Wiley Accelerates Innovation in Research Publishing
October 29 2020 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Novel Technologies Deliver Value to
Researchers, Helping Shape the Future of Science
John Wiley & Sons Inc., a global leader in research and
education, continues to innovate its publishing business,
announcing today two technologies that advance how scientific
research is published, delivering greater value to researchers.
First, the company’s publishing platform provider and
subsidiary, Atypon, has successfully piloted its interactive
figures technology in the International Journal of Quantum
Chemistry, publishing the first scientific articles designed
exclusively to leverage the multimedia nature of the web.
“Nearly half of the world’s peer-reviewed research flows through
Atypon’s Literatum publishing platform,” says Jay Flynn, Chief
Product Officer, Research at Wiley. “Interactive figures technology
is helping create a truly digital and dynamic scientific article,
just for the web, that gives researchers and the general public a
faster, more hands-on way to learn and advance science.”
Wiley’s International Journal of Quantum Chemistry (IJQC) is the
first scholarly publication to feature Atypon’s interactive
figures technology, which is slated for release late next year.
IJQC is publishing computational articles featuring interactive 3D
molecular visualizations that let readers rotate, zoom and interact
directly with chemical structures. These articles also feature
fully interactive, zoomable graphs, which makes visualizing data at
scale much easier for scientists. These highly nuanced data
visualizations integrate researchers’ source code and lab notebooks
to significantly improve a study’s transparency and its
reproducibility.
With the expansion of its Transfer Desk Assistant (TDA),
Wiley provides alternative options for authors to publish their
study when their first journal of choice does not accept their
manuscript. Authors may select the TDA feature which will guide
them through the process of submitting their manuscript to other
relevant journals, making it easier for them to publish their work,
provided it is sound. Using AI technology, the TDA maps manuscript
content to the aims and scope of participating titles across
Wiley’s portfolios to reveal new journal options for authors
interested in resubmissions.
“To date in 2020, journals published by Wiley have received more
than 621,000 submissions, with 159,000 of those articles accepted
for publication, and that means a substantial amount of very good
research is not being published,” Flynn adds. “When the original
journal is not the best option for that research, the Transfer Desk
Assistant simplifies the resubmission process so that quality
science reaches a similar title.”
More than half of all journals published by Wiley now
participate in an automated transfer network like TDA, or an
editor-driven referral network where the editor who rejects a study
recommends another title to the author for resubmitting the
manuscript. In fact, our customer survey data show that researchers
are pleased with the TDA and editor referrals, with uptake of
transfers at 50% or more in some subject areas. By expanding the
TDA to more journals, we expect the percentage of authors taking
advantage of this service to climb.
Overall, Wiley continues to advance scientific discovery,
publishing more than 185,000 articles from January to October 2020,
representing an 11% increase over the same time period in 2019. In
addition to interactive figures and transfer networks, Wiley’s
acquisition of Madgex, which delivers career center tools to
research communities, and our agreement with ResearchGate to
support principled content sharing and collaboration among
researchers, are examples of how we accelerate the creation and
distribution of knowledge—something that ultimately has a positive
impact on society at large.
About Atypon
Atypon develops publishing technologies for getting
mission-critical content into the hands of the practitioners and
researchers who need it most. Atypon’s online publishing and
website development tools let publishers manage, deliver, and
monetize all of the content they distribute—from standards and
scholarly articles to video and online courses. Atypon’s tools for
researchers let them easily author, discover, and access the
content they need. Founded in 1996, Atypon is headquartered in
Santa Clara, California and is owned by Wiley.
About Wiley
Wiley drives the world forward with research and education.
Through publishing, platforms and services, we help students,
researchers, universities, and corporations to achieve their goals
in an ever-changing world. For more than 200 years, we have
delivered consistent performance to all of our stakeholders. The
Company's website can be accessed at www.wiley.com.
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