Is Frontiers a paid journal?

Frontiers is a gold open access publisher. At the point of publication, all articles from our portfolio of journals are immediately and permanently accessible online free of charge.

Is Frontiers a free journal?

All Frontiers journals are community-run and fully open access, so every research article we publish is immediately and permanently free to read.

What kind of journal is Frontiers?

Frontiers Media SA is a publisher of peer-reviewed, open access, scientific journals currently active in science, technology, and medicine. It was founded in 2007 by Kamila and Henry Markram. Frontiers is based in Lausanne, Switzerland, with other offices in the United Kingdom, Spain, and China.

Do editors of Frontiers get paid?

Chief editors receive an honorarium if their section or field reaches certain submission levels and for their editorial project work. The honorarium is not based on the number of accepted articles, ensuring that editors have no incentive to accept manuscripts.

How does Frontiers make money?

APCs are our only revenue stream and cover the cost of all our operations. APCs are usually covered by the authors' research organisations or by funding grants. Our APC rates are competitive (see comparison below) and enable us to provide industry-leading services for our authors, editors, and readers.

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Is Frontiers a predatory publisher?

All Frontiers journals are published under a Creative Commons Attribution License. In 2015, Frontiers Media was classified as a possible predatory publisher by Jeffrey Beall. Based on a series of information published here, we decided to include the Frontiers Media journals on the predatory publications list.

Is Frontiers a legit journal?

Frontiers is the 3rd most-cited and 6th largest research publisher. We publish groundbreaking discoveries by the world's top experts. Scientists empower society and our mission is to accelerate scientific discovery by making science open.

What is the rejection rate for Frontiers?

Rejection rates in Frontiers journals are around ~27% for submissions outside of research topics, most manuscripts are published within 3 months of submission, and yet, Frontiers citations rates are amongst the very highest when compared to journals in the same categories.

Is Frontiers better than MDPI?

Frontiers, same but different

There are some differences though. For example, Frontiers publishes papers fast, but slower than MDPI, it has a higher reliance on the Chinese market than MDPI, it charges higher APCs than MDPI, and its journals are slightly better ranked than those of MDPI.

Do Elsevier editors get paid?

How much does an Editor make at Elsevier in the United States? Average Elsevier Editor yearly pay in the United States is approximately $68,125, which is 17% above the national average.

What makes Frontiers different from other publishers?

Our research journals are community-driven and peer-reviewed by editorial boards of more than 280,000 top researchers. Powered by pioneering technology, artificial intelligence, and rigorous quality standards, our research articles have been viewed more than 2.5 billion times, reflecting the power of open research.

How do you get published in Frontiers?

Is Frontiers on PubMed?

Frontiers articles are indexed in a number of major international digital archives and repositories, such as PubMed Central, DOAJ, Google Scholar, Chemical Abstracts Service.

What is the acceptance rate of Frontiers journals?

The definition of journal acceptance rate is the percentage of all articles submitted to Frontiers in Psychology that was accepted for publication. Based on the Journal Acceptance Rate Feedback System database, the latest acceptance rate of Frontiers in Psychology is 86.4%.

Why publish in Frontiers?

All articles submitted to Frontiers are subjected to review without selection bias. Our peer review system is designed to be unbiased, efficient and transparent. Real-time interaction between the author and the review editors speeds up the review process enabling research findings to be published timely.

Is it OK to publish in MDPI?

MDPI is a publisher of scholarly open access journals. All journals uphold a peer-reviewed, rapid, and rigorous manuscript handling and editorial process. MDPI journals are the perfect place for you to publish your work under an open access license, in a fast and straightforward manner.

Is MDPI a paid journal?

Everyone can freely access and download the full text of all articles published with MDPI: readers of open access journals, i.e., mostly other researchers, do not need to pay any subscription or pay-per-view charges to read articles published by MDPI.

How long does Frontiers take to publish?

It takes roughly 1-2 weeks from the acceptance of your article for your Author's Proof to be created by our typesetting team. Once you have approved the Author's Proof, it takes a further 1-2 weeks for us to implement any corrections, finalize the production process, and publish your article.

Who is the target audience of Frontiers?

Frontiers' target audience – in terms of both authors and readers – includes ecologists, environmental scientists, and other professionals in allied disciplines, especially those with interests in applied, problem-oriented science.

How many reviewers usually see a paper Frontiers?

Most article types require at least two reviewers to complete a review. These reviewers can either be invited from the board of review editors or appropriately recruited among experts in the field. It is the prerogative of a handling editor to manage the reviewer recommendations of a manuscript.

What is the impact factor of Frontiers?

Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience increased its Journal Impact Factor by 9%, to 3.5. Frontiers in Nanotechnology increased its CiteScore from 1.1 in 2021 to 3.5 in 2022. The Journal Impact Factor is the average number of citations received in the last year to articles published in the previous two years.

Is Frontiers prestigious?

A good place to start is our annual report, where you can read that Frontiers is currently the third-most-cited publisher of the 20 largest, outperforming legacy publishers with 150 years of history.

What is a predatory journal?

Abstract. Predatory journals—also called fraudulent, deceptive, or pseudo-journals—are publications that claim to be legitimate scholarly journals, but misrepresent their publishing practices.

What is a good impact factor?

You can find a journal's impact factor by referring to the Journal Citations Report (JCR) or Scopus. 🍋 What is an average 'good' impact factor? In general, an impact factor of 10 or higher is considered remarkable, while 3 is good, and the average score is less than 1.