Nature

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  • http://www.nature.com/nature/
  • Editor: Dr Philip Campbell
  • Volume 445-450: 51 issues per year
  • ISSN: 0028-0836
  • EISSN: 1476-4687
  • Impact factor : 28.751*
  • Impact ranking: 1/50 in Multidisciplinary Sciences*
  • Date Established: 1869
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No. 1 journal in Multidisciplinary Sciences

Aims and Scope:
Nature is a weekly international journal publishing the finest peer-reviewed research in all fields of science and technology on the basis of its originality, importance, interdisciplinary interest, timeliness, accessibility, elegance and surprising conclusions. Nature also provides rapid, authoritative, insightful and arresting news and interpretation of topical and coming trends affecting science, scientists and the wider public.

Nature is a weekly distillation of the best in science: landmark papers, cutting-edge issues, leading comment and broad opinion of important, topical scientific events. The content throughout is brief and focused to enable busy readers to absorb it efficiently. Nature aims to be informative, stimulating and accessible to scientists in any discipline about what is new and upcoming in all scientific disciplines, as well as publishing the leading research papers in their own fields. It also provides lay readers who have an interest in science the best possible perspective of the scientific world.

Readership:
Nature is essential reading for all those working in science or with an interest in science, across all scientific disciplines.

Online features and site license access:

  • Online archive available back to 1869.
  • A site licence provides access to all content published during the supply period. Access is granted to a further rolling four-year archive during the supply period only. Archive content not included in the license agreement is available to purchase.
  • Special web focus issues have included New Horizons in Cancer Research, Brain-machine Interfaces and Future of Computing.
  • Users have access to all the online features of nature.com click here for details.
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  • Nature is indexed in all the major abstracting and indexing services.

*2007 Journal Citation Report (Thomson Reuters, 2008)

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