Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

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Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in Current Contents/Clinical Medicine, [1] Directory of Open Access Journals, [2] Embase, [3] Science Citation Index Expanded, [1] and Scopus. [4] According to the Journal Citation Reports , the journal had a 2022 impact factor of 3.6. [5]

Controversy

On 7 May 2015, Frontiers removed 31 editors across Frontiers in Medicine and Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, after a dispute with the editorial board. [6] The editors complained that the company was interfering in editing decisions and acting in a way that violated core principles for medical publishing in general.

In a document sent to management, [7] editors (including three editors-in-chief) cited multiple unethical issues with how Frontiers handled manuscripts, including that editors-in-chief are only notified of acceptances after an associate editor or guest editor has accepted a paper for publication. On the other hand, rejection of papers requires editor-in-chief approval. This, the editors allege, is a violation of the World Association of Medical Editors' guidelines. The editors also argued numerous other issues, such as the use of special issues (known as research topics) with no notice given to the editor-in-chief, violating editorial independence, and that the editors are often revoked from editing with no notice. This system, according the former editor-in-chief at these journals (Matthias Barton) maximizes profit over ethical publishing quality. In its 7 May 2015 announcement, [8] Frontiers responded publicly to all points of concern and reported the matter to the boards of the three institutions (at that time) publishing ethical guidelines: ICMJE, WAME and COPE. As of 2024 Frontiers remains in compliance with those groups’ guidelines and is a member of COPE. The current field chief editors (Aikawa and Stahel) have secured an experienced editorial board to help ensure the journal’s editorial processes to protect quality. [9]

In the same year, Frontiers Media was classified as a possible predatory publisher by Jeffrey Beall. [10] However, Beall's list was taken offline two years later [11] in a decision that remains controversial.

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  6. ↑ Enserink, Martin (20 May 2015). "Open-access publisher sacks 31 editors amid fierce row over independence". Science . doi:10.1126/science.aac4629.
  7. ↑ Frontiers Medical Editors (2015). "Manifesto of Editorial Independence of Editors of Frontiers Medical Journals". ResearchGate . doi:10.13140/RG.2.1.1744.0164.{{cite journal}}: |author1= has generic name (help)
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  9. ↑ "Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine | About". www.frontiersin.org.
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