holtzbrinck publishing group founded 2007 founder kamila markram and henry markram 1 country of origin switzerland headquarters location lausanne publication types open access scientific journals fiction genres medicine life sciences technology number of employees 140 1 official website www.frontiersin.org frontiers is based in the epfl innovation park of the lausanne campus switzerland . frontiers media sa is an academic publisher of peer reviewed open access scientific journals 2 currently active in science technology and medicine . it was founded in 2007 by a group of neuroscientists 3 including henry and kamila markram and later expanded to other academic fields . frontiers is based on the lausanne campus . frontiers media has controversially been included in jeffrey beall s list of potential predatory open access publishers 4 and has been accused of using email spam . 5 the publisher has a history of badly handled and controversial retractions and publishing decisions . 6 nevertheless both cope and oaspa have stated that they have no concerns with frontiers membership of their organizations . 7 8 contents 1 journals 2 web projects 2.1 frontiers for young minds 2.2 loop 3 business model and partnerships 4 controversies 5 references 6 external links journals edit the first journal published was frontiers in neuroscience which opened for submission as a beta version in 2007 and for official submissions in january 2008 . in 2010 frontiers launched a series of another eleven journals in medicine and science . in 2008 frontiers was the very first publisher to introduce article level metrics . 9 in february 2012 the frontiers research network was launched 10 a social networking platform for researchers intended to disseminate the open access articles published in the frontiers journals and to provide related conferences blogs news video lectures and job postings . 11 according to frontiers 2014 progress report they now when have 52 open access journals 12 and as of 2015 16 of their journals had impact factors . 13 in 2014 frontiers received the alpsp gold award for innovation in publishing from the association of learned and professional society publishers . 14 frontiers journals use open peer review where the names of reviewers of accepted articles are made public . web projects edit frontiers for young minds edit frontiers for young minds was launched in november 2013 during the annual meeting of the society for neuroscience . it is a web based science journal that involves young people in the review of scientific articles with the help of scientists who act as mentors . 15 loop edit in 2015 frontiers launched loop a research network that is open to be integrated into any publisher s or academic organization s website . 16 at the time of launch the platform was integrated into two publishing platforms nature publishing group and frontiers . 17 since then the technical university of madrid became the first university to link their loop profile to their institutional website 18 and in october loop collaborated with orcid to link and synchronize researcher profile information . 19 business model and partnerships edit according to their website the company operates the open access publishing on an author pay business model but has a commercial mandate to develop multiple revenue streams that can be used to support open access publishing as well as a technology mandate to ensure that scientists benefit from cutting edge it technologies . in 2013 frontiers received a major investment from the holtzbrinck group the holding company of the nature publishing group . 20 21 the investment also spurred collaboration with nature publishing group such as the integration of loop profiles into nature journals on nature.com 20 22 as well as collaboration with other holtzbrinck companies such as the frontiers for young minds blog on scientific american . 23 though holtzbrinck still has a minority share in frontiers the two companies operate independently and in 2014 the two groups made the decision ... to make a clean separation and never to mention again that nature publishing group has some kind of involvement in frontiers . 24 controversies edit in 2013 frontiers in psychology retracted a controversial article linking climate change denialism and conspiracist ideation ; the retraction was itself also controversial and led to the resignations of at least three editors . 25 in 2014 frontiers in public health published a controversial article that supported hiv denialism ; the publisher later issued a statement of concern and announced an investigation into the review process of the article . 26 it was eventually decided that the article would not be retracted but instead was reclassified as an opinion piece . 27 in may 2015 frontiers removed 31 editors from the boards of two medical journals . these editors had held up the review process in response to what they perceived as company staff ... interfering with editorial decisions and violating core principles of medical publishing which they claimed was done to maximize company profits possibly at the expense of patient health . frontiers has disputed these claims citing that these editors had banded together under flag of one field chief editor with the aim to change frontiers fundamental principle of distributed editorial decision making during peer review . 24 in 2015 frontiers was added to jeffrey beall s list of potential possible or probable predatory open access publishers . 4 28 beall recommended that academics not publish their work in frontiers journals stating the fringe science published in frontiers journals stigmatizes the honest research submitted and published there . 29 frontiers retracted the fringe science article mentioned by beall and found that the complaints were valid and the article did not meet the standards of editorial and scientific soundness . 30 the committee on publication ethics cope has said there have been vigorous discussions about and some editors are uncomfortable with the editorial processes at frontiers but that the processes are declared clearly on the publisher s site and we do not believe there is any attempt to deceive either editors or authors about these processes . 31 frontiers is a cope member and one of its employees sits on cope s council . 31 references edit a b french philippe le b avec frontiers les travaux des chercheurs sont publi s rapidement et de mani re quitable le temps published on line on sunday 10 april 2016 page visited on 10 april 2016 . members oa professional publishing organizations . open access scholarly publishers association oaspa . retrieved 2013 02 04 . peter suber ed . 2007 10 30 . open access news new series of oa journals in neuroscience . retrieved 2013 03 04 . a b bloudoff indelicato m 2015 . backlash after frontiers journals added to list of questionable publishers . nature . 525 7575 . doi 10.1038 526613f . jeffrey beall 2013 11 05 . i get complaints about frontiers . scholarly open access . megan scudellari 2015 06 02 . t hese things can happen in every lab mutant plant paper uprooted after authors correct their own findings . retraction watch . cope 2015 11 12 . cope statement on frontiers . committee on publication ethics . claire redhead 2015 12 24 . frontiers membership of oaspa . open access scholarly publishers association . kamila markram interview changing the way academics work . euroscientist . 15 april 2015 . frontiers launches social networking for scientists . frontiers media . 9 february 2012 . events . frontiers media . retrieved 2015 10 21 . the 2014 frontiers progress report is now available . frontiers . retrieved 2015 10 21 . journal impact factor 2014 . citefactor . retrieved 2015 12 24 . alpsp annual awards . association of learned and professional society publishers . retrieved 2015 10 21 . frontiers for young minds launches at usa science and engineering festival . frontiers . retrieved 2015 10 21 . frontiers loop . frontiers . retrieved 2015 10 21 . frontiers launches loop social network . the bookseller . retrieved 2015 10 21 . upm leads way as first university to integrate loop . loop . retrieved 2015 10 26 . orcid and loop new researcher profile system . orcid . retrieved 2015 10 26 . a b p. j. 2013 02 27 . changing nature . the economist . retrieved 2014 12 17 . holtzbrinck publishing group and bc partners announce agreement to merge majority of macmillan science and education with springer science . bc partners . retrieved 2015 10 21 . baynes grace . nature publishing group and frontiers form alliance to further open science . nature publishing group . retrieved 2015 10 21 . young minds on scientific american . scientific american . retrieved 2015 10 21 . a b open access publisher sacks 31 editors amid fierce row over independence . sciencemag.org . retrieved 2015 10 21 . chief specialty editor resigns from frontiers in wake of controversial retraction . retraction watch . retrieved 2015 10 21 . publisher issues statement of concern about hiv denial paper launches investigation . retraction watch . retrieved 2015 10 21 . frontiers lets hiv denial article stand reclassifies it as opinion . retraction watch . retrieved 2015 03 17 . beall jeffrey . list of publishers . scholarly open access . retrieved 2015 10 21 . 1 frontiers retraction human and environmental dangers posed by ongoing global tropospheric aerosolized particulates for weather modification environmental health . retrieved 2016 08 01 . a b cope statement on frontiers . cope . retrieved 2015 11 12 . external links edit wikimedia commons has media related to media from frontiers journals . official website science portal switzerland portal retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title frontiers media & oldid 741970783 categories publishing companies established in 2007swiss companies established in 2007open access publishershidden categories articles with french language external 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