Editorial

Clarivate, a leading global provider of transformative intelligence, today announced the Citation Laureates 2026, a distinguished group of 22 researchers whose work is of Nobel class. Selected by experts at the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) at Clarivate, these individuals have made pioneering contributions that continue to shape science and society.

Lyrasis has entered into a new three-year Read and Publish agreement (2026–2028) with Wiley that expands open access publishing opportunities for Lyrasis members and their researchers while advancing the global transition to a more open scholarly publishing ecosystem.

IntechOpen has expanded the selection of its open access books available through the OAPEN Library. The OAPEN Library is a quality-controlled collection dedicated to open access, peer-reviewed books that provides infrastructure used by publishers, libraries and research funders.

Springer Nature is partnering with the European Network of Research Integrity Offices (ENRIO) to develop a new free e-learning course for research integrity officers (RIOs). The course is designed to provide holistic guidance for RIOs who are either developing good integrity practices from scratch or overhauling existing frameworks.

GeoScienceWorld (GSW) today announced the launch of GeoSapienAI (https://geosapien.ai/), an AI research assistant developed in collaboration with leading geoscience societies to help researchers search, understand, and explore peer-reviewed geoscience literature.

Springer Nature, the African Academy of Sciences (AAS) and the Academy of Science South Africa (ASSAf) have launched the first continent-wide survey examining researchers’ experiences of research integrity training and support.

ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID) and the CSTR Identification Platform, based in Beijing, China, are pleased to announce a new strategic partnership aimed at strengthening the adoption of persistent identifiers (PIDs) throughout the research data lifecycle and enhancing the visibility of research systems globally.

s researchers and clinicians work more closely to translate discoveries into patient benefit, BMC has launched three new full open access (OA) journals: Immuno-Oncology, Journal of Fibrosis, and Translational and Clinical Neuroinflammation. By providing trusted, dedicated homes for these fast-moving research communities, these launches respond to growing demand and will form part of Springer Nature's full OA portfolio, which now offers more than 770 journals across six brands. 

EDP Sciences and SMAI have published the fifth annual Transparency Report for their Subscribe to Open (S2O) mathematics programme, providing an open account of how the programme is funded, how publication costs are distributed and how the journals are progressing towards long-term financial sustainability. 

IEEE, the world’s largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for the benefit of humanity, announced today that its portfolio of journals earned top honors across major global citation indices, according to the June 2026 releases of Clarivate’s Journal Citation Reports™ (JCR) and Scopus’s CiteScore™ metrics. 

ResearchGate, the professional network for researchers, and Science China Press, one of China’s most influential science and technology journal publishers, have today announced a new Journal Home partnership. The agreement will increase the international visibility, discoverability, and engagement of Science China Press journals, including all of the publisher’s Chinese-language titles.

Taylor & Francis has signed an MOU with the University of Tsukuba to expand the innovative Japan Institutional Gateway (JIG) research publishing platform, which they jointly operate, and to support the publication of English-language books by University of Tsukuba researchers.