Springer Nature or the Springer Nature Group 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.

History

The company originates from a number of journals and publishing houses, notably Springer-Verlag, which was founded in 1842 by Julius Springer in Berlin (the grandfather of Bernhard Springer who founded Springer Publishing in 1950 in New York), Nature Publishing Group which has published '' Nature'' since 1869, and Macmillan Education, which goes back to Macmillan Publishers founded in 1843. 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. The transaction was concluded in May 2015 with Holtzbrinck having the majority 53% share. IPO attempts in May 2018 and Autumn 2020 were unfruitful due to unfavorable market conditions.

Current company

After the merger, former Springer Science+Business Media

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. In September 2019, Ropers was replaced by

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report for Springer Nature’s UK operations, Editorial and publishing policies, Code of conduct, etc.

Brands

The following major brands belong to the group (see also Subsidiaries): * '' Nature'' *

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* BioMed Central * Scientific American * Heinrich Vogel Verlag * SciGraph

Controversies

In 2017, the company agreed to block access to hundreds of articles on its Chinese site, cutting off access to articles on Tibet, Taiwan, and China's political elite. The company retracted a paper in 2019, in its journal ''BMC Emergency Medicine'' due to dubious peer-review process (a herpetologist could have denied the publication of the paper). 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." In July 2020, Springer Nature retracted a paper in the journal '' Society'' due to dubious review process and criticism regarding racism. In November 2021, Springer Nature retracted 44 nonsense papers from the ''Arabian Journal of Geosciences'' after a lapse in the peer review process.

Subsidiaries

References

External links

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