Author benefits

Our parent journal, Nature, is synonymous with editorial excellence and integrity, and as such we have a huge amount of experience and expertise to draw on.

Publishing with Nature Clinical Practice Cardiovascular Medicine provides an author with a wide range of benefits:

Online presence – reducing publication times

Nature Clinical Practice Cardiovascular Medicine aims to provide an initial decision within 1 week of submission, and a final decision within 8 weeks of submission.

Clinical Context commentaries

In line with the ethos of Nature Clinical Practice — translating the latest findings into clinical practice—we will not only showcase the latest clinical research, but also provide a forum for discussing what impact the new results will have on clinical practice in the context of recent literature. When appropriate, we will commission articles from experts in the field to put the findings into clinical context.

Weekly publication online

New original research articles in Nature Clinical Practice Cardiovascular Medicine will be published weekly ahead of the archival print issue, ensuring that the research is made available and can be cited as soon as possible after acceptance for publication. The online publication will be identical to the printed version and is not a preliminary, unedited version, thus maintaining the journal's tradition of excellence and the integrity of the published record.

Supplementary online material

Authors are invited to submit additional supporting material such as data sets or video for publication in the online version of the journal. Online supplementary material makes the most of the Web as a delivery platform and can often give articles greater depth, making them more useful to readers.

Quality

Authors who choose to publish in Nature Clinical Practice Cardiovascular Medicine can be assured of its staff's publishing, editorial and production skills, and that we are committed to maintaining the highest possible quality and standards.

Exposure – widest possible readership

Nature Clinical Practice Cardiovascular Medicine is available online via site licenses to academic, corporate and government institutions and consortia. Journals are available to members of these institutions at the click of a mouse, adding speed and visibility to authors' research papers.

Regular free e-mail alerts

Content published in Nature Clinical Practice Cardiovascular Medicine has the potential to reach cardiologists around the world who have signed up for our free table of contents e-alerts, ensuring additional exposure to authors. These e-alerts allow recipients to click through to the full article if they subscribe or work at an institution with a site license, or click through to the article's abstract for other readers.

Media coverage

The Nature press office provides information about exceptionally interesting papers published throughout NPG. Key papers submitted to Nature Clinical Practice Cardiovascular Medicine will be promoted via this channel. More than 2,000 journalists and media organizations worldwide subscribe to the press service, ensuring that papers receive maximum exposure in the world's most important media channels including newspapers, magazines, radio and television. Great papers deserve a great service, and promotion is crucial.

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