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The series and its publisher have often been criticized for [[predatory open access|predatory practices]],<ref>{{cite web|last=Schneider |first=Leonid |title=Is Frontiers a potential predatory publisher?|url=https://forbetterscience.com/2015/10/28/is-frontiers-a-potential-predatory-publisher/|website=For Better Science|date=28 October 2015|access-date=2017-03-14}}</ref> having appeared on [[Beall's list]] before it was taken down.<ref>{{cite web|last=Basken |first=Paul |title=Why Beall's List Died — and What It Left Unresolved About Open Access|url=https://www.chronicle.com/article/Why-Beall-s-List-Died-/241171|website=[[The Chronicle of Higher Education]]|date=12 September 2017|access-date=2017-03-14}}</ref> The inclusion of Frontiers journals on Beall's list was met with backlash amongst some researchers.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Bloudoff-Indelicato|first1=Mollie|title=Backlash after Frontiers journals added to list of questionable publishers|journal=Nature|date=23 October 2015|volume=526|issue=7575|pages=613–613|doi=10.1038/526613f}}</ref>

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>

==List of journals==