A joint author's seminar on "Preparing scientific article for an authoritative magazine" was organized by the “Springer Nature” international publishing house and the Science Development Fund under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan (SDF).
     The event, which was held at the Central Scientific Library of ANAS, was attended by employees of scientific institutions and organizations of the Academy, representatives of Azerbaijan’s higher education institutions, young scientists, specialists and others.
     SDF Executive Director, PhD in Physics-Mathematics Elchin Babayev opened the seminar. He touched upon the importance of international scientific research in our country, the promotion of Azerbaijani science in the world, and the conditions created for the printing of the scientific results of our scientists in the leading impact factor journals.
     He stressed the importance of writing scientific articles in accordance with modern standards and cooperation with Springer Nature would be useful for Azerbaijani scientists.
     Speaking at the event, CSL Director, PhD in medicine Leyla Imanova noted that they cooperated with the Science Development Fund to enrich the National Digital Memory Base.
     In 2014, 20 articles were published, and in 2015, 60 articles were withdrawn from the “Springer” scientific base during the re-evaluation of the company's experts and called on scientists to be careful about the article, L.Imanova said.
     Merve Okur Karagül, “Springer Nature” company’s Licensing Manager, represented the profile and spoke about the results of research in Azerbaijan, as well as prospects of Azerbaijan and “Springer Nature” cooperation. “Springer Nature” is the world's leading academic and educational publishing house that serves the needs of researchers, students, teachers and professionals. Each year “Springer Nature” handle more than 1 million article submissions and publish around 300,000 articles across almost 3,000 journals and 13,000 books, she said.
     During the workshop, “Springer Nature”'s sales director, Shahin Girayise, trained two sessions on how to become an effective co-ordinator and writing an article manuscript, as well as the selection of the right journal and the presentation of the scientific article.
     At the end of the meeting questions were answered.