Nanotechnology publishing for Russia – the perspective
for working closer with Elsevier
Paul Evans, PhD
Senior Vice President
International Publishing Development
Elsevier has a long history of scientific publishing
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Introduction
The Publishing House of Elzevir was first
established in 1580 by Lowys (Louis)
Elzevir at the University of Leiden, Holland
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Keeping to the tradition of publishing
established by Lowys Elzevir, Jacobus George
Robbers established the modern Elsevier
Company in 1880
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Among those authors who published with
Elsevier are Galileo, Erasmus, Descartes,
Alexander Fleming, Julius Verne
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About Elsevier
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Elsevier publishes 2200 journals (10% of STM) covering 25% of the STM authors
market.
Through ScienceDirect 10 million scientists and researchers have desktop access to
a service offering 9 million journal articles.
In 2004, Elsevier launched its new abstract & indexing database, Scopus, which
covers 17,000 journals from all key STM publishers.
MD Consult brings the leading medical resources together into one online service to
help health professional make better decisions.
To do this we:
 Maintain sales in 180+ countries.
 Employ over 7,000 people in 70 offices in 26 countries of whom 1,150 are based in
The Netherlands.
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Article Share
Share of Journal Articles Published
Elsevier
25%
Our Scientific Disciplines
Environmental
Sciences
Earth Sciences
Social Sciences
Life sciences
Maths & computer
science
Others
Springer
Physics
Blackwell
Wiley
APS
ACS
IEEE
Taylor & Francis
AIP Wolters Kluwer
~1 million English language research
articles published globally in 2005
Materials Science &
Engineering
Chemistry & Chemical
Engineering
290,000+ English language research
articles published with Elsevier today
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Introduction
Journal publishing volume
• 1,000 new editors per year
• 18 new journals per year
• Organise editorial boards
• Launch new specialist
journals
• 9 million articles
available
• 10 million
researchers
• 4,500+
institutions
• 180+ countries
• 386+ million
downloads per
year
• 2.8 million print
pages per year
Archive and
promote
• >600,000+ article submissions per year
Solicit and
manage
submissions
Publish and
disseminate
• 500,000 referees
• 1 million referee
reports per year
Manage
peer review
Edit and
prepare
Production
• 40%-90% of
articles rejected
• 7,000 editors
• 70,000 editorial
board members
• 6.5 million
author/publisher
communications per
year
• 290,000 new articles produced per year
• 180 years of back issues scanned, processed and data-tagged
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Introduction
Journal publishing investments
In total, €300 million+ invested in E-publishing technology & distribution since 2000
• Organise editorial boards
• Launch new specialist
journals
ScienceDirect
Scopus
Scirus
eNewsletters and
alerts
>€200 million
Archive and
promote
Solicit and
manage
submissions
Publish and
disseminate
Electronic
Warehouse
€15 million
Estimated cumulative investment since 2000
Author Gateway and
Elsevier Editorial
Systems
€15 million
Manage
peer review
Edit and
prepare
Production
Production Tracking System
€5 million
eJournal Backfiles
eReference Works
€40 million
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Some Future Thinking on Innovation:
Exploring New Services for Decision Makers –
Based on Scopus
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DIFFERENT ROLES, DIFFERENT NEEDS
Researchers
Managers
Strategists
Profile:
 Researchers
 R&D
Profile:
 Department Heads
 Section Heads
Profile:
Provost
Dean
Strategic Decision Makers
Challenges:
Challenges:
Challenges:
 Identify the high impact research areas
 Identify the best collaborators
 Increase funding opportunities
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 Establishing world class capability
 Benchmarking against peer
institutions
 Define strategic direction
 Optimize allocation of funds across
departments
Increase group level funding
Identify next hot topics
Identify areas to focus/invest in
Create a world class department
Elsevier can help through visual display of bibliographic data from Scopus
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WHY SCOPUS?
Broad coverage of STM and Social Science literature
• Worldwide coverage: 70% of sources from outside US
• 36 m records (70% incl. abstracts)
• pre-1996: 18 m records (incl. abstracts)
• post-1996: 18 m records (incl. abstracts and ref’s)
• >17,300 active titles, incl 15,800 peer-reviewed journals
• including 1,200 OA journals
• extended conference coverage
• 520 serial conference proceedings
• >3 m conference papers
• 100% coverage of Medline
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Quality: Overall ScienceDirect (SD) Usage
Usage of full text articles
(millions)
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Key Facts:
• One million downloads per
day
• 2,200 journals
• 9 million articles
• 10 million scientists have
access
• >90% of STM scientists have
access to >94% of Elsevier
content
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Higher usage: increased productivity – more articles published
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UK SD Usage
Thousands
# articles published /
Mio Inhabitants
UK Articles Published
2007
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Russia’s nano publishing – a relative view of output in Scopus registered
journals. Main BRIC countries in this field
0.25
0.2
Russia
0.15
China
0.1
India
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Hence China has over 20% of nano papers and
Russia and India each below 5%
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Elsevier’s publishing of nano-papers and world trend
Search in Scopus for keywords “nano* “
World
Elsevier publishes around 25%
of the world’s papers in
nano science and technology
Elsevier
Russia
2007
41,166
10,923
1,077
2006
37,555
9,421
974
2005
35,665
7,968
1,018
2004
28,530
6,898
933
2003
19,243
4,812
784
2002
13,347
3,373
465
2001
9,279
2,676
375
2000
6,542
1,690
295
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Elsevier share of Russian papers in nano
0.4
0.35
0.3
0.25
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0.15
0.1
2000
2001
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2007
Hence Elsevier produces about a quarter of Russia’s
Nano S&T papers within Scopus registered journals
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Elsevier’s journals publishing Nano papers
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Not all journals are listed as nano journals and many of the higher impact
journals predate the nano period.
ISI now has a category of Nanoscience and technology
Often scientists use other terms instead of the nano prefix as this is not always
taken seriously
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Main base of journals for Elsevier across this sector (defined by scale) is
around 90 journals (from materials science, physics, chemistry and life science)
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E.g. the journal CARBON… editor Professor Peter Thrower UK, Associate
Editor Yuri Gogotsi who is at Drexler in US
Why – a nano journal…??. Impact of carbon nanotubes etc…
Key journal for this topic
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Elsevier’s Nano journals (1)
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NANOTECHNOLOGY (Electronic Warehouse: COAY file)
Number:
ISSN:
Journals:
Contents:
selection for all journals
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1359-6454
Acta Materialia
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0926-860x
Applied Catalysis A: General
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0926-3373
Applied Catalysis B: Environmental
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0169-4332
Applied Surface Science
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0142-9612
Biomaterials
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0008-6223
Carbon
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0272-8842
Ceramics International
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0960-0779
Chaos, Solitons and Fractals
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0009-2614
Chemical Physics Letters
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0927-7757
Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical & Engineering Aspects
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1007-5704
Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation
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1359-835x
Composites Part A
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1359-8368
Composites Part B
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0266-3538
Composites Science and Technology
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1631-0705
Compte Rendus Physique
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0927-0256
Computational Materials Science
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0010-4655
Computer Physics Communications
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1567-1739
Current Applied Physics
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1359-0294
Current Opinion in Colloid & Interface Science
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1359-0286
Current Opinion in Solid State and Materials Science
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0925-9635
Diamond & Related Materials
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0012-821X
Earth and Planetary Science Letters
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1388-2481
Electrochemistry Communications
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0013-4686
Electrochimica Acta
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0020-7683
International Journal of Solids & Structures
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0966-9795
Intermetallics
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0022-0248
Journal of Crystal Growth
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0925-8388
Journal of Alloys and Compounds
29
0021-9673
Journal of Chromatography A
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0378-4347
Journal of Chromatography B
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0021-9797
Journal of Colloid and Interface Science
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0021-9991
Journal of Computational Physics (former AP title)
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0022-0728
Journal of Electroanalytical Chemistry
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Elsevier’s Nano journals (2)
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0022-2313
0304-8853
0924-0136
0376-7388
1381-1169
0022-2860
0022-3093
0022-3115
1010-6030
0022-3697
0378-7753
0022-4073
1044-0305
0955-2219
0254-0584
0167-577x
0025-5408
0921-5093
0921-5107
0928-4931
0927-796X
0167-9317
0968-4328
1387-1811
0030-4018
1566-1199
1569-4410
0378-4371
0921-4526
0921-4534
0167-2789
1386-9477
0375-9601
0370-1573
Journal of Luminescence
Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials
Journal of Materials Processing Technology
Journal of Membrane Science
Journal of Molecular Catalysis A: Chemical
Journal of Molecular Structure
Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids
Journal of Nuclear Materials
Journal of Photochemistry and Photobiology A: Chemistry
Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids
Journal of Power Sources
Journal of Quantitative Spectroscopy and Radiation Transfer
Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry
Journal of the European Ceramics Society
Materials Chemistry and Physics
Materials Letters
Materials Research Bulletin
Materials Science & Engineering A
Materials Science & Engineering B
Materials Science and Engineering C
Materials Science and Engineering R
Microelectronic Engineering
Micron
Microporous and Mesoporous Materials
Optics Communications
Organic Electronics
Photonics and Nanostructures
Physica A
Physica B
Physica C
Physica D
Physica E
Physics Letters A
Physics Reports
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Elsevier’s Nano journals (3)
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0032-3861
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0079-6425
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0079-6700
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0079-6816
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1359-6462
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0924-4247
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0925-4005
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0927-0248
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0038-1098
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0038-1101
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0167-2738
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0749-6036
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0257-8972
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0039-6028
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0167-5729
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0379-6779
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0040-6031
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6056-0000
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0301-679x
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0304-3991
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0042-207x
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0043-1648
Keywords:
1. Nano*
Polymer
Progress in Materials Science
Progress in Polymer Science
Progress in Surface Science
Scripta Materialia
Sensors and Actuators A: Physical
Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical
Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells
Solid State Communications
Solid State Electronics
Solid State Ionics
Superlattices and Microstructures
Surface and Coatings Technology
Surface Science
Surface Science Reports
Synthetic Metals
Thermochimica Acta
Thin Solid Films
Tribology International
Ultramicroscopy
Vacuum
Wear
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Nanotoday – from magazine to short reviews journal
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From January 2009 a new format for this
publication
Already within 3 years of launch it has
achieved an impact factor of 5.9
Enthusiastic Editor- in – Chief: Jackie Ying
Associate professor of chemical eng at
MIT; executive of Institute of
Bioengineering and nanotechnology at
Singapore Biopolis
Short reviews basis for future
+ Nanotoday conferences beginning
next August in Singapore
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From Jackie Ying’s editorial…. The new journal…Rapid publishing
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Nano Today is also undergoing a major transformation. In 2009, the magazine will move to a
traditional journal format as Nano Today: An International Rapid Reviews Journal. The journal will
provide a peer-reviewed forum for the publication of authoritative review articles, rapid
communications, news and opinions to shape and define the frontiers of nanoscience and
nanotechnology through their multidisciplinary applications. The journal aims to cover cutting-edge
research with a rapid publication time of 4–6 weeks.
We are delighted that Nano Today has received its first impact factor of 5.929 in the Thompson
Reuters Journal Citation Reports for 2007. We look forward to your support of the journal, and call
for your submission of review articles and short communications in the following areas:
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Synthesis and Self-Assembly of Nanostructured Materials and Films
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Functionalization and Size-Dependent Properties of Nanocrystals, Quantum Dots and
Nanowires
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Processing and Templating of Nanotubes and Nanoporous Materials
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Tailoring of Polymeric Nanoparticles, Organic-Inorganic Nanocomposites and Biohybrids
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Fabrication of Nano and Micro Electro Mechanical Systems
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Design and Engineering of Structural and Functional Nanomaterials
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Nanosystems for Biological, Medical, Chemical, Catalytic, Energy and Environmental
Applications
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Nanodevices for Electronic, Photonic, Magnetic, Imaging, Diagnostic and Sensor
Applications
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Deborah Logan – Elsevier Oxford…Publisher…Coordinating strategy and
publishing capabilities for the Nano community worldwide
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Contact:
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[email protected]
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The future?
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Russia has boldly set a key focus for nanotechnology and aims to be fully world
class as an important player in research and exploitation of related
technologies
Elsevier is a leading information solutions provider and decision support service
working on a global basis to support all elements in the publishing and science
production chain. Completely dedicated to productivity improvements for
research and into development.
OPTIONS
A special package of journals for Russian institutes etc to fully support the
ambitious global ambitions in nanotechnology
Support with related services for researchers, authors, editors, reviewers
Potential for sponsored services to emphasise to the world Russia’s ambitions,
progress and advantages for cooperation in this vitally important area
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And then…
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