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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 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 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.

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“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 . 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 . 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 improvement from submission over traditional peer review to acceptance • Over 90% of authors think the collaborative Frontiers peer review helped them improve their paper • Over 90% of authors would submit again 15 days • 95% of authors were happy with the level of support received by Frontiers from acceptance staff in publishing their paper to publication • Over 90% of authors and reviewers rated our interactive Review Forum as good or excellent • 85% of reviewers think the level of detail of the Frontiers questionnaires 1000 views helped them focus on the most important aspects of the papers they in the first month reviewed following publication frontiers | 2013 Progress Report 7 Building impact through networking technologies

The Frontiers Research The mission of the network Network has been Network is a fast growing is simple: increase proven to increase the “Scientific community of more than the reach of articles visibility of researchers’ studies 140 000 of the world’s and disseminate them profiles by 70% and that leading researchers from to the right people, of their articles by 30%. demonstrate that ​​ all fields of academia. and ultimately, boost the number of connections the impact of our authors, Combining networking to high-profile contacts​ Frontiers is the first to editors and academic users. with open-access on social networks fully integrate open-access publishing stays true translates into better publishing with the latest The benefits for authors to our mission: make career performance for science innovators networking technology, are compelling: since research papers freely ” taking publishing to its launch in 2012, available to the world P. A. Gloor et al., the next level. the Frontiers Research and increase their impact. Int. J. Organ.Des. Eng. 3, 67–85; 2013

70% increase “Research networking profile views in Frontiers helps disseminate your work” Leon Cooper 30% Nobel Laureate in Physics increase article views 140000 active users “The information revolution demands a serious rethinking 5 000 of scientific publishing new monthly users and Frontiers is an excellent answer to this demand” 5 000 Alex Hansen connected institutions Norwegian University of Science and Technology 8 frontiers | 2013 Progress Report

Science for kids

Frontiers is now also Launched at the Society available for kids. for Neuroscience meeting Our new journal in November 2013, Frontiers for Young Minds the journal stems from the brings the excitement never-ending passion of of scientific discoveries our long-time Chief Editor to kids - reviewed by kids! Bob Knight for bringing science to kids. Frontiers for Young Minds is a real peer-reviewed The response has been , truly overwhelming and in which young heart-warming and more scientists-to-be fields will follow in 2014 (aged 8 - 15) after the success of the become involved in the neuroscience “pilot” review process. It is the project. Frontiers for Young first time in scholarly Minds has immediately publishing that a journal captured the imagination connects bright kids in of thousands of scientists, a hands-on experience parents, mentors, teachers with the world’s leading and - of course - kids! researchers. kids.frontiersin.org

“The best sci-publishing launch 86 in decades” kid reviewers Noah Gray Editor, Nature Magazine 79 mentoring scientists 37 articles published 21 research areas in Neuroscience frontiers | 2013 Progress Report 9 Partnering with Nature Publishing Group

In February 2013, The partnership brings For example: the 2013, Nature Publishing Group new opportunities to 4th of July issue of Nature and Frontiers formed increase the visibility magazine had a specially- a strategic partnership, of our articles, create dedicated cover that to advance the global cross links between opened up to display Open Science movement. the two publishers and a Frontiers full-page strengthen the public infographic. This was a Nature Publishing Group outreach of Frontiers first in the 130-year-long recognized Frontiers’ overall. history of Nature! transformative solutions to open-access publishing, peer review and impact metrics. Combining these strengths with Nature’s world-renowned reputation of excellence and long history in opened up many new opportunities to advance our combined mission to serve scholars better and to lead the change in the landscape of science communication.

“NPG and Frontiers’ passion is “We can achieve more to meet the evolving needs together, and more quickly, of scientists to advance science. than either publisher Together we can really change could working alone” the way science is communicated” Steven Inchcoombe Kamila Markram Managing Director, Nature Publishing Group CEO, Frontiers

“It is the first time that Nature has entered a partnership with another organization, because we had never found another organization that shares Nature’s vision, passion, aspiration to help scientists be more successful” Annette Thomas CEO, Macmillan Publishers 10 frontiers | 2013 Progress Report

“Wolves, like dogs, can learn International from humans” Frontiers in Psychology media 12 September 2013 coverage

“Fast-paced Frontiers is publishing media coverage from evolution cutting-edge research the BBC, CNN, NBC, with strong societal The Guardian, Der Spiegel, in the Andes” relevance from leading Scientific American, Frontiers in Genetics scientists. Our articles New Scientist, Popular 7 November 2013 are regularly featured Science and many more. in world-leading newspapers, TV We work to boost the and radio programs. impact of your research This includes regular at all levels. “Psychopaths might have an impaired empathy circuit” Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience 19 December 2013

“Yoga and the mind: can yoga reduce symptoms of 25 million major psychiatric views and downloads disorders?” Frontiers in Psychiatry 35000 28 January 2013 tweets

36000 “Flowering plant followers on Facebook origins pushed back 100 million 500 years” international news stories Frontiers in Plant Science in 2013 1 October 2013 frontiers | 2013 Progress Report 11 Research Topics: “An excellent dig deeper with platform to combine different niche communities expertise from different areas” Much of modern science a cutting-edge research With almost 1 000 Markus Geisler is highly specialized and area organized by leading Topics initiated in 2013, University of Freiburg interdisciplinary by nature, scientists and physicians. Frontiers Research and our goal at Frontiers Frontiers’ Research Topics Topics are an integral is to make sure that the provide a platform to unite part of publishing impact of every article the world’s experts around highly specialized and author is maximized a topic, stimulate dialogue and interdisciplinary even in this fragmented and collaboration, publish research and will continue and fast-moving context. cutting-edge research, to play a central role accelerate science and in showcasing Research Topics are demonstrate leadership and promoting niche collections of articles around in a field. communities.

“What’s special about Frontiers is that it is really designed for scientists to have a publishing medium for them” Alex Thomson University College London

110 000 research topic contributors 4 700 research topic editors 1000 research topics opened in 2013 over 200 research topics available as free ebooks 12 frontiers | 2013 Progress Report Your team at Frontiers 140 staff - and growing!

The success of Frontiers and staff in London and is based on the Madrid, the Frontiers 40 nationalities commitment of team now counts over academic communities, 140 bright and relentlessly and on the stellar team dedicated colleagues, that, behind the scenes, across 40 nationalities and 3 helps promote the experience in essentially locations academic status of all every area of academia. our authors, editors, reviewers and scientific Haven’t had a chance lots of users. With headquarters to meet us all yet? dedication! in Lausanne, Switzerland Here we are. 2014 here we come!

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The growth of Frontiers identifies and strengthens disseminate articles in 2013 has transformed communities. Building efficiently, broadening our organization into one and promoting our public outreach, of the largest and most communities, making showcasing reputable players in sure that your articles the work published open-access publishing. are read and your impact through is boosted, is where our journals – However, we will never our focus will remain right down to each forget the grass-roots in 2014. individual article origins of Frontiers, and Research nor the conviction that Improving our software Topic – this is the

Photo courtesy of Alain Herzog / EPFL scientific publication to review, publish and Frontiers mission. Aaron Vinik Adrian Meule Agust Gudmundsson Aki Kawasaki Akio Adachi Alberto Albanesee Alberto Diaspro Aldana Maximino Alessandro Lugli Alex David Rogers Alex F. Chen Alex Hansen Alex M Thomson

Anthony Gean Antonello Simone Antonio Francesco Antoine Bechara Antoine Toubert Antonino Belfiore Antonio Trincone Anwar Huq Ariane Bazan Ariel Anbar Arturo J Cardounel Atsushi Asakura Autar Krishen Comuzzie Lorenzini Corno Mattoo

Christian F Carmen Sandi Cecilia Giulivi Charles Dinarello Christian Hansel Christian Koerner Christian Kurts Christian Sell Christian Wilhelm Christine Anne Christopher Mario Klingenberg Bodo Bachem Biron Inglese Claire Perks Claudia Kemper

Diana Conte Douglas Mark Dieter W Heermann Domenico Salvatore Dominique J Dubois Donat P. Häder Dov Greenbaum Eddy J Davelaar Effie Wang Camerino Ruden Petersdorf Egidio D‘Angelo Eilon Vaadia Einar M Sigurdsson Eliot Ohlstein

Fernando M B Francois M. A. Meet our Marques Florian Röhrbein Franco Biondi Marechal Frank Miedema

Chief Editors Giuseppe Battaglia Giuseppe Esposito Giuseppe Giaccone Greg W Rouse Gregory Gruener

Huangxian Ju Hubert Vaudry Hyung-Ho Park Ian Marriott Idan Segev

Jean-Baptiste Jean-Claude Jeffrey T. Jimmy Thomas Poline Georges Bunzli Jean-Luc Teillaud Jeff M P Holly Jeffrey Atkinson Jeffrey I Frank Jeffrey R Stevens Jeffrey Scott Barrett Fairbrother Jens Kossmann Ji-Dong Gu Jie-Sheng Chen Efird

Joshua L Kanwaljeet J. S. Kenneth Philip Jose Biller Joseph M. Jez Heazlewood Jumana Y Al-Aama Junhong Chen Justo P Castaño Anand Karol Osipowicz Kay Hamacher Kendall A Smith Kodama Kobi Peleg Larry Abbott

Maria Mary B Kennedy Marcia Gail Ory Maria J Donoghue V Sanchez-Vives Mario L Diaz Mark P Burns Mark Ross Markus Geisler Mårten Risling Martin Beniston Martin C Michel Martin G Klotz Martin Kussmann

Nassima Ait-Daoud Miklas Scholz Ming D Li Misha Tsodyks Tiouririne Natasha Kirkham Neelima Roy Sinha Nicholas M Barnes Nicholas Schork Nicholas X Fang Nick Van De Giesen Nicolaus Von Wirén Nicole Webster Nicos A Petasis

Philip Anthony Paolo Pinton Patricia Coyle Patrick Meire Paul D Losty Paul M L Janssen Paul S Meltzer Pellegrino Musto Pengcheng Fu Per Jesper Sjöström Peter H Seeburg Peter J Reiser Peter Witzgall Parilla

Ricardo González Richard A Richard D Emes Richard Ferber Richard Gerardus Ripu D Jindal Robert J Harvey Robert J Zatorre Robert John Unwin Robert Kenneth Jorgensen Franciscus Visser Semple Robert Reisz Robert W Williams Rodney L Honeycutt

Scott E Kasner Sean L Hill Sean Ruland Serge Cosnier Sheng S. Zhang Shlomo Melmed Shripad T Revankar Shruti Sharma Sidney A Simon Simon Gilroy Simon Redfern Stefan Borgwardt Stephen J Pandol

Timothy James Ursula Thimios Mitsiadis Thomas E Hanson Thomas L Rothstein Thomas S. Hofer Timothy Ian Eglinton Kinsella Timothy K Horiuchi Ugo Bardi Ulrich M Zanger Umberto Veronesi Gundert-Remy Valerie Knopik Valerio Acocella Alexander Alisdair Fernie Alois C Knoll Ambar Chakravarty Andreas P M Weber Andreas Teske Andrew S Day Angel Borja Angelique Bordey Anil K Seth Anne B Chang Anne Elizabeth Kokhanovsky Simon Anne Zajicek

Axel A Brakhage Axel Cleeremans Barry D Jordan Beatrice De Gelder Bernhard Hommel Bernhard Moser Bimal Krishna Banik Blanka Rogina Bradley M. Tebo Bretislav Friedrich Brian Leyland-Jones Bruce J West Camilo R Gomez

Craig Michael Danilo Emilio De Claus Vögele Connie J Evashwick Costas A Varotsos Crystal Mackall Cunming Duan Daiqin Li Daniel Oro David B Allison David Samuel David William Walsh Rossi Ginley Galbraith Derek LeRoith

Elise Kohn Elizabeth A. Kellogg Ellis L Reinherz Emilio Elizalde Eric ‘Pieter Achterberg Eric Meffre Eric Vivier Eugene R Schnitzler Evgeny Y. Tsymbal Ewald Moser Fabrice Clément Farhad Islami Farhad Ravandi

Gianluca Gareth J Sanger Gary Iwamoto Gemma Casadesus Geoffrey A Head George E Billman George J Christ Gerald A Meininger Gerard Apodaca Giacomo Indiveri Castelnuovo Gil Bernard Garnier Giovanna Suzzi Giovanni Addolorato

Guilherme J M Hans Van Harald Von Guang-Ling Song Rosa Rostenberghe Boehmer Harold W Goforth Hauke R Heekeren Heather Cunliffe Hemant K Tiwari Hendrik Poorter Herman Waldmann Hermann Wagner Hiroaki Kitano How-Ran Guo

James Mark Isabelle Peretz J Alberto Neder J. W. F. Valle Jack C Roberts Jacob N. Chung Jacques Dumais Jaime Kapitulnik James Lloyd Coticchia Jan De Boer Jan G Bjaalie Jason W Osborne Javier DeFelipe

Jos WM Van Der Joav Merrick Jochen C Meier Joel C Bornstein John R Battista John Steven Torday John T Fisher John Wade Jon H Kaas Jonathan H Tobias Jonathan P Zehr Jordi Figuerola Jorge Asconape Meer

Laura Ballerini Lawrence Wechsler Lera Boroditsky Lisa Y Stein Lorenza S Colzato Lorenzo Pavesi Louis R Caplan Luis Gimeno Luiz Pessoa Maciej Andrzej Marcel Zentner Zwieniecki Manuel Carreiras Marc Strous

Mary Beth Mudgett Mary Cianfrocca Masaru Katoh Matthew W Fields Matthias Hess Maurizio Del Poeta Michael E Symonds Michael Heinrich Michael J Schneck Michael L Moritz Michael Strupp Michael Weller Mihaly Hajos

Niels Birbaumer Nils Yngve Lycke Nuno Sousa Olivier Feron Oreste Acuto Osama O Zaidat P.K. Ramachandran Nair Pamela J Hornby Paola Patrignani Paolo Bernardi Paolo Boffetta Paolo Montuschi Paolo Pietro Bianchi

Prosun Philippe C. Baveye Philippe De Witte Philippe G Schyns Philippe Lory Pierre De Meyts Pierre J Magistretti Rafael Yuste Rahn Kennedy Bhattacharya Bailey Raimond L Winslow Raina Robeva Ralf Jockers Ranulfo Romo

Rodrigo Orlando Kuljiš Roger Deal Roger Stupp Ronald M Bukowski Ruben Coronel Rudolf von Steiger Russell A Poldrack Rustam Aminov S R Pandi-Perumal Salvatore Salomone Sam P De Visser Samuel A Cushman Scott A Huettel

Stephen Silberstein Stephen V. Liu Steve Suib Steven Carl Huber Steven H Zeisel Steven L. Forman Susan Swain Susumu Ikehara Sylvia Anton Takao K. Hensch Tanguy Seiwert Théophile Godfraind Thierry Le Chevalier

Vaughan G Vishal Madaan Wendy A Peer Wendy Noble William Cho William J Brown William James Macefield Hickey Wolf Hervé Fridman Wulf Rössler Xavier Noel Yisong Wang Yousef Abu Kwaik Yue Hugh Guan 16 frontiers | 2013 Progress Report

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