Laura Wei

Publisher for BPEX | 03/2023 – Present
• Conduct market analysis and collaborate with internal teams, senior publishers, and external EICs/EEBs to shape the journal's strategy.
• Manage daily communication with EICs and EEBs, ensuring top-tier service, driving innovation, and exploring new opportunities for development and collaboration.
• Engage with 60+ journal editors, 1 EIC, and 2 EEBs to support commissioning, promotion, peer review, and onboarding 16 new BMs.
• Partner with the marketing editor to plan and design journal promotion strategies through email campaigns and logo design.
Intern Program Manager | 10/2024 – Present
• Collaborated with senior management and HR to design the intern program.
• Created job descriptions, managed CV screening, and conducted interviews.
• Prepared program materials and set up a centralized team channel.

Assistant Editor |08/2020 – 02/2021

• Processed submissions and conducted peer reviews for over 260 articles, with more than 130 published.
Marketing Assistant |02/2021 – 02/2023

• Sourced and contacted over 300 academic events, partnering with 15 conferences.

• Published 10 articles on the WeChat account.
Co-Managing Editor – Journal of Molecular Pathogen |07/2022 – 02/2023

• Collaborated with the managing editor to shape and develop the strategy, targets, vision, and indexing.
• Managed relationships with current EICs and BMs, sourcing, and maintaining connections with new BMs.
• Delivered top-tier service to customers.
Section Managing Editor |02/2021 – 02/2023

• Conducted market analysis to track trends, challenges, and opportunities, collaborating with Section EICs and managers to develop growth strategies.
• Managed over 500 journal editors (BMs and TAPs), building relationships with 150 BMs and 30 TAPs.
Identified content gaps and developed a commissioning plan, resulting in the self-launch of 20 special issues, and 50+ and 30+ launched in two separate sections.
• Liaised with external stakeholders (reviewers, authors) to address and resolve issues.