Frontiers reviewer told: don’t be strict, endorse paper, reports Giulia Liberati
Journal peer review is a mysterious black box all scientists fear. The task of the reviewers is to help authorsContinue Reading
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The laborious delivery of Markram’s brainchild
The European multimillion research project Human Brain Project is under fresh leadership, its visionary founder Henry Markram ousted from power.Continue Reading
Conspiracy Theory: Is NPG being assimilated by Frontiers???
The post below is a satiric parody, though the general facts and the document I publish are real and true.Continue Reading
Triplicated paper with multiplicated cells and images
There are papers which contain image duplications. There are papers which contain outrageous image duplications, which can only be explainedContinue Reading
Fear and Loathing at Frontiers
Many scientists have been receiving unsolicited emails from the Swiss publisher Frontiers, with invitations to submit papers or become peerContinue Reading
Frontiers’ Bread Madness
Frontiers published a paper titled: “Bread and Other Edible Agents of Mental Disease”. It is authored by two psychologists who declare that bread “can threaten our mental wellbeing”
April Fools: Elsevier pledges integrity, sacks Marcus, Horton
On March 22nd, Tom Reller, Head of Global Corporate Relations for the publishing giant Elsevier, declared the often criticised andContinue Reading
Nonsense paper at Frontiers retracted
Frontiers now retracts the paper by the retired surgeon Ivo P. Janecka “Sensing risk, fearing uncertainty: systems science approach toContinue Reading
OA publishers Hindawi vs. Frontiers: similar, yet different
In this article, I will compare editorial policies of two for-profit open access (OA) publishers, Frontiers and Hindawi. Though bothContinue Reading
Frontiers Christmas Carol
The Swiss academic publisher Frontiers, owned by the EPFL professor Henry Markram and his wife Kamila (plus some investors, includingContinue Reading
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