Title:
What are the members of the Nature journals family and how do I get published in them?

Abstract:
Sitting alongside the main Nature journal, there is a wide selection of research journals that cover both established and rapidly developing research fields (from ecology and evolution, to human behaviour, physics and geoscience) and the flagship open access journal Nature Communications. In this talk I will cover the motivation and scope of both Nature proper and the Nature research journals, the types of manuscripts we publish, and what we look for in papers. We offer a range of services to our authors, which I will also discuss. In the last part of this talk, I will cover common pitfalls of writing and submitting papers and I will share hints and tips on how to maximize the impact of a scientific paper, from writing an engaging but informative title and a properly contextualized but concise abstract, to structuring a paper in a way that scientific results are communicated succinctly.

Short bio:
Marios Karouzos is an associate editor for the Nature research journal 'Nature Astronomy'. He acquired his undergraduate degree in Physics from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. He then moved to Germany, where he acquired a doctoral degree from the University of Cologne and the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy. His field of expertise is astronomy and astrophysics with a focus on galaxies and the supermassive black holes that reside in them. For his research, Marios has used telescopes around the world and in space and theoretical models to explain how supermassive black holes may impact their surroundings. He has published more than 20 peer-reviewed papers on the topic, more than 10 of which as a first author. Since 2016, he has been working as an editor for Springer Nature and is one of the editors that launched 'Nature Astronomy' in 2017. Drawing from his experience as an author and editor, he has delivered several talks about how to write!
impactful papers in the UK and abroad.