Springer Nature and Clarivate share a commitment to building an inclusive research culture and championing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in the communities they serve, supporting Sustainable Development Goal 10 aimed at reducing inequalities.
The organizations have agreed on a process that will see the names of twenty-one journals in Springer Nature’s German-language medical portfolio change to become more clearly inclusive, while Clarivate will enable them to retain their indexing with no break in coverage and no disruption to their journal metrics in the Journal Citation Reports (JCR).
These changes are being made because the journals, part of the Springer Medizin imprint, had been named after the profession to which their content was targeted and in the German language the gender-neutral titles for professions are usually identical to the masculine form.
The new titles, coming into effect in June, will now focus on the specialist field it is publishing research in. For example, Der Internist will change to Die Innere Medizin (Internal Medicine) and Der Chirurg (The Surgeon) to Die Chirurgie (Surgery). The content concept, thematic focus, and viability of each title will remain unchanged.
Implementing these changes is just one part of the work Springer Nature is doing to support DEI in academic publishing, by working to eliminate barriers to creating, discovering, and using knowledge, and supporting more equitable outcomes.
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