Company type | Privately held Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien with an Aktiengesellschaft as general partner |
---|---|
Industry | Publishing |
Founded | 2015 |
Headquarters |
London (global) Berlin (corporate) New York City (sales) |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Frank Vrancken Peeters ( CEO) |
Revenue | US$ 2.1 billion (2022) |
Owners |
|
Number of employees | 10,000 (2019) |
Website |
www |
Footnotes / references [1] |
Springer Nature or the Springer Nature Group [1] [2] is a German-British academic publishing company created by the May 2015 merger of Springer Science+Business Media and Holtzbrinck Publishing Group's Nature Publishing Group, Palgrave Macmillan, and Macmillan Education. [3]
The company originates from several journals and publishing houses, notably Springer-Verlag, which was founded in 1842 by Julius Springer in Berlin [4] (the grandfather of Bernhard Springer who founded Springer Publishing in 1950 in New York), [5] Nature Publishing Group which has published Nature since 1869, [6] and Macmillan Education, which goes back to Macmillan Publishers founded in 1843. [7]
Springer Nature was formed in 2015 by the merger of Nature Publishing Group, Palgrave Macmillan, and Macmillan Education (held by Holtzbrinck Publishing Group) with Springer Science+Business Media (held by BC Partners). Plans for the merger were first announced on 15 January 2015. [8] The transaction was concluded in May 2015 with Holtzbrinck having the majority 53% share. [9]
IPO attempts in May 2018 and Autumn 2020 [10] were unfruitful due to unfavorable market conditions. [11] [12]
In 2021, Springer Nature acquired Atlantis Press, an open access publisher founded in Paris in 2006, focusing on scientific, technical, and medical (STM) content, and publication of conference proceedings. [13] [14]
After the merger, former Springer Science+Business Media CEO Derk Haank became CEO of Springer Nature. [15] When he retired by the end of 2017, he was succeeded by Daniel Ropers, [16] the co-founder and long-time CEO of bol.com. [17] In September 2019, Ropers was replaced by Frank Vrancken Peeters. [18] [19]
The company is releasing several Policies & Reports, [20] including a Modern Slavery Act statement, a Tax strategy, and a gender pay gap report for Springer Nature's UK operations. [21] [22]
Springer Nature is a signatory of the SDG Publishers Compact, [23] [24] and has taken steps to support the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the publishing industry. [25] [26] [27] These include becoming carbon neutral as of 2020, [26] organizing its publications into 17 SDG-related content hubs, [28] [29] and launching thematic journals such as Nature Climate Change, Nature Energy, Nature Sustainability, [30] Nature Food, Nature Human Behaviour, Nature Water and Nature Cities (appearing 2024). [31] In 2014, the Nature Portfolio series of themed online journals was launched. [32]
Springer's journal Environment, Development, and Sustainability was one of six out of 100 journals to receive the highest possible "Five Wheel" impact rating [33] from the SDG Impact Intensity™ journal rating system, based on an analysis of data from 2016-2020 that assessed relevance to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). [34] [35]
The following major brands belong to the group (see also Subsidiaries): [36]
In 2017, the company agreed to block access to hundreds of articles on its Chinese site, cutting off access to articles related to Tibet, Taiwan, and China's political elite. [38] [39]
The company retracted a paper in 2019, in its journal BMC Emergency Medicine due to a dubious peer-review process (a herpetologist could have denied the publication of the paper). [40]
In August 2020, Springer Nature was reported to have rejected the publication of an article at the behest of its co-publisher, Wenzhou Medical University, from a Taiwanese doctor because the word "China" was not placed after "Taiwan". [41] [42]
In July 2020, Springer Nature retracted a paper in the journal Society due to a dubious review process and criticism regarding racism. [43]
In November 2021, Springer Nature retracted 44 nonsense papers from the Arabian Journal of Geosciences after a lapse in the peer review process. [44] [45]
In August 2023, after an investigation, Springer Nature retracted a paper that claimed there is no evidence of a global climate crisis. [46] [48]
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Company type | Privately held Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien with an Aktiengesellschaft as general partner |
---|---|
Industry | Publishing |
Founded | 2015 |
Headquarters |
London (global) Berlin (corporate) New York City (sales) |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Frank Vrancken Peeters ( CEO) |
Revenue | US$ 2.1 billion (2022) |
Owners |
|
Number of employees | 10,000 (2019) |
Website |
www |
Footnotes / references [1] |
Springer Nature or the Springer Nature Group [1] [2] is a German-British academic publishing company created by the May 2015 merger of Springer Science+Business Media and Holtzbrinck Publishing Group's Nature Publishing Group, Palgrave Macmillan, and Macmillan Education. [3]
The company originates from several journals and publishing houses, notably Springer-Verlag, which was founded in 1842 by Julius Springer in Berlin [4] (the grandfather of Bernhard Springer who founded Springer Publishing in 1950 in New York), [5] Nature Publishing Group which has published Nature since 1869, [6] and Macmillan Education, which goes back to Macmillan Publishers founded in 1843. [7]
Springer Nature was formed in 2015 by the merger of Nature Publishing Group, Palgrave Macmillan, and Macmillan Education (held by Holtzbrinck Publishing Group) with Springer Science+Business Media (held by BC Partners). Plans for the merger were first announced on 15 January 2015. [8] The transaction was concluded in May 2015 with Holtzbrinck having the majority 53% share. [9]
IPO attempts in May 2018 and Autumn 2020 [10] were unfruitful due to unfavorable market conditions. [11] [12]
In 2021, Springer Nature acquired Atlantis Press, an open access publisher founded in Paris in 2006, focusing on scientific, technical, and medical (STM) content, and publication of conference proceedings. [13] [14]
After the merger, former Springer Science+Business Media CEO Derk Haank became CEO of Springer Nature. [15] When he retired by the end of 2017, he was succeeded by Daniel Ropers, [16] the co-founder and long-time CEO of bol.com. [17] In September 2019, Ropers was replaced by Frank Vrancken Peeters. [18] [19]
The company is releasing several Policies & Reports, [20] including a Modern Slavery Act statement, a Tax strategy, and a gender pay gap report for Springer Nature's UK operations. [21] [22]
Springer Nature is a signatory of the SDG Publishers Compact, [23] [24] and has taken steps to support the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the publishing industry. [25] [26] [27] These include becoming carbon neutral as of 2020, [26] organizing its publications into 17 SDG-related content hubs, [28] [29] and launching thematic journals such as Nature Climate Change, Nature Energy, Nature Sustainability, [30] Nature Food, Nature Human Behaviour, Nature Water and Nature Cities (appearing 2024). [31] In 2014, the Nature Portfolio series of themed online journals was launched. [32]
Springer's journal Environment, Development, and Sustainability was one of six out of 100 journals to receive the highest possible "Five Wheel" impact rating [33] from the SDG Impact Intensity™ journal rating system, based on an analysis of data from 2016-2020 that assessed relevance to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). [34] [35]
The following major brands belong to the group (see also Subsidiaries): [36]
In 2017, the company agreed to block access to hundreds of articles on its Chinese site, cutting off access to articles related to Tibet, Taiwan, and China's political elite. [38] [39]
The company retracted a paper in 2019, in its journal BMC Emergency Medicine due to a dubious peer-review process (a herpetologist could have denied the publication of the paper). [40]
In August 2020, Springer Nature was reported to have rejected the publication of an article at the behest of its co-publisher, Wenzhou Medical University, from a Taiwanese doctor because the word "China" was not placed after "Taiwan". [41] [42]
In July 2020, Springer Nature retracted a paper in the journal Society due to a dubious review process and criticism regarding racism. [43]
In November 2021, Springer Nature retracted 44 nonsense papers from the Arabian Journal of Geosciences after a lapse in the peer review process. [44] [45]
In August 2023, after an investigation, Springer Nature retracted a paper that claimed there is no evidence of a global climate crisis. [46] [48]
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