Writing for and publishing in high impact journals – In-person event

Ever wondered what goes on in the mind of a journal editor when they are interpreting referee reports and making decisions on your paper, if cover letters are really import, or how to effectively ‘appeal’ a negative decision?

In this discussion the editorial process at Nature Research Journals will be discussed, with an emphasis on Nature Photonics, but the themes are applicable to other competitive journals. We will discuss Open Access, what is important to say in cover letters, abstract writing, how to appeal decisions, and alternative types of publishing opportunities like Reviews & Commentary. Submission and acceptance rate data will be shown, along with geographic trends. Do not hesitate to bring tough questions.

Speaker

David F.P. Pile

David received a PhD in physics, in the area of diffraction theory, from Queensland University of Technology in 2003 (supervisor: Dmitri Gramotnev; associate supervisor: Gerard Milburn) and was then a JSPS postdoctoral research fellow in the University of Tokushima under Prof. Masuo Fukui (discoverer of long-range surface plasmons and a mentor to Nobel laureate Prof. Shuji Nakamura).

From 2006 David spent two years as an associate-researcher and was plasmonics group leader in Xiang Zhang's (now president at Hong Kong University) at UC Berkeley, working on a range of topics including linear and nonlinear optics, slow-light & metamaterials. David has about 6000 citations, an h-index of 24 and i10-index of 34 and has been an editor at Nature Photonics since 2008, originally based in Tokyo, then San Francisco since 2010, and Australia since June 2022. He is also a visiting researcher at Queens College, City University of New York since 2015, and was an executive board member for the Palo Alto chapter of the Association for Women in Science (AWIS) in 2021/22.

Who should attend

Early and mid-career researchers (EMCRs)

Location

14-132 – Sir Llew Edwards Building, Learning Theatre, St Lucia campus