Do tipsters know of any evaluations of the quality of publications in this
journal?
Is this one of those new journals that publishes anything submitted, within
reason, as long as the author pays the fees?
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Annette Kujawski Taylor, Ph.D.
Professor, Psychological Sciences
University of San Dieg
Sorry if this is a duplicate but the first one I sent is not showing in my
sent box :-(
Does anyone know about the quality of the publications in this journal?
I get monthly list of new articles sorted by subdisciplines but many of
the titles sound sort of iffy.
Is this a quality journal or is
Dear Annette,
Interesting question. At one point, I think that Jeffrey Beall (author of the
list of predatory publishers and journals) raised some red flags about
Frontiers, to which they protested vehemently.
I have downloaded quite a few papers and have found the quality to vary. There
are s
I, too, have read several papers from Frontiers and agree with Stuart's
assessment that the quality is quite variable across papers.
Additionally, I agree that the editing is also of variable quality. The
last paper I read had several misspellings.
Ken
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There is lots written about Frontiers online. A Google search of “Frontiers in
Psychology” will bring a lot of it up. Here is one from a couple of years ago
that I find particularly interesting.
http://deevybee.blogspot.ca/2015/06/my-collapse-of-confidence-in-frontiers.html
Best,
Chris
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Chris
Hi Annette, Frontiers in Psychology is part the Frontiers publishing group,
https://www.frontiersin.org/, which publishers journals and different fields.
As Stuart points out, Jeffrey Beall added the publisher to his list of
predatory publishers,
http://www.nature.com/news/backlash-after-fronti
