Frontiers in Global Women's Health - Bias and Credibility

PRO-SCIENCE

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Overall, we rate Frontiers in Global Women’s Health 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 Kingdom
MBFC’s Country Freedom Rating: MOSTLY FREE
Media Type: Journal
Traffic/Popularity: Minimal Traffic
MBFC Credibility Rating: HIGH CREDIBILITY

History

Frontiers in Global Women’s Health is a peer-reviewed open-access journal that covers Women’s Health. According to its About page, “Frontiers in Global Women’s Health incorporates research from all disciplines related to the health problems facing women around the world, especially those living in low to middle income countries.”

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Funded by / Ownership

Frontiers in Global Women’s Health 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 Global Women’s Health is an open-access journal that publishes information and research related to Women’s Health. The journal primarily publishes research like this: Risk of self-harm ideation in mothers of children with orofacial cleft defects: the Japan environment and children’s study.

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 Global Women’s Health 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 Global Women’s Health 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 09/17/2024)

Source: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/global-womens-health

Last Updated on September 17, 2024 by Media Bias Fact Check