The Frontiers philosophy is that all knowledge produced by research is for the global benefit of mankind. Such knowledge is enabled by societies, and the fruits must be returned to all without borders or discrimination. For no cost, every researcher could benefit societies in any part of the world just by making the research results freely accessible. Therefore, Frontiers provides open and free access to scholarly research across all fields.

Democratic Evaluation

Who decides what excellent research is? Who determines which research is relevant to society? Frontiers puts the question of academic excellence into the hands of the entire scientific community, and social relevance into the hands of all, including the general public. With Internet-operating automated algorithms, the academic excellence of the research is distilled using the reading activity of, and impact on the scientific communities. The social relevance of research is distilled from the reading activity of, and impact on the general public. Frontiers promotes a genuinely democratic and global evaluation of research by letting the researchers and the public all decide which research will go on to shape our future.

Knowledge Distillation in a Tiered Publishing System

Frontiers is the first and only tier journal system that is capable of automatically distilling the essence from large volumes of original scholarly discoveries. Based on the democratic evaluation procedure, the best research discoveries are driven up the publication tiers, where they gain increasing visibility and are progressively “translated” into a comprehensible language that eventually is understandable by the general public.

Integrating and Profiling Research Communities

Frontiers provides an advanced Internet platform for scholars and the public to easily access research content at different levels of complexity and specialization. Researchers can build their academic profiles and network easily with peers. The public can follow research initiatives in real-time as they develop, identify and enter into dialog with the relevant key players in academia. Communication channels amongst researchers and with the public are greatly facilitated.

Facilitating Research

Frontiers aims to enable research in all countries and currently builds editorials boards across all nations, and subsidizes research publications from developing countries. In the future, Frontiers will promote research in developing countries by awarding research grants, facilitating research collaborations and supporting research.