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By Lillienne Zen on 28 Oct 2016
The STEM Summit 4.0 – The Power of Data was held by Scientific American and Macmillan Learning at the New York Academy of Sciences on October 14, 2016. Hosted by Susan Winslow, Managing Director, Macmillan Learning, and Mariette DiChristina, Editor in Chief, Scientific American, the summit aimed to further collaboration between educators, entrepreneurs and public policy leaders, and to highlight how data can impact and transform the way that people teach and learn. Read more
Posted in Events, Scientific American
By Lillienne Zen on 21 Oct 2016
Joshua Chu-Tan is a second-year PhD student in the Provis Group at the John Curtin School of Medical Research at the Australian National University (ANU). Read more
Posted in Featured, Science communication and outreach, Springer Nature, Video and podcasts | Tagged 3MT, Three Minute Thesis
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By Lillienne Zen on 03 Oct 2016
World-changing ideas may just come from our youngest scientists. This year’s winners of the annual Google Science Fair—including the winners of the Scientific American Innovators Award—were announced this week at Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. The event is the largest online science fair in the world, and since its inception in 2011 more than 30,000 teenagers have submitted projects in almost every country. Read more
Posted in Events, Science festivals, Video and podcasts | Tagged google science fair, scientific american
By Lillienne Zen on 22 Sep 2016
The week from 19 to 25 September 2016 marks the second round of Peer Review Week with the theme of “Recognition for Review”. The topic is obviously close to our hearts at Nature Research: after all, peer review is much of what we do. Read more
Posted in Nature Research | Tagged peer review, Peer Review Week 2016, Recognition for Review
By Lillienne Zen on 19 Sep 2016
Peer review is at the heart of the research process. Academics generously dedicate hours of their week, to examine each other’s work, offer much-valued constructive criticism and improve the published science (or maths, or social science, etc.). Reviews take time, but peer review is mostly anonymous, meaning it is difficult for reviewers’ colleagues, publishers, institutions or funders to recognise it properly. Read more
Posted in Featured, Springer Nature | Tagged peer review, Peer Review Week
By Lillienne Zen on 25 Jul 2016
We have recently updated the journal metrics page for Nature Research to include an array of additional bibliometric data (www.nature.com/npg_/company_info/journal_metrics.html). In addition to the traditional 2-year impact factor, we are now providing the 5-year impact factor, the immediacy index, the Eigenfactor score and the Article Influence Score. Whilst it is a measure that reflects a journal’s citations, the 2-year impact factor as an arithmetic mean of the citations per article can be disproportionately skewed by a minority of highly cited outliers. Read more
Posted in Featured, Nature Research
By Lillienne Zen on 05 Jul 2016
This blog was written by Iain Hrynaszkiewicz, Head of Data Publishing at Springer Nature, in support of the newly launched, company-wide Springer Nature Research Data Policies. Read more
Posted in Data policy, Featured, Science communication and outreach |
By Lillienne Zen on 14 Apr 2016
If you’re a researcher or work in a research organization, the chances are that over the past couple of years you’ve started to hear about ORCID. Maybe you’re one of the over 2 million people who have already signed up for an ORCID iD, or you know colleagues who have. Read more
Posted in Featured, Science communication and outreach
By Lillienne Zen on 22 Oct 2015
In partnership with Nature Publishing Group, the Queensland Brain Institute is launching an open access journal dedicated to the science of learning – npj Science of Learning. We want to create a forum through which neuroscientists, psychologists and educators interact to produce a deeper understanding of how we learn. Just as important as this interdisciplinary approach is the open access model we are adopting. Education affects us all, and we want the findings, discussions and debates within the journal to be accessible to everybody, academic or not. Read more
Posted in Featured, Science communication and outreach | Tagged npj, open access, Queensland Brain Institute, Science of Learning
