Editorial: Introducing Surgery Open Science

Editorial: Introducing Registered Reports

The way we do science is rather stereotyped. We have hypotheses to test, and we plan the experiments, sometimes a long time ahead, to test these hypotheses. Writing a grant proposal is a typical example: we give a detailed plan of what we are going to do in the coming years. Of course, we never know how a project will evolve, and deviations from the original plan are commonplace, as milestones ...

Introducing editorial changes.

With the arrival of 2015, Nature Materials wishes to announce a few editorial changes. First, we will offer the option of a double-blind peer-review route — that is, the authors’ identities are not made available to the anonymous (from the authors’ point of view) reviewers. Until now, the peer-review process at Nature Materials has been singleblind, which means that the reviewers’ identities ar...

EDITORIAL Open Access Editorial

Over the last three decades, there has been increasing interest in exploiting sparseness constraints in signal processing, that is, searching for target signals with as few non-zero entries as possible. This approach was, perhaps, first exploited in the modelling of excitation signals in speech processing or reflectivity sequences in seismic deconvolution with only a small number of non-zero va...

Introducing JOSA A tutorials: editorial.

We describe the new tutorial article type in detail and give some background on the reasons for its introduction.

Introducing our new Editorial Board.