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frontiers | 2013 Progress Report 1 2013 Progress Report An incredible year of community-driven growth 2 frontiers | 2013 Progress Report Kamila Markram CEO of Frontiers n November 2014, one of the 5 largest working with you to build we will celebrate our open-access publishers a publishing platform I7th birthday and (out of approximately focused on academic I’m thrilled by the many 3 000). communities and your achievements we have needs. We keep taking reached together. As of The other remarkable your feedback into account today, we have published event in 2013 was our to build a simpler, faster and almost 20 000 articles, are partnership with Nature more efficient publishing growing at a rate of almost Publishing Group, which system, and a peer review 100% per year and several has further enhanced that is rigorous, but also of our journals are Frontiers’ standing and fair, constructive and already at the top of their prestige in the academic transparent. We build subject categories. For publishing world. online metrics to give example, Frontiers in immediate feedback Psychology, launched in Combining NPG’s on the impact of your 2010, has become the established brand of research. We work to make largest psychology journal world-renowned prestige your work more accessible worldwide. Frontiers and more than 130 to researchers in other in Immunology, Frontiers years in publishing with disciplines and to the in Physiology and Frontiers’ transformative more general audience. Frontiers in Plant Science solutions to publish, We take open access to a are all the largest open- share and boost impact, new level by feeding your access journals in their opened up a wealth articles into the Frontiers respective categories. of opportunities to lead Research Network to the change in how disseminate them to the Between 2013 and early science is published right people and boost 2014, we expanded our and communicated. your reach and impact. open-access “Frontiers in” journal series into 16 new Our mission has not Frontiers is taking off fields. Frontiers currently changed since our at unprecedented speed spans 28 fields, 300 founding days in 2007, and developing into one specialties with over when we, as scientists, of the most successful 40000 leading scientists decided to take publishing endeavours in the and clinicians on the into our own hands. scholarly publishing editorial boards. We also landscape. Thanks to all set a new record in yearly Frontiers stands for Open of you who were part publications, which now Science and builds online of this incredible year of stands at almost 7500 tools to publish, share and community-driven growth. articles published in 2013, boost the impact of your It’s an honour to take this making Frontiers research. We keep journey with you. Lausanne, April 2014 frontiers | 2013 Progress Report 3 “Frontiers represents the future for science communication” Michael Merzenich University of California, San Francisco 2013 Frontiers milestones January February March April th PARTNERSHIP NEW 10 000 with RECORD 6 million article 100 daily monthy published submissions page views May June July August th NATURE th 150 100 000 cover 20 ebook active field journal published users launched September October November December th YOUNG REVIEW 35 000 20 000 MINDS FORUM scientific manuscript launched in beta version editors submitted 4 frontiers | 2013 Progress Report Embracing academic communities At Frontiers, our approach for our journals, we take to publishing is community great care - and great EDITORS 36’274 driven. It involves first pride - in our editorial understanding niche boards and only appoint communities within a the leading researchers 25’485 field, and then building and clinicians from each 20’952 a Field Journal embracing academic community. these communities’ needs. We carefully subdivide Since research is 10’714 each field into numerous increasingly multi- Specialty Sections, thus disciplinary, our 2’713 612 1’501 framing an entire subject area platform is designed to through its communities. facilitate synergies across 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 neighboring research areas In order to ensure by allowing shared Specialty the highest standards Sections amongst fields. ARTICLES PUBLISHED 7’389 5’023 Editors among top 5% 2’416 of researchers in the world 1’178 408 69 127 40 000 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 high-profile editors EDITORS BY COUNTRIES 28 Others (11%) USA (36%) fields in Science, Technology and Medicine Denmark (1%) India (1%) Israel (1%) 300 Belgium (1%) communities Brazil (1%) Sweden (1%) Switzerland (2%) China (2%) 140 Netherlands (2%) countries Spain (2%) Australia (3%) Japan (3%) United Kingdom (7%) Canada (3%) 20 000 Italy (4%) articles published France (4%) Germany (6%) (as of April 2014) frontiers | 2013 Progress Report 5 2008 Frontiers in Neuroscience Field Journals Frontiers in Psychiatry No. 1 journal in Psychology* Frontiers in Psychology Frontiers in Neurology are top players No. 1 open-access journal in Physiology* Frontiers in Physiology Frontiers in Pharmacology No. 1 open-access journal In 2008, Frontiers open-access journals in Plant Science* Frontiers in Plant Science No. 3 open-access journal pioneered the Field in their respective in Microbiology* Frontiers in Microbiology Journal concept in the categories. No. 1 open-access journal field of Neuroscience in Immunology* Frontiers in Immunology and, within three years, In addition to these No. 2 open-access journal in Endocrinology* Frontiers in Endocrinology had branched out to 12 established titles, 11 other areas across 16 new Field Journals Frontiers in Genetics medicine and science. were launched between Frontiers in Oncology Today, our 12 original the end of 2012 and Field Journals are among the beginning of 2014, the most established now covering a total 2013 Frontiers in Pediatrics in their subject areas, of 28 fields across 300 both in terms of size and specialty sections. Our Frontiers in Chemistry citation levels. Frontiers aim is to ensure that every Frontiers in Public Health in Psychology, became community in all areas the world’s largest journal of natural, medical Frontiers in Bioengineering in Psychology only and social sciences can and Biotechnology 3 years after it was find an open-access home Frontiers in Physics launched in 2010. at Frontiers. Frontiers in Immunology, Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution Frontiers in Physiology It is with this vision Frontiers in Energy Research and Frontiers in Plant that we keep working on Science are the largest new launches in 2014. Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology IMPACT FACTORS Frontiers in Earth Science Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience: 5.2 Frontiers in Environmental Science Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience: 4.8 Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience: 4.5 Frontiers in Marine Science Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology: 2014 coming July 2014! Frontiers in Materials Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience: 2.5 Frontiers in Nutrition Frontiers in Human Neuroscience: 2.9 Frontiers in Microbiology: coming July 2014! Frontiers in Medicine Frontiers in Neural Circuits: 3.3 Frontiers in Surgery Frontiers in Neuroanatomy: 4.1 Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences Frontiers in Plant Science: coming July 2014! Frontiers in Psychology: coming July 2014! coming Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences soon * compared to the journal listing of the Frontiers in Robotics and AI 2012 Journal Citation Report for this subject category. Publication volume determined for 2013 with Scopus. Frontiers in Veterinary Medicine All journals are listed in PubMed and Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine archives relevant for each subject area. All remaining 9 field journals launched before 2013 are under evaluation Frontiers in Digital Humanities by Thomson Reuters for the release of an Impact Factor. Stay tuned! … and more! 6 frontiers | 2013 Progress Report “The new review forum Building impact is exceptionally clear. I particularly like the level of detail of where the article through is in the review process” Cheryl Metcalf peer review about version 2.0 of the Review Forum Improving peer review Frontiers Review Forum, of Frontiers articles Review Forum is now has always been which facilitates are a strong evidence even more user-friendly, a priority at Frontiers. consensus by opening of it. Frontiers journals intuitive and Our peer review is a direct dialogue among consistently outrank task-oriented, and was engineered to be rigorous, authors, reviewers some of the most released as a beta yet at the same time and editors. established journals version in December. collaborative, fair, both in terms of citation efficient and transparent. Our peer review is levels and volume. Feedback from hundreds engineered to contribute of scientists has been These guiding principles to the quality of In 2013, we carried out enthusiastic and we are have been integrated into manuscripts, and the high substantial enhancements really excited to move the most sophisticated numbers of citations, to our Review Forum. this development forward online review platform, the views and downloads The 2.0 version of the in 2014! “Instead of rejecting a paper a priori, we want to help the scientific community to improve a paper. Review It’s scientists helping other scientists principles to make things better - together” COLLABORATIVE Idan Segev FAIR about the philosophy of peer review at Frontiers RIGOROUS EFFICIENT TRANSPARENT 84 days • 80% of authors think the Frontiers peer review is a significant
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