(24 Dec 2024) A committee of scholars in Finland has decided to downgrade 271 journals from Frontiers and MDPI in their quality rating system, in a move that may discourage researchers from submitting manuscripts to the outlets. Finland’s Publication Forum (JUFO) “is a rating and classification system to support the quality assessment of research…
(30 Sep 2024) Frontiers is pleased to announce a new partnership with China’s National Science and Technology Library (NSTL). This collaboration marks a pivotal moment in the advancement of open science and research dissemination within the Chinese scientific community, addressing key challenges faced by researchers and institutions alike. Effective from January 1, 2025, this landmark…
(27 Sep 2023) The Ministry of Universities Malaysia has just issued a notice prohibiting the country’s public universities from using funding from the state budget to pay for publishing articles in all journals belonging to the three publishers MDPI, Hindawi and Frontiers. According to the Ministry of Universities Malaysia, this decision was made due…
(30 Mar 2023) “Some call them Special Issues (MDPI & Hindawi), others call them Research Topics (Frontiers), and others Collections (Springer Nature). In this post, I will refer to them as articles published via the Guest Editor model, whereby a journal invites a scholar or a group of scholars to serve as guest editors for…
(5 Aug 2021) One of Taiwan’s leading medical research institutions, the National Health Research Institutes (NHRI), and open-access publisher Frontiers have announced a publishing deal effective as of August 2021. Established in 1995, NHRI is one of Asia’s leading medical research and healthcare institutions. It focuses on fields including aging, cancer, infectious diseases and vaccine research, genomic medicine, biomedical…