CEO and Co-founder Kamila Markram’s end of year message to the Frontiers community. Kamila Markram, CEO and Co-founder A year ago, I wrote about the strength of the human spirit that saw all of us come together as we rose before the challenge in front of us. Twelve months on, while COVID-19 remains a significant challenge to us all, more than eight billion vaccine doses have been administered to people around the world....
Frequently being the target of workplace aggression not only affects the victim’s health but can also cause them to behave badly towards others: Frontiers in Psychology The study is the first to examine the specific role of frequent mistreatments at work in triggering misconduct and the emotions of anger, fear, and sadness separately. — By University of East Anglia New research reveals that frequently being the target of workplace aggression not only affects the victim’s health but can also cause them to behave badly towards others....
Marine ecosystems are endangered by an increasing number of coastal development projects. A new study shows for the first time that bottlenose dolphins may adapt to anthropogenic disturbance under some circumstances. The findings draw attention to the need for proper management of coastal construction sites. By Suzanna Burgelman, Frontiers Science writer Bottlenose dolphins learn to cope with coastal construction activities. That is the conclusion of a study published in Frontiers in Marine Science....
We talk to fellow Fronton Sarah Jay, who works at Publishing Development department, about her volunteering work with Peace Boat Disaster Relief, an organization that assists disaster-affected people by strengthening disaster resilience of communities. Author: Anastasia Long Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, volunteers have been at the forefront of community and societal responses. This week, we talk to fellow Fronton Sarah Jay, who works at Publishing Development department, about her volunteering work with Peace Boat Disaster Relief, an organization that assists disaster-affected people by strengthening disaster resilience of communities....
The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), supports their authors in publishing open access. As part of this support, NTNU will cover Article Processing Charges (APCs) for eligible articles centrally for their eligible authors. As part of the UNIT Open Access Publishing Framework Agreement, NTNU will benefit from a 10% membership discount. Eligible authors are corresponding authors affiliated with NTNU. Information for authors: To submit your article under this agreement, please select ‘NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY’ as the payer in the invoice section when submitting your article....
Frontiers for Young Minds’ latest focus has been on the Arabic community: our Arabic journal translated version has already garnered 400K views and downloads. Frontiers for Young Minds’ goal has always been to provide clear, engaging science to inspire the next generation of researchers. We go beyond providing accurate and exciting science for kids, we actively involve them, teaching them to ask the right questions and to be able to use those critical thinking skills to become scientists all over the world....
Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Vibrio spp. within the Sydney Harbour Estuary Nachshon Siboni*, Varunan Balaraju, Richard Carney, Maurizio Labbate and Justin R. Seymour Reconstruction of Bacterial and Viral Genomes from Multiple Metagenomes Ankit Gupta, Sanjiv Kumar, Vishnu P. K. Prasoodanan, K. Harish, Ashok K. Sharma, and Vineet K. Sharma* K-shell Analysis Reveals Distinct Functional Parts in an Electron Transfer Network and Its Implications for Extracellular Electron Transfer Dewu Ding, Ling Li, Chuanjun Shu and Xiao Sun*...
A new Specialty Section led by Professor Cristina Alfaro (San Diego State University) has now launched in Frontiers in Education. A new Specialty Section, Language, Culture and Diversity, led by Professor Cristina Alfaro (San Diego State University), has now launched in Frontiers in Education. “The educational inequities faced by diverse students from low income and multilingual immigrant backgrounds are well documented,” explains Prof Alfaro. “Ameliorating these inequities is a complex matter, but if education reform does not start to value the cultural and linguistic resources of these diverse students, it is likely to fail....
By Leticia Nani Silva , Rocio Caverzasi and Geraldine Clancy To celebrate International Equal Pay Day, we speak to the new Field Chief Editors of our Economics journals Professor Phoebe Koundouri and Professor Marina Della Giusta. Professor Phoebe Koundouri is an economics professor and world ambassador for sustainable development. She is listed in the 1% of most-cited women economists in the world. She holds two professorship titles, one at the Athens University of Economics and Business, and the other at the Technical University of Denmark....
The award winning studies provide key insights into more efficient railway engineering infrastructure and innovative solutions to reduce environmental pollution caused by train transportation. Frontiers in Built Environment are delighted to reveal the winners of the second Joseph M. Sussman Prize celebrating the best articles published in the ‘Transportation and Transit Systems’ section of the journal. The award winning studies selected this year provide valuable insights into more efficient railway engineering infrastructure and present innovative solutions to address the issues related to sustainability and environmental pollution....
University of Bern has formed an institutional membership agreement for open access publishing with Frontiers. This institutional agreement means that eligible University of Bern 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 university library Bern supports its researchers in making their research more widely available. This agreement will further encourage University of Bern researchers to publish open access, increasing the volume of research openly available....
By Mark Bettex Here at Frontiers, we do give names to our meeting rooms. Names of great scientists. Next to Marie Curie, there is a small one that is called Grace Hopper, after the famous computer scientist. Among the many stories that she enjoyed retelling, one happened exactly 68 years ago, on September 9th, 1947. At that time, she was working on the Harvard Mark II computer. An incredible machine, 51 feet long, 8 feet high and 8 feet deep, capable of doing as much as 8 additions per second!...
We are delighted to announce that the Klagenfurt (Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, AAU) has established an institutional membership agreement for open access publishing with Frontiers. The University of Klagenfurt supports its researchers in making their research more widely available. As part of this support, the University of Klagenfurt has entered an institutional agreement with Frontiers. Under the terms of the Austria Open Access Publishing Framework Agreement, eligible authors from the University of Klagenfurt may publish in any Frontiers journal at no cost to the author....
This blog was updated in November 2017 to reflect our staff numbers. When we launched our first journal in 2008, the Frontiers team consisted of only a handful of people. Now, nearly a decade later, that team has grown to be over 370 people and spans across three continents. Even though we’ve grown substantially and will continue to grow, one thing has stayed the same – and that is our entrepreneurial spirit....
New Energy Materials section led by Chief Editor Liming Dai launched in Frontiers in Materials Frontiers is pleased to announce the launch of the new Energy Materials section within Frontiers in Materials. Liming Dai to lead Energy Materials This new section will be led by Specialty Chief Editor Liming Dai, Kent Hale Smith Professor at the Department of Macromolecular Science and Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, USA. Materials science and engineering for sustainable energy “Global energy consumption has been accelerating at an alarming rate,” explains Liming Dai as he highlights the importance of developing new types of sustainable energy....
Novel sensitive test for Lyme disease: Frontiers in Microbiology New test targets genetic sequences in Lyme-causing bacteria and is highly sensitive, detecting just one bacterial cell in a blood sample By Conn Hastings, science writer Researchers have developed a new test for Lyme disease that could help doctors to diagnose early-stage patients, which has been difficult until now. The test uses polymerase chain reaction to amplify and detect viral genetic sequences that are present in Lyme-causing bacteria, and can detect just one bacterial cell in a blood sample....
What is needed for a full transition to Open Science in the European Union? Frontiers CEO Kamila Markram will outline the priority actions during ESOF 2018. https://blog.frontiersin.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/esof-2018-transition-to-open-science.jpg What is needed for a full transition to Open Science in the European Union? Frontiers CEO Dr Kamila Markram will highlight the necessary priority actions on July 11 during a high-profile plenary panel at the EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF) 2018 – Europe’s largest interdisciplinary science meeting....
By Tania Fitzgeorge-balfour, science writer Fungal diseases in the human population are on the rise, so it is important for health authorities to understand where these pathogens come from. A new study has searched for fungi in the lung tissues of small mammals and found fungal pathogens that cause diseases in humans. This suggests that these rodents can serve as reservoirs, agents of dispersal, and incubators of emerging fungal pathogens....
The Frontiers Tiering System is an efficient and transparent method to select outstanding research articles and make them more accessible to the wider research communities up to the general public When articles are first accepted for publication in Frontiers, they are published in the appropriate online Specialty Section or Specialty Journal, as tier 1 articles. Based on automatic Frontiers Impact Metrics, the top 10% articles in a tier are democratically selected for review as prestigious higher tier articles....
Stroke is the leading cause of long-term disability among adults. Known within the research community as a “brain attack”, it is when cells in the brain die due to poor blood flow. For example, in the most common type of stroke, the blockage of a blood vessel starves an area of the brain from proper nutrition, oxygen, blood sugar and other main nutrients. The prevalence of stroke is just one of the reasons why Professor Jose Biller decided to focus his research on this condition....
