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Nature Communications

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{{Infobox journal

| title = Nature Communications

| cover = Nature_Communications_-_Journal_Cover.jpg

| formernames =

| abbreviation = Nat. Commun.

| discipline = Natural sciences

| editor = Nathalie Le Bot, Stephane Larochelle, Enda Bergin, Prabhjot Saini

| publisher = Nature Portfolio

| country =

| history = 2010–present

| frequency = Continuous

| openaccess = Yes

| license = Creative Commons licenses

| impact = 14.7

| impact-year = 2023

| eISSN = 2041-1723

| CODEN = NCAOBW

| JSTOR =

| LCCN =

| OCLC = 614340895

| website = https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

| link1 = https://www.nature.com/ncomms/articles

| link1-name = Online access

| link2 = https://www.nature.com/ncomms/volumes

| 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,[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. followed by Joerg Heber,{{cite web |url=http://www.nature.com/ncomms/about_eds/index.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150610000921/http://www.nature.com/ncomms/about_eds/index.html |url-status=live |archive-date=10 June 2015 |title=About the editors |work=Nature Communications |publisher=Nature Publishing Group |access-date=2019-04-28 |df=dmy-all}} Magdalena Skipper, and Elisa De Ranieri.{{cite web |url=https://www.nature.com/ncomms/about/editors |title=About the editors |work=Nature Communications |publisher=Nature Publishing Group |access-date=2019-04-28 |df=dmy-all}} {{asof|2022|post=,}} 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.{{Cite web |title=Editors |url=https://www.nature.com/ncomms/editors |access-date=2022-11-11 |website=Nature Communications }}

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.{{cite web |url=http://www.nature.com/ncomms/open_access/index.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091019184541/http://www.nature.com/ncomms/open_access/index.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=19 October 2009 |title=Open Access |work=Nature Communications |publisher=Nature Publishing Group |access-date=2015-11-21 |df=dmy-all }}

Starting from 2017, the journal offers a deposition service to authors for preprints of articles "under consideration" as part of the submission process.{{cite journal |title=Evolving our support for early sharing |journal=Nature Communications |year=2020 |volume=11 |issue=1 |page=2959 |publisher=Nature Publishing Group |doi=10.1038/s41467-020-16788-3 |pmid=32541682 |pmc=7296007 }}

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

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According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2023 impact factor of 14.7.{{cite book|title=2023 Journal Citation Reports|title-link=Journal Citation Reports|publisher=Clarivate Analytics|year=2024|edition=Science|series=Web of Science|chapter=Nature Communications}}

Subjournals

In 2017, the creation of three "subjournals" under the Communications brand was announced: Communications Biology,{{Cite web |url=https://www.nature.com/commsbio/ |title=Communications Biology |publisher=Macmillan Publishers – Springer Nature |access-date=2017-12-22}} Communications Chemistry,{{Cite web |url=https://www.nature.com/commschem/ |title=Communications Chemistry |publisher=Macmillan Publishers – Springer Nature |access-date=2017-12-22}} and Communications Physics.{{Cite web |url=https://www.nature.com/commsphys/ |title=Communications Physics |publisher=Macmillan Publishers – Springer Nature|access-date=2017-12-22}} In the following years several additional Communications journals were established: Communications Materials in 2020,{{Cite web |url=https://www.nature.com/commsmat/ |title=Communications Materials |publisher=Macmillan Publishers – Springer Nature |access-date=2022-05-25}} Communications Earth & Environment in 2020,{{Cite web |url=https://www.nature.com/commsenv/ |title=Communications Earth & Environment |publisher=Macmillan Publishers – Springer Nature |access-date=2022-05-25}} Communications Medicine in 2021,{{Cite web |url=https://www.nature.com/commsmed/ |title=Communications Medicine |publisher=Macmillan Publishers – Springer Nature |access-date=2022-05-25}},Communications Engineering in 2022 {{Cite web |url=https://www.nature.com/commseng/ |title=Communications Engineering |publisher=Macmillan Publishers – Springer Nature |access-date=2022-05-25}} and Communications Psychology in 2022. {{Cite web |url=https://www.nature.com/commspsychol/ |title=Communications Psychology |publisher=Macmillan Publishers – Springer Nature |access-date=2024-05-08}}

These open-access journals offer a lower publication fee than Nature Communications, reflecting their more specialist remits.{{Cite web |url=https://www.nature.com/openresearch/publishing-with-npg/nature-journals/ |title=Nature Research open access journals |publisher=Macmillan Publishers – Springer Nature |access-date=2017-12-22 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171003182644/https://www.nature.com/openresearch/publishing-with-npg/nature-journals/ |archive-date= 2017-10-03}} 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.{{Cite web |url=http://www.nature.com/authors/author_resources/transfer_manuscripts.html |title=How to transfer manuscripts : authors & referees @ npg |website=Nature |access-date=2018-02-11 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170904092330/http://www.nature.com/authors/author_resources/transfer_manuscripts.html |archive-date= 2017-09-04}} Alternatively, authors may choose to request a fresh review.

See also

References

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External links

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