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Climate action

04 Feb 2020

Coral Reef Research Collection wins $100,000 International Science Prize

A team of scientific editors has been awarded US $100,000 by Swiss open-access publisher Frontiers in recognition of an outstanding special issue research collection on coral reef science and conservation.

Understanding the Social and Political Dynamics of Sustainable Food Systems

New Specialty Section on Social Movements, Institutions and Governance led by Hannah Wittman (University of British Columbia) and Rachel Bezner Kerr (Cornell University)

Sustainability

30 Jan 2020

New Frontiers journal to address humanity’s global sustainability challenges

Led by Prof Sangwon Suh (University of California), the journal hopes to advance our understanding of the causes, current status and future prospects of global sustainability challenges.

Psychology

30 Jan 2020

Prof Darren Treadway becomes the new Specialty Chief Editor for Organizational Psychology

One of the largest sections in Frontiers in Psychology, encompassing all aspects of human behavior in an organization.

Frontiers news

29 Jan 2020

Frontiers Welcomes Society Journals and Publishing Partnerships

Frontiers’ publishing partnerships manager, Robyn Mugridge, discusses 2020 and welcoming society journals to our publishing family.

Frontiers news

28 Jan 2020

New Specialty Section: Preclinical Cell and Gene Therapy

This new section expands the repertoire of Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology.

Open science policy

23 Jan 2020

Unlocking industry research: Frontiers lends support to Open Pharma’s bold ambition

Frontiers has endorsed the mission of Open Pharma, a group of pharmaceutical companies and research funders, to make all privately funded research free to read and reuse from the date of publication.

Robotics and AI

22 Jan 2020

Frontiers to sponsor HRI 2020

The theme of this year’s HRI conference is “Real World Human-Robot Interaction”.

Frontiers news

15 Jan 2020

Ecological theory and modelling finds its habitat

University of Auckland’s Prof George Perry leads new section on Models in Ecology and Evolution.

eBooks

14 Jan 2020

Frontiers eBooks published in December 2019

Download this month’s top releases including Special Issues on the Gut Microbiome, Alzheimer’s Disease, Working Dogs, and many more!

Frontiers news

19 Dec 2019

Frontiers and medRxiv integration announced

~ Clinical medicine research papers to be submitted directly to Frontiers from pre-print platform ~ Frontiers is pleased to announce that from December 19th 2019, authors can directly submit their archived manuscripts to its publishing platform via the medical pre-print site ‘medRxiv’. medRxiv is the third platform of this type to be integrated with Frontiers submission system. The integration with medRxiv is the latest development in Frontiers’ endeavor to use technology to improve and streamline the scholarly publishing process and the services it offers authors, with the focus of medRxiv being medical and clinical research. Marie Soulière, head of publishing operations at Frontiers, said: “Authors can now submit their research and the associated metadata directly from medRxiv to Frontiers. No less than eight of Frontiers’ health-research-related journals, which are all open access, will be available on medRxiv. This is great news for authors seeking to publish their research in our high-quality journals and make use of our collaborative peer review to further improve their manuscript before publication.” “Every piece of research Frontiers publishes becomes freely and immediately accessible worldwide as soon as it is published. Ultimately, our partnership with medRxiv will aid collaboration and improve opportunities to share, learn more about, and […]

Frontiers news

19 Dec 2019

Apple study recognized in Altmetric’s Top 100 list

The annual list highlights the most discussed and shared research from the past year.

Frontiers news

13 Dec 2019

How do we feed future generations?

— by Daniel Sidoli The world’s population is expected to increase to 9.7 billion people by 2050 according to a United Nations report published in 2019. Frontiers in Agronomy will complement our sister journal Frontiers in Plant Science (IF 4.106, CiteScore 4.47), by providing an open platform dedicated to the applications of fundamental plant sciences to find solutions for feeding our planet’s growing population. The new journal brings together experts from academic, industry and policy spheres. Discover Frontiers in Agronomy “Maintaining and restoring soil health will ensure that we can produce food, fibre and fuel for future generations. We need to achieve this in the face of threats such as global climate change and an increased demand for food from a growing population,” says Professor David Jones of the University of Bangor, Specialty Chief Editor of Plant-Soil Interactions, one of six specialties within the new journal. Pests, disease and weeds Dr Murray Isman, Dean Emeritus of the University of British Columbia, believes we cannot feed a growing global human population “by expanding arable land that is already in limited supply. We must therefore be more efficient in producing food on the current land base. Globally, an average of 30% of our crops are lost to […]