APhMS Special Seminar

**Refreshments outside Noyes at 3:45pm

Abstract:

The scientific publishing industry is at the center of scholarly research communication, academic tenure and promotion, and government science and technology policy. Researchers are faced with enduring pressures to publish or perish with increasing options from publishers, journals, and business models. The "Mechanics of Publishing" describes AIP Publishing's mission and journal products, presents an overview of the full publishing industry and the types of publishers, and explains the role of publishers in the scholarly communication enterprise. The modern publishing process is briefly discussed, along with careful delineation of article- and journal-level metrics that are commonplace descriptors of journals' impact, reach, and value.

More about the Speaker:

Dr. Brian Solis earned his PhD in chemistry from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2014 and received a Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at Humboldt University of Berlin. Since 2017, Dr. Solis has served as Journal Manager for 11 different journals at AIP Publishing. He is currently the Senior Journal Manager for the Applied Physics Portfolio, including Journal of Applied Physics and Applied Physics Letters.