Abbreviated title (ISO 4) Nat. Commun. Language English Publication history 2010-present | Discipline Natural sciences Edited by Joerg Heber | |
Publisher Nature Publishing Group | ||
Nature Communications is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal published by the Nature Publishing Group since 2010. It covers the natural sciences, including physics, chemistry, Earth sciences, and biology.
The editor-in-chief was Joerg Heber. The founding editor-in-chief was Lesley Anson. The journal has editorial offices in London, New York City, and Shanghai.
Starting October 2014, the journal only accepted submissions from authors willing to pay an article processing charge, and until the end of 2015, part of the published submissions were only available to subscribers. In January 2016, all content became freely accessible to the public.
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2015 impact factor of 11.329.