Frontiers Media SA
Budget
€50 — €0
EP Access
0
accredited persons
Staff
2
0.5 FTE
EU Grants
None
Mission & Goals
Frontiers is an award-winning Open Science platform and leading Open Access scholarly publisher. Our mission is to make research results openly available to the world, thereby accelerating scientific and technological innovation, societal progress and economic growth. We empower scientists with innovative Open Science solutions that radically improve how science is published, evaluated and disseminated to researchers, innovators and the public. Founded in 2007, our Open Science platform has been adopted by more than three million researchers, including 200,000 researchers from top institutions serving on the Frontiers journal’s editorial boards. We have published over 500,000 rigorously certified research articles, covering 1000 academic disciplines. These articles have received 2.1 billion views and downloads and numerous Frontiers journals are the most-cited journals in their fields – making Frontiers one of the largest and most impactful scientific publishers in the world.
EU Legislative Interests
- Research and Innovation: Horizon Europe & European Research Council - European Research Area - Open Access / Open Science - Open Data / EOSC - EU copyright reform - Green Deal
Communication Activities
We regularly provide advice on improving access to scientific results and making scientific publishing better through webinars, whitepapers, data reports, social media campaigns and roundtables.
Interests Represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Member Of
Memberships In order to safeguard the integrity of the scholarly literature and adhere to the highest quality standards and best ethical practices, Frontiers is a member of the following key bodies: • ALPSP – The Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers • COPE – Committee on Publication Ethics • OASPA – Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association • SPARC Europe • STM Open Archives and Indexes Frontiers articles are included in the following archives and indexes to facilitate discoverability and accessibility, and to ensure long-term preservation. • CLOCKSS: Controlled LOCKSS • CrossRef • DOAB: Directory of Open Access Books (eBooks from our Research Topics) • DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals (listed with Seal of Approval) • MedLine • OpenAIRE • PubMed • PubMed Central • Scopus • Web of Science - Science Citation Index Expanded, Emerging Sources Citation Index and Journal Citation Reports. Integrated Service Providers Frontiers articles are of the highest quality – a standard we are committed to maintaining. To ensure this, we collaborate with top external service providers: • Altmetrics – in addition to a full suite of Frontiers article impact metrics, we have also integrated Altmetrics, allowing for alternative and objective ways to evaluate research. • CrossMark – all published articles are enriched with a record of the current article status. • Editage - authors submitting manuscripts to any Frontiers journal can benefit from specially priced and subject-relevant editing, translation and review support. • FigShare – to meet the data deposition requirements of our authors and help them showcase their research data outputs, a FigShare widget is embedded on all articles pages, enabling readers to view supplemental data alongside the article. • iThenticate – all submitted articles are checked for plagiarism and that they adhere to quality standards. • Microsoft Academic • ORCID – our networking platform, Loop, is fully integrated with ORCID, enabling authors to quickly and easily import publications.
Organisation Members
Currently, more than 700 academic institutions have a Frontiers membership. The most up-to-date list can be found here: http://home.frontiersin.org/about/institutional-membership
Commissioner Meetings
No recorded meetings with EU commissioners.