Frontiers (publisher)
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| Parent company | Holtzbrinck Publishing Group |
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| Founded | 2007 |
| Founder | Kamila Markram and Henry Markram |
| Country of origin | Switzerland |
| Headquarters location | Lausanne |
| Key people | Kamila Markram, CEO |
| Publication types | Open access scientific journals |
| Fiction genres | Medicine, life sciences, technology |
| No. of employees | 140 |
| Official website | www |
Frontiers Media SA is an academic publisher of peer-reviewed open access scientific journals currently active in science, technology, and medicine. It was founded in 2007 by a group of neuroscientists, including Henry and Kamila Markram, and later expanded to other academic fields. Frontiers is based in the EPFL Innovation Park of the Lausanne campus in Switzerland.
Frontiers Media has, controversially, been included in Jeffrey Beall's list of potential predatory open access publishers and has been accused of using email spam. The publisher has "a history of badly handled and controversial retractions and publishing decisions". Nevertheless, both COPE and OASPA have stated that they have no concerns with Frontiers' membership of their organizations.
The first journal published was Frontiers in Neuroscience, which opened for submission as a beta version in 2007, and for official submissions in January 2008. In 2010, Frontiers launched a series of another eleven journals in medicine and science.
In February 2012, the Frontiers Research Network was launched, a social networking platform for researchers, intended to disseminate the open access articles published in the Frontiers journals, and to provide related conferences, blogs, news, video lectures and job postings.
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