrated into the Frontiers academic manuscript submission system

Frontiers news

30 Jan 2019

Submit to Frontiers directly from Chronos and bioRxiv

Integration with two leading grantee and pre-publication platforms further simplifies the submission process for Frontiers’ authors.

Open science policy

14 Dec 2018

Plan S: a landmark en route to full and immediate Open Access

Recent developments in the transition to Open Access in Europe and beyond

Jisc logo. Frontiers is the latest Open Access publisher to automatically distribute content to institutional repositories via Jisc’s Publications Router service

Frontiers news

05 Nov 2018

Frontiers supplies full-text articles to Publications Router

Improved service for institutions to capture, store, curate and showcase articles published by their researchers in Frontiers journals

Image of data, circuit board and AI. Universal and open access to the scientific literature is well on the way to becoming the accepted standard by which the results of research are shared. The next step is to bring in the machines -- to improve the speed and efficacy of both data analysis and open publishing systems.

Open science policy

25 Oct 2018

Open Access is here to stay – and machines will enhance its future

Open Access is becoming the accepted standard for sharing research results. The next step is using machines to improve data analysis and publishing systems.

Banner for CoalitionS: Making Open Access a reality by 2020

Open science policy

04 Sep 2018

Science without publication paywalls: cOAlition S for the realisation of full and immediate Open Access

A group of national funders, joined by the European Commission and the European Research Council, announce plans to make Open Access publishing mandatory for recipients of their agencies’ research funding.

New article submission system for authors

The Frontiers article submission system has range of new features to help authors submit their manuscript quickly and efficiently.

Open science and peer review

05 Dec 2017

Frontiers Open Science Platform enables scientific excellence at scale

Our state-of the-art Open Science Platform is a key strategy to review, publish, evaluate and disseminate research efficiently and at high quality.

Frontiers is committed to fair, rigorous, and transparent peer review, and we are constantly evaluating our processes to ensure that we provide the highest standards. Transparency is the central theme of Peer Review Week 2017, so we take this opportunity to highlight how we raise the standard for transparency in peer review, with the support of our policies on competing interests.

Frontiers news

12 Sep 2017

Competing interests in Peer Review: The importance of transparency

Transparency is the central theme of Peer Review Week 2017, we highlight how we raise the standard for transparency in Frontiers peer review

Frontiers news

24 Mar 2017

Frontiers included in the OAPEN List of Compliant Open Access Book Publishers

Frontiers invited by the OAPEN Foundation to be included in a list of book publishers that comply with the Open Access requirements of ERC, Wellcome and FWF.

Life sciences

03 Jan 2017

Citations cartels: an emerging problem in scientific publishing

Groups of authors citing each other is becoming an issue in scientific publishing. With a new approach, researchers discuss how to identify the problem

Open science and peer review

25 Nov 2016

Open Access in Germany – improving all the time

A recent study analyzes the investment in OA publishing by German research institutions, indicating a growing trend toward full open access and raising important questions about hybrid OA journals.

Frontiers news

20 Sep 2016

Frontiers Collaborative Peer Review: criteria to accept and reject manuscripts

Frontiers’ founding principle is to empower researchers in the publishing process. We distribute editorial responsibility to our Editorial Boards, to which we appoint leading experts according to strict criteria of excellence.

Open science and peer review

15 Sep 2016

A History of Academic Peer Review

Although peer review is now a fundamental quality control measure implemented during the publishing process, the practice as we know it today is quite different from how it was envisioned almost two centuries ago. PDF version available here: A Succinct History of Academic Peer Review References Csiszar, A. (2016) Peer review: Troubled from the start. Nature 532:306-8 doi:10.1038/532306a Spier, R. (2002) The history of the peer-review process. Trends in Biotechnology 20(8):357-8 doi: 10.1016/S0167-7799(02)01985-6