PRO-SCIENCE
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- Overall, we rate Frontiers in Disaster and Emergency Medicine 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: United States
MBFC’s Country Freedom Rating: MOSTLY FREE
Media Type: Journal
Traffic/Popularity: Minimal Traffic
MBFC Credibility Rating: HIGH CREDIBILITY
History
Frontiers in Disaster and Emergency Medicine is a peer-reviewed open-access journal that covers Emergency Health. According to its About page, “The Frontiers in Disaster and Emergency Medicine journal publishes high-quality basic, translational, clinical and population-based research across the field of disaster and emergency medicine.”
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Funded by / Ownership
Frontiers in Disaster and Emergency Medicine 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 Disaster and Emergency Medicine is an open-access journal that publishes information and research related to Digital Health. The journal primarily publishes research like this: Trend and Fatality of Road traffic injury and Associated Factors of patients Admitted to Emergency Departments of St. Luke Hospital, South West Shewa Zone, Ethiopia.
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 Disaster and Emergency Medicine is a credible scientific journal, as we have not found any controversy or significant retractions. However, 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 Disaster and Emergency Medicine 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 01/08/2024)
Source: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/disaster-and-emergency-medicine
Last Updated on January 8, 2024 by Media Bias Fact Check
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