Researcher News & Insights

It’s approaching the start of the new academic year and lecturers, researchers and staff are hecticly getting ready to marshall the next aircraft of bright minds into their chosen academic courses. It’s always an uplifting (if extremely busy) time, rife with organisational panic, but also ultimately new beginnings. 

Coincidentally, here, at Researcher, we are also piloting a project of our own - with perhaps not unlike rush of excitement. This autumn, we’ll be introducing a new type of Researcher-exclusive content: our Researcher Insights Report. 

The digital transformation has had an impact on all industries, and scientific research is no exception. Every day more labs are shifting from paper-focused processes and moving toward digital tools and the cloud. Not only can these upgrades improve the workflows in R&D labs, but also help scientists manage large quantities of data easily and conveniently.

Early Career Researchers vs The Paper

I vividly remember setting off to write my first research paper. If you haven’t written a paper yet, here’s what it resembles: it’s a little bit like being handed a scroll in the lost language of Atlantis and asked to do the Queen’s taxes. There is a general sense that you should ‘just know’ what you’re doing, even though no two research papers are really the same, and so the criteria for evaluating one might not apply to another.

We are pleased to announce that through our partnership with Edanz, Researcher users will have access to a free annual membership to hundreds of smart tools, resources and courses provided by Edanz My Learning Lab. 

With over 25% of our users based in China, we are excited to launch a new feature built with the help of Charlesworth Author Services.

Our users that use WeChat, can now log in with their Researcher account to receive personalised recommendations of papers. We hope that the ability to receive regular notifications through WeChat will help many of you to monitor the latest research articles you need to read. 

To use the feature, first follow us on WeChat. You can find Researcher's Official Account by scanning this QR code: 

London 21st June: The Charlesworth Gateway is a dedicated platform that creates an enhanced experience for authors, by integrating STM publishing tools into WeChat. Charlesworth’s unique platform has now successfully integrated Researcher app, delivering personalised notifications to Researcher’s China-based users.

Researcher is delighted to announce a new partnership with TopEdit Author Services.

TopEdit’s services (https://researcher.topeditsci.com/) include bespoke English language editing and publication support services for authors, institutions, and publishers. They have a big and growing following in China and work with hundreds of universities and hospitals in China as well as publishers and learned societies internationally.

Following a recent integration with the novel, social network-style research discovery app Researcher, the scholarly publishing platform ARPHA has taken yet another step to ensure scholarly publications from across its open-access, peer-reviewed journal portfolio are as easy to find and read as possible. Now, research papers published in all Pensoft’s, as well as all other journals hosted on ARPHA, can reach the 1.8 million current users of Researcher directly on their screens.

American Journal Experts (AJE), a leading author services provider, has partnered with Researcher to offer another crucial form of support: author services.