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Nature (magazine)
''Nature'' is a British weekly scientific journal founded and based in London, England. As a multidisciplinary publication, ''Nature'' features peer-reviewed research from a variety of academic disciplines, mainly in science and technology. It has core editorial offices across the United States, continental Europe, and Asia under the international scientific publishing company Springer Nature. ''Nature'' was one of the world's most cited scientific journals by the Science Edition of the 2019 '' Journal Citation Reports'' (with an ascribed impact factor of 42.778), making it one of the world's most-read and most prestigious academic journals. , it claimed an online readership of about three million unique readers per month. Founded in autumn 1869, ''Nature'' was first circulated by Norman Lockyer and Alexander Macmillan as a public forum for scientific innovations. The mid-20th century facilitated an editorial expansion for the journal; ''Nature'' redoubled its efforts in e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magdalena Skipper
Magdalena Skipper is a British geneticist and the editor-in-chief of the journal ''Nature''. She previously served as an editor of ''Nature Reviews Genetics'' and the open access journal ''Nature Communications''. Education Skipper obtained a bachelor's degree in genetics at the University of Nottingham.Magda Skipper's She completed her PhD in 1998 at the University of Cambridge, where she worked in Jonathan Hodgkin's lab investigating sex-determination systems in the nematode worm ''Caenorhabditis elegans''. She is a member of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. Career and research After completing her PhD she joined the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology (LMB) at the University of Cambridge. She briefly worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, working on the notch signaling pathway of zebrafish in gut development. Skipper joined ''Nature'' in 2001 as an associate editor for ''Nature Reviews Genetics''. During her e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
