IET announces increases in impact factors across journal portfolio for second consecutive year - July 3, 2018
Journals from the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) have achieved significant increases in their impact factor ratings for the second year in a row, with seven journals seeing a rise of over 30%. In addition, IET Control Theory & Applications and IET Renewable Power Generation… Read More
Frontiers in Physics launches new section on Soft Matter Physics - July 3, 2018
Frontiers in Physics has announced the launch of a new section, Soft Matter Physics, led by Professor Jasper Van Der Gucht of Wageningen University & Research. Soft Matter Physics deals with a wide range of physical systems such as polymers, gels and colloids. These systems… Read More
Holiday Notice - July 3, 2018
This is to inform our esteemed subscribers that there will be no newsletter dispatch on July 4, 2018 on account of US Independence Day. We will resume our newsletter service on Thursday, July 5, 2018. The newsletter will contain all the headlines that have appeared after the July 3rd issue. Read More
New Nature Index data shows surge in China’s publishing of high-quality research in the Earth and environmental sciences - July 2, 2018
New data from the Nature Index show a surge in China's publishing of high-quality research in the Earth and environmental sciences. The United States remains the leading nation in the field, but China's output is catching up, rising by 95% between 2012 and 2017 to take… Read More
Pistoia Alliance’s UDM team release first file format specification for chemical reaction information exchange - July 2, 2018
The Pistoia Alliance UDM project team - including members from BIOVIA, GSK, Novartis, and Roche - has announced the first release of the now-open Unified Data Model (UDM) file format specification which will facilitate the exchange of information about chemical reactions. The new update consists of… Read More
Society for Scholarly Publishing appoints Tom Ciavarella as Co-chair, Community Engagement Committee - July 2, 2018
The Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP) has appointed Tom Ciavarella, Manager of Publisher Relations at Clarivate Analytics, to the role of Co-chair to its Community Engagement Committee to support its goals of providing programming outside of the US. Founded in 1978,… Read More
