The journal is abstracted and indexed in Current Contents/Social & Behavioral Sciences,[3] EBSCO databases, PsycINFO,[4] and Scopus.

[6] Since 2016, the journal has a score of 2 in the Norwegian Scientific Index,[7] which "covers the most prestigious and rigorous channels".

[12] DeSmogBlog said that the main legal concern was whether it was potentially defamatory for the paper to link climate change denialism to conspiracy theorists.

"[15] An Ars Technica article discussed the controversy, including "apparent contradictions" between Frontiers' March 2014 retraction and their April 2014 statement.

[16] Due in part to this incident, Frontiers Media was included in Jeffrey Beall's list of "potential, possible, or probable predatory publishers" before Beall decided to shut down his website,[2][17] though both the Committee on Publication Ethics and the Open Access Scholarly Publishing Association have stated that they have no concerns with Frontiers' membership of their organizations.