Frontiers for Young Minds

Frontiers for Young Minds is a non-profit initiative of Frontiers, the open-access publisher and research network. Frontiers for Young Minds is a scientific journal that includes young people (from 8 to 15) in the review of articles. This has the double benefit of bringing kids into the world of scientific research – many of them for the first time – and offering active scientists a platform for reaching out to the broadest of all publics.

All articles in Frontiers for Young Minds are reviewed and approved for publication by young people themselves. Established leading neuroscientists mentor these young Review Editors and help them review the manuscript and focus their queries to authors. To avoid overburdening the young reviewers, revised manuscripts are in turn reviewed by one of the stellar scientific Associate Editors of Frontiers for Young Minds.

**How does it work?**

- New research or review articles are reported on a subject area that fits into one of the categories mentioned above. This can be work published by Frontiers or any other publisher;
- The scientists write up their research for submission to the Journal, following our editorial guidelines as outlined below;
- The report is handled by one of our prestigious associate editors, who manages the process of peer review ;
- Your article is reviewed by a young mind, mentored by a scientist with experience in peer review.
- The young mind and mentor require that the authors write clearly, concisely and with enthusiasm!
- The articles are then validated by the Associate Editor, revised and forwarded to the Frontiers office for production;
- The text is typeset and published on kids.frontiersin.org.
- The identities of the reviewers (first name only for the young mind) and author are published with the article.

**How can you get involved?**

If you are interested in becoming a Frontiers Young Minds Reviewer, please contact our editorial office with a short biography and a letter. Is there someone among your family or friends who is a scientist and who can act as mentor for the project?

If you would like information about becoming a Young Minds mentor, please send your contact information and to our editorial office and we can explore these opportunities together.

If you are an author, send us an abstract with the reference to the original research article, or a short summary if you are planning to submit a review. In both cases, please indicate into which subject area above your contribution should be placed. You will then be contacted by an Associate Editor, who will be handling the review of your Young Minds paper.

In the second half of 2014, we will open our manuscript submission and review platform to handle Young Minds papers; in the interim, please submit your materials with a cover letter to [email protected]. Once approved, we will ask you submit a two to three page article appropriate for our community of Young Minds, including two or three figures, and a very short list of references (no more than 5). Please make a special effort for the figures — these will help get you message across to the readers of this site.

If you are a teacher, keep an eye on this website: PDF versions of all the articles will soon be available, along with an e-book of the first round of articles for use in the classroom.

Contact: [email protected]