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=263–283 |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 62 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>
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==List of journals==
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=263–283 |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 62 by 2017. The collection of all the journals in the series is sometimes considered a [[megajournal]], as is the [[BioMed Central]] series.<ref name="Spezi"/><ref>{{cite journal|last=Domnina |first=T. N. |title=A megajournal as a new type of scientific publication |journal=Scientific and Technical Information Processing |volume=43 |issue=4 |year=2016 |pages=241–250 |doi=10.3103/S0147688216040079}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Binfield |first=Peter |date=2013-12-17 |title=Opening Science |chapter=Novel scholarly journal concepts |pages=155–163 |doi=10.1007/978-3-319-00026-8_10 |publisher=[[Springer Science+Business Media]] |isbn=978-3-319-00025-1 |editor-first1=S. |editor-last1=Bartling |editor-first2=S. |editor-last2=Friesike}}</ref> Some journals, such as ''Frontiers in Human Neuroscience''<ref name="stm2015">{{cite web|first1=Mark |last1=Ware |first2=Michael |last2=Mabe |year=2015 |title=The STM Report: An overview of scientific and scholarly journal publishing |website=[[International Association of Scientific, Technical, and Medical Publishers]] |url=https://www.stm-assoc.org/2015_02_20_STM_Report_2015.pdf}}</ref> or ''Frontiers in Microbiology''<ref>{{cite journal|first1=Patrick D. |last1=Schloss |first2=Mark |last2=Johnston |first3=Arturo |last3=Casadevall |title=Support science by publishing in scientific society journals |journal=mBio |publisher=[[American Society for Microbiology]] |date=2017-09-26 |volume=8 |issue=5 |pages=e01633{{hyphen}}17 |doi=10.1128/mBio.01633-17|pmid=28951482 }}</ref> are considered megajournals on their own.
