Special Universe Talk: How to write a Nature paper

by Leslie Sage (Nature; U Maryland)

Friday 8 Apr 2016, 11:00 → 12:00 Europe/Berlin

New Seminar Room (MPI für extraterrestrische Physik (MPE), Giessenbachstrasse, Garching)

Nature is one of the world's leading scientific journals, publishing many papers that receive wide attention by the general public. But, Nature is very selective – <7% of submitted papers are published. In order to maximize your chances of getting published, papers should present fundamental new physical insights, or startling observations/results. Theory papers pose additional problems, as we want only those papers that are likely to be the correct explanation, and not simply exploring parameter space. The writing should be clear, concise and directed at the level of a graduate course in the subject. Leslie encourages authors to contact him in advance of submission of a paper, both to ascertain the appropriateness of the result for Nature, and to ensure that the writing is close to our standards. Posting to ArXiv is and always has been allowed, but authors should discuss the specifics with their institutional public affairs officers before doing so.