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
By Mark Staniland on 11 Oct 2016
Ada Lovelace Day aims to raise the profile of women in science, technology, engineering and maths by encouraging people around the world to talk about the women whose work they admire. We asked staff from across Nature Research who has inspired them. Read more
Posted in Featured, Nature Research | Tagged Ada Lovelace Day, Gender, Leaders, science communication, Women
By Mark Staniland on 11 Oct 2016
Ada Lovelace Day aims to raise the profile of women in science, technology, engineering and maths by encouraging people around the world to talk about the women whose work they admire. We asked staff from across Nature Research who has inspired them. Read more
Posted in Featured, Nature Research | Tagged Ada Lovelace Day, Gender, Leaders, science, Women
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
By Lillienne Zen on 19 Oct 2015
As the most common cancer in women worldwide and the second most common cancer overall, breast cancer remains a fact of life. Read more
Posted in Events, Featured, Science communication and outreach | Tagged BCRF, breast cancer, npj, open access
