SpringerPlus in 2012

Max Haring on February 20, 2013 at 11:10 am - 0 Comments

Early 2012 we announced SpringerPlus, Springer’s first peer-reviewed Open Access journal open for research from all disciplines in the Humanities, Science, Technology and Medicine. For SpringerPlus a manuscript is never out of scope: when the science is sound we will consider it for publication!

SpringerPlus is fully and immediately open access and will publish articles under the Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) license. This makes it easy for authors to fully comply with open access mandates and retain copyright. SpringerPlus offers open access and our expertise in delivering high-quality and rapid publications, from online submission systems and in-depth peer review to an efficient, author-friendly production process.

Over the past year we saw the number of submissions increase from around 50 in …

Our most popular articles in medicine

Max Haring on November 20, 2012 at 2:35 pm - 0 Comments

These articles in our medicine section, headed by prof. Massoud Mahmoudi, were accessed most in the last 3 months:

Chronic traumatic encephalopathy: the dangers of getting “dinged”
Shaheen E Lakhan, Annette Kirchgessner

Folate Receptor alpha (FRA) expression in breast cancer: identification of a new molecular subtype and association with triple negative disease
Daniel J OShannessy, et.al.

Differential impact of body mass index and its change on the risk of breast cancer by molecular subtype: a case–control study in Japanese women
Aiko Sueta, et.al.

The age-phenome database
Nophar Geifman, Eitan Rubin

Please visit our Breast Cancer collection, edited by professor Marc Lippman. SpringerPlus Breast Cancer is a high quality collection of articles devoted …

Why we need Open Access, by SpringerPlus’ Medicine Section Editor, Dr. Massoud Mahmoudi

Lauren Gonnella on March 6, 2012 at 10:04 am - 0 Comments

Mass Communication in Science and Medicine

We all have benefited from the impact of mass communication in our daily life, whether in the form of a mass e-mail invitation, or watching a televised media report. Putting aside the social values, the role of sharing information in science and medicine have become more crucial and important than ever. Each means of communication has its own value in conveying information and all sources collectively help us to be effective communicators.

Internet – Learning and sharing information are two useful aspects of internet usage. Whether we use internet to link with a support group or access an organization website to collect information of a specific product, read science or medicine news, or gather information on …

Welcome to SpringerPlus!

Max Haring on January 13, 2012 at 3:43 am - 1 Comment

It is my pleasure to introduce Springer’s new Open Access journal open for research from all disciplines of Science, Technology, Engineering and Medicine. SpringerPlus offers easy submission, fast processing and straightforward publication of your results.

At SpringerPlus we believe there should be as few barriers as possible to publish the results of scientific research. Authors invest a lot of time and effort before an article is accepted and, with the high level of specialization of many scientific journals, authors must often submit the same manuscript to several journals consecutively. SpringerPlus is not like that. SpringerPlus won’t reject articles because the subject is deemed out of scope, unfashionable, a niche field or unable to attract citations. The only thing necessary for SpringerPlus …