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Frontiers Media

Frontiers Media SA is a publisher of peer-reviewed, open access, scientific journals[3] currently active in science, technology, and medicine. It was founded in 2007 by Kamila and Henry Markram.[2] Frontiers is based in Lausanne, Switzerland, with other offices in the United Kingdom, Spain, and China.[4] In 2022, Frontiers employed more than 1,400 people, across 14 countries.[2] All Frontiers journals are published under a Creative Commons Attribution License.[5]

Frontiers Media
Founded2007; 17 years ago (2007)
FounderKamila Markram and Henry Markram[1]
Country of originSwitzerland
Headquarters locationLausanne
Key peopleKamila Markram, CEO
Publication typesOpen access scientific journals
Nonfiction topicsMedicine, life sciences, technology
No. of employees>1,400 (2022)[2]
Official websitewww.frontiersin.org

Frontiers journals are included in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ); the publisher has been on DOAJ's advisory board & council since 2019.[6] Frontiers is also a member of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA); a participating publisher and supporter of the Initiative for Open Citations; a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE); and a member of the International Association of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers (STM). As of 2023, Frontiers publishes over 220 academic journals, and following the 2023 release of the Web of Science Group's Journal Citation Reports (JCR 2022) and Scopus' CiteScore, 72 of the journals published by Frontiers have a Journal Impact Factor and 79 journals have a CiteScore.[7]

In 2015, Frontiers Media was classified as a possible predatory publisher by Jeffrey Beall,[8] though Beall's list was taken offline two years later[9] in a decision that remains controversial.

History edit

The first journal published was Frontiers in Neuroscience, which opened for submission as a beta version in 2007.[10] In 2010, Frontiers launched a series of another 11 journals in medicine and science. In February 2012, the Frontiers Research Network was launched,[11] a social networking platform for researchers, intended to disseminate the open access articles published in the Frontiers journals, and to provide related conferences, blogs, news, video lectures and job postings.[12]

In February 2013, the Nature Publishing Group (NPG) (now Nature Research) acquired a controlling interest in Frontiers Media,[13] however collaboration between the Nature Publishing Group and Frontiers ended in 2015.[14]

Frontiers for Young Minds was launched in November 2013 during the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in collaboration with NPG as a web-based science journal that involves young people in the review of scientific articles with the help of scientists who act as mentors.[15][16]

In early September 2014, Frontiers received the ALPSP Gold Award for Innovation in Publishing from the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers.[17]

In October 2015, Frontiers (in collaboration with NPG) launched Loop, a research network that is open to be integrated into any publisher's or academic organization's website,[18][19] and Loop soon included a collaboration with ORCID to link and synchronize researcher profile information.[20] The Technical University of Madrid was the first university to link their Loop profile to their institutional website.[21]

In 2019, Frontiers joined the Initiative for Open Citations.[22]

In May 2020, Frontiers Media launched its Artificial Intelligence Review Assistant software to external editors.[23] The software helps identify conflicts of interest and plagiarism, assesses manuscript and peer review quality, and recommends editors and reviewers,[23][24] although the software does not flag all forms of conflict of interest, such as undisclosed funding sources or affiliations.[23]

In 2022, a group of publishers including Frontiers Media joined the International Association of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers' STM Integrity Hub, an initiative to provide publishers with tools to combat journal article submissions with integrity issues from research paper mills.[25]

List of journals edit

The Frontiers journals use open peer review, where the names of reviewers of accepted articles are made public.[26]

In February 2016, the series contained 54 journals,[27] a number that grew to more than 80 by 2020.[28] The collection of all the journals in the series is sometimes considered a megajournal, as is the BioMed Central series.[27][29][30] Some journals, such as Frontiers in Human Neuroscience[31] or Frontiers in Microbiology[32] are considered megajournals on their own. The journals published by Frontiers are:

  • Frontiers in Aging
  • Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
  • Frontiers in Agronomy
  • Frontiers in Allergy
  • Frontiers in Analytical Science
  • Frontiers in Animal Science
  • Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics
  • Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence
  • Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences
  • Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience
  • Frontiers in Big Data
  • Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology
  • Frontiers in Bioinformatics
  • Frontiers in Bird Science
  • Frontiers in Blockchain
  • Frontiers in Built Environment
  • Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine
  • Frontiers in Catalysis
  • Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology
  • Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience
  • Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
  • Frontiers in Chemical Engineering
  • Frontiers in Chemistry
  • Frontiers in Climate
  • Frontiers in Clinical Diabetes and Healthcare
  • Frontiers in Communication
  • Frontiers in Communications and Networks
  • Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience
  • Frontiers in Computer Science
  • Frontiers in Conservation Science
  • Frontiers in Control Engineering
  • Frontiers in Dementia
  • Frontiers in Dental Medicine
  • Frontiers in Digital Health
  • Frontiers in Digital Humanities
  • Frontiers in Drug Delivery
  • Frontiers in Drug Discovery
  • Frontiers in Earth Science
  • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • Frontiers in Education
  • Frontiers in Electronic Materials
  • Frontiers in Electronics
  • Frontiers in Endocrinology
  • Frontiers in Energy Research
  • Frontiers in Environmental Chemistry
  • Frontiers in Environmental Science
  • Frontiers in Evolutionary Neuroscience
  • Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
  • Frontiers in Fungal Biology
  • Frontiers in Future Transportation
  • Frontiers in Gastroenterology
  • Frontiers in Genetics
  • Frontiers in Genome Editing
  • Frontiers in Global Women's Health
  • Frontiers in Health Services
  • Frontiers in Human Dynamics
  • Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
  • Frontiers in ICT
  • Frontiers in Immunology
  • Frontiers in Insect Science
  • Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience
  • Frontiers in International Journal of Public Health
  • Frontiers in Manufacturing Technology
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Frontiers in Materials
  • Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering
  • Frontiers in Medical Technology
  • Frontiers in Medicine
  • Frontiers in Microbiology
  • Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences
  • Frontiers in Molecular Medicine
  • Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience
  • Frontiers in Nanotechnology
  • Frontiers in Network Physiology
  • Frontiers in Neural Circuits
  • Frontiers in Neuroanatomy
  • Frontiers in Neuroenergetics
  • Frontiers in Neuroengineering
  • Frontiers in Neuroergonomics
  • Frontiers in Neuroinformatics
  • Frontiers in Neurology
  • Frontiers in Neurorobotics
  • Frontiers in Neuroscience
  • Frontiers in Nuclear Medicine
  • Frontiers in Nutrition
  • Frontiers in Oncology
  • Frontiers in Ophthalmology
  • Frontiers in Oral Health
  • Frontiers in Pain Research
  • Frontiers in Pediatrics
  • Frontiers in Pharmacology
  • Frontiers in Photonics
  • Frontiers in Physics
  • Frontiers in Physiology
  • Frontiers in Plant Science
  • Frontiers in Political Science
  • Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • Frontiers in Public Health
  • Frontiers in Radiology
  • Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences
  • Frontiers in Remote Sensing
  • Frontiers in Reproductive Health
  • Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics
  • Frontiers in Robotics and AI
  • Frontiers in Science
  • Frontiers in Sensors
  • Frontiers in Signal Processing
  • Frontiers in Sociology
  • Frontiers in Soil Science
  • Frontiers in Space Technologies
  • Frontiers in Sports and Active Living
  • Frontiers in Surgery
  • Frontiers in Sustainability
  • Frontiers in Sustainable Cities
  • Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems
  • Frontiers in Synaptic Neuroscience
  • Frontiers in Systems Biology
  • Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience
  • Frontiers in Thermal Engineering
  • Frontiers in Toxicology
  • Frontiers in Tropical Diseases
  • Frontiers in Urology
  • Frontiers in Veterinary Science
  • Frontiers in Virology
  • Frontiers in Virtual Reality
  • Frontiers in Water

as well as

  • Dystonia
  • Earth Science, Systems and Society
  • Frontiers for Young Minds
  • Pathology & Oncology Research
  • Oncology Reviews
  • Public Health Reviews
  • Spanish Journal of Soil Science
  • Transplant International

Indexing and abstracting edit

The National Publication Committee of Norway has assigned Frontiers Media an institutional-level rating of "level 0" in the Norwegian Scientific Index since 2018, indicating that the publisher is "not academic",[33] however individual Frontiers journals have separate journal-level ratings. As of 2022, 96 Frontiers journals are listed in the Norwegian Scientific Index, of which 2 have a rating of "level 2" (top 20% of all journals in their field), over 88 have a rating of "level 1" (standard academic), 1 has a rating of level X (possibly predatory), and 5 have a rating of "level 0" (not academic).[33]

As of 2022, Frontiers publishes over 185 academic journals, including 48 journals indexed within the Science Citation Index Expanded, and 4 journals indexed within the Social Sciences Citation Index,[34] with a total of 51 journals ranked with an impact factor.[35] Furthermore, as of 2021, 9 Frontiers Media journals have been selected for inclusion in MEDLINE.[36]

In broader databases, Frontiers has over 130 journals indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ),[37] over 60 journals listed in PubMed Central (PMC),[38] and over 70 journals listed in Scopus.[39]

Controversies edit

Editorial concerns edit

In May 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". In total 31 editors were removed. Following this incident, Nature Publishing Group ended its collaboration with Frontiers with the intent "never to mention again that Nature Publishing Group has some kind of involvement in Frontiers."[14]

In June 2015, Retraction Watch referred to the publisher as one with "a history of badly handled and controversial retractions and publishing decisions".[40]

According to researchers referenced in a 2015 blog post quoted by Allison and James Kaufman in the 2018 book Pseudoscience: The Conspiracy Against Science, "Frontiers has used an in-house journals management software that does not give reviewers the option to recommend the rejection of manuscripts" and the "system is setup to make it almost impossible to reject papers".[41] However, as of 2022, Frontiers maintains that reviewers are given the option to reject papers with specific recommendations.[42]

In 2017, further editors were removed, allegedly for their rejection rate being high.[citation needed] In December 2017, Adam Marcus and Ivan Oransky of Retraction Watch wrote in the magazine Nautilus that the acceptance rate of manuscripts in Frontiers journals was reported to be near 90%.[43]

In 2022, the editors of a special issue with the online journal Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics voiced their concerns about the editorial practices at Frontiers, including flaws in the peer review process, unwillingness to discuss these concerns, and forbidding the editors from writing about their concerns in the editorial of the special issue.[44]

In January 2023, Zhejiang Gongshang University (浙江工商大学) in Hangzhou, China, announced it would no longer include articles published in Hindawi, MDPI, and Frontiers journals when evaluating researcher performance.[45][46]

Inclusion in Beall's list edit

In October 2015, Frontiers was added to Beall's List of "Potential, possible, or probable" predatory open-access publishers.[47][48] The inclusion was met with backlash among some researchers.[47] Daniël Lakens, researcher at the Eindhoven University of Technology, said "articles people have published in Frontiers are no longer judged based on their own quality, but are now seen as less valuable because Frontiers is on Beall's list" and that "[h]aving a single influential individual cast doubt on such a huge journal feels very unfair".[49] At the time, the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) said that "there have been vigorous discussions about, and some editors are uncomfortable with, the editorial processes at Frontiers" but that "the processes are declared clearly on the publisher's site and we do not believe there is any attempt to deceive either editors or authors about these processes".[50] Frontiers was a member of COPE; the statement concluded that "we have no concerns about Frontiers being a COPE member and are happy to work with them".[50] For transparency, COPE added that one of Frontiers' employees, Mirjam Curno, sits on COPE's council, although that employee was not involved in the statement.[50]

In July 2016 the maintainer of Beall's List, Jeff Beall, recommended that academics not publish their work in Frontiers journals, stating "the fringe science published in Frontiers journals stigmatizes the honest research submitted and published there",[51] and in October of that year Beall reported that reviewers have called the review process "merely for show".[52]

In September 2016, Frontiers demanded that the university where Beall worked force him to retract his claims.[53][54] Beall deleted his blacklist in January 2017.[55] Pressure by Frontiers was reported to be a large factor in the controversial shutdown of Beall's List.[54]

Controversial articles edit

In April 2013, Frontiers in Psychology retracted a controversial article linking climate change denialism and "conspiracist ideation";[56][irrelevant citation] the retraction was itself also controversial and led to the resignations of at least three editors.[57]

In late September 2014, Frontiers in Public Health published a controversial article that supported HIV denialism; three days later the publisher issued a statement of concern and announced an investigation into the review process of the article.[58] It was eventually decided that the article would not be retracted but instead was reclassified as an opinion piece.[59] It has since been retracted.[60]

In November 2016, a paper in Frontiers in Public Health linking vaccines to autism was provisionally-accepted, then retracted. Public criticism noted the paper relied on flawed methodology for reliable results, basing its conclusions only on an online questionnaire, filled in by 415 mothers of school children who self-reported whether their children had neurodevelopmental disorders, and their vaccination status.[61]

In 2021, a provisionally accepted controversial paper in Frontiers in Pharmacology on COVID-19 and the use of the antiparasitic drug ivermectin was ultimately rejected by the editors as it contained "unsubstantiated claims and violated the journal's editorial policies". This drew anger from the authors of the paper, who called the move "censorship".[62] Retraction Watch noted that this was not the first time Frontiers provisionally accepted and then rejected a controversial paper.[63]

A study published in Frontiers in Virology in February 2022 said that Moderna had patented a 19 nucleotide genetic sequence uniquely matching a part of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein three years prior to the pandemic, arguing it was evidence that the virus was manufactured as part of a lab leak conspiracy.[64][65] The study has been widely derided for its misunderstanding of statistical likelihood, particularly as the 19 nucleotide sequence is not unique to SARS-CoV-2, and is also found in organisms like bacteria and birds.[65][66] Craig Wilen, an immunobiology professor of the Yale School of Medicine, likened the study to "complete garbage" and a "conspiracy theory" rather than legitimate research.[64][67]

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External links edit

  • Official website

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Several journals named Frontiers in redirect here Many journals from other publishers have similar names but are not part of this series For other uses see Frontiers disambiguation Frontiers Media SA is a publisher of peer reviewed open access scientific journals 3 currently active in science technology and medicine It was founded in 2007 by Kamila and Henry Markram 2 Frontiers is based in Lausanne Switzerland with other offices in the United Kingdom Spain and China 4 In 2022 Frontiers employed more than 1 400 people across 14 countries 2 All Frontiers journals are published under a Creative Commons Attribution License 5 Frontiers MediaFounded2007 17 years ago 2007 FounderKamila Markram and Henry Markram 1 Country of originSwitzerlandHeadquarters locationLausanneKey peopleKamila Markram CEOPublication typesOpen access scientific journalsNonfiction topicsMedicine life sciences technologyNo of employees gt 1 400 2022 2 Official websitewww wbr frontiersin wbr orgFrontiers journals are included in the Directory of Open Access Journals DOAJ the publisher has been on DOAJ s advisory board amp council since 2019 6 Frontiers is also a member of the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association OASPA a participating publisher and supporter of the Initiative for Open Citations a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics COPE and a member of the International Association of Scientific Technical and Medical Publishers STM As of 2023 update Frontiers publishes over 220 academic journals and following the 2023 release of the Web of Science Group s Journal Citation Reports JCR 2022 and Scopus CiteScore 72 of the journals published by Frontiers have a Journal Impact Factor and 79 journals have a CiteScore 7 In 2015 Frontiers Media was classified as a possible predatory publisher by Jeffrey Beall 8 though Beall s list was taken offline two years later 9 in a decision that remains controversial Contents 1 History 2 List of journals 3 Indexing and abstracting 4 Controversies 4 1 Editorial concerns 4 2 Inclusion in Beall s list 4 3 Controversial articles 5 References 6 External linksHistory editThe first journal published was Frontiers in Neuroscience which opened for submission as a beta version in 2007 10 In 2010 Frontiers launched a series of another 11 journals in medicine and science In February 2012 the Frontiers Research Network was launched 11 a social networking platform for researchers intended to disseminate the open access articles published in the Frontiers journals and to provide related conferences blogs news video lectures and job postings 12 In February 2013 the Nature Publishing Group NPG now Nature Research acquired a controlling interest in Frontiers Media 13 however collaboration between the Nature Publishing Group and Frontiers ended in 2015 14 Frontiers for Young Minds was launched in November 2013 during the Annual Meeting of the Society for Neuroscience in collaboration with NPG as a web based science journal that involves young people in the review of scientific articles with the help of scientists who act as mentors 15 16 In early September 2014 Frontiers received the ALPSP Gold Award for Innovation in Publishing from the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers 17 In October 2015 Frontiers in collaboration with NPG launched Loop a research network that is open to be integrated into any publisher s or academic organization s website 18 19 and Loop soon included a collaboration with ORCID to link and synchronize researcher profile information 20 The Technical University of Madrid was the first university to link their Loop profile to their institutional website 21 In 2019 Frontiers joined the Initiative for Open Citations 22 In May 2020 Frontiers Media launched its Artificial Intelligence Review Assistant software to external editors 23 The software helps identify conflicts of interest and plagiarism assesses manuscript and peer review quality and recommends editors and reviewers 23 24 although the software does not flag all forms of conflict of interest such as undisclosed funding sources or affiliations 23 In 2022 a group of publishers including Frontiers Media joined the International Association of Scientific Technical and Medical Publishers STM Integrity Hub an initiative to provide publishers with tools to combat journal article submissions with integrity issues from research paper mills 25 List of journals editThe Frontiers journals use open peer review where the names of reviewers of accepted articles are made public 26 In February 2016 the series contained 54 journals 27 a number that grew to more than 80 by 2020 28 The collection of all the journals in the series is sometimes considered a megajournal as is the BioMed Central series 27 29 30 Some journals such as Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 31 or Frontiers in Microbiology 32 are considered megajournals on their own The journals published by Frontiers are Frontiers in Aging Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience Frontiers in Agronomy Frontiers in Allergy Frontiers in Analytical Science Frontiers in Animal Science Frontiers in Applied Mathematics and Statistics Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience Frontiers in Big Data Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology Frontiers in Bioinformatics Frontiers in Bird Science Frontiers in Blockchain Frontiers in Built Environment Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine Frontiers in Catalysis Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology Frontiers in Chemical Engineering Frontiers in Chemistry Frontiers in Climate Frontiers in Clinical Diabetes and Healthcare Frontiers in Communication Frontiers in Communications and Networks Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience Frontiers in Computer Science Frontiers in Conservation Science Frontiers in Control Engineering Frontiers in Dementia Frontiers in Dental Medicine Frontiers in Digital Health Frontiers in Digital Humanities Frontiers in Drug Delivery Frontiers in Drug Discovery Frontiers in Earth Science Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution Frontiers in Education Frontiers in Electronic Materials Frontiers in Electronics Frontiers in Endocrinology Frontiers in Energy Research Frontiers in Environmental Chemistry Frontiers in Environmental Science Frontiers in Evolutionary Neuroscience Frontiers in Forests and Global Change Frontiers in Fungal Biology Frontiers in Future Transportation Frontiers in Gastroenterology Frontiers in Genetics Frontiers in Genome Editing Frontiers in Global Women s Health Frontiers in Health Services Frontiers in Human Dynamics Frontiers in Human Neuroscience Frontiers in ICT Frontiers in Immunology Frontiers in Insect Science Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience Frontiers in International Journal of Public Health Frontiers in Manufacturing Technology Frontiers in Marine Science Frontiers in Materials Frontiers in Mechanical Engineering Frontiers in Medical Technology Frontiers in Medicine Frontiers in Microbiology Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences Frontiers in Molecular Medicine Frontiers in Molecular Neuroscience Frontiers in Nanotechnology Frontiers in Network Physiology Frontiers in Neural Circuits Frontiers in Neuroanatomy Frontiers in Neuroenergetics Frontiers in Neuroengineering Frontiers in Neuroergonomics Frontiers in Neuroinformatics Frontiers in Neurology Frontiers in Neurorobotics Frontiers in Neuroscience Frontiers in Nuclear Medicine Frontiers in Nutrition Frontiers in Oncology Frontiers in Ophthalmology Frontiers in Oral Health Frontiers in Pain Research Frontiers in Pediatrics Frontiers in Pharmacology Frontiers in Photonics Frontiers in Physics Frontiers in Physiology Frontiers in Plant Science Frontiers in Political Science Frontiers in Psychiatry Frontiers in Psychology Frontiers in Public Health Frontiers in Radiology Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences Frontiers in Remote Sensing Frontiers in Reproductive Health Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics Frontiers in Robotics and AI Frontiers in Science Frontiers in Sensors Frontiers in Signal Processing Frontiers in Sociology Frontiers in Soil Science Frontiers in Space Technologies Frontiers in Sports and Active Living Frontiers in Surgery Frontiers in Sustainability Frontiers in Sustainable Cities Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems Frontiers in Synaptic Neuroscience Frontiers in Systems Biology Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience Frontiers in Thermal Engineering Frontiers in Toxicology Frontiers in Tropical Diseases Frontiers in Urology Frontiers in Veterinary Science Frontiers in Virology Frontiers in Virtual Reality Frontiers in Water as well as Dystonia Earth Science Systems and Society Frontiers for Young Minds Pathology amp Oncology Research Oncology Reviews Public Health Reviews Spanish Journal of Soil Science Transplant InternationalIndexing and abstracting editThe National Publication Committee of Norway has assigned Frontiers Media an institutional level rating of level 0 in the Norwegian Scientific Index since 2018 indicating that the publisher is not academic 33 however individual Frontiers journals have separate journal level ratings As of 2022 96 Frontiers journals are listed in the Norwegian Scientific Index of which 2 have a rating of level 2 top 20 of all journals in their field over 88 have a rating of level 1 standard academic 1 has a rating of level X possibly predatory and 5 have a rating of level 0 not academic 33 As of 2022 Frontiers publishes over 185 academic journals including 48 journals indexed within the Science Citation Index Expanded and 4 journals indexed within the Social Sciences Citation Index 34 with a total of 51 journals ranked with an impact factor 35 Furthermore as of 2021 9 Frontiers Media journals have been selected for inclusion in MEDLINE 36 In broader databases Frontiers has over 130 journals indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals DOAJ 37 over 60 journals listed in PubMed Central PMC 38 and over 70 journals listed in Scopus 39 Controversies editEditorial concerns edit In May 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 In total 31 editors were removed Following this incident Nature Publishing Group ended its collaboration with Frontiers with the intent never to mention again that Nature Publishing Group has some kind of involvement in Frontiers 14 In June 2015 Retraction Watch referred to the publisher as one with a history of badly handled and controversial retractions and publishing decisions 40 According to researchers referenced in a 2015 blog post quoted by Allison and James Kaufman in the 2018 book Pseudoscience The Conspiracy Against Science Frontiers has used an in house journals management software that does not give reviewers the option to recommend the rejection of manuscripts and the system is setup to make it almost impossible to reject papers 41 However as of 2022 Frontiers maintains that reviewers are given the option to reject papers with specific recommendations 42 In 2017 further editors were removed allegedly for their rejection rate being high citation needed In December 2017 Adam Marcus and Ivan Oransky of Retraction Watch wrote in the magazine Nautilus that the acceptance rate of manuscripts in Frontiers journals was reported to be near 90 43 In 2022 the editors of a special issue with the online journal Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics voiced their concerns about the editorial practices at Frontiers including flaws in the peer review process unwillingness to discuss these concerns and forbidding the editors from writing about their concerns in the editorial of the special issue 44 In January 2023 Zhejiang Gongshang University 浙江工商大学 in Hangzhou China announced it would no longer include articles published in Hindawi MDPI and Frontiers journals when evaluating researcher performance 45 46 Inclusion in Beall s list edit In October 2015 Frontiers was added to Beall s List of Potential possible or probable predatory open access publishers 47 48 The inclusion was met with backlash among some researchers 47 Daniel Lakens researcher at the Eindhoven University of Technology said articles people have published in Frontiers are no longer judged based on their own quality but are now seen as less valuable because Frontiers is on Beall s list and that h aving a single influential individual cast doubt on such a huge journal feels very unfair 49 At the time the Committee on Publication Ethics COPE said that there have been vigorous discussions about and some editors are uncomfortable with the editorial processes at Frontiers but that the processes are declared clearly on the publisher s site and we do not believe there is any attempt to deceive either editors or authors about these processes 50 Frontiers was a member of COPE the statement concluded that we have no concerns about Frontiers being a COPE member and are happy to work with them 50 For transparency COPE added that one of Frontiers employees Mirjam Curno sits on COPE s council although that employee was not involved in the statement 50 In July 2016 the maintainer of Beall s List Jeff Beall recommended that academics not publish their work in Frontiers journals stating the fringe science published in Frontiers journals stigmatizes the honest research submitted and published there 51 and in October of that year Beall reported that reviewers have called the review process merely for show 52 In September 2016 Frontiers demanded that the university where Beall worked force him to retract his claims 53 54 Beall deleted his blacklist in January 2017 55 Pressure by Frontiers was reported to be a large factor in the controversial shutdown of Beall s List 54 Controversial articles edit In April 2013 Frontiers in Psychology retracted a controversial article linking climate change denialism and conspiracist ideation 56 irrelevant citation the retraction was itself also controversial and led to the resignations of at least three editors 57 In late September 2014 Frontiers in Public Health published a controversial article that supported HIV denialism three days later the publisher issued a statement of concern and announced an investigation into the review process of the article 58 It was eventually decided that the article would not be retracted but instead was reclassified as an opinion piece 59 It has since been retracted 60 In November 2016 a paper in Frontiers in Public Health linking vaccines to autism was provisionally accepted then retracted Public criticism noted the paper relied on flawed methodology for reliable results basing its conclusions only on an online questionnaire filled in by 415 mothers of school children who self reported whether their children had neurodevelopmental disorders and their vaccination status 61 In 2021 a provisionally accepted controversial paper in Frontiers in Pharmacology on COVID 19 and the use of the antiparasitic drug ivermectin was ultimately rejected by the editors as it contained unsubstantiated claims and violated the journal s editorial policies This drew anger from the authors of the paper who called the move censorship 62 Retraction Watch noted that this was not the first time Frontiers provisionally accepted and then rejected a controversial paper 63 A study published in Frontiers in Virology in February 2022 said that Moderna had patented a 19 nucleotide genetic sequence uniquely matching a part of the SARS CoV 2 spike protein three years prior to the pandemic arguing it was evidence that the virus was manufactured as part of a lab leak conspiracy 64 65 The study has been widely derided for its misunderstanding of statistical likelihood particularly as the 19 nucleotide sequence is not unique to SARS CoV 2 and is also found in organisms like bacteria and birds 65 66 Craig Wilen an immunobiology professor of the Yale School of Medicine likened the study to complete garbage and a conspiracy theory rather than legitimate research 64 67 References edit Philippe Le Be Avec Frontiers les travaux des chercheurs sont publies rapidement et de maniere equitable in French Le Temps published on line on Sunday 10 April 2016 page visited on 10 April 2016 a b c The Next frontier Forbes in German 4 April 2022 Retrieved 24 May 2022 Members OA Professional Publishing Organizations Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association OASPA Retrieved 4 February 2013 About Frontiers Academic Journals and Research Community Frontiers Copyright Statement 2018 Retrieved 25 September 2019 Directory of Open Access Journals DOAJ Impact Frontiers Progress Report 2022 Bloudoff Indelicato Mollie 2015 Backlash after Frontiers journals added to list of questionable publishers Nature 526 7575 613 Bibcode 2015Natur 526 613B doi 10 1038 526613f ISSN 1476 4687 S2CID 4391970 No More Beall s List Schneider Leonid 28 October 2015 Is Frontiers a potential predatory publisher For Better Science Retrieved 14 March 2017 Frontiers launches Social Networking for Scientists Frontiers Media 9 February 2012 Events Frontiers Media Retrieved 21 October 2015 P J 27 February 2013 Changing Nature The Economist Retrieved 17 December 2014 a b Enserink Martin 20 May 2015 Open access publisher sacks 31 editors amid fierce row over independence Science doi 10 1126 science aac4629 Frontiers for Young Minds Launches at USA Science and Engineering Festival Frontiers Retrieved 21 October 2015 Young Minds on Scientific American Scientific American Retrieved 21 October 2015 Page Benedicte 11 September 2014 Frontiers is major winner at ALPSP innovation awards The Bookseller The Book Seller Frontiers Loop Frontiers Retrieved 21 October 2015 Frontiers launches Loop social network The Bookseller Retrieved 21 October 2015 ORCID and Loop new researcher profile system Orcid 7 October 2015 Retrieved 26 October 2015 UPM leads way as first university to integrate Loop loop 7 July 2015 Retrieved 26 October 2015 Initiative for Open Citations Retrieved 1 September 2019 a b c Do You Have a Conflict of Interest This Robotic Assistant May Find It First The New York Times 23 November 2020 Retrieved 4 January 2021 Peer Review of Scholarly Research Gets an AI Boost IEEE Spectrum 27 July 2020 Retrieved 4 January 2021 Else Holly 2 December 2022 Paper mill detector put to the test in push to stamp out fake science Nature Retrieved 8 December 2022 Helmer Markus Schottdorf Manuel Neef Andreas Battaglia Demian 21 March 2017 Gender bias in scholarly peer review eLife 6 doi 10 7554 elife 21718 PMC 5360442 PMID 28322725 a b Spezi Valerie Wakeling Simon Pinfield Stephen Creaser Claire Fry Jenny Willett Peter 2017 Open access mega journals The future of scholarly 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listed Frontiers empire strikes back For Better Science Retrieved 26 November 2016 Frontiers disagrees with this librarian s privately held views the publisher demands of his academic employer to impose disciplinary measures or coercion against Beall a b Basken Paul 12 September 2017 Why Beall s List Died and What It Left Unresolved About Open Access The Chronicle of Higher Education Retrieved 14 March 2017 Swauger Shea 1 December 2017 Open access power and privilege A response to What I learned from predatory publishing College amp Research Libraries News 78 11 603 606 doi 10 5860 crln 78 11 603 Herndon J Marvin 30 June 2016 Human and Environmental Dangers Posed by Ongoing Global Tropospheric Aerosolized Particulates for Weather Modification Frontiers in Public Health 4 139 139 doi 10 3389 fpubh 2016 00139 PMC 4927569 PMID 27433467 Retracted see doi 10 3389 fpubh 2016 00156 PMID 27453892 Chief specialty editor resigns from Frontiers in wake of controversial retraction Retraction Watch 9 April 2014 Retrieved 21 October 2015 Publisher issues statement of concern about HIV denial paper launches investigation Retraction Watch 26 September 2014 Retrieved 21 October 2015 Ferguson Cat 24 February 2015 Frontiers lets HIV denial article stand reclassifies it as opinion Retraction Watch Goodson P 2014 Questioning the HIV AIDS hypothesis 30 years of dissent Frontiers in Public Health 2 154 doi 10 3389 fpubh 2014 00154 PMC 4172096 PMID 25695040 Chawla Dalmeet Singh 28 November 2016 Study linking vaccines to autism pulled following heavy criticism Retraction Watch Retrieved 14 March 2018 Offord Catherine 28 March 2021 Frontiers Removes Controversial Ivermectin Paper Pre Publication TheScientist Retrieved 2 March 2018 Weekend reads An apology from JAMA a call to retract COVID 19 ayurveda paper the treasure that was a hoax Retraction Watch 28 November 2016 Retrieved 6 March 2021 a b Zhang Legu Echols William 1 April 2022 Made by Moderna China Spreads Yet Another Debunked COVID 19 Conspiracy Theory Polygraph info Retrieved 10 August 2022 a b Cercone Jeff 14 March 2022 No study doesn t prove Moderna created COVID 19 PolitiFact Retrieved 10 August 2022 Short identical gene sequence in SARS CoV 2 and a gene sequence patented by Moderna can be found in other organisms not evidence that virus was engineered Health Feedback 2 March 2022 Retrieved 11 August 2022 Savage Claire 24 March 2022 Scientific paper does not prove Moderna created coronavirus Agence France Presse Retrieved 10 August 2022 External links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Media from Frontiers journals Official websitePortals nbsp Science nbsp Switzerland Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Frontiers Media amp oldid 1204744558 List of journals, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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