An exchange of signatures recently took place finalising the sale of EDP Sciences to Chinese Science Publishing & Media Ltd. (Science Press). This concludes the agreement reached earlier this year by EDP Sciences’ former co-owners, Société Française de Physique, Société Chimique de France, Société Française d’Optique and Société de Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles, to sell their interests in their publishing partner to Science Press, the flagship of China’s sci-tech publishing industry. Science Press is 74%-owned by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), the world’s largest research organisation and a prestigious learned society.
Science Press publishes books and journals in Science, Technology, Medicine and Education. Its contributors include a significant number of distinguished authors such as the Nobel Prize Laureate, Tu Youyou. Science Press sits at the forefront of the highest-quality Chinese research, spearheaded by CAS.
According to Nature Index, CAS has held the number one position in ‘Top ten institutions for physical sciences in 2018’ ahead of the Max Planck Society, CNRS and MIT for four years in a row. CAS also supported a series of breakthroughs in quantum communication and computing, new progress in the study of re-emerging superconductivity, major breakthroughs in stem cell research and the discovery of a key factor in regulating the development of brain intelligence.
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