Frontiers Media

Frontiers Media
Founded2007 (2007)
FounderKamila Markram and Henry Markram
Country of originSwitzerland
Headquarters locationLausanne
Publication typesOpen access scientific journals
Nonfiction topicsMedicine, life sciences, technology
No. of employees>1,400 (2022)[1]
Official websitewww.frontiersin.org

Frontiers Media SA is a publisher of peer-reviewed, open access, scientific journals[2] currently active in science, technology, and medicine. It was founded in 2007 by Kamila and Henry Markram.[1] Frontiers is based in Lausanne, Switzerland, with offices in the United Kingdom, Spain, and China.[3] In 2022, Frontiers employed more than 1,400 people, across 14 countries.[1] All Frontiers journals are published under a Creative Commons Attribution License.[4]

In 2015, Frontiers Media was classified as a possible predatory publisher by Jeffrey Beall,[5] though Beall's list was taken offline two years later[6] in a decision that remains controversial.

  1. ^ a b c "The Next frontier". Forbes (in German). 4 April 2022. Archived from the original on 23 May 2022. Retrieved 24 May 2022.
  2. ^ "Members: OA Professional Publishing Organizations". Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association (OASPA). Archived from the original on 21 September 2013. Retrieved 4 February 2013.
  3. ^ "About Frontiers | Academic Journals and Research Community". Archived from the original on 15 September 2019. Retrieved 6 September 2019.
  4. ^ "Frontiers Copyright Statement". 2018. Archived from the original on 25 September 2019. Retrieved 25 September 2019.
  5. ^ Bloudoff-Indelicato, Mollie (2015). "Backlash after Frontiers journals added to list of questionable publishers". Nature. 526 (7575): 613. Bibcode:2015Natur.526..613B. doi:10.1038/526613f. ISSN 1476-4687. S2CID 4391970.
  6. ^ "No More 'Beall's List'". Archived from the original on 14 June 2017. Retrieved 12 December 2023.

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