Editorial

IOP Publishing (IOPP) and Baidu Scholar, a Chinese academic search engine, have formed a partnership to integrate IOPP’s academic resources onto the Baidu platform. The partnership makes it easier for researchers to find and access IOPP’s content via Baidu’s convenient and user-friendly platform. 

The work of researchers in Africa is experiencing increased international reach, supported by new open access (OA) partnerships between research libraries and publishers. Recent forums in South Africa have highlighted the importance of this cooperation for the continued growth and impact of Africa’s rich research output.

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Karger Publishers, a leading provider of scientific and medical content, has joined forces with Scite, an award-winning platform within the Research Solutions (NASDAQ: RSSS) product family, used by more than one million students and researchers to discover and better understand scientific literature.

As Peer Review Week kicks off, STM is excited to announce the launch of the Peer Review Terminology website—a new resource designed to bring greater clarity, consistency, and transparency to the peer review process. Created through a partnership between STM and NISO, this initiative reflects our shared mission to enhance scholarly communication and streamline research practices.  

Wiley, one of the world’s largest publishers and a global leader in research and learning, today announced plans to further expand the prestigious Advanced Portfolio, a series of highly-regarded journals in materials science, physics, and engineering communities, into new areas of study in the life and health sciences.

Building on the momentum of several years of working closely together to publish the multidisciplinary, open-access journal FACETS, Canadian Science Publishing (CSP) and the Royal Society of Canada (RSC) are expanding the scope of their collaboration by inviting multidisciplinary contributions germane to the social sciences, and through the establishment of a board of RSC peer reviewers.

In celebration of Peer Review Week, IOP Publishing (IOPP) is raising awareness of the importance of constructive, respectful peer review feedback and how innovations can help to create a positive peer review culture. The campaign shares examples of unhelpful reviews received by researchers early in their careers through a short video and highlights the emotional toll of such feedback.

Clarivate Plc , a leading global provider of transformative intelligence, today unveiled the Citation Laureates™ 2024 list – used to forecast future Nobel Prize recipients. These 22 exceptional scientists and economists spanning six countries have demonstrated such groundbreaking impact in their fields that their work is considered of Nobel stature.

IOP Publishing (IOPP) is launching Environmental Research: Watera new open access (OA) journal which offers an interdisciplinary forum for researchers working to achieve water sustainability globally. Environmental Research: Water is the ninth journal in IOPP’s expanding Environmental Research series, which is built on its renowned journal Environmental Research Letters.

The Public Library of Science (PLOS) and the Digital Transformations for Health Lab (DTH-Lab) today announced a strategic partnership between the organizations to increase youth participation in science to include mentorship opportunities, amplifying youth voices in scientific publishing and building a body of research in digital health citizenship with a mini-collection.