Open-access publisher and research network Frontiers, part of Nature Publishing Group family, has announced the launch of two new community-driven journals - Frontiers in Medicine and Frontiers in Surgery. Both titles will keep in line with Frontiers' open-access philosophy and make the latest medical and surgical research accessible for free for the benefit of humankind.
The Frontiers Interactive Review enables a fair, fast, collaborative and transparent review that focuses exclusively on objective merits. Authors, reviewers and editors directly engage in a real-time review forum for a collaborative dialogue. Reviewer names are disclosed on accepted articles to enhance transparency and constructiveness. Medical and surgical communities can engage in post-publication review on all articles.
Articles can be used without restriction – under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license – to accelerate medical discoveries, surgical innovations and patient care.
Medical researchers will also be empowered to boost the reach and impact of their articles with innovations and new technologies around article- and author-level impact metrics, democratic evaluation, research networking, and a whole ecosystem of open-science tools.
Frontiers in Medicine welcomes outstanding contributions in any domain of medicine from basic research to clinical research, from prevention to treatment, and from imaging studies to novel treatment strategies. Authors will be able to contribute significantly, with the goal of understanding disease processes and improving medical practice and patient care. The journal will publish articles on the diagnosis, treatment or pathogenesis of disease, with the goal of understanding disease processes and improving medical practice and patient care. Sections open for submissions within Frontiers in Medicine currently include: Gastroenterology (Speciality Chief Editor: Arduino Mangoni); Dermatology (Speciality Chief Editor: Peter van de Kerkhof); Hematology (Speciality Chief Editor: Alvin H. Schmaier); Infectious Diseases (Speciality Chief Editor: Jos W.M. Van Der Meer); Occupational Health and Safety (Speciality Chief Editor: How-Ran Guo); Pathology (Speciality Chief Editors: Luigi M Terracciano); Pulmonary Medicine (Speciality Chief Editor: Laurent Pierre Nicod); and Rheumatology (Speciality Chief Editors: Anselm Mak).
Frontiers in Surgery will cover high-quality research on innovative surgical techniques, surgical oncology, reconstructive and plastic surgery and more. Sections open for submissions within Frontiers in Surgery currently include Gynecology (Speciality Chief Editor: Anis Feki); Orthopedic Surgery (Speciality Chief Editor: Peter Choong); Pediatric Surgery (Speciality Chief Editor: Paul Losty); Reconstructive and Plastic Surgery (Speciality Chief Editor: Iain Stuart Whitaker); Surgical Oncology (Speciality Chief Editorw: Umberto Veronesi and Paolo Pietro Bianchi); and Visceral Surgery (Speciality Chief Editors: Ferdinand Köckerling).
