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title: What an AI agent reads on Frontiers · The Direct Index
url: https://directindex.org/r/frontiersin.org/agent-view?format=md
---

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# What an AI agent reads on Frontiers

An assistant's crawler fetches the page once, without running JavaScript, and reads the text, the structured data and the links. Below is what it gets from [frontiersin.org](http://www.frontiersin.org/), taken from the copy the scanner kept.

5,671

characters of text without JavaScript

none

structured data for the business

2

of 3 AI crawlers turned away at the edge (ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot)

 Text

## The words an agent gets

Title: Frontiers | Publisher of peer-reviewed articles in open access journals · language en. First 1,800 of 5,671 characters:

```
Frontiers | Publisher of peer-reviewed articles in open access journals Skip to main content About us About us Who we are Mission and valuesHistoryLeadershipAwardsImpact and progress Frontiers' impactOur annual reportsThought leadershipResearcher perspectivesPublishing model How we publishOpen accessQuality and research integrityPeer reviewTechnology and platformsResearch TopicsPublish your data with FAIR²Fee policyServices SocietiesNational consortiaInstitutional partnershipsCollaboration and indexationMore from Frontiers Frontiers ForumFrontiers Planet PrizePress officeSustainabilityCareer opportunitiesContact us All journalsAll articles Submit manuscript Search About us About us Who we are Mission and valuesHistoryLeadershipAwardsImpact and progress Frontiers' impactOur annual reportsThought leadershipResearcher perspectivesPublishing model How we publishOpen accessQuality and research integrityPeer reviewTechnology and platformsResearch TopicsPublish your data with FAIR²Fee policyServices SocietiesNational consortiaInstitutional partnershipsCollaboration and indexationMore from Frontiers Frontiers ForumFrontiers Planet PrizePress officeSustainabilityCareer opportunitiesContact us All journalsAll articles Submit manuscript Where scientists empower society Creating solutions for healthy lives on a healthy planet 3.9 million researchers 16 million citations 5.3 billion article views and downloads Authors Authors Editors and reviewers Collaborators Authors No matches to your query could be found. Try another search term. AuthorsEditors and reviewersCollaborators Find a journal We have a home for your research. Our community journals and sections cover more than 1,700 academic disciplines. Find a topic Research Topics bring together expert researchers to work on emerging
```

 Facts

## What it can say about the business

| A business type in JSON-LD | no |
| Name | no |
| Telephone | no |
| Address | no |
| Opening hours | no |
| Menu or price list | nothing |
| Cuisine in structured data | no |
| JSON-LD blocks | 1 (ImageObject, NewsMediaOrganization, SearchAction, WebSite) |

 Actions

## The links it would act on

No booking or ordering link found. An agent has nothing to act on.

Everything here comes from fetching the homepage once as a crawler. The [report](https://directindex.org/r/frontiersin.org) turns it into a score and a list of fixes, with code to paste.

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Business listings come from OpenStreetMap contributors, under the ODbL. Scores are published under the same licence.

```json
{"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://directindex.org/#org","name":"The Direct Index","url":"https://directindex.org/","logo":"https://directindex.org/favicon.svg","email":"hello@directindex.org","founder":{"@type":"Person","@id":"https://directindex.org/#antonio","name":"Antonio Curado","sameAs":["https://x.com/ab_curado"]},"description":"Independent measurement of whether AI agents can find, read and act on a business's own website."},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://directindex.org/#site","url":"https://directindex.org/","name":"The Direct Index","publisher":{"@id":"https://directindex.org/#org"},"inLanguage":"en","potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://directindex.org/scan?url={url}"},"query-input":"required name=url"}},{"@type":"WebAPI","name":"The Direct Index API","url":"https://directindex.org/openapi.json","documentation":"https://directindex.org/llms-full.txt","provider":{"@id":"https://directindex.org/#org"}}]}
```