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AIMS AND SCOPE OF JOURNAL
Nature Medicine is a biomedical research journal devoted to publishing the latest and most exciting advances in biomedical research for scientists and physicians, with an emphasis on clarity of presentation. Articles cover fields such as cancer biology, cardiovascular research, gene therapy, immunology, vaccine development, and neuroscience, aiming to keep Ph.D. and M.D. readers informed of a wide range of biomedical research findings. Original research articles published in Nature Medicine range from basic findings that have clear implications for disease pathogenesis and therapy to the earliest phases of human investigation, and are submitted from research groups at universities, independent research institutions, and biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries world-wide. As a cross-disciplinary journal at the heart of the international biomedical research community, Nature Medicine publishes the most relevant original research articles, news, and commentary that form the foundations of tomorrow's medicine.

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SAMPLE ISSUE
Free online access to the January 2004 issue of Nature Medicine.

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EDITORS AND CONTACT INFORMATION
Like the other Nature titles, Nature Medicine has no external editorial board. Instead, all editorial decisions are made by a team of full-time professional editors. Information about the scientific background of the editors may be found here.

A full list of journal staff appears on the masthead.

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RELATIONSHIP TO OTHER NATURE JOURNALS
Nature Medicine is editorially independent, and its editors make their own decisions, independent of the other Nature journals.
If a paper is rejected from one Nature journal, the authors can use an automated manuscript transfer service to submit the paper to another Nature journal via a link sent to them by the editor handling the manuscript. Authors should note that referees' comments (including any confidential comments to the editor) and identities are transferred to the editor of the second journal along with the manuscript. In that case, the journal editors will take the previous reviews into account when making their decision, although in some cases the editors may choose to take advice from additional or alternative referees. Alternatively, authors may choose to request a fresh review, in which case they should not use the automated transfer link, and the editors will evaluate the paper without reference to the previous review process. Click here for details of the manuscript transfer service, and for links to NPG journals and subject areas. A general explanation of the relationships between Nature titles can be found here.

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EDITORIAL AND PUBLISHING POLICIES
The Nature journals, including Nature Medicine, share a number of common policies including the following:

Relationship between Nature journals
License agreement and author copyright
Embargo policy and press releases
Use of experimental animals and human subjects
Competing financial interests
Availability of materials and data
Gene nomenclature
Security concerns
Refutations and complaints
Corrections

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IMPACT FACTOR
The 2005 impact factor for Nature Medicine is 28.878, according to the ISI Journal Citation Reports. This places Nature Medicine as the top primary research journal in Medicine (Research and Experimental).

The 2005 impact factor represents the number of citations in 2005 to papers published in 2003 and 2004, divided by the total number of papers published in 2003 and 2004. A more detailed explanation of impact factors appears on the ISI web site.

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ABBREVIATION
The correct abbreviation for abstracting and indexing purposes is Nat. Med.

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ISSN AND EISSN
The international standard serial number (ISSN) for Nature Medicine is 1078-8956, and the electronic international standard serial number (EISSN) is 1546-170X.

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