Topics at the heartof our community

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Spotlight On… focuses on topics at the heart of our community, providing updates on what we are doing at Springer Nature to support our partners and information about new editorial and publishing activity.

Spotlight On… Attracting High Quality Submission Using Collections and Other Strategies

The impact of a collection can be higher than other papers in a journal. In this session, we’ll explore how collections can be leveraged towards greater impact for their journals more broadly, including attracting high quality submissions and increasing their journal’s visibility in the community.

Spotlight On... Engaging Your Readers and Authors

How factual is the assumption that publishing less always results in higher impact for journals? Discover how a high volume of content in specific sub-disciplines can lead to an increase in high quality submissions, and why quantity and quality are complementary strategies for journal development.

Spotlight On... Building a Strong Editorial Board

For our first Spotlight On… event of 2023, we invited Editors-in-Chief to join us for discussions on one of the greatest assets of any journal: its Editorial Board. How can you build a Board that advocates for their communities, helps authors improve their papers, and set up your journal for success?

Spotlight On... Celebrating Editorial Impact (Session 1)

Celebrate your fellow Editors and learn about the editorial initiatives that have made an impact on their journals. From Editorial Board development, to supporting growth and increasing diversity, to the impact of new collections, there’s a lot to celebrate in this special edition of the Spotlight On webinar series.

Spotlight On... Celebrating Editorial Impact (Session 2)

Celebrate your fellow Editors and learn about the editorial initiatives that have made an impact on their journals. From Editorial Board development, to supporting growth and increasing diversity, to the impact of new collections, there’s a lot to celebrate in this special edition of the Spotlight On webinar series.

Spotlight On... Enhancing Journal Impact & Reputation

In the fourth episode of Spotlight On, Ritu Dhand, Chief Scientific Officer, discusses the tools and concepts which may help you to enhance your journal impact and reputation. We look at how the journal structure can influence the submissions a journal attracts, giving editors tools to grow the journals in key sub-disciplines. In addition, we discuss how author service and reproducibility can enhance reputation and drive editorial excellence.

Spotlight On... The Sustainable Development Goals

For the latest episode of Spotlight On join Nicola Jones, Director of Springer Nature’s SDG publishing programme and hear about the impact research connected to the SDGs is having, and how Springer Nature is helping to translate research into policy, innovation and community action.

Spotlight On... Content that may be harmful to human population groups

In the second episode of Spotlight On, Stavroula Kousta, Chief Editor of Nature Human Behaviour, discusses new editorial guidance on content that may be harmful to human population groups.

Spotlight On... Dr. Ritu Dhand

Dr Ritu Dhand, Springer Nature’s Chief Scientific Officer, talks about talks about her life as a researcher, how she got into scientific publishing, what scientific discoveries makes her go ‘wow’, and provides an update on some of the exciting things that are going on at Springer Nature at the moment.