Real-life problems and big data solutions
1 July 2020
Our Researcher of the Month for July is Ian Smith, of Cambridge’s Royal Papworth Hospital.
Researcher of the Month
NEW: Researcher of the Month – June 2020: Auriel Fournier
19 June 2020
In a new column, Tim Gillett meets a winner of the BioOne Ambassador Award for early-career researchers who excel at communicating their work to the public
Susana Arrechea
Photo: Alison Bert
Award ‘encourages me to keep doing research in Guatemala’
19 February 2020
Susana Arrechea (pictured) is one of five researchers who are winners of the 2020 OWSD-Elsevier Foundation Awards for Early-Career Women Scientists in the Developing World
Latest issue
Antonia Seymour, chief executive at IOP Publishing, and Andrew Barker, director of library services and learning development at Lancaster University, talk about hybrid working and re-thinking how we work
David Stuart writes: are new ways of measuring research are providing a more realistic picture of scholarly communication?
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Siân Harris looks at what role cloud-based services play in libraries today, their benefits and limitations and what challenges remain
Charlie Rapple
Kudos co-founder Charlie Rapple explains her passion for accelerating the dissemination – and impact – of science
Sowmya Swaminathan
Sowmya Swaminathan discusses the implications for publishers in helping to foster open research practices
Nandita Quaderi
Nandita Quaderi explains how Covid-19 continues to affect the citation network, and introduces a new kind of citation distortion
Oluchi Ojinamma Okere
Oluchi Ojinamma Okere outlines how researchers in sub-Saharan countries are being hamstrung by economics
Helen Lippell
Helen Lippell explains why organisations should learn more about taxonomies, ontologies and metadata - and describes her love of a good quiz
Mark Hahnel
Figshare founder Mark Hahnel describes the company's beginnings and raison d’être – and his wider hopes for scholarly communications
Miriam Maus
If scientists are successful, we are successful, writes Miriam Maus, publishing director at IOP Publishing
