By Mark Staniland on 21 Dec 2017
This guest blog comes from Elizabeth Moylan, Senior Editor, Peer Review Strategy and Innovation BMC at Springer Nature, and Elisa de Ranieri, Head of Editorial Process and Data Analytics, Nature journals at Springer Nature. Read more
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged BMC, Gender, peer review, publishing
By Mark Staniland on 21 Dec 2017
This is a guest blog from Andrea Aguilar, Publishing Manager at Nature Research. Andrea spoke to delegates in November at SpotOn, an annual conference about science policy, outreach and tools online organised by BMC, Nature Research and Digital Science. Read more
Posted in Nature Masterclasses
By Mark Staniland on 12 Dec 2017
24 of 2017’s top papers in the Altmetric Top 100 were published in Nature Research journals: Nature, Nature Communications, Nature Neuroscience, Nature Climate Change, Nature Ecology & Evolution, Nature Geoscience, and Scientific Reports.(24/100 is in fact the same number as last year.) … Read more
Posted in Digital Science, Nature Research | Tagged Altmetric, digital science, research
By Mark Staniland on 08 Dec 2017
With a little twisting, the continents fit together like a jigsaw puzzle. Read more
Posted in Competitions, Nature Research | Tagged nature geoscience
By Mark Staniland on 02 Nov 2017
This is the third of three guest blogs we’re featuring from the chief editors of three newly-launched journals: Communications Biology, Communications Chemistry and Communications Physics. (Read the announcement from Nature Research here). Read more
Posted in Nature Research | Tagged Communications journals, Communications Physics
By Mark Staniland on 23 Oct 2017
This blog comes from Steven Inchcoombe, Chief Publishing Officer, Springer Nature … Read more
Posted in Open acess, Springer Nature | Tagged open access
By Mark Staniland on 19 Oct 2017
This guest blog comes from Nick Barber, Library Director, Southern Europe, Springer … Read more
Posted in Libraries, Nature Masterclasses
By Mark Staniland on 13 Oct 2017
Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of celebration that helps people learn about the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and maths, inspiring others and creating new role models. We asked editors at Nature Research to talk about female scientists who’ve made major contributions to their fields. Read more
Posted in Women in science | Tagged Ada Lovelace Day
By Mark Staniland on 12 Oct 2017
As part of Springer Nature plans to celebrate the theme of Peer Review Week 2017 “Transparency in peer review”, we organised an event for researchers to discuss what transparency in peer review means to them and ways this might be achieved. The event on September 15th was kindly hosted by University College London with over 70 researchers attending including students, post-docs and professors. Read more
Posted in Events | Tagged peer review, transparency, UCL
By Mark Staniland on 11 Oct 2017
Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of celebration that helps people learn about the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and maths, inspiring others and creating new role models. We asked editors at Nature Research to talk about female scientists who’ve made major contributions to their fields. Read more
Posted in Women in science | Tagged #Womeninscience, Ada Lovelace Day, editors