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Specialty Chief Editors, Paolo Perona from the University of Edinburgh and Björn Vinnerås at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) lead the Water and Wastewater Management Section within Frontiers in Environmental Science. Managing water as part of the Sustainable Development Goals Paolo Perona, who is the Chair of Environmental Engineering at the University of Edinburgh, believes that a “broad cooperation is needed across science to meet keywater security objectives of the UN Sustainable Development Goals”....

One of the strongest beliefs in scholarly publishing is that journals seeking a high impact factor (IF) should be highly selective, accepting only papers predicted to become highly significant and novel, and hence likely to attract a large number of citations. The result is that so-called top journals reject as many of 90-95% of the manuscripts they receive, forcing the authors of these papers to resubmit in more “specialized”, lower impact factor journals where they may find a more receptive home....

The library of the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL Library) has entered an institutional agreement with Frontiers. École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) has formed an institutional membership agreement for open access publishing with Frontiers. This institutional agreement means that eligible EPFL researchers may publish in any Frontiers journal at no cost to them and with a simplified process. Articles may benefit from a 10% membership discount. The library EPFL supports its researchers in making their research more widely available....

By Janine Gronewold and Miriam Engels During the Covid-19 pandemic, with its repeated lockdowns and social restrictions, many people across the globe have reported increased feelings of isolation and loneliness. Prolonged loneliness is known to be associated with poor mental and physical health outcomes, for example increased cerebrovascular disease. What could be the mechanism underlying this association? That is the subject of a recent perspective article in Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience....

Stephan Kuster, Head of Institutional Relations, looks back at what 2020 has meant for policy and science. Stephan Kuster, Head of Institutional Relations How to begin to summarize what 2020 has meant for policy and science? It feels like a decade’s worth of catastrophic news and disruption, followed by unprecedented innovative responses. It was also the year that proved beyond doubt that access to scientific knowledge must be free and immediately open to effectively address the challenges faced by society....

Earth’s crust mineralogy drives hotspots for intraterrestrial life, finds new study in Frontiers in Microbiology By Lucie Sammicheli, science writer Researchers explored the distribution of biofilm communities in the continental deep subsurface. Their study highlights the presence of ‘hotspots’ for microbial life around iron-rich minerals. This pattern can allow us to better predict the distribution of intraterrestrial life on Earth, but also inform the search for extraterrestrial life in the subsurface of Mars....

The partnership reinforces the two organizations’ mutual desire to promote research in pediatrics and to facilitate its free and unrestricted dissemination to the widest possible audience. Frontiers in Pediatrics is proud to become the official partner of the European Academy of Pediatrics (EAP). The partnership reinforces the two organizations’ mutual desire to promote research in pediatrics and to facilitate its free and unrestricted dissemination to the widest possible audience, including researchers, academics, clinicians and the public worldwide....

A list of Frontiers eBooks published in January 2017. Below is a list of Frontiers eBooks published in January 2017. All Frontiers eBooks are free to download, share and distribute. Science: Tumor Hypoxia: Impact in Tumorigenesis, Diagnosis, Prognosis and Therapeutics, hosted by Christian R. Gomez Sound, Music and Movement in Parkinson’s Disease, hosted by Marta M. N. Bieńkiewicz and Cathy Craig Using Stress-Based Animal Models to Understand the Mechanisms Underlying Psychiatric and Somatic Disorders, hosted by Stefan O....

With today’s publications, Frontiers for Young Minds celebrates its expansion into one of its new subject areas: Understanding the Earth and its Resources. This new specialty is led by Specialty Chief Editor Berend Smit of the EPFL and UC Berkeley. 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)...

This month, we talk to Dr. Sarah Gignoux-Wolfsohn about her passion to study marine science stemmed from, overcoming sexism in her field, and the importance of establishing a strong network. This month, Thimedi Hetti, journal specialist for Frontiers in Marine Science, talks to Dr. Sarah Gignoux-Wolfsohn, an ecologist at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center who works in both the Marine Invasions Lab and the Marine Disease Ecology Lab. In 2020, Dr....

Multiple adaptations to polar and alpine environments within cyanobacteria: a phylogenomic and Bayesian approach Nathan A. M. Chrismas, Alexandre M. Anesio and Patricia Sanchez-Baracaldo* Genome reconstructions indicate the partitioning of ecological functions inside a phytoplankton bloom in the Amundsen Sea, Antarctica Tom O. Delmont, A. Murat Eren, Joseph H. Vineis and Anton F. Post* Cross-biome comparison of microbial association networks Karoline Faust, Gipsi Lima-Mendez, Jean-Sébastien Lerat, Jarupon F. Sathirapongsasuti, Rob Knight, Curtis Huttenhower, Tom Lenaerts and Jeroen Raes*...

By Angharad Brewer Gillham, Frontiers science writer Scientists studying the medicinal potential of a rare insect-eating mushroom have found a way to grow the elusive fungi in the lab, opening the way for the development of new anti-viral and cancer medications. The Cordyceps mushroom is best known for its gruesome eating habits: famously, its spores infect insects and kill them, growing into fully-fledged fruiting bodies that sprout from the insects’ flesh....

Selected news, views and information on Open Science and scholarly publishing from the past week Research Information Repository revolution Slate Make peer review public The Conversation What to believe in the new world of open access publishing OUP Blog Tips from a journal editor: being a good reviewer BioMed Central blog A window into open access publishing in China InfoJustice SPARC applauds senate committee action on public access legislation The Guardian Australian academics seek to challenge ‘web of avarice’ in scientific publishing The Guardian Scientists get tool to mark online climate science media coverage and it’s not a rusty teaspoon Online Climate Feedback tool (see Guardian article immediately above) Science Magazine Creating a research brand...

Joerg Herrmann and Jun-ichi Abe lead new specialty on Cardio-Oncology in Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine While survival rates of cancer have improved dramatically, cardiovascular toxicities are among the most important side effects of cancer treatments. Optimizing screening, treatment and prevention of these toxicities can improve the overall long-term outcome of cancer patients. Managing and preventing cardiovascular disease in cancer patients/survivors is a cornerstone of cardio-oncology. It also allows cardiovascular side effects of cancer therapies to help us better understand the biology of the cardiovascular system....

Study shows Old World monkeys combine items in speech — but only two and never more, unlike humans; Frontiers in Psychology Study shows Old World monkeys combine items in speech — but only two and never more, unlike humans — by MIT News The utterances of Old World monkeys, some of our primate cousins, may be more sophisticated than previously realized — but even so, they display constraints that reinforce the singularity of human language, according to a new study co-authored by an MIT linguist....

Scientists revise the typical use of male rats and point to sex-differences that can drastically change how we approach obesity in females. Scientists revise the typical use of male rats and point to sex-differences that can drastically change how we approach obesity and the related health problems in females. — Hedwig Ens One of the environmental factors that promote obesity, and the consequent health problems, are energy dense diets. Intense research is ongoing, looking for the mechanisms behind and ways to prevent this....

Delighted to announce that Prof. Jan Kassubek will be leading our newest section in Frontiers in Neurology: Applied Neuroimaging. We are delighted to announce that Prof. Jan Kassubek will be leading our newest section in Frontiers in Neurology: Applied Neuroimaging. Prof. Kassubek is the Vice Chairman, Head of Neurophysiology section, as well as Head of the Group for Neuroimaging and the Outpatient Clinic for movement disorders at the Department of Neurology, University of Ulm in Germany....

Haleh Moravej is a registered nutritionist, a scientist and a founder of MetMUnch. She is also a senior lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University, and we speak about Haleh’s drive and motivation for or teaching and changing lives. Author: Leticia Nani Silva Haleh Moravej is a registered nutritionist, a scientist and a founder of MetMUnch. She is also a senior lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University. Haleh’s contagious enthusiasm coupled up with creative teaching methods are extremely engaging, she oozes innovation while always thinking ‘outside the box’....

Behavior changes and an unfavorable pension system will disproportionately impoverish elderly Japanese women: Frontiers in Physics Behavior changes in the Japanese population and an unfavorable pension system are creating a system that will disproportionately impoverish elderly Japanese women — By KED Coan Around one in four elderly Japanese women will live below the poverty level in the near future — with the figure rising to 50% for never-married and divorced women....

Research reveals a novel potential drug target and offers new insights into the underlying biology of bipolar disorder: Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience Immediate early genes (IEGs) are a class of genes that respond very rapidly to environmental stimuli, including stress. IEGs respond to a stressor by activating other genes that lead to neuronal plasticity — that is, a change in form and function o brain cells in response to changes in the environment....