We're thrilled to announce a lineup of fantastic enhancements that have recently been rolled out to enhance your experience on Nature Navigator. Here's a quick recap of what's new:

🏠 Live Homepage

Say hello to our dynamic, engaging live homepage! We've launched our homepage to introduce you and your colleagues to Navigator, to share what Navigator aims to do and what are the benefits. This can help spread the word if you intend to share Navigator with your colleagues.

🏫 Institution Ranking Data

Want to compare and contrast different organizations based on publication output effortlessly?

Our new benchmarking topics feature lets you do just that. Benchmarking topics compares different organizations mentioned on the documents included in the topic. It helps to identify those organizations leading in a certain sub-topic. Whether you're exploring trends in technology or delving into academic research, the Benchmarking topics tab empowers you to benchmark topics gaining valuable insights at a glance.

🔧 Expert Networks Loading Fixed

All expert networks will now load seamlessly without any issues. Bid farewell to the bug that was previously causing certain networks to not load. We appreciate your patience and continued support as we strive to enhance your experience.

🌗 Dark and Light Themes

We understand that everyone has their preferences when it comes to visual aesthetics. That's why we're excited to introduce options to view the Navigator in both dark and light themes! Whether you prefer a sleek, dark interface or a crisp, light one, you can now enjoy Navigator in a style that suits your taste.

Smaller improvements

Last but not least, the topics within "My Drafted Topics" are now sorted alphabetically

Other Links

Link to Featurebase

• Subscribe to our Changelog

• Share your feedback 

• Upvote your favorite features/ outcomes in Navigator here

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• New profile section with institution position by Share in overall, sector and subject tables

• Updated research section where all Count links go to filtered articles results behind the Count

• 5 year graph of Share output, viewable by overall Share, subjects and journal groups

• Improved collaboration section with top 5 domestic and international collaboration partners

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Improved Content Selection Journey for Your Next Topic

We improved the content selection journey for you by

• Providing A Simplified view of the grouped concepts from your input

• Enabling you to add synonyms during the creation process

  (Watch this loom to see what this update looks like)

• Warning you about the potential loss of progress if you backtrack within the topic creation flow

Streamlined Affiliation and Access to Nature Navigator

We've made it easy for you to connect your account to your organization so that

• You can use Nature Navigator even outside of your organizations network. Simply log in to Navigator once at work to start the process 🤝

• You can find topics specific to your Institution under "My Institute Topics"

• You can find "Public Topics" showcasing Springer Nature-created topics accessible to you

  

Improved Generation of Topic Anatomies for Your New Topics 💫

In the past, most topics had a 1st layer of classical fields of research in their anatomy, which caused confusing and miss-leading categorization. With the newest release we use full AI-powered clustering now on the first level of the topic anatomy.

Enhanced Security to Access Your Account in Nature Navigator

We've enabled SSO connection with Nature Navigator so that you can login to Nature Navigator via your organization's SSO (in case that is activated for you). 🔒

Feedback Driven Explorer Refinements

We've improved the default logic for the "All Publications" tab on each topic to showcase articles by relevance from high to low.

Other Links:

Link to Featurebase

• Subscribe to our Changelog

• Share your feedback 

• Upvote your favorite features/ outcomes in Navigator here

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Make informed research decisions based on real-time insights. 

Uncover research trends with Nature Navigator performing sophisticated analysis for you.

New Features Launched 💥

• Create your own Topic in Nature Navigator using the Content Selection Wizard

  • Users can select content sets to create new topics in Nature Navigator

• Better page structure of Explorer

  • We are restructuring all topic pages to better guide users to the concrete information they need.

• Automatic soft-updates!

  • Yes you're right, Navigator topics will automatically integrate new articles that belong to a topic on a monthly basis in the beginning with potential update in frequency later.

• Dedicated tab for All Publications 

  • You are already able to access key publications for each sub-topic. After this update, we will move the publication lists into their own tab and provide you with all publications in a sub-topic.

• Improved date logic

  • Every now and then, you might have seen publications with odd publication dates. Especially in timeline charts, those can become quite evident. Usually this is caused by conflicting publication dates in the raw data. We have improved our data logics to match an even larger number of articles to a more realistic publication date.

• Viewing Option on Expert Finder

  • Toggle between Card view and a List view to view your selected experts

• Use search to find researcher by name sneak peek 🔎 👥

  • Type the researcher name directly to select

• Enhanced Preview Mode 📚🧐

  • The preview mode to now include information on experts and all publications before publishing!

✨ Important Changes now Live ✨

• User account based access

  • In this first step users will just need to create an account to use Navigator

  • Subsequently, we will add features to those accounts see below:

    • Off-site access: Based on your user account and affiliation to your organization we will be able to grant you access to all your topics even when you are outside of your usual network.

    • Better interaction with topic creators: With more users creating topics on Nature Navigator there is a need to be able to contact and communicate with you about your next topic. User accounts will in future be the basis for that.

    • Personalized features: User accounts will provide you with more personalized features on our platform, e.g. saving something to a personal list.

On the Roadmap📍

• Search function - users can lookup Institutions from the topic data

• View Individual publications of a researcher on his/ her profile

• Better differentiate sub-topics in the topic anatomy by their size

• Automatically add summary text to explain each sub-topic

• Display volume of publications for a sub-topic

Other Links:

Link to Featurebase

• Subscribe to our Changelog

• Share your feedback 

• Upvote your favorite features/ outcomes in Navigator here

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We have deployed new templates to the homepage and institution and country/territory tables pages. The new templates include the following new features.

Homepage

• Improved search function which highlights search term in suggested results

• Top performing institution cards by sector, subject and region

• Related product carousel

Institution tables

• Generate tables by region, country/territory, sector, subject or journal group

• Sortable results by Share, Count or alphabetical order

• Control of number of rows to display per page

• Pagination

• Exportable tables for any filtered outputs

Country/territory tables

• Generate tables by region, subject or journal group

• Sortable tables by Share, Count or alphabetical order

• Control of number of rows to display per page

• Pagination

• Exportable tables for any filtered outputs

We are thrilled to share some exciting news regarding our product roadmap, as we continue to innovate and improve our offerings to meet your evolving needs.

Over the past months, our team has been listening to your valuable feedback and analyzing industry trends. As a result, we are updating our Expert Finder which is currently in the Beta phase. This is designed to enhance your user experience and maximize productivity. 

We understand that finding specific information quickly is crucial. With the new Expert Finder Tab in place we are developing a view that will enable you to find collaboration opportunities with ease and with a much comprehensive view. The old expert finder will remain in place for all topics at the moment.

Here is a sneak peek into how this is going to look. We will reach out with further updates and instructions as soon as this is Live in the next week or so.

• The new Navigation pane will have a dedicated tab for the Expert Finder

The Researcher details will be available in a card view. With filters at the sub-topic level and for the country and institution to help with navigation.  

We are thrilled to announce an enhancement to our product: alphabetical sorting feature that will help you navigate better. With this new upgrade topics are sorted in an alphabetical order by default. Find your topics with more ease with the new improved alphabetical sorting capability in Navigator.

Here are some key highlights of our new alphabetical sorting capability:

1. Our algorithm works tirelessly in the background to instantly arrange your data in alphabetical order, allowing you to swiftly access what you need, when you need it.

2. Whether you're a tech-savvy professional or a casual user, you'll find our interface intuitive and effortlessly navigate through your content.

We just published a new topic. Quantum Computing has grown exponentially in the recent past.

Feel free to dive into Quantum Computing to learn more about this topic.

Growth trajectory for Quantum Computing in the past

We are adding new topics to our library continuously. Don't hesitate to nominate more topics that you're interested in.