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==History==
The first journal published was ''Frontiers in Neuroscience'', which opened for submission as a [[beta release#Beta|beta version]] in 2007, and for official submissions in January 2008.<ref>{{cite web|title=About Frontiers: History|url=https://www.frontiersin.org/about/history|publisher=Frontiers Media|accessdate=14 March 2018}}</ref> In 2010, Frontiers launched a series of another eleven journals in [[medicine]] and [[science]], and the series kept expanding since. In February 2016, the series contained 54 journals,<ref name="Spezi">{{cite journal|last1=Spezi |first1=Valerie |first2=Simon |last2=Wakeling |first3=Stephen |last3=Pinfield |first4=Claire |last4=Creaser |first5=Jenny |last5=Fry |first6=Peter |last6=Willett| title=Open-access mega-journals: The future of scholarly communication or academic dumping ground? A review |journal=Journal of Documentation |volume=73 |issue=2 |pages=263&ndash;283 |doi=10.1108/JD-06-2016-0082 |quote=Series, such as the ''BMC Series'' ... or ''Frontiers in [...] Series'' ... might, taken as a whole, be viewed as a broad disciplinary scope journal. This is particularly the case when series titles seem to be marketed and managed as a coherent set rather than as separate titles.|year=2017 }}</ref> a number that grew to 6260 by 2017.
 
In 2015, Frontiers Media removed the entire [[editorial board]]s of ''Frontiers in Medicine'' and ''Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine'' after [[editor]]s complained that Frontiers Media staff were "interfering with editorial decisions and violating core principles of medical publishing".<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Enserink|first1=Martin|title=Open-access publisher sacks 31 editors amid fierce row over independence|journal=Science|date=20 May 2015|doi=10.1126/science.aac4629}}</ref>