“Frontiers” cuts 70 jobs in Switzerland and 600 worldwide
Published: Wednesday, Jan 17th 2024, 19:20
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The scientific publisher "Frontiers", founded in 2007 at the ETH Lausanne, 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 was confirming a report in the daily newspaper "24 Heures". The exact number of redundancies will then be announced.
The reason for the job cuts was the shrinking market for scientific publications and a significant increase in fraudulent articles. This prompted "Frontiers" to develop a tool with artificial intelligence, and as a result more articles had to be rejected.
Due to declining revenues, the publisher is now forced to reorganize itself, the statement continued. "Frontiers", based in Lausanne, has been committed to free access to scientific publications since it was founded. The publishing house publishes 72 specialist journals and employs around 2000 people.
According to its own figures, the publisher is the sixth largest academic publisher and the third most cited. Its articles have been cited around 7.2 million times and downloaded 2.5 billion times, it said.
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