Publisher Frontiers cuts 70 jobs in Switzerland and 600 worldwide
The scientific publisher Frontiers, founded in 2007 at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL), has to cut 600 jobs in 23 countries. Around 70 jobs are affected in Switzerland.
A consultation process with staff is currently underway, a Frontiers spokeswoman told the Keystone-SDA news agency on Wednesday. She confirmed a report in the daily newspaper 24 Heures. The exact number of redundancies remain to be announced.
+Swiss scientists develop method to solder rather than stitch wounds
The reason for the job cuts is the shrinking market for scientific publications and a significant increase in fraudulent articles. This prompted Frontiers to develop a tool using artificial intelligence, and as a result more articles had to be rejected.
The publisher is now forced to reorganise itself due to falling revenues, it added. Frontiers, based in Lausanne, has been committed to free access to scientific publications since it was founded. Its portfolio consists of over 200 open access scientific journals and employs around 2,000 people.
+Zurich university spins off record 43 start-ups
According to its own information, the publishing house is the sixth largest academic publisher and the third most frequently cited. Its articles have been cited around 7.2 million times and downloaded 2.5 billion times to date.
This news story has been written and carefully fact-checked by an external editorial team. At SWI swissinfo.ch we select the most relevant news for an international audience and use automatic translation tools such as DeepL to translate it into English. Providing you with automatically translated news gives us the time to write more in-depth articles. You can find them here.
If you want to know more about how we work, have a look here, and if you have feedback on this news story please write to english@swissinfo.ch.
External Content
Your subscription could not be saved. Please try again.
Almost finished… We need to confirm your email address. To complete the subscription process, please click the link in the email we just sent you.
Correction: a previous version of this article stated that the publishing house publishes 72 scientific journals and employs around 2,000 people.
More
Why Switzerland is among the ten fastest-warming countries in the world
More
In Switzerland four out of ten people have a migrant background – who are they?
More
Mennonite movement turns 500 in Zurich, where it all began
More
Suicides in Switzerland quadruple among older people
More
French gangs target luxury cars in Switzerland
In compliance with the JTI standards
More: SWI swissinfo.ch certified by the Journalism Trust Initiative
You can find an overview of ongoing debates with our journalists here . Please join us!
If you want to start a conversation about a topic raised in this article or want to report factual errors, email us at english@swissinfo.ch.