PRO-SCIENCE
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- Overall, we rate Frontiers in Carbon as a Pro-Science journal based on peer review and a clean fact-check record. We also rate them Mostly Factual due to Frontier Media’s retractions of studies either pre or post-publication.
Detailed Report
Bias Rating: PRO-SCIENCE
Factual Reporting: MOSTLY FACTUAL
Country: Switzerland
MBFC’s Country Freedom Rating: EXCELLENT
Media Type: Journal
Traffic/Popularity: Minimal Traffic
MBFC Credibility Rating: HIGH CREDIBILITY
History
Frontiers in Carbon is a peer-reviewed open-access journal that covers the field of Carbon-based materials. According to its about page, “Frontiers in Carbon is an open access journal that aims to report cutting-edge multidisciplinary research on carbon-based materials spanning all fields from fundamental physico-chemical properties to applications in different technologies, including electronics, catalysis and biotechnology, among others.”
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Funded by / Ownership
Frontiers in Carbon is owned by Frontiers Media SA, which is a for-profit corporation. Funding comes from digital sales of content and author fees for publication.
Analysis / Bias
Frontiers in Carbon is an open-access journal that publishes information and research related to Carbon Materials. The journal primarily publishes research like this Counter charge cluster formation in molecular doping of molybdenum disulfide.
Frontiers Media has been criticized for being a predatory open-access publisher. In short, Predatory Open Access publishing is an exploitative open-access publishing business model that involves charging publication fees to authors without providing the editorial and publishing services associated with legitimate journals.
However, Frontiers in Carbon is a credible scientific journal, as we have not found any controversy or significant retractions. Although, Frontiers Media has retracted some studies in other publications that were found to be of poor methodology and not thoroughly peer-reviewed.
Failed Fact Checks
- None in the Last 5 years
Overall, we rate Frontiers in Carbon as a Pro-Science journal based on peer review and a clean fact-check record. We also rate them Mostly Factual due to Frontier Media’s retractions of studies either pre or post-publication. (D. Van Zandt 05/12/2023)
Source: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/carbon/
Last Updated on May 14, 2023 by Media Bias Fact Check
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