Springer Nature

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About Springer Nature

Research and learning are the cornerstones of progress, which is why we open doors to discovery for our communities, enabling millions of researchers, clinicians, educators and other professionals to access, trust and make sense of the latest insights.

Springer Nature is an ambitious and dynamic organisation. For over 180 years our imprints, books, journals, platforms, and technology solutions have been a trusted source of knowledge to our communities. Today, more than ever, we see it as our responsibility to ensure that fundamental knowledge can be found, verified, understood, and used, ensuring that the world continues to make progress, improving and enriching lives and helping to protect our planet for future generations.

Global key facts:
Established for over 180 years
Nearly 10,000 colleagues
200 offices in 45 countries on all continents
World’s largest academic book publisher
Publisher of Nature, the world’s most influential journal
First company to publish more than 1 million Open Access articles

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Springer Nature is home to some of the best-known names in research, health, educational and professional publishing. Every day, around the globe, our brands reach millions of people.
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Expertise

Publishing, Science, Technology, Medicine, Business, Education, and Research

Nature Index 2025: The world’s top 10 institutions for social-sciences research
  • 13 hours ago

American institutions lead the way in this newly added Nature Index subject.

Think preprints are unreliable? Analysis of 70,000 studies might change your mind
  • 10 Jul 2026

Central conclusions rarely change when biomedical preprints go on to be published in journals.

Whoops! Most arXiv papers contain information never meant to be shared
  • 09 Jul 2026

Passwords, GPS coordinates and private conversations have all been found in the metadata and source files of millions of preprint submissions.

China boosts prestigious grants for young scientists — will it ease competition?
  • 03 Jul 2026

The National Natural Science Foundation of China says it will fund an extra 12,000 projects from this year.

Paper mill cancer studies get double the number of citations as genuine papers
  • 01 Jul 2026

Potentially fraudulent papers often cite each other and could be inflating the impact factor of journals in which they are published.

Europe as science superpower: what it will take to rival the US and China
  • 23 Jun 2026

Amid chaos in US science and geopolitical turmoil, Europe wants to position itself as a research haven — but questions about funding and innovation remain.

Tool flags suspicious journals before researchers submit papers
  • 11 Jun 2026

The free platform, called Journal Trends, could also allow integrity sleuths to spot low-quality publications.

Harvard loses first place in Nature Index
  • 10 Jun 2026

For the first time in a decade, the US university has lost its top position in the academic rankings, usurped by a Chinese institution.

Major changes to the Nature Index for 2026
  • 10 Jun 2026

The database has added publications from the applied and social sciences, while subjects will now be assigned by research article, not journal.