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O venres 16 de xaneiro de 2026, Christian Kuttner (Nature Portfolio, Springer Nature, Berlin, Germany) ofrecerá o seminario “Inside the Nature Portfolio: Ask Me Anything" (meet-the-editor session with young researchers) dentro do programa de formación transversal do CINBIO.
Será ás 11:00 horas na Sala de seminarios de Torre CACTI.
ABSTRACT:
Publishing your research in a journal within the Nature Portfolio involves more than just solid science. This seminar will offer an inside view of the editorial journey at Nature-branded journals and is designed as an open, interactive discussion. Audience questions are strongly encouraged throughout, allowing us to focus on the topics that are of greatest interest to you.
I will outline our editorial criteria and explain how editors at Nature Communications decide which manuscripts are sent for peer review. We will discuss how referees are selected, how editorial decisions are made based on reviewer feedback, and how interdisciplinary research is handled. Depending on audience interests, we will also touch on recent developments such as transparent peer review, the involvement of early-career researchers in the review process, and initiatives related to open data and reproducibility. Another focus will be best practices in science communication. Many authors labor under the misapprehension that selective journals look for hyped claims. In contrast, we actively promote honest, transparent, and responsible communication. [1] We will discuss how to avoid vague language, inflated novelty claims, and so-called “tortured phrases” that risk distorting scientific meaning.
Throughout the seminar, I will share anecdotes from the life of a full-time scientific editor, and - time and interest permitting -we will reflect on emerging challenges in scientific publishing, including risks associated with AI, such as the use of AI-generated images in research articles.
BIO:
Dr. Kuttner is a Senior Editor at Nature Communications and since 2021 responsible for the physical chemistry content with a focus on nanomaterials. [2] Before becoming a full-time editor, he conducted research as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellow at the CIC biomaGUNE in Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain, and as a postdoctoral researcher at the Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research (IPF) in Dresden, Germany.
