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Author: Dylan Parker

Publishing Director, Discover

It has been five years since the first Discover journals began publishing papers across many fields of research. Designed from the outset with community needs in mind, these journals have evolved to become a central part of a growing community. What started as a vision is now a thriving ecosystem of knowledge sharing, built upon the dedicated work of our editors and the trust of our authors.?

Representing the publishing team and editorial community supporting the Discover journals, I’m very proud to look back at what we’ve accomplished with the support of the research communities we serve. Let’s look at how we’ve been supporting impactful research over the past first five years and get insights from journal editors supporting Discover’s vision.

“I joined Discover Food and Discover Environment because I wanted to support platforms that connect different fields and promote quality research on complex issues in food systems and environmental sustainability. I also believe in?open access?science, which makes knowledge freely available and encourages real societal impact beyond academia.” —&苍产蝉辫;Charis M.?Galanakis?PhD, Editor in Chief of Discover Food and Discover Environment, Galanakis Laboratories, Chania, Greece 

Discover was?launched with a simple mission:?To create broad-scope,?high?quality journals that represent and fully include all members of the research communities that they serve.?Now, as we celebrate the fifth anniversary of our first journals, we are struck by how much the community supporting Discover has grown.  

Here are the 13 Discover journals that are celebrating their five-year anniversary , , , , ,   , ,  , , 

“What drew me to Discover Mental Health was the vision behind the series itself: broad-scope, community-driven, and genuinely open. Mental health research sits at the intersection of so many disciplines, and I wanted to help shape a home where that breadth could be celebrated.” 
—&苍产蝉辫;Professor Ma-Li Wong MD, PhD, Editor-in-Chief, Discover Mental Health, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, United States?

Discover journals serve authors from all countries across the globe, publishing articles that advance knowledge and prompt social discussion. On this five-year anniversary, we recognise the momentum?we’ve?gathered to shape the next chapter of inclusive scholarly communication in the future.

Making research meaningful: Visibility for inclusive research

Nearly all of the first Discover journals are now fully indexed in Scopus, and the majority are already included in Web of Science (R) and have Impact Factors. As fully open access journals, this broad indexing increases further the visibility and discoverability of the research our journals publish and reflects the dedicated work of our editorial boards.

By becoming the Editor-in-Chief of Discover Psychology, I have been working on increasing submissions from both Western and non-Western countries, including Pacific Islands, Latin America, Southeast Asia, and Africa. I am now proud to say our editors, reviewers, and authors come from?different parts?of the world. And this is still working in progress. Our team is still expanding?more and more?to other regions of the world, to reflect on?the status?of psychology research and practice in other countries.” 

—&苍产蝉辫;Prof. Ahmed Moustafa?PhD, Editor-in-Chief, Discover Psychology, Bond?University, Gold Coast, Australia

Over the past five years, more than 3,000 editorial board members from over 100 countries have joined these journals. This demonstrates how our journals are fulfilling our mission to provide a home for all valid research from researchers everywhere across the globe.  

Even more exciting is that these journals represent the first generation of the many titles we have continued to introduce to serve all fields of research. With over 70 Discover journals, we support more researchers and more communities across the world.

“The need for sustainable development research is becoming even greater, especially due to the urgent need to address many of the current socio-economic problems seen today. Discover Sustainability will continue to play a key role?in documenting?and promoting scholarly research, being one of the journals of choice to the sustainability community.”? 

—&苍产蝉辫;Walter Leal?Filho?PhD, Editor-in-Chief, Discover Sustainability, HAW Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany? 

Societal impact across Discover journals: Explore articles from the past five years

Discover journals would be nothing without the authors who choose to publish with us. Over the past five years, Discover articles helped shape the inclusive publishing landscape our journals aim to fulfil, and have had measurable impact in their communities. 

One way of measuring this impact is by articles’ Altmetric score. Altmetrics offer a valuable way to understand the broader impact of research beyond traditional citations. They capture attention from news outlets, blogs, social media, Wikipedia, policy documents, and more.  

Altmetric scores are naturally shaped by trending social topics and can vary widely across disciplines, so we recommend they be interpreted within that broader context. At Discover we aim to highlight to contributions that all research can make to both science and society and consider Altmetric scores an important complementary perspective on research influence.

Here’s a taste of leading papers from various Discover journals (with their Altmetric scores): 

Yu-Hsiang Shih et al., Discover Oncology.

Brian D. Richter et al., Discover Water.

Vazrick Nazari et al., Discover Food.

R. Bhagar et al., Discover Mental Health.  ?

Nafiseh Ghaffar Nia et al., Discover Artificial Intelligence.

Jonas Isakovic et al., Discover Materials.

“I hope to see the journal continue broadening its reach into interdisciplinary and translational work, and to become a place where early-career researchers and colleagues from underrepresented regions feel genuinely at home.?Ultimately, I'd?like the research we publish to move more quickly from page to practice,?benefiting?the people and communities who need it most.”? 

—&苍产蝉辫;Professor Ma-Li Wong MD, PhD, Editor-in-Chief, Discover Mental Health, SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, United States? 

The journey continues: To the next years of Discover journals 

Five years have passed quickly and Discover journals have evolved rapidly in that time. I am grateful to each and every author that has chosen to publish with us, and to our editors and board members who support those authors in finding a home for their research with Discover. When I see what we have done since our first journals launched, it makes me excited to see what will come in the next five years, and many more to come.

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