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It was definitely one of the best experiences I've had in publishing.
The Science Journal for Kids team are performing valuable public service by delivering science in an engaging mode for our school children to learn and discover with their inquisitive minds.
Fast, intelligent, painless.
Your passion for making science exciting for kids and seeing some of your prior work encouraged me to do this with my somewhat technical and more policy oriented research. I never thought this specific paper, if not the topic of waste to energy itself, could be made as exciting and fun as it reads now for kids. Great work.
Our "Plastic Not Fantastic Summer Science Exhibit" won Imperial College's President's Achievement Award for Excellence in Societal Engagement. The SJK article that we did on ocean plastics was a key part of our engagement strategy, and therefore a great contributing factor in the award. Thank you again for helping us with the adaptation and for so relentlessly promoting it on Social Media.
The writing style was refreshing - wish we could write like that in the adult journals. Editing was efficient and responsive to feedback. I was happy with the way you extracted the message.
I decided to publish in Science Journal for Kids because it seemed a good outreach opportunity (funders are always looking for science to have impact beyond the scientific community). And as a Dad, it seemed a great idea to enhance Kids science education. It was fun working with Tanya and Erin to write a piece in a totally different style to that I'm used to. I like the nice cartoons and visually-appealing format.
I enjoyed the prompt correspondence and fairly fast processing of the jobs.
Unlike most of my experiences with the media, I felt like I had control over what the final product said, which is so important when so often your message gets twisted and miscommunicated by other channels. Plus, scientists rarely get to play around with fun graphics.
Thanks to the support of a wide variety of researchers and institutions, we have adapted more than 100 peer-reviewed papers for a younger audience. This list is a small selections of our past collaborations.
Researcher | Affiliation | Original paper | Funding | Adaptation |
Justin Lessler | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health | Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation | ||
Andrew Plumptre | Cambridge University | Wildlife Conservation Society | ||
Eli Fenichel | Yale University | Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies | ||
Ellen Simms & Kim La Pierre | University of California, Berkeley | Smithsonian Environmental Research Center | ||
Andrea L. Graham & Jacqueline Leung | Princeton University | Princeton University | ||
Daniel Pauly | University of British Columbia | Sea Around Us | ||
Aron Stubbins | University of Georgia | Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation | ||
Aurélie Duchez | National Oceanography Centre | Natural Environment Research Council, UK | ||
Paul Newman | NASA | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | ||
Dan McKenney | Canadian Forest Service | Natural Resources Canada | ||
Kevin Mortimer | Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine | Medical Research Council, UK | ||
Jeff Melkonian | Cornell University | Cornell College of Agriculture and Life Sciences | ||
Gary Shepherd | National Marine Fisheries Service | NOAA | ||
Alexander Pfeiffer | Oxford University | Inter-American Development Bank |
