Frontiers open-access publisher and research network

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community-rooted
open-access publisher
and research network

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Founded in 2007 by EPFL neuroscientists Henry Markram & Kamila Markram
Headquartered at EPFL’s Innovation Square in Lausanne, Switzerland
4th largest open-access publisher of scholarly articles
Joined Nature Publishing Group in 2013

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45 open access journals
28 academic disciplines
300 specialty sections
20,000 peer-reviewed articles published
45,000 editors
150,000 users
3,000,000 monthly page views
45,000,000 article views and downloads

Community rooted - for scientists by scientists
Collaborative
peer-review
Review Forum
Democratic
evaluation
Impact metrics
Disseminate
science
Open access
Network
Popularize
science
Tiering
Young Minds
Inter-
disciplinary
Cross-listing
Research Topics

Technology rooted
Collaborative
peer-review
Review Forum
Democratic
evaluation
Impact metrics
Disseminate
science
Open access
Network
Popularize
science
Tiering
Young Minds
Inter-
disciplinary
Cross-listing
Research Topics

frontiers editors are top scientists
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45’000
EDITORS

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34
AVERAGE H-FACTOR

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5’000
UNIVERSITIES

Field Chief
Editor
Review
Editors
Specialty
Chief Editor
Associate
Editors
Community journals

Objective: mandate is on objective issues and requires unanimous
decision to accept or reject
Standardized: detailed review templates
Collaborative & interactive: authors and reviewers interact online in
the frontiers Review Forum
Efficient & fast: workﬂows & algorithms to automate peer-review
Responsibility & recognition: reviewer disclosed upon acceptance and
shown on articles
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Collaborative peer-review
rigorous, fair, transparent, constructive & fast

revAuthors Reviewers
Review Forum

Submission
Reviewer assignment
Independent review
Interactive review
interaction between authors and reviewers
Consensus Disagreement
Rejection
Arbitration
Acceptance
Production
3months
Fast publication

Article impact metrics (since 2008)

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Article impact metrics (since 2008)

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in the next 10 years
33 million
estimated papers will be published*
* estimate based on Scopus

53 million
articles published in past 183 years*

in the next 10 years we will publish
60% of all the articles
that were ever published in the past 183 years

launched in two major steps in 2010 and 2012
Goal:
Disseminate articles in a targeted way based on
interests.
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open-access publishing with research networking:
the perfect distribution system to increase
visibility and impact of articles and scientists.
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Tiering: distill & popularize high-impact science
Original Research Articles
Most viewed Original Research Articles are checked
by Chief Editors and selected to “climb the tier”:
authors write a Focused Review around the high
impact discovery.
Focused Review Articles

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scientist editors
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… and more!
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open-access journal in Microbiology* No.3
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Technology rooted
Collaborative
peer-review
Review Forum
Democratic
evaluation
Impact metrics
Disseminate
science
Open access
Network
Popularize
science
Tiering
Young Minds
Inter-
disciplinary
Cross-listing
Research Topics
publish high-quantity with high quality

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