Frontiers
Academic publisher for science, tech & medicine
- 1001+ employees
- Healthcare
- B2C
- B2B
- Publishing
- Science
- Lausanne, VD
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Company mission
To make science open – so that scientists can collaborate better and innovate faster to deliver the solutions that enable healthy lives on a healthy planet.
38% employee growth in 12 months
Our take
Frontiers Media is a publishing company that is home to nearly 180 peer-reviewed journals in the fields of science, medicine, and technology. This voluminous reach has made it the 3rd most-cited and 9th largest research publisher, and helped it generate substantial revenue.
Because it’s an open-access (OA) publisher, Frontiers charges publishing fees to authors. These can run upwards of $3,000, which in combination with the sheer volume of content makes for a hefty income stream. It is, however, reportedly the company’s only income stream, which could spell trouble for a business designed to put out only high-quality research.
Frontiers Media has in fact already had various run-ins with the academic establishment for its supposedly fairly permissive reviews process. Reports suggest papers are widely solicited and difficult for reviewers to actually reject, leading the company to be included on an influential list of potentially predatory OA publications.
It’s a reputation that Frontiers Media has struggled to shake off in some fields, but successfully overridden in others as it expands outwards into new sub-sectors. Journal multiplication has been an astute business strategy, and will certainly help it cement its leading position going forward.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Benefits
- Remote working available on a part- or full-time basis (not applicable to some Workplace/IT jobs due to nature of role)
- Free online yoga classes, an employee assistance plan, access to the Headspace app, and four wellbeing days on top of your annual leave allowance
- Access to LinkedIn Learning (and Pluralsight for our technology team), an annual personal learning budget, and dedicated L&D time
- Volunteering opportunities (employees can dedicate three days each year to volunteer for a personal cause or through our volunteering partner platform, Alaya)
Leadership
Kamila Markram
(CEO)Completed her PhD at the École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne, and has also spent over 15 years as the Autism Project Director at the Brain Mind Institute.