Nature Communications

*Nature Communications*
Discipline	Natural sciences
Language	English
Edited by	Nathalie Le Bot, Stephane Larochelle, Enda Bergin, Prabhjot Saini
Publication details
History	2010–present
Publisher	Nature Portfolio
Frequency	Continuous
Open access	Yes
License	Creative Commons licenses
Impact factor	14.7 (2023)
Standard abbreviations;
ISO 4	Nat. Commun.
Indexing;
CODEN	NCAOBW
ISSN	2041-1723;
OCLC no.	614340895
Links
	Journal homepage; Online access; 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,^[1] followed by Joerg Heber,^[2] Magdalena Skipper, and Elisa De Ranieri.^[3] As of 2022,^[update] 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.^[4] 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.^[5]

Starting from 2017, the journal offers a deposition service to authors for preprints of articles "under consideration" as part of the submission process.^[6]

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

Science Citation Index Expanded^[7]
Current Contents/Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences^[7]
Current Contents/Life Sciences^[7]
Current Contents/Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences^[7]
The Zoological Record^[7]
BIOSIS Previews^[7]
Chemical Abstracts Service^[8]
Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed^[9]
Scopus^[10]

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2023 impact factor of 14.7.^[11]

Subjournals

In 2017, the creation of three "subjournals" under the Communications brand was announced: Communications Biology,^[12] Communications Chemistry,^[13] and Communications Physics.^[14] In the following years several additional Communications journals were established: Communications Materials in 2020,^[15] Communications Earth & Environment in 2020,^[16] Communications Medicine in 2021,^[17],Communications Engineering in 2022 ^[18] and Communications Psychology in 2022. ^[19]

These open-access journals offer a lower publication fee than Nature 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 the Communications-branded journals via an automated transfer service.^[21] Alternatively, authors may choose to request a fresh review.

References

^ Announcing Nature Communications - a multidisciplinary, online-only journal with an open-access option, Press release from Nature Publishing Group.
^ "About the editors". Nature Communications. Nature Publishing Group. Archived from the original on 10 June 2015. Retrieved 28 April 2019.
^ "About the editors". Nature Communications. Nature Publishing Group. Retrieved 28 April 2019.
^ "Editors". Nature Communications. Retrieved 11 November 2022.
^ "Open Access". Nature Communications. Nature Publishing Group. Archived from the original on 19 October 2009. Retrieved 21 November 2015.
^ "Evolving our support for early sharing". Nature Communications. 11 (1). Nature Publishing Group: 2959. 2020. doi:10.1038/s41467-020-16788-3. PMC 7296007. PMID 32541682.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Master Journal List". Intellectual Property & Science. Thomson Reuters. Archived from the original on 26 September 2017. Retrieved 27 September 2014.
^ "CAS Source Index". Chemical Abstracts Service. American Chemical Society. Archived from the original on 11 February 2010. Retrieved 26 March 2015.
^ "Nature Communications". NLM Catalog. National Center for Biotechnology Information. Retrieved 26 March 2015.
^ "Content overview". Scopus. Elsevier. Retrieved 26 March 2015.
^ "Nature Communications". 2023 Journal Citation Reports. Web of Science (Science ed.). Clarivate Analytics. 2024.
^ "Communications Biology". Macmillan Publishers – Springer Nature. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
^ "Communications Chemistry". Macmillan Publishers – Springer Nature. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
^ "Communications Physics". Macmillan Publishers – Springer Nature. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
^ "Communications Materials". Macmillan Publishers – Springer Nature. Retrieved 25 May 2022.
^ "Communications Earth & Environment". Macmillan Publishers – Springer Nature. Retrieved 25 May 2022.
^ "Communications Medicine". Macmillan Publishers – Springer Nature. Retrieved 25 May 2022.
^ "Communications Engineering". Macmillan Publishers – Springer Nature. Retrieved 25 May 2022.
^ "Communications Psychology". Macmillan Publishers – Springer Nature. Retrieved 8 May 2024.
^ "Nature Research open access journals". Macmillan Publishers – Springer Nature. Archived from the original on 3 October 2017. Retrieved 22 December 2017.
^ "How to transfer manuscripts : authors & referees @ npg". Nature. Archived from the original on 4 September 2017. Retrieved 11 February 2018.