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2023
About
Frontiers is a leading research publisher. Our role is to provide the world’s scientists with a rigorous and efficient publishing experience.
Powered by custom-built technology, artificial intelligence, and a collaborative peer review, our community journals give experts in more than 1,800 academic fields an open access platform to publish high quality, high impact research.
Through our outreach work to build strong partnerships with business, policymakers, and educators, we’re leading the transition to open science.Frontiers’ research articles have been viewed more than 2.8 billion times, reflecting the power of research that is open for all.
Key facts
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leading research publisher
109 journals have an Impact Factor
113 journals have a CiteScore
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534,000 quality research articles
freely available worldwide
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2.8 billion article views and downloads
with 9.4 million citations
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275,000 editors
from leading institutions around the world
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231 journals
across 1,800 academic disciplines
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partnerships
9 national agreements out of 15 consortia agreements covering over 500 institutions
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employees
in 17 locations across Europe, North America, and Asia
Spokespeople
Kamila Markram, PhD
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer
Kamila co-founded Frontiers with the vision to make research openly and widely available for the benefit of humanity. Winner of various entrepreneurial and innovation awards, she frequently speaks on Open Science topics at world renowned events and venues, including the National Academy of Sciences, Science Foo Camp, TEDx, Web Summit, ESOF, GESDA and alike.
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Kamila completed her Master’s thesis at the Max-Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt and obtained her Master’s in Psychology at Technical University Berlin in 2003, followed by the PhD in Neuroscience at the EPFL in Switzerland in 2006. During her postdoctoral studies at the EPFL, she co-developed the “Intense World Theory of Autism”, proposing that autism results from a “super-charged” brain that perceives, absorbs and feels too much causing autistic people to withdraw from an overly intense world. The theory has been widely featured in popular science magazines and documentaries and published as a book in 2018.
Frederick Fenter, PhD
Chief Executive Editor
Fred supervises Frontiers’ journal portfolio and is directly involved in all strategic projects. He served as a publishing consultant during Frontiers’ launch phase, re-joining in 2013 in his current role. An active advocate for Open Science, Fred frequently organizes and participates in a variety of advocacy events and roundtables.
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Fred earned a PhD in Chemistry from Harvard and continued his research on atmospheric compounds at the CNRS in France and EPFL in Switzerland. He moved into academic publishing in 1997, first overseeing a portfolio of journals, book series and major reference works at Elsevier Science and then founding FontisMedia, a publishing technology start-up that developed the first multi-language content-management platform for scientific journals. He was also technology advisor for the launch of an institutional document repository InfoScience and consulted for the founding of the English-language EPFL Press.
Timeline
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2007
Frontiers founded by Henry and Kamila Markram
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2008
Gold Open Access business model adopted
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2009
Research Topics introduced
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2010
1,000 articles published
10,000 editorial board members
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2011
20,000 editorial board members
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2012
5,000 articles published
Frontiers Research Network launched
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2013
10,000 articles published
Frontiers for Young Minds is created -
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2014
20,000 articles published
50,000 editorial board members
200 Research Topic e-books published
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2015
30,000 articles published
500 Research Topic e-Books published
Frontiers Forum inaugurated
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2016
50,000 articles published
1,000 Research Topic e-books published
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2017
522 institutional partnerships
AI-powered reviewer tools introduced
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2018
100,000 articles published
500 million article views and downloads
Artificial Intelligence Review Assistant AIRA built in-house
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2019
2,000 Research Topic e-books published
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2020
200,000 articles published
1 billion article views and downloads
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2021
3rd most-cited publisher
1.5 billion article views and downloads
273,000 articles published
1,200 employees across 14 locations
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2022
2.1 billion article views and downloads
398,00 articles published
2,400 employees across 17 locations
Frontiers Planet Prize inaugurated
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2023
2.6 billion article views and downloads
489,000 articles published
Frontiers Forum Live in Montreux featured in over 800 media outlets in 44 countries
Media citations
252,000+
Frontiers’ articles featured by international news outlets, including BBC, Newsweek, Time, The New York Times, The Guardian, among others
3.4 million
Frontiers’ articles mentions across all social media channels
‘Golden boy’ mummy protected by 49 precious amulets
CNN | 24 Jan 2023
When a teenage boy died 2,300 years ago in Egypt, he was mummified and adorned with 49 protective amulets and a golden mask to guide him in the afterlife. According to a study published in Frontiers in Medicine, the golden boy was well-equipped for this trip.
Extreme Antarctic events will get worse
The Guardian | 8 Aug 2023
It is “virtually certain” that future extreme events in Antarctica will be worse than the extraordinary changes already observed, according to a study published in Frontiers in Environmental Science that stresses the case for immediate and drastic action to limit global heating.
Captivity can disturb giant pandas’ internal rhythms
National Geographic | 21 Sep 2023
Animals’ circadian clocks normally get cues from their environments: light cycles, seasonal food availability, and temperature. According to a study in study in Frontiers in Psychology, if these cues are very different to the ones from the latitudes which they have adapted to, it could disrupt their bodies and behavior, like jet lag in humans.
Our sense of smell changes the colors we see
BBC | 10 Oct 2023
According to a study published in Frontiers in Psychology, associations between odors and colors can be particularly strong and powerful enough to distort our perception of colors.
Frontiers for Young Minds (FYM) is an award-winning, non-profit, open-access, scientific journal for kids that publishes articles written by leading researchers and peer reviewed by children aged 8-15.
The journal features over 1,550 articles with over 42 million views and downloads, produced by 4,300 authors, mentored by 800+ scientists and reviewed by 8,500+ youngsters from 65 countries worldwide.
FYM publishes in eight subject areas (Astronomy and Physics, Biodiversity, Chemistry & Materials, Earth Sciences, Engineering & Technology, Human Health, Mathematics & Economics, Neuroscience & Psychology) with materials available in English, Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese, and French. To-date, the Nobel Collection (volumes 1, 2 and 3) garnered 195M+ views on social media.
Frontiers for Young Minds
enables young people and scientists to work together to create articles that are both top quality and exciting
Frontiers in Science is Frontiers’ flagship, multidisciplinary open access journal focused on transformational science to accelerate solutions for healthy lives on a healthy planet.
The journal publishes a select number of exceptional peer-reviewed lead articles invited from internationally renowned researchers, whose work addresses key global challenges in human and planetary health. Each lead article is enriched by a diverse hub of content:
editorials by authorities from academia, policy, and civil society
viewpoints by influential researchers in the field
Frontiers Forum Deep Dive, a scientific symposium where the article and hub content are discussed with academic peers and key stakeholders
policy outlooks from policy experts, published by Frontiers Policy Labs
lay summary, infographics, and a video explaining the lead article’s main concepts to a broad audience
article version for kids, published by Frontiers for Young Minds
author interviews and press materials.
Frontiers Forum runs as a series of speaker sessions, where Nobel Laureates and other leading scientists showcase and discuss scientific advances with an invited audience of the world’s top researchers, policymakers, and innovators.
By connecting global communities across science, policy, and civil society, the Forum maximizes the reach of transformational science and sparks powerful new collaborations to accelerate solutions for healthy lives on a healthy planet.
In 2023, Frontiers Forum hosted over 500 guests in person in Montreux and a few thousand virtual attendees with a spectacular line-up of speakers including Jane Goodall, Ban Ki-moon, Yuval Noah Harari, Johan Rockström, Cynthia Kenyon, Rudolf Jaenisch, Britt Wray, Kevin Esvelt, Seth Berkley, Mary Scholes, among others. The Forum was featured in over 800 media outlets in 44 countries with 1.6B outreach.
Frontiers Forum Live 2023
was featured in over 800 media outlets in 44 countries
Frontiers Policy Labs initiative seeks to strengthen the connection between robust scientific research and informed policymaking.
Traditional labs facilitate a controlled environment for research and experimentation, for trial and error, measurement, observation, and practice. That is what Frontiers aims to achieve through Policy Labs - an environment where global experts and thought leaders can discuss and strengthen the dialogue between science and policy.
In 2023, Policy Labs highlighted 27 expert commentaries on a range of topics, including science diplomacy, academic freedom, AI and emerging technologies, the right to science, and science systems. The initiative also showcased Frontiers’ involvement in COP28 and Falling Walls. Policy outlooks focused on key areas such as Organoid Intelligence, Evolutionary Medicine, Human Functioning, and the High Seas Treaty.
Frontiers builds all their technology in-house and is known as a fast, efficient, powerful and highly scalable open science platform, customized for the needs of authors, editors, reviewers, and readers.
The Artificial Intelligence Review Assistant (AIRA) is an industry-first revolutionizing how manuscripts are evaluated. AIRA currently makes up to 20 recommendations in seconds, from assessing language quality and the integrity of figures to detecting plagiarism and potential conflicts of interest; performs checks to validate the papers’ quality, including image manipulation and potentially fraudulent detection.
One of the most exciting recent developments has been the roll out of interactive AIRA, which includes a number of new features designed to save time and enhance efficiency. The editors are empowered to interact with AIRA checks directly giving immediate feedback and resolving recommendations on issues such as scope suitability, image integrity, ethics, and review quality.
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