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~ Clinical medicine research papers to be submitted directly to Frontiers from pre-print platform ~ Frontiers is pleased to announce that from December 19th 2019, authors can directly submit their archived manuscripts to its publishing platform via the medical pre-print site ‘medRxiv’. medRxiv is the third platform of this type to be integrated with Frontiers submission system. The integration with medRxiv is the latest development in Frontiers’ endeavor to use technology to improve and streamline the scholarly publishing process and the services it offers authors, with the focus of medRxiv being medical and clinical research....

We are delighted to inform you that Göttingen University holds a central invoicing agreement with Frontiers. Göttingen University (partially) covers Article Publishing Charges (APCs), for corresponding authors affiliated with the University, for articles in any of the Frontiers journals via an Open Access Publication Fund. Göttingen State and University Library (SUB Göttingen) is the administrator of this Fund. For further details and whether you qualify for support from the Fund, please visit the Library’s webpages on Open Access and the Open Access Publication Fund (Publikationsfonds) or contact Ms Sabine Witt witt@sub....

Numbers of Phocoena phocoena harbor porpoises, a sentinal species, have declined over the past two decades due to human activities: Frontiers in Marine Science By Nora Belblidia, science writer The harbor porpoise population is declining in the German North Sea, according to a recent study which surveyed the species over a 20-year time period. Harbor porpoises are known as a “sentinel species” – animals which indicate the health of an ecosystem and point to potential risks (think of the canary in the coal mine) – and their decreasing numbers indicate the extent to which human activities have affected marine wildlife....

Frontiers in Agronomy explores the solutions to feeding our planet’s growing population — by Daniel Sidoli The world’s population is expected to increase to 9.7 billion people by 2050 according to a United Nations report published in 2019. Frontiers in Agronomy will complement our sister journal Frontiers in Plant Science (IF 4.106, CiteScore 4.47), by providing an open platform dedicated to the applications of fundamental plant sciences to find solutions for feeding our planet’s growing population....

The new section welcomes research from all geophysical fields, including rock mechanics, mineral physics, seismology and lithosphere and mantle dynamics. Frontiers in Earth Science is proud to announce the launch of a new section, Solid Earth Geophysics. The latest expansion to the portfolio will aim to advance our understanding of the dynamics, composition and structure of the Earth, focusing on both regional and global issues. Professor Carolina Lithgow-Bertelloni of University College London, United Kingdom will lead this endeavor as Specialty Chief Editor and the Frontiers in Earth Science team is delighted to be working together to further open science in this field....

Selected news, views and information on Open Science and scholarly publishing from the past week Nature US agencies plan research-ethics overhaul Times Higher Education Medical research shifts from universities to hospitals Sydney Morning Herald Push for more science, technology graduates based on a ‘wing and a prayer’: report Science Feature: Iranian scientists rely on ingenuity and smuggling to survive sanctions Yahoo! News ‘New era’ in Iran science with end of sanctions: report...

Reef manta rays, Mobula alfredi, are homebodies: Frontiers in Marine Science By Peter Rejcek, science writer Understanding the key areas where migratory species like the reef manta ray like to congregate is crucial for their future conservation. A new study by a team of researchers in Australia tracked movement patterns for a population of Mobula alfredi along the country’s west coast using satellites and photographs. Their data fill in key gaps in what scientists know about how these large marine animals live in the wild....

First observations of coral cells and free-living algae physically interacting: Frontiers in Marine Science By Tania Fitzgeorge-Balfour, science writer The physical interactions between coral and algal cells as they join together in symbiosis have been observed for the first time. Within minutes of being introduced, the coral cells had started to engulf the algae, either digesting them or protecting them within a ‘bubble’ inside the cell. This new study will form the basis of further research that will expand our understanding of their symbiotic relationship, leading to improved methods of coral conservation....

We talk to product manager William de Filippo, about the time he took out of his day-to-day work to volunteer with Volontaire montagne, an organization that offers support to the people, the towns, and institutions in Switzerland’s mountainous regions. This week, we talk to product manager William de Filippo, about the time he took out of his day-to-day work to volunteer with Volontaire montagne, an organization that offers support to the people, the towns, and institutions in Switzerland’s mountainous regions....

Led by Prof. Fengqi You of Cornell University, Frontiers in Chemical Engineering is now available Can we have it all? A future with zero carbon emissions while improving chemical processes in factories for growing our food that also don’t put anyone at risk? The new journal Frontiers in Chemical Engineering with its outstanding Editorial Board will be the place to find the answers to these questions. Prof. Fengqi You of Cornell University, Field Chief Editor of Frontiers in Chemical Engineering also leads the specialty Computational Methods in Chemical Engineering....

The reality of plate tectonics and continental shift are things we take for granted now; much like heliocentrism, planetary magnetism and the fact that illnesses do not derive from an imbalance of humours. However, of these truisms, the first two only became accepted in mainstream science in living memory. There was a time within the past sixty-odd years when geoscientists propagating the theory of continental shift were treading the path of “career suicide”....

By Mischa Dijkstra, Frontiers science writer Italian researchers found amazing community of 114 species of invertebrates on priceless archeological artifact, including ecological ‘constructors’, ‘binders’, and ‘dwellers’ On March 10, 241 BCE, a sea battle took place near the Aegadian Islands off northwestern Sicily. A fleet equipped by the Roman Republic destroyed a fleet from Carthage, ending the First Punic War in Rome’s favor. But scientists have now shown that this destruction and carnage utimately made a a rich flowering of marine life possible....

The tests could be more accurate than conventional measurements like sprinting and jumping ability: Frontiers in Physiology The tests could be a more accurate way to assess agility in young players, compared with conventional measurements such as sprinting and jumping ability. — By Conn Hastings Agility — the ability to rapidly and tactically change speed or direction — is an important factor in football (soccer) performance. A new study reports that two new agility tests can successfully discriminate between youth football players at under-17 and under-19, with the older players showing enhanced agility....

By Kirsten Martin In conservation, there is an ongoing debate over triage. Advocates of triage argue that some extinctions are unavoidable, and that fixed, limited and fully fungible resources are therefore best allocated where they are most likely to yield the largest conservation benefit. That is, they perceive conservation essentially as an economic optimisation problem. But the opponents of triage believe the opposite. They argue that species recovery is possible no matter how few individuals remain, that small peripheral subpopulations may contain genetic diversity not available in larger core populations, and that funds and resources are neither fixed nor fully fungible....

Big Data and AI in High Energy Physics launches as a new specialty in Frontiers in Big Data — by Emma Overmaat The quest for understanding the fundamental laws of physics has brought scientists far in exploring the origins of the universe by probing nature at high energies. In the era of data abundance, high energy physicists are now faced with an unprecedented large volume of data to manage and synthesize, to answer the universe’s next big questions....

The University of Gävle (Högskolan i Gävle) supports their authors publishing open access. As part of this support, eligible authors from the University of Gävle will benefit from a 10% discount under the terms of the Sweden Open Access Publishing Framework Agreement. To submit your article under this institutional agreement, it is recommended you submit with an email domain affiliated to your institution. When submitting your article, please select ‘University of Gävle’ as the institutional payer in the invoice section....

To celebrate the recent publication of 1000 articles in Frontiers in Plant Science, we took the opportunity to look back at the journal’s growth over the last three years and talk with Rich Jorgensen, Field Chief Editor (FCE), about some of his past highlights and future hopes for the journal. What was it like to be a part of Frontiers in Plant Science (FiPS) at the beginning? Like any new project, getting started was really question of vision and commitment....

With more than 4,000 citations, 3.5 million views and downloads, and it’s recent inclusion in the Web of Science Group’s Journal Citation Report, Frontiers in Nutrition is going from strength to strength. With more than 4,000 citations, 3.5 million views and downloads, and it’s recent inclusion in the Web of Science Group’s Journal Citation Report (Impact Factor 3.365), Frontiers in Nutrition is going from strength to strength. We take the opportunity to reflect on the journal’s success with its Field Chief Editor Johannes le Coutre....

Catch up with the most viewed articles from Frontiers in Neurology this June. All are Open Access – enjoy! Share this:Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window)MoreClick to share on WhatsApp (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)...

Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences is pleased to announce the launch of its newest section, Ribonucleoprotein Networks. The section, which focuses on the physico-chemical determinants of protein-RNA interactions and functional characterization of ribonucleoprotein networks, is headed by Specialty Chief Editor Prof Gian Gaetano Tartaglia of Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies and Centre for Genomic Regulation, Barcelona, and its Associate Editor board currently comprises the following researchers: Sandro Ataide – University of Sydney, Australia Germano Cecere – Institut Pasteur, France Andrea Cerase – EMBL, Italy Leonid Gitlin – University of California, San Francisco, USA Eleonora Leucci – VIB-KU Leuven, Belgium Francesco Nicassio – Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy Ulf Andersson Ørom – Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics Berlin, Germany Alessandro Quattrone – University of Trento, Italy Nicolas Toro – Estación Experimental del Zaidín, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Spain Michele Trabucchi – Inserm, France Mission Statement From the beginning of transcription through splicing and translation, messenger RNA is associated with a large number of proteins that regulate its processing, stability and transport....