Frontiers in... journal series
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Frontiers in... is a series of open-access academic journal published by Frontiers Media since 2007. The series uses open peer review, where the names of reviewers of accepted articles are made public.
The first journal published was Frontiers in Neuroscience, which opened for submission as a beta version in 2007, and for official submissions in January 2008.[1] In 2010, Frontiers launched a series of another eleven journals in medicine and science, and the series kept expanding since. As of 2015, 16 of their journals had impact factors. According to The Nautilus, the acceptance rate of Frontiers journals is reported to be near 90%.[2] [3]
The series and its publisher have often been criticized for predatory practices,[4] having appeared on Beall's list before it was taken down.[5] The inclusion of Frontiers journals on Beall's list was met with backlash amongst some researchers.[6]
In 2015, Frontiers Media removed the entire editorial boards of Frontiers in Medicine and Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine after editors complained that Frontiers Media staff were "interfering with editorial decisions and violating core principles of medical publishing".[7]
List of journals
In February 2016, the series contained 54 journals,[8] a number that grew to 62 by 2017. The collection of all the journals in the series is sometimes considered a mega journal, as is the BioMed Central series.[8][9][10]
- Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
- Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics
- Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences
- Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
- Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology
- Frontiers in Built Environment
- Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
- Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology
- Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience
- Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
- Frontiers in Chemistry
- Frontiers in Communication
- Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience
- Frontiers in Digital Humanities
- Frontiers in Earth Science
- Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
- Frontiers in Education
- Frontiers in Endocrinology
- Frontiers in Energy Research
- Frontiers in Environmental Science
- Frontiers in Evolutionary Neuroscience
- Frontiers in Genetics
- Frontiers in Human Neuroscience (founded in 2008 and considered a mega journal in its own right[11])
- Frontiers in ICT
- Frontiers in Immunology
- Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience
- Frontiers in Marine Science
- Frontiers in Materials
- Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering
- Frontiers in Medicine
- Frontiers in Microbiology (founded in 2010 and considered a mega journal in its own right[12])
- Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences
- Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience
- Frontiers in Neural Circuits
- Frontiers in Neuroanatomy
- Frontiers in Neuroenergetics
- Frontiers in Neuroengineering
- Frontiers in Neuroinformatics
- Frontiers in Neurology
- Frontiers in Neurorobotics
- Frontiers in Neuroscience
- Frontiers in Nutrition
- Frontiers in Oncology
- Frontiers in Pediatrics
- Frontiers in Pharmacology
- Frontiers in Physics
- Frontiers in Physiology
- Frontiers in Plant Science
- Frontiers in Psychiatry
- Frontiers in Psychology
- Frontiers in Public Health[13]
- Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics
- Frontiers in Robotics and AI
- Frontiers in Sociology
- Frontiers in Surgery
- Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
- Frontiers in Synaptic Neuroscience
- Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience
- Frontiers in Veterinary Science
- Frontiers for Young Minds
References
- ^ "About Frontiers". Frontiers Media. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
- ^ "Journal Impact Factor 2014". CiteFactor. Retrieved 2015-12-24.
- ^ Marcus, Adam; Oransky, Ivan. "Why Garbage Science Gets Published". Nautilus.
- ^ Schneider, Leonid (28 October 2015). "Is Frontiers a potential predatory publisher?". For Better Science. Retrieved 2017-03-14.
- ^ Basken, Paul (12 September 2017). "Why Beall's List Died — and What It Left Unresolved About Open Access". The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved 2017-03-14.
- ^ Bloudoff-Indelicato, Mollie (23 October 2015). "Backlash after Frontiers journals added to list of questionable publishers". Nature. 526 (7575): 613–613. doi:10.1038/526613f.
- ^ Enserink, Martin (20 May 2015). "Open-access publisher sacks 31 editors amid fierce row over independence". Science. doi:10.1126/science.aac4629.
- ^ a b Spezi, Valerie; Wakeling, Simon; Pinfield, Stephen; Creaser, Claire; Fry, Jenny; Willett, Peter. "Open-access mega-journals: The future of scholarly communication or academic dumping ground? A review". Journal of Documentation. 73: 263–283. doi:10.1108/JD-06-2016-0082.
Series [...] might, taken as a whole, be viewed as a broad disciplinary scope journal. This is particularly the case when series titles seem to be marketed and managed as a coherent set rather than as separate titles.
- ^ Domnina, T. N. (2016). "A megajournal as a new type of scientific publication". Scientific and Technical Information Processing. 43: 241–250. doi:10.3103/S0147688216040079.
- ^ Binfield, Peter (2013-12-17). "Novel scholarly journal concepts". In Bartling, S.; Friesike, S. (eds.). Opening Science. Springer Science+Business Media. pp. 155–163. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-00026-8_10. ISBN 978-3-319-00025-1.
- ^ Ware, Mark; Mabe, Michael (2015). "The STM Report: An overview of scientific and scholarly journal publishing" (PDF). International Association of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers.
- ^ Schloss, Patrick D.; Johnston, Mark; Casadevall, Arturo (2017-09-26). "Support science by publishing in scientific society journals". mBio. 8. American Society for Microbiology: e01633-17. doi:10.1128/mBio.01633-17.
- ^ "Study linking vaccines to autism pulled following heavy criticism". Retraction Watch. 2016-11-28. Retrieved 2018-03-14.