SciTech Forefront Information

Forefront is a publication on Medium where the science and technology policy community can express their ideas about how to enhance society - now and into the future. We accept all nature of publications that fit within the Medium framework including nonfiction such as policy analysis and explainers, opinion pieces, fiction, poetry, and artwork (including cartoons and infographics) that focus on these topics. We are willing to publish your radical ideas -- BUT they must be based on facts and analysis. In addition, we are interested in partnering with other organizations that would like to republish their work here on Medium. For example, if you’ve published a blog on your organization’s website, we’d like to republish it here -- providing a one-stop location for interesting perspectives on science and technology policy. To publish on Forefront, prepare your article for publication on Medium, describe your relationship to the science and technology policy community at the end of your article, disclose any conflicts of interest, and then pick the drop down option to propose it for publication on Forefront. Three people will then review your article to ensure that it does not include derogatory or inappropriate language and that it is based on scientific and technical information and analysis. Our goal is to make this publication as open as possible to new ideas, so this is not a traditional peer review, but rather just a check to make sure your proposed publication meets our core standards. All articles are subject to fact-checking for accuracy and minor editing that you can review and approve prior to publication.