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International Journal of Optics comes into focus
Thanks to the hard work of the Editorial Board, and significant contributions from authors and reviewers, International Journal of Optics has now been accepted for inclusion in the Science Citation Index expanded and will receive its first Impact Factor in 2019.
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Welcome, Heteroatom Chemistry!
Heteroatom Chemistry joins the Wiley-Hindawi partnership, becoming fully Open Access from 2019.
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Protocols.io: recipes for innovation in Open Science
Hindawi partners with Open Access platform protocols.io to make it easy for authors to publish and adapt the methods they develop and get credit for them via a dedicated citation. In this blog post, Catriona MacCallum, Hindawi’s Director of Open Science, explains how it works.
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Promoting innovation and reducing inequity in scholarship: Europe’s Plan S for Open Science
Hindawi’s Director of Open Science, Catriona MacCallum, discusses the ‘Plan S’ – the strongest Open Access policy in the world to date that was recently announced by a group of European science funders.
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Advances in Polymer Technology goes Open Access
Advances in Polymer Technology is the tenth journal to join the Wiley-Hindawi partnership.
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The benefits of a peer-to-peer collaboration with Hindawi
Co-founder and Director of Peerwith, Ivo Verbeek, gives us an overview of the author services provided through this peer-to-peer platform.
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Hindawi’s approach to metadata
Director of Operations, Craig Raybould, discusses and examines Hindawi’s approach to metadata, and the opportunities and challenges we and other publishers face.
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Making a statement about data availability
All Hindawi journals now require a data availability statement to be provided at the point of submission for all new research articles and clinical studies. This is a part of Hindawi’s drive for greater data sharing, and a significant step towards a comprehensive Open Data policy.
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Opening the shutters on crystal data
To support data sharing and encourage greater transparency, we’ve updated our guidelines on the deposition of new small molecule single crystal X-ray diffraction data.
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Authorship disputes: How do we avoid “cutting the baby in half”?
Hindawi’s Head of Research Integrity discusses the ever-complicated issue of authorship disputes, whether they should end in retraction or not, and how to avoid getting to the point of institutional investigations and retraction.
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Advances in Civil Engineering and Cardiology Research and Practice accepted into the Web of Science Science Citation Index Expanded
We are pleased to announce that two of Hindawi’s journals, Advances in Civil Engineering and Cardiology Research and Practice, have been accepted into the Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), the key index in Clarivate Analytics’ Web of Science (WoS).
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How to avoid being accused of plagiarism
Head of Research Integrity at Hindawi, Matt Hodgkinson, gives practical advice on how researchers can avoid plagiarism accusations.
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Male Breast Cancer: symptoms, risk factors, and treatment options
Do men get breast cancer? In wake of Breast Cancer Awareness month, Editorial Community Manager Sarah Theissen sat down with breast cancer expert Ian Fentiman to discuss the rare but still serious case of Male Breast Cancer (MBC). Here’s everything you need to know.
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Notes from the American Chemical Society Fall Meeting – Washington, DC
Hindawi were proud to be represented at the biannual meeting of the American Chemical Society, which this fall was held in Washington, DC. The meeting consistently attracts well in excess of 10,000 chemists from all over the world, who discuss the latest advances in chemical science. This was a great opportunity to communicate Hindawi’s latest initiatives with our Editorial Board members, and chat with authors – both existing and prospective – about the merits of Open Access publishing.
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Be discoverable: why publishers are making their reference lists openly available and how you as a researcher can help
A recent announcement from the Initiative for Open Citations calls for all stakeholders – including researchers – to start having conversations with the publishers and learned societies they know about opening up their indexed reference lists. Adding to the already open metadata about articles increases the discoverability of the work of authors (and of publishers) and could ultimately foster a new, more open and more rigorous way to evaluate researchers – a fundamental goal of Open Science.
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Antidiabetic Drugs in Alzheimer’s disease
Today, Dr Grazia Daniela Femminella gives an overview of the potential use of antidiabetic drugs in Alzheimer’s disease, as described in her research article published in Journal of Diabetes Research earlier last month.
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Forging collaborations
Today, Assoc Prof David Harding gives his perspective on the benefits of good collaborations, and why they are becoming ever more important. He also suggests whats needed to form and sustain lasting collaborations.
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Using Hindawi’s Online Proofing System – Video Guide
Hindawi’s popular Online Proofing System (OPS) allows you to review changes made to your manuscript before it is finalized as a finished article. Watch our new video to help you get to grips with the basics of the system.
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Lessons for “research mania” from the Dutch tulip mania
In the winter of 1637, the price of a tulip in the Netherlands suddenly rocketed twenty-fold, costing more than a house and up to 45 times the average monthly wage. Often called the “tulip mania” and regarded as a crazy financial bubble akin to the South Sea Bubble almost a century later, the Dutch had not lost their minds but were actually responding to changes in contract law.
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Responding to peer review reports
Today, guest blogger Dr Ben Britton provides his advice on how best to respond to reviewers’ comments, from keeping a level-head, to formatting your reply. Ben is a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow and Lecturer at Imperial College London, and runs the Experimental Micromechanics Research group.
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Peer review… with a little help from my friends
I recently ran a twitter poll to gauge opinion on whether it was OK for a reviewer to discuss a manuscript under review with a third party. The results surprised me, and led me to question: Should we be encouraging or suppressing the discussion of others’ unpublished work? These are my thoughts.
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Clarity in Communication — Top tips for not getting lost in translation
Today, guest blogger Fernando Gomollón Bel tells us about the importance of clear communication, and provides some tips for authors whose first language is not English. Fernando is a Science Communicator at the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia, and also a blogger and freelance science writer for various newspapers and magazines.
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Conflicted about conflicts of interest?
The phrase “conflicts of interest” (COI) may bring to mind images of brown envelopes, but to bowdlerise Jessie J, “It’s not [all] about the money, money, money”.
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Guidance on leading Special Issues
Editors, authors, and readers alike find great value in Special Issues. Guest Editors find the role rewarding in its own right, as well as finding that it provides a number of onward benefits. It marks them out as proactive and influential leaders within their discipline and enables fruitful networking with the editorial team, referees, and authors.
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Data Availability at Hindawi
Coinciding with #LoveYourData week, we are announcing our intention to require authors to provide a Data Availability Statement with all newly submitted manuscripts.
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Tr@nsition: 10 years of Open Access
At the end of January 2007, we sold our last subscription journals, the International Mathematics Research Notices (IMRN) series, to Oxford University Press. In the following weeks, we “flipped” our two remaining subscription journals to Open Access. Since then, every article in a Hindawi journal has been freely available upon publication.
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The Hindawi Publishing Process Explained – Infographic
What happens to a manuscript after you submit it for publication in a journal? At Hindawi, we try to ensure that the publishing process is as quick as possible, but it’s important to bear in mind that a manuscript needs to go through many checks and processes before it can be published as a final journal article.
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Open Access Explained – Infographic
To provide more insight into why Open Access is so important, we’ve published a new infographic. It explains the many benefits to authors and readers alike, and also looks at why more open research is necessary on a global scale.
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Results from Hindawi’s Author Survey – Infographic
Earlier this year we launched a survey to gather the opinions of our authors on a range of topics, from their views on Open Access to their experience of publishing with Hindawi. We contacted all authors who have published within a Hindawi journal in the previous 12 months and a total of 2,820 completed the survey.
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Using Hindawi’s Manuscript Tracking System – Video Guide
One of our key objectives at Hindawi is to make life as easy as possible for authors – especially when it comes to submitting a manuscript for publication. To meet this goal, we’re constantly investing in the technologies that underpin our submission workflow.
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HTTPS: providing a safer and more secure publishing experience
We’re pleased to announce that the Hindawi website, submission, and peer review platforms now use HTTPS by default. This change protects the privacy and security of our readers, authors, editors, and reviewers. You’re probably used to seeing the little green padlock on websites that process sensitive data, like passwords and credit card forms, but there’s really no reason why it shouldn’t be used everywhere.
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Transitioning Subscription Journals: The Hindawi–Wiley OA Partnership Pilot
The scholarly journals market has undergone huge transformations in recent years; print subscriptions gave way to electronic distribution, the big deal (for better or worse) came to be the dominant business model used to purchase journals, and open access moved from a small radical movement to become a core part of a scholarly publishers journal strategy.
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Do we welcome our new robot overlords? How AI will affect society and scholarly publishing
https://www.flickr.com/photos/steevithak/8572476357/, CC-BY SA 2.0 (modified) Artificial intelligence is rapidly moving from science fiction to science fact with AI now driving cars and beating Go grandmasters, causing both excitement and anxiety. Following the US National Science and Technology Council report “Preparing For The Future of Artificial Intelligence” last month, The Cambridge Union debating society tackled the rise of AI and the SpotOn conference considered whether AI could be put to use in scholarly peer review.
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Is Open Access grassroots or top-down? Cambridge Open Access Week 2016
The Open Access movement has come a long way since I started working as an Open Access journal editor in 2003: nobody then knew if OA journals would catch on or even survive, PubMed Central was still new, the first NIH and Wellcome OA policies were two years away, the Harvard mandate was still five years away.
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Brunel’s 10 year journey towards open scholarship: Measuring ‘openness’ over managing mandates
Over the last decade we at Brunel University London have passed a number milestones on a journey towards open scholarship. In this context, and one year on from the implementation of HEFCE’s open access requirements, we present an overview of Brunel University London’s research outputs portfolio through emergent open access data services, revealing a scale of engagement, collaboration and duplication of effort not previously visible to our request driven service.
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Who do we think you are?
When I was first managing peer review, I dreamt of an easy way to tell apart researchers with similar names. Western names were bad enough – witness the frustrations of two Andrew M. Harrisons – but the common lack of middle initials and a smaller pool of first and last names in Japan and China has been a constant source of angst: there are an estimated 300,000 Wei Zhangs in the world!
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Hindawi and ORCID: The Trials
Hindawi and ORCID have worked together for a number of years, starting in 2012 when Hindawi began our first ORCID trial in an attempt to encourage authors to register for an ORCID ID. Earlier this year, Hindawi signed the publishers’ open letter and announced another trial.
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New language Editing Partnership for Hindawi Authors
Your research is important, if communicated correctly it could lead to advances in your research field so it’s important that your great research is not held back by poor language construction in your manuscript. This is why we have partnered with Editage, the language editing specialist to offer valuable services to our authors.
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Hindawi Journal Impact Factors Continue to Increase in Latest Journal Citation Reports (JCR) Release.
In June, 2016 Thomson Reuters released their latest Journal Citation Reports containing the Impact factor measurements for around 11,000 scholarly journals. Hindawi currently publishes 60 journals that are listed in the reports with a further 109 awaiting evaluation in the Web of Science Emerging Sources Citation Index.
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