ChemComm to offer option for double-blind peer review - August 24, 2018
The Royal Society of Chemistry has announced that its journal ChemComm will continue offering authors the option for double-blind peer review, after a trial over the past 12 months. ChemComm publishes 100 issues per year, and is known for being the fastest publisher of articles… Read More
IOP Publishing awards top cited Chinese authors - August 24, 2018
IOP Publishing has recognised top cited authors from China with a new award. The award is for corresponding authors from China, for work published across the whole IOP Publishing journal portfolio in the past three years (2015-2017). The winners are authors of the top… Read More
Springer Nature extends support for ORCID, more authors to receive proper credit for their work - August 23, 2018
Following a successful trial in 2017 across 46 Springer Nature journals (including 14 Nature-branded journals, 10 BMC journals and 22 Springer journals), which saw the use of ORCID identifiers mandated for corresponding authors of primary research manuscripts, Springer Nature continues to avidly support the take up… Read More
AGU unveils new journal for the Earth and Space Science community - August 23, 2018
AGU, a not-for-profit, professional, scientific organisation, has added a new title to its distinguished portfolio of journals, AGU Advances. Published in partnership with Wiley, AGU Advances will be a Gold open-access journal. It will differentiate itself from other journals by being highly selective and will… Read More
David Andrews of University of East Anglia elected to SPIE presidential chain - August 23, 2018
SPIE Fellow David L. Andrews, Professor at the University of East Anglia, United Kingdom, has been elected to serve as the 2019 Vice President of SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics. With his election, Andrews joins the SPIE presidential chain and will serve as… Read More
Advances in Polymer Technology joins Wiley-Hindawi partnership - August 23, 2018
Hindawi has announced that Advances in Polymer Technology has become the tenth journal to join the Wiley-Hindawi partnership. Through the partnership, all submissions will continue to undergo robust peer review - now handled via Hindawi's Manuscript Tracking System - and all accepted papers will be published… Read More
