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Nature Communications

Scientific journal

Scientific journal

FieldValue
titleNature Communications
coverNature_Communications_-_Journal_Cover.jpg
abbreviationNat. Commun.
disciplineNatural sciences
editorNathalie Le Bot, Stephane Larochelle, Enda Bergin, Prabhjot Saini
publisherNature Portfolio
history2010–present
frequencyContinuous
openaccessYes
licenseCreative Commons licenses
impact15.7
impact-year2024
eISSN2041-1723
CODENNCAOBW
OCLC614340895
websitehttps://www.nature.com/ncomms/
link1https://www.nature.com/ncomms/articles
link1-nameOnline access
link2https://www.nature.com/ncomms/volumes
link2-nameOnline archive

| impact-year = 2024 | link1-name = Online access | link2-name = Online archive

Nature Communications is a peer-reviewed, open access, scientific journal published by Nature Portfolio since 2010. It is a multidisciplinary journal that covers the natural sciences, including physics, chemistry, earth sciences, medicine, and biology. The journal has editorial offices in London, Berlin, New York City, and Shanghai.

The founding editor-in-chief was Lesley Anson, followed by Joerg Heber, Magdalena Skipper, and Elisa De Ranieri. the editors are Nathalie Le Bot for health and clinical sciences, Stephane Larochelle for biological sciences, Enda Bergin for chemistry and biotechnology, and Prabhjot Saini for physics and earth sciences. Starting October 2014, the journal only accepted submissions from authors willing to pay an article processing charge. Until the end of 2015, part of the published submissions were only available to subscribers. In January 2016, all content became freely accessible.

Starting from 2017, the journal offers a deposition service to authors for preprints of articles "under consideration" as part of the submission process.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

  • Science Citation Index Expanded
  • Current Contents/Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences
  • Current Contents/Life Sciences
  • Current Contents/Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences
  • The Zoological Record
  • BIOSIS Previews
  • Chemical Abstracts Service
  • Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed
  • Scopus According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2024 impact factor of 15.7.

Subjournals

In 2017, the creation of three "subjournals" under the Communications brand was announced: Communications Biology, Communications Chemistry, and Communications Physics. In the following years several additional Communications journals were established: Communications Materials in 2020, Communications Earth & Environment in 2020, Communications Medicine in 2021, Communications Engineering in 2022 and Communications Psychology in 2022.

These open-access journals offer a lower publication fee than Nature Communications, reflecting their more specialist remits. Manuscripts rejected by Nature Publishing Group journals can choose to transfer the manuscript together with reviewers' reports to the Communications-branded journals via an automated transfer service. Alternatively, authors may choose to request a fresh review.

References

References

  1. [http://www.nature.com/press_releases/naturecommunications.html Announcing Nature Communications - a multidisciplinary, online-only journal with an open-access option], Press release from Nature Publishing Group.
  2. "About the editors". Nature Publishing Group.
  3. "About the editors". Nature Publishing Group.
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  5. "Open Access". Nature Publishing Group.
  6. (2020). "Evolving our support for early sharing". Nature Publishing Group.
  7. "Master Journal List". [[Thomson Reuters]].
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  9. "Nature Communications". [[National Center for Biotechnology Information]].
  10. "Content overview". [[Elsevier]].
  11. (2025). "2024 Journal Citation Reports". [[Clarivate]].
  12. "Communications Biology". Macmillan Publishers – Springer Nature.
  13. "Communications Chemistry". Macmillan Publishers – Springer Nature.
  14. "Communications Physics". Macmillan Publishers – Springer Nature.
  15. "Communications Materials". Macmillan Publishers – Springer Nature.
  16. "Communications Earth & Environment". Macmillan Publishers – Springer Nature.
  17. "Communications Medicine". Macmillan Publishers – Springer Nature.
  18. "Communications Engineering". Macmillan Publishers – Springer Nature.
  19. "Communications Psychology". Macmillan Publishers – Springer Nature.
  20. "Nature Research open access journals". Macmillan Publishers – Springer Nature.
  21. "How to transfer manuscripts : authors & referees @ npg".
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