Editorial

IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional organization advancing technology for humanity, announced today that its journals once again excelled in the journal citation rankings according to the latest Journal Citation Reports™ from Clarivate Analytics and CiteScore™ metrics by Scopus, both released in June 2024.

Clarivate Plc (NYSE:CLVT), a leading global provider of transformative intelligence, today released its annual G20 scorecard, compiled by expert analysts and data scientists at the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI)™. The annual G20 research and innovation scorecard examines the research and innovation capabilities of each G20 member through dynamic, interactive data visualizations.

The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) today announced the publication of the Communication of Retractions, Removals, and Expressions of Concern (CREC) Recommended Practice (NISO RP-45-2024). Funding for the CREC Working Group as well as for research at the University of Illinois' Reducing the Inadvertent Spread of Retracted Science (RISRS) project, which aided Working Group deliberations and decisions, was generously provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

ResearchGate, the professional network for researchers, and CABI, an international, intergovernmental, not-for-profit scientific research and publishing organisation, today announced a new partnership that will increase the visibility of CABI’s research journals through ResearchGate’s innovative Journal Home offering.

Clarivate Plc, a leading global provider of transformative intelligence, today released the 2024 update to the Journal Citation Reports™ (JCR™). The reports provide an essential and comprehensive resource of high-quality journals, ranked by field to enable academic institutions, researchers and publishers to gauge the significance of journals in the global research landscape.

MDPI, the leading open access (OA) publisher, proudly announces the release of its 2023 Annual Report, detailing remarkable achievements and reaffirming its leadership in advancing OA publishing. In 2023, MDPI received 655,065 submissions, of which 285,244 articles were published. The company now commands a 17% market share in gold open access articles, with a median publication time of six weeks.

New England Journal of Medicine publisher’s newest title is dedicated to responsible AI in healthcare, available to institutions globally via Wolters Kluwer’s Ovid research...

The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) announced today that its draft revision of the Journal Article Version (JAV) Recommended Practice is open for public comment through July 7, 2024, at the project web page.

Routledge and The University of Hong Kong’s Comparative Education Research Centre (CERC) have announced a new partnership for two established book series. The leading education publisher will now co-publish both the CERC Studies in Comparative Education and CERC Monograph series, supporting the global reach and impact of research in comparative education.

Cell Press, a global leader in scientific publishing, announces the extension of a partnership begun in 2018 with the Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Commission (BMSTC), which oversees science and technology initiatives in Beijing.

In an ambitious move to democratize access to scholarly knowledge and advance the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs), the De Gruyter eBound Foundation is thrilled to unveil UPLOpen.com, a product of University Press Library Open (UPLO), an innovative website that curates high-quality, open access scholarship from the world’s leading university presses.

A new outside art project from Springer Nature Group launches this week in Kings Cross to mark Earth month, turning the area into one of the largest outdoor galleries in London.  Titled ‘What Does A Scientist Look Like?’ the exhibition will showcase award-winning photography from Nature’s ‘Where I Work’ editorial feature, published since 2019.