About us

Scientific Computing World is Europe's only publication dedicated to the computing and information technology needs of professionals working in science, technology, engineering, and medicine. Published in print and electronic media, it covers all aspects of computing for engineering, science, technology and medicine, from the way in which the latest software is revolutionising research to the practicalities of new product installations.

In 2007, the print magazine Scientific Computing World entered its 14th year of publication, underlining its position as a market-leading title in this key sector. Published six times per year since 1994, it has a circulation of nearly 20,000 and so, with a pass on readership of four for every copy sent out, reaches around 80,000 readers.

SCnewsline

SCnewsline is a monthly e-mailed newsletter that keeps thousands of scientists and engineers in regular touch with breaking news and events in technology, research, and the business world as it affects scientific computing. It reaches nearly 16,000 recipients every month.

www.scientific-computing.com

Our website, www.scientific-computing.com, is increasingly popular with visitor numbers climbing month by month. It carries web-exclusive material, including reviews of scientific software, and is updated on a daily basis.

In all media, Scientific Computing World reports on and analyses the application of computing to science, technology and medicine, focusing on engineering, design, research, development, testing, and laboratory analysis (including QA/QC). The publications carry news, comment, feature articles, product news, and the website is particularly known for its authoritative software reviews – especially in the areas of maths/stats software. All media also cover Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS), and computing in engineering, chemistry, physics, and life sciences.

The Scientific Computing World family of titles thus does not deal with developments in computer science or technology per se, but with the use of computers and information technology to make science and engineering faster, easier, and cheaper.

Editorial policy

Scientific Computing World is a trade and technical publication, not a learned journal. So it publishes articles and not papers. As the readers are not compelled to read anyone's contribution, we try to make each article as interesting and as comprehensible as possible. Our policy is to get scientists, engineers and practitioners or expert journalists to write the features, so that readers are assured that what they are reading is coming from people with experience of the topic. In dealing with PR companies representing their clients' interests, we do like to stress the requirement that we must get the authentic 'hands-on' and not a more superficial treatment. We are interested in a serious look at future scientific applications of computing and we have an obligation to our readers to ensure that our editorial content is not an advertising 'puff' for any one company!

All articles are edited to ensure that they conform to our House Style. Spellings are British and not American English. We also adopt English typography. Thus it is our style to place product or company names in lower case with an initial capital – so a product called THE BETTER MOUSETRAP will appear in our publications as The Better Mousetrap.

Europa Science Ltd

Scientific Computing World is produced by Europa Science Ltd, a UK-based company which also publishes three other titles, all in print and electronic forms:

• Research Information, a publication aimed at European professionals working with the online collation, distribution and management of scientific, technical and medical information.
• Electro Optics, Europe's longest-running publication for the photonics industry.
• Imaging & Machine Vision Europe, Europe's only dedicated publication for design and production engineers working in the industrial imaging and machine vision markets.

All four titles come under the overall editorship of Dr Tom Wilkie. Tom began his career in mathematics and theoretical physics, before working for the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency. He joined the staff of New Scientist magazine as a senior editor before becoming the Science Editor of the newly-launched Independent newspaper in London, UK, where he won several awards for science writing.

He is the author of three books: British Science and Politics Since 1945 (Basil Blackwell, 1991); Perilous Knowledge – the Human Genome Project and its Implications (Faber and Faber, 1993); and (co-author with Mark Rosselli) Visions of Heaven – The Mysteries of the Universe Revealed by the Hubble Space Telescope (Hodder and Stoughton, 1998).

Company information

Europa Science Ltd
Registered office:
The Spectrum Building, Michael Young Centre
Purbeck Road, Cambridge CB2 8PD, UK.

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