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Frontiers in Human Neuroscience has an Impact Factor of 3.634 and is the #1 most-cited journal in psychology. Coming soon: 2017 analysis based on the most recent Journal Citation Reports by Clarivate Analytics (formerly published by Thomson Reuters). 11.Jul.2016: Frontiers in Human Neuroscience has an Impact Factor of 3.634. Since its launch in 2008, it has become the #1 most cited journal in Psychology, the #1 most cited open-access journal in Neuroscience and the 5th most cited journal in all of Neuroscience....

By K.E.D. Coan, Frontiers science writer Hundreds of iconic moai statues stand testament to the vibrant civilization that once inhabited Easter Island, but there are far fewer clues about why this civilization mysteriously vanished. Did they shortsightedly exhaust the island’s resources? Were they decimated by European illnesses and slave trade? Or did stow-away rats devastate the native ecosystem? Such theories have spread widely, but recent evidence shows that the truth is not as simple as any one of these alone....

New research in Frontiers in Neuroscience suggests that cycling while studying may improve sleep quality. Students who cycled while studying had more stable sleep quality than those who did not exercise while studying, without sacrificing academic performance. — By Conn Hastings Researchers at Clemson University, South Carolina, have found that students who pedaled a stationary bike while studying had more consistent sleep quality and similar academic performance compared with students who studied at a traditional desk....

An update on Frontiers’ coronavirus response as well as our strategy and new developments. Being pulled apart brought us closer together Kamila Markram, Co-founder and CEO COVID-19 has posed an unprecedented and ever-changing challenge to the international scientific community. We all felt the importance of pulling together to pursue our mission of making science open – particularly during these exceptional times. Open Science plays a critical role in mitigating the pandemic emergency – it has never been more important to share research results and data quickly and openly – to combat COVID-19 and save lives....

Our state-of the-art Open Science Platform is a key strategy to review, publish, evaluate and disseminate research efficiently and at high quality. Frontiers’ mission is to make quality content across all areas of research openly available to all. Born digital nearly 10 years ago, a key strategy to review, publish, evaluate and disseminate research efficiently and at high quality is our state-of the-art Open Science Platform. By investing in talented IT teams — nearly half of our 370 staff are IT experts and engineers — and driving technological innovation in-house, we have released a series of innovative digital services that are impacting the way scholarly publishing is evolving....

Frontiers in Plant Science is pleased to announce a new Research Topic entitled “Advances in microalgae biology and sustainable applications”. 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)...

Building metamemorial knowledge over time: insights from eye tracking about the bases of feeling-of-knowing and confidence judgments Elizabeth F. Chua* and Lisa A. Solinger Infant manual performance during reaching and grasping for objects moving in depth Erik Domellöf*, Marianne Barbu-Roth, Louise Rönnqvist, Anne-Yvonne Jacquet and Jacqueline Fagard Examining age-related shared variance between face cognition, vision, and self-reported physical health: a test of the common cause hypothesis for social cognition Sally Olderbak*, Andrea Hildebrandt and Oliver Wilhelm...

Gianluca Castelnuovo leads new specialty on Psychology for Clinical Settings in Frontiers in Psychology Specialty Chief Editor, Professor Gianluca Castelnuovo from the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart (Milan, Italy) now leads the new Psychology for Clinical Settings specialty in Frontiers in Psychology. Research shows what works and what doesn’t Research in how clinical procedures for reducing, managing and treating psychologically-based distress provides the evidence of which measures work and what can be improved....

The journal, currently published by Springer Nature, will transfer to Frontiers in January 2021. Frontiers is thrilled to announce that the journal Pathology & Oncology Research (Impact Factor 2.433), currently published by Springer Nature, will be transferring to Frontiers as of January 2021. The journal will also be transitioning from a Subscription, Hybrid model to Gold Open Access. The Arányi Lajos Foundation founded the journal in 1995, alongside the founding editors László Kopper, Judit Nagy, Zsolt Orosz and József Tímár....

Santa Clara University has formed an institutional membership agreement for open access publishing with Frontiers. This institutional agreement means that eligible Santa Clara University researchers may publish in any Frontiers journal at no cost to them and with a simplified process. Articles may benefit from a 5% membership discount. The Santa Clara University Office of the Provost supports its researchers in making their research more widely available. This agreement will further encourage Santa Clara University researchers to publish open access, increasing the volume of research openly available....

Exposure to influential bacteria begins before we are born, new evidence confirms; Frontiers in Microbiology Exposure to influential bacteria begins before we are born, new evidence confirms — by Matthew Prior, Frontiers science writer Australian researchers have laid to rest a longstanding controversy: is the womb sterile? They carefully collected amniotic fluid samples from 50 healthy women undergoing planned caesarean deliveries, and found that nearly all (36/43 viable samples) contained bacterial DNA....

Researchers urge policy-makers not to settle for traditional approaches and point to high potential economic losses. Researchers urge policy-makers not to settle for traditional approaches and point to high potential economic losses. — Tanya Petersen A new study that assesses potential future climate damage to major European coastal cities has found that, if, as currently, global carbon emissions continue to track the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s worst emission scenario (RCP8....

Stress – we’re all too familiar with it. More of us than ever are feeling the relentless pressure of busy lives and it is taking its toll. In the US, stress related ailments cost the nation $300 billion every year in medical bills and lost productivity. But it seems some people are able to cope with this problem much better than others. Some individuals are resilient, while others succumb to despair....

Study shows how the effects of horseback riding improve learning in children. Study shows how the effects of horseback riding improve learning in children. — By Freya Wilson Recent research published in Frontiers in Public Health shows that the effects of vibrations produced by horses during horse-riding lead to the activation of the sympathetic nervous system, which improves learning in children. “We wanted to look into these effects because previous studies have demonstrated the benefits of horseback riding with respect to enhancing physical health and the mental effects, but few studies have addressed the effects of horseback riding on children and the mechanisms underlying how riding affects humans” says Mitsuaki Ohta, professor of Tokyo University of Agriculture....

New research published in Frontiers in Psychology takes a closer look at how music influences the mood in people suffering from depression. — By Anna Sigurdsson Listening to music together with others has many social benefits, including creating and strengthening interpersonal bonds. It has previously been shown that enjoying music in a group setting has an impact on social relationships, and that synchronizing with other group members to a beat influences how people behave to individuals both within and outside of the group....

Hormone analysis provides a new way to understand the effects of fishing gear entanglement on endangered whale species: Frontiers in Marine Science A new technique for analyzing hormone profiles shows that entanglement affects normal body functioning in baleen whale species — By Freya Wilson A novel hormone analysis provides a viable way of measuring the duration and effects of fishing gear entanglement on endangered North Atlantic right whales. This forensic technique for analyzing stress responses can also provide information on fasting periods and physical stress in whales....

Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Modulates Neuronal Activity and Learning in Pilot Training Jaehoon Choe, Brian A. Coffman, Dylan T. Bergstedt, Matthias D. Ziegler and Matthew E. Phillips* Whole-Brain Mapping of Neuronal Activity in the Learned Helplessness Model of Depression Yongsoo Kim, Zinaida Perova, Martine M. Mirrione, Kith Pradhan, Fritz A. Henn, Stephen Shea, Pavel Osten and Bo Li* The Effects of Tai Chi Practice on Intermuscular Beta Coherence and the Rubber Hand Illusion Catherine E....

Supramolecular structure boosts efficiency of light harvesting for solar cells By Mischa Dijkstra, Frontiers science writer Researchers from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology show that DNA can serve as a scaffold for light-harvesting supramolecules, where fluorescent dyes work as electron donors and buckyballs as electron acceptors. The DNA’s regular 3D structure increases the light-to-electrons conversion efficiency by reducing so-called self-quenching. Such DNA-based supramolecules could be used in future organic solar cells....

The first analysis of plastic from the lake’s beaches finds cadmium, mercury and lead, sometimes at levels exceeding those permitted under EU law: Frontiers in Environmental Science A survey of one of Europe’s largest lakes finds a wide range of plastic pollution — some of which could be decades old — By Tania Fitzgeorge-Balfour, science writer The first-ever chemical analysis of plastic collected from beaches around Lake Geneva detected cadmium, mercury and lead — sometimes in very high concentrations that exceed the maximum permitted under EU law....

New brain-like networks could help robots approach human-like efficiency at object recognition tasks; Frontiers in Neuroscience New brain-like networks could help robots approach human-like efficiency at object recognition tasks — by Purdue University Computers and artificial intelligence continue to usher in major changes in the way people shop. It is relatively easy to train a robot’s brain to create a shopping list, but what about ensuring that the robotic shopper can easily tell the difference between the thousands of products in the store?...