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• http://www.nature.com/naturemethods
• Editor: Veronique Kiermer
• Volume 4: 12 issues per year
• ISSN: 1548-7091
• EISSN: 1548-7105
• Impact factor : 15.478*
• Impact ranking: 1/60 Biochemical Research Methods*
• Date Established: October 2004
• Published on behalf of:

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 the readers are consistently presented with only the most valuable and highest quality methodological research.

Each month, the journal offers readers primary research papers, News and Views, Reviews, Literature highlights, Technology Features and Protocols. 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 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.

Issues of Nature Methods include the following sections:

• Articles and Brief Communications - Primary reports of novel cutting-edge methods. They present detailed descriptions of the new methods, including all technical details necessary for reproduction and results of validation studies to demonstrate advantages over existing approaches. The Articles and Brief Communications are rigorously peer-reviewed to ensure quality and usefulness of the new methods.
• Reviews and Perspectives - Authoritative and balanced overviews of methodologies. They are written by authorities in their field and have a strong functional component, highlighting practical questions that are likely to arise for researchers undertaking the application of the technology, and providing information to guide their choices. As such they constitute a reference that users will turn to again and again.
• Research Highlights - news features describing important and breaking technological developments from across the life sciences and chemistry, including both general and specialized pieces.
• Technology Features -Monthly overviews of technologies, including latest developments in academia and industry and information on relevant commercially available products (with suppliers' information and link to natureproducts)
• News and Views - Written by experts in their field, they put newly published papers in perspective with current and future applications as well as other developments in the literature.
• Protocols - detailed step-by-step descriptions of tried-and-tested techniques, including tips on troubleshooting, offering researchers a comprehensive resource to get the right results quickly.
• Application notes - short advertorial features that help readers stay abreast of new products or technologies.

What makes Nature Methods stand apart from other methodology journals?

• Quality and authority - papers are rigorously peer-reviewed and uphold the Nature tradition of excellence.
• Breadth and diversity - a broad editorial scope that appeals to scientists across the life sciences and chemistry and favors cross-fertilization of different disciplines.
• Novel methods - the first methodology journal to focus exclusively on high-impact new methods.
• Detail - papers include in-depth information, so the methods can be easily repeated.
• Timeliness - readers stay abreast of the latest technologies inside and outside of their own area of expertise.
• Global coverage -contributions from the international research community, including academic and industry research groups.

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 and RNA interference.
• Unique online functionality includes the Application Notes Database, a searchable resource of information from product suppliers.
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• Indexed in BIOBASE, BIOSIS, CAS, CSA, CAB Abstracts, EMBASE, Scopus, Current Contents, Science Citation Index and Medline (PubMed).

*2007 Journal Citation Report (Thomson Reuters, 2008)