Authorea acquires research publisher The Winnower - November 11, 2016
Authorea, the online collaborative platform for researchers, has acquired The Winnower, a pioneering research publisher that offers advanced publishing tools to individual authors. With the acquisition, Authorea seeks to enhance the foremost online platform for researchers to write, cite, collaborate, host data,… Read More
Nicola Wright elected as new Vice-Chair of RLUK - November 11, 2016
Research Libraries UK (RLUK) has announced that Nicola Wright has been elected as its new Vice-Chair. Nicola is Director of LSE Library and Librarian of the British Library of Political and Economic Science. Nicola joined LSE in 2008 from Imperial College London where she led the… Read More
Nature Communications to incorporate transparent peer review following a successful ten-month trial - November 10, 2016
Nature Communications is incorporating transparent peer review into the journal on a permanent basis, following a successful ten-month trial. In this scheme, authors are given the option to publish the peer review history of the paper alongside their published research. All papers submitted from January 2016 qualify for this scheme.… Read More
Chinese researchers responsible for ‘fake peer review’ scandals, says study - November 10, 2016
The BMJ-run Postgraduate Medical Journal published a study, according to which, efforts by China’s government and scientific bodies to root out academic misconduct and encourage publishing ethics may help to remedy the problem. The study, titled, Characteristics of retractions related to fake peer reviews, published in the September issue, further… Read More
EPJ-N accepted for indexing in Emerging Sources Citation Index - November 10, 2016
STM publisher EDP Sciences has announced that EPJ Nuclear Sciences and Technologies (EPJ-N) has been accepted for indexing in the Thomson Reuters Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI). This means that articles published in the journal will be searchable, discoverable and citable via Web of Science. … Read More
Stephen McLeod appointed Editor-in-Chief of Ophthalmology Journal - November 10, 2016
Dr. Stephen McLeod, the Theresa M. and Wayne M. Caygill, MD, Distinguished Professor and chair of the Department of Ophthalmology at UC San Francisco, has been appointed editor-in-chief of Ophthalmology, the official journal of the American Academy of Ophthalmology. He will assume the new role effective… Read More
