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Frontiers, like other for-profit open access publishers, has struggled with a perception it has low editorial standards and weak peer review. But is that true? Brian Owens reports
In September 2023 Frontiers one of the world’s largest open access scientific publishers, with a stable of 230 journals covering just about every field of science retracted 38 papers.1 All had been linked to the “unethical practice of buying or selling authorship on research papers,” known as “authorship for sale,” in which authors, during the review process, sell coauthorship to people who have not contributed to the research.
In response to the scandal the company changed its policy on requests for changes to authorship after a paper has been accepted. The new policy states that requests for changes to the author list will be accepted only “under exceptional circumstances and after in-depth assessment by the Frontiers’ research integrity unit.” Frontiers also said it would maintain a recor