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| Discipline | Natural sciences |
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| Language | English |
| Edited by | Nathalie Le Bot, Stephane Larochelle, Enda Bergin, Prabhjot Saini |
| Publication details | |
| History | 2010–present |
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| Frequency | Continuous |
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| License | Creative Commons licenses |
| 15.7 (2024) | |
| Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt  ) | |
| ISO 4 | Nat. Commun. |
| Indexing CODEN (alt) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L | |
| CODEN | NCAOBW |
| ISSN | 2041-1723 |
| OCLC no. | 614340895 |
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Nature Communications is apeer-reviewed,open access,scientific journal published byNature Portfolio since 2010. It is a multidisciplinary journal that covers thenatural sciences, includingphysics,chemistry,earth sciences,medicine, andbiology. The journal has editorial offices in London, Berlin, New York City, and Shanghai.
The foundingeditor-in-chief was Lesley Anson,[1] followed byJoerg Heber,[2]Magdalena Skipper, andElisa De Ranieri.[3] As of 2022,[update] the editors areNathalie 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.[4]Starting October 2014, the journal only accepted submissions from authors willing to pay anarticle 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.[5]
Starting from 2017, the journal offers a deposition service to authors forpreprints of articles "under consideration" as part of the submission process.[6]
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
According to theJournal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2024impact factor of 15.7.[11]
In 2017, the creation of three "subjournals" under theCommunications brand was announced:Communications Biology,[12]Communications Chemistry,[13] andCommunications Physics.[14] In the following years several additionalCommunications journals were established:Communications Materials in 2020,[15]Communications Earth & Environment in 2020,[16]Communications Medicine in 2021,[17],Communications Engineering in 2022[18] andCommunications Psychology in 2022.[19]
These open-access journals offer a lower publication fee thanNature Communications, reflecting their more specialist remits.[20] Manuscripts rejected by Nature Publishing Group journals can choose to transfer the manuscript together with reviewers' reports to theCommunications-branded journals via an automated transfer service.[21] Alternatively, authors may choose to request a fresh review.
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