Free Dissemination
Frontiers' philosophy is that all research is for the benefit of mankind. It is enabled by society and should be returned to all people without borders or discrimination. That is why Frontiers provides open and free access to publications across all categories of research.

Rapid & Efficient
Frontiers implements the first real-time interactive review forum where Authors, Reviewers and Editors interact collaboratively on the internet to facilitate the convergence of the review.

Constructive & Objective
Frontiers promotes a review mandate that is focused on the flawlessness and accuracy of research. Reviewers work together with the Authors to make sure their studies were conducted in agreement with the standards of the specific scientific community and help to increase the quality of research where appropriate. The Reviewer contribution to the publication process is therefore highly constructive and objective and one of the pillars of Frontiers. The final judgment about the novelty and significance of the study no longer lies with the Reviewer, but is performed by the entire scientific community.

Global Evaluation
Who decides what excellent research is? Frontiers puts the answer to this question into the hands of the wider scientific community. Who determines which research is relevant to society? Frontiers puts the answer to this question not only into the hands of the wider scientific community but also into the hands of the general public. The Frontiers platform analyses the reading activity and the result is the most objective and democratic assessment of scientific excellence and social relevance possible.

Knowledge Distillation
In order to cope with the immense volume of publications and to provide the expert as well as the lay reader with relevant and excellent articles, Frontiers introduces a truly novel and innovative feature to scientific publishing. The reader’s interests are translated into powerful new bibliometric indicators and applied to distil relevant and excellent research. This process of - Who-reads - What - drives the best research up the tier journal system, where it gains increasing visibility and accessibility by the general public. This is why Frontiers is not just another journal; it is the first and only tier journal.

Awarding Research
Frontiers is the first scholarly publishing system that returns revenue to the research communities. It provides Authors not only with recognition and prestige through its global evaluation system, but also with awards for the most outstanding contributions.

Facilitating Research
One of the major goals of Frontiers is to enable all nations to produce research. To meet this goal, Frontiers will encourage research generation in developing countries by subsidizing publications, facilitating research collaborations and supporting research.