Open-access publisher and research network Frontiers, part of Nature Publishing Group family, has announced the launch of a new open-access journal - Frontiers in Materials.
Frontiers in Materials is the latest addition to the "Frontiers in" journal series and will cover a broad spectrum of basic and interdisciplinary research in nanotechnology, polymer research, biomaterials and translational material science and more. The journal will make use of the unique Frontiers platform for open-access publishing and research networking, which provides an equal opportunity to seek, share and create knowledge.
The mission of Frontiers is to place publishing back in the hands of working researchers and to promote an interactive, fair, and efficient review process of a range of article types. Articles are rigorously reviewed based on objective criteria in an average time of 84 days, published under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license, and are freely available to an international audience.
The current specialty sections open for submissions to Frontiers in Materials include: Biomaterials (Specialty Chief Editor: Giuseppe Battaglia); Colloidal Materials and Interfaces (Specialty Chief Editor: Jie-Sheng Chen); Corrosion Research (Specialty Chief Editor: Guang-Ling Song); Nanobiotechnology (Specialty Chief Editor: Alberto Diasporo); Optics and Materials (Specialty Chief Editors: Lorenzo Pavesi and Nicholas Fang); Polymer Chemistry (Specialty Chief Editor: Pellegrini Musto); Thin Solid Films (Specialty Chief Editor: Hyung-Ho Park); Translational Materials Science (Specialty Chief Editor: Oliver Hayden); AND Marine Systematics and Taxonomy (Specialty Chief Editor: Greg Rouse).
Impact Article level metrics and post-publication review will be available on all articles, and the Frontiers Tiering System will showcase high impact research for a broader audience.
