Frontiers Services

The Frontiers Journal Series are open-access journals supported by the Frontiers Research Foundation, an international not-for-profit foundation based in Switzerland in the spirit of neutrality and guided by core principles.

The Frontiers Journal Series is not just another journal. It is a new approach to scientific publishing. As service to scientists, it is driven by researchers for researchers but it also serves the interests of the general public. Frontiers disseminate research in a tiered system that begins with original articles submitted to Specialty Journals. It evaluates research truly democratically and objectively based on the reading activity of the scientific communities and the public. And it drives the most outstanding and relevant research up to the next tier journal, Frontiers in Neuroscience.

Frontiers at a Glance
Frontiers is
• A printed and online journal series
• The first tiered journal series working from specific to general
• Distilling scientific excellence and social relevance of research
• A novel author service
• A journal series for researchers by researchers
• Promoting scientific discovery worldwide
• Employing state-of-the-art internet technologies

Frontiers supports
• Equal opportunity knowledge generation and sharing
• Free dissemination of scientific research
• Scientific excellence
• Rapid, thorough and efficient reviews
• A democratic system for judging articles
• Awards for great and relevant research that climbs the tiers The Frontiers Research Foundation upholds the rights of Authors address their needs and provides Authors a rapid, convenient, unbiased, and comprehensive publishing environment with prestige being guaranteed by the highest quality constructive peer-review and by an evaluation system that involves the entire research community.

To fulfill its mission Frontiers applies the most advanced internet technologies to bring scholarly publishing into a new generation.

Objectives
To provide a new publishing system that
• Drives an increase in the quality of science world-wide
• Disseminates science freely
• Distills academic excellence
• Delivers the most outstanding and relevant science to the public
• Provide a new academic model for review

Evaluation and recognition for Authors that is
•Rapid and efficient
•Fair and constructive
•Rigorous and prestigious

To provide a new business model of serving Authors that:
•Serves publishing needs of researchers
•Obtains sponsors to support open access research publishing

Quality
Each Frontiers article is a landmark of the highest quality, due to true collaborative interactions between Authors and the highest quality Reviewers. Frontiers recognizes the immense importance of the potential impact of published research on future research and society and therefore does not support superficial review, light review or no review publishing models. Research knowledge must be validated by peers before entering the stream of knowledge that will eventually reach the public and shape society. Frontiers therefore supports the highest quality reviews and operates according to the novel Frontiers Academic Model that applies a rigorous, but unbiased Frontiers Review System, a separated online, automated and global Frontiers Evaluation System and Frontiers Distillation System as well as the Frontiers Recognition System to reward the most outstanding research selected by the entire community.

Open Access
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 all of its publications.