Springer Nature

Springer Nature is a German-British academic publishing company, created in May 2015 by merging Springer Science+Business Media with the Nature Publishing Group, Palgrave Macmillan and Macmillan Education, which had been held by the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. The group draws on much older roots: Springer-Verlag was founded by Julius Springer in Berlin in 1842, the Nature Publishing Group has published the journal Nature since 1869, and Macmillan Education goes back to Macmillan Publishers, founded in 1843. Holtzbrinck took the majority share of 53 percent in the merged company. Its brands include Nature, Springer.com, BioMed Central, Heinrich Vogel Verlag and SciGraph. Attempts to float the company on the stock market in 2018 and 2020 failed because of unfavorable market conditions. Frank Vrancken Peeters has been chief executive since September 2019.