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• http://www.nature.com/naturemethods
• Editor: Veronique Kiermer
• Volume 5: 12 issues per year
• ISSN: 1548-7091
• EISSN: 1548-7105
• Impact factor : 13.651*
• Impact ranking: 1/65 Biochemical Research Methods*
• Date Established: October 2004

No. 1 journal in Biochemical Research Methods

Aims and Scope:
Nature Methods offers a unique interdisciplinary forum for the publication of novel methods. Nature Methods focuses on the life sciences and related areas of chemistry, combining practical, techniques-driven subject matter with rigorous peer-review standards to ensure that readers are consistently presented with only the most valuable and highest quality methodological research.

The journal offers readers primary research papers, News and Views, Reviews, Literature highlights, Commentaries, Correspondence and Technology Features. Nature Methods places strong emphasis on immediate practical relevance enabling readers to readily adopt described methods. Nature Methods strives to present work from a broad range of disciplines, so that readers may benefit from exposure to technical advances outside their area of study.

Readership:
Nature Methods reaches a broad international audience and is most directly targeted at a readership actively engaged in planning and analyzing experiments and working at the bench. Nature Methods offers content of value and interest to investigators throughout the biomedical research industry and to scientists and academic institutions, ranging from technical staff and students to post-doctoral fellows and faculty.

Online features and site license access:

• Online archive available back to October 2004.
• A site license 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 fluorescence imaging, RNA interference, mass spectrometry, and single-molecule analysis.
• Unique online functionality includes the Application Notes Database, a searchable resource of information from product suppliers. Plus Methagora- a community forum which includes regular discussion on methodological topics.
• Indexed in BIOBASE, BIOSIS, CAS, CSA, CAB Abstracts, EMBASE, Scopus, Current Contents, Science Citation Index and Medline (PubMed).

*2008 Journal Citation Report (Thomson Reuters, 2009)