Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG) has announced that Shanghai is now home to two NPG editors. This is the first time that the company has based full-time editors in mainland China. Dr. Ed Gerstner moved to Shanghai this month from NPG's London office to take up the role of Executive Editor, Nature Communications. He is joined by Assistant Editor Dr. Congcong Huang. Both are based at the growing office of Macmillan Publishers Limited located in downtown Shanghai.
Gerstner and Huang are part of a global team of editors for Nature Communications. The Shanghai team is expected to expand in the coming months. Gerstner joins Nature Communications following seven years as Senior Editor for Nature Physics, the leading primary research journal in the field. He has also served in editorial positions on Nature and Nature Materials. Huang joins Nature Communications following post-doctoral research into the structure of liquid water at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Stanford, California
Launched in April 2010, Nature Communications is a multidisciplinary online-only journal publishing high quality research across the biological, physical, chemical and earth sciences. Nature Communications has seen submissions increase rapidly as it builds its reputation. In 2012, the journal received its first Impact Factor of 7.396, placing it fourth among all multidisciplinary science primary research journals by Impact Factor, with Nature being first. The journal offers authors the option to make their published article open access.
