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We are delighted to announce that the University of the West of England Bristol has joined the national open access deal agreed between Jisc Collections and Frontiers. This landmark deal provides a simplified and streamlined route to open access publishing for researchers in the UK, who publish 7% of the world’s research. The University of the West of England Bristol supports its researchers in making their research more widely available. As part of this deal, eligible authors may publish in any Frontiers journal at no cost to them and with a simplified process....

University of Oxford researchers developed new software that works better than animal experiments to predict the risk of drug-induced side effects: Frontiers in Physiology New software predicts the clinical risk of drug-induced side effects for the heart with higher accuracy than animal experiments. — By University of Oxford and NC3Rs Research published in Frontiers in Physiology has won an international prize for its contribution toward replacing, refining and reducing the use of animals in research and testing....

Qatar National Library (QNL) supports open access publishing. As part of this support, QNL will cover the Article Processing Charges (APCs) for eligible authors from a Qatar-based research institution publishing in any Frontiers journal. Eligible authors include students, faculty, researchers and staff from any institute of higher education or non-profit research institute within Qatar. To submit your article under this agreement, please select ‘Qatar National Library’ as the institutional payer in the invoicing section....

Vibrio, gene therapy, suicide and more – see the latest eBook collections of research topic articles, all free to download, share and distribute. The latest eBook collections of Research Topic articles This month’s eBooks include the latest research on: Vibrio gene therapy suicide and many more! All eBooks are available in EPUB and PDF, and are free to download, share and distribute. Science: Emerging Approaches for Typing, Detection, Characterization, and Traceback of Escherichia coli, 2nd Edition Edited by Pina M....

Study shows learning strategies are key to academic achievement and describe behavioural interventions that could reverse underachievement – By Abigail Pattenden, Science Writer – Not all children do well in school, despite being intellectually capable. Whilst parental relationships, motivation and self-concept all have a role to play, a recent study published in the journal Frontiers in Psychology shows that children’s learning strategy is key for academic success. The study showed that students with normal scores on intellectual tests but that have poor grades in secondary school are also not as good at acquiring and retaining information, or later applying it....

Meeting UN Sustainable Development Goals for food security requires a climate-smart approach: Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems is pleased to announce the inauguration of its Climate-Smart Food Systems section with the Specialty Grand Challenge article Frontiers in Climate Smart Food Systems: Outlining the Research Space. In this key paper, our Specialty Chief Editors, Dr. Stephen Whitfield, Professor Andrew Challinor and Professor Robert Rees, pinpoint the key challenges in meeting the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals for food security in the face of climate change....

Alteration of Political Belief by Non-invasive Brain Stimulation Caroline Chawke* and Ryota Kanai Neural Basis of the Time Window for Subjective Motor-Auditory Integration Koichi Toida, Kanako Ueno and Sotaro Shimada* It’s Sad but I Like It: The Neural Dissociation Between Musical Emotions and Liking in Experts and Laypersons Elvira Brattico*, Brigitte Bogert, Vinoo Alluri, Mari Tervaniemi, Tuomas Eerola and Thomas Jacobsen White Matter Microstructure is Associated with Auditory and Tactile Processing in Children with and without Sensory Processing Disorder Yi-Shin Chang, Mathilde Gratiot, Julia P....

Research Topic compiles the latest research into hearing loss caused by drugs and solvents – how it occurs, how to treat it, and how to prevent it. A new special publication orchestrated by five of the nation’s leading hearing experts compiles the latest research into hearing loss caused by drugs and solvents – how it occurs, how to treat it, and how to prevent it. — By Oregon Health & Science University...

In recent months, several academic publishers have been forced to retract a combined total of over 250 published articles across a number of disciplines due to irregularities and outright fraudulence in the peer-review process. As a result of this, the stringency of checks carried out by publishers during the submission and review process of manuscripts has come under the spotlight. Here, we give some background to this ongoing issue and discuss the various practices by which it can be contained....

Study finds raw fruit and vegetables are better than cooked, canned and processed – and names the top 10 raw foods: Frontiers in Psychology New study identifies the top 10 raw foods related to better mental health: carrots, bananas, apples, dark leafy greens such as spinach, grapefruit, lettuce, citrus fruits, fresh berries, cucumber, and kiwifruit. — By University of Otago Seeking the feel good factor? Go natural. That is the simple message from University of Otago researchers who have discovered raw fruit and vegetables may be better for your mental health than cooked, canned and processed fruit and vegetables....

130 academic, advocacy and policy experts discussed how Europe can unleash the full benefits of open research data in health, at the Frontiers Data Services Workshop 2018 130 academic, advocacy and policy experts discussed how Europe can unleash the full benefits of open research data in health, at the Frontiers Data Services Workshop 2018 held in Brussels, Belgium, on April 24. Frontiers’ second annual Data Sciences Workshop — organized in collaboration with the Horizon 2020 projects OpenMinTed and OpenUp, in which Frontiers is a full partner, and SwissCore, the Swiss contact office for European research, innovation and education in Brussels — focused on the application of open research data to support sustainable health initiatives in the field of health....

By Fernando Bolaños, Frontiersin.org Always surrounded by an aura of mystery, the moon and its possible influence over human behavior has been object of ancestral fascination and mythical speculation for centuries. While the full moon cannot turn people into werewolves, some people do accuse it of causing a bad night’s sleep or creating physical and mental alterations. But is there any science behind these myths? To establish if lunar phases somehow do affect humans, an international group of researchers studied children to see if their sleeping patterns changed or if there were any differences in their daily activities....

Researchers have developed a concept called Empowerment to help robots and humans to work and live side-by-side safely and effectively. — By Conn Hastings Scientists at the University of Hertfordshire in the UK have developed a concept called Empowerment to help robots to protect and serve humans, while keeping themselves safe. Scientists at the University of Hertfordshire in the UK have developed a concept called Empowerment to help robots to protect and serve humans, while keeping themselves safe....

We are delighted to announce that University of Duisburg-Essen (Universität Duisburg-Essen) has established an institutional membership agreement for open access publishing with Frontiers. The University Library of the University of Duisburg-Essen supports its researchers in making their research more widely available. As part of this support, the University of Duisburg-Essen has entered an institutional agreement with Frontiers. Under the terms of this agreement, eligible authors from the University of Duisburg-Essen may publish in any Frontiers journal at no cost to them and with a simplified process....

Analysis of the 2016 Journal Citation Reports shows Frontiers journals lead in citations in their fields and rank in the top Impact Factor percentiles. Frontiers journals lead in citations in their fields and rank in the top Impact Factor percentiles. 2018 Impact Factors coming soon! Twenty-four Frontiers journals covering more than 230 academic specialties are indexed in the 2016 edition of the Journal Citation Reports (JCR-2016, Clarivate Analytics 2017, formerly Thomson Reuters) with an Impact Factor (Table 1) — and our analysis shows that the quality, impact and influence of these journals are steadily growing....

Led by Prof. Corine de Ruiter of Maastricht University, the Forensic and Legal Psychology section provides a much-needed platform for interdisciplinary research between the two fields. Specialty Chief Editor Corine de Ruiter aims to bridge the gap between the fields of cognitive-legal and clinical-forensic psychology. Frontiers in Psychology announces the launch of a new section, Forensic and Legal Psychology, in collaboration with Professor Corine de Ruiter of Maastricht University as the Specialty Chief Editor....

A new way to deliver steroids to the inner ear reduces hearing loss caused by chemotherapy, finds a study in Frontiers in Cellular Neuroscience. Charity Action on Hearing Loss is supporting the biotechnology firm Otomagnetics, which today announces an important breakthrough towards preventing hearing loss caused by a widely used chemotherapy drug. Using a new technique to deliver steroids to the inner ear, developed with funding from Action on Hearing Loss, Otomagnetics have been able to reduce hearing loss in mice treated with the chemotherapy drug cisplatin by 50%....

By Angharad Brewer Gillham, Frontiers science writer Scientists find that short-chain fatty acids in blood can be used as biomarkers in testing for dangerous pregnancy complications such as pre-eclampsia, gestational diabetes and intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy. Scientists at Ningbo University, China have identified biomarkers that could provide an early warning system for three common and dangerous pregnancy complications: pre-eclampsia, gestational diabetes, and a liver condition called intrahepatic cholestasis. All three conditions are dangerous; early diagnosis and treatment is key to preventing poor outcomes and lifelong consequences....

Study finds no link between long-term playing of violent video games and changes in empathetic neural responses. — By Conn Hastings The link between playing violent video games and antisocial behavior, such as increased aggression and decreased empathy, is hotly debated. Researchers in Germany used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) on long-term players of violent video games and found that they had the same neural response to emotionally provocative images as non-gamers....

By Alice Rolandini Jensen, Frontiersin.org It’s a win-win situation for the environment and the economy when it comes to introducing legumes into agricultural systems, says new research published in Frontiers in Plant Science, carried out by an international team of scientists as part of the European Union project, Legume Futures. Currently Europe’s crop production is highly specialized in only a small number of plant species, to the detriment of the environment....