Information about how we partner with researchers from across the globe to bring their most significant discoveries to the widest possible audience.

Information about Nature Portfolio's commitment to diversity and inclusion in its editorial and publishing activities.

Information on peer review performance and citation metrics for the Nature Portfolio journals.

For enquiries from science journalists and writers regarding content in the Nature Portfolio journals, and corporate press enquiries about Nature Portfolio's publishing activities.

The career site of Springer Nature, including current opportunities within our offices world-wide.

Part of Springer Nature, Nature Portfolio has principal offices in London, New York, Berlin, Shanghai and Tokyo, and offices in cities worldwide.

Guided Open Access (OA) is a new initiative designed to make the process of publishing open access simpler, quicker, and more efficient. Ultimately our aim is to help authors publish their work in the most suitable journal with just a single submission.

Nature Portfolio launched the Nature Partner Journals in 2014, collaborating with preeminent scientists and global partners to publish high-quality open access research. Our portfolio of journals now spans the full gamut of research, from engineering to policy implementation, from fundamental physics to the clinic.

Learn about Nature Portfolio's policies on open access licensing, complying with funders, and more.

The Nature Portfolio journals' authorship policy.

Nature Portfolio journals' competing interests policies.

The Nature Portfolio journals' policies on confidentiality.

The Nature Portfolio journals' policies on plagiarism and on providing due credit for published and unpublished data.

Nature Portfolio journals' policies and guidelines on digital images and their manipulation.

Nature Portfolio journals' policy on preprints.

Nature Portfolio journals' advice for peer-reviewers, and policies relevant to the peer-review process.

Nature Portfolio journals' policy on availability of materials and data, and reporting requirements for life sciences research articles.

Nature Portfolio journals' policy on corrections, retractions and other amendments to published material.

Nature Portfolio journals' editorial policies on publishing primary research reporting experiments on living organisms; and on biosecurity and bioethics.

Nature Portfolio journals' policy on authors' communication with the media and at scientific meetings.

Nature Portfolio's license to publish policy, and conditions of re-use, for authors.

Listed here are the journals published by Nature Portfolio for scientific communities and societies.

Publishing in the Nature journals or other Nature Portfolio journals brings a wide range of author benefits.

A brief guide to writing for Nature Portfolio journals.

A description of the Nature Portfolio publishing and editorial processes.

About Nature Portfolio's manuscript transfer service for authors.

Nature Portfolio's Manuscript Deposition Service enables authors to meet the open access or public access policies of all of the participating funders, making it simple and free for researchers to comply.

About the Nature press office and the benefits it provides for authors, their funders, their employers and their institutions.

Nature Portfolio journals are indexed by many abstracting and indexing services.

Published authors in any Nature Portfolio journal can order reprints of their article for distribution to their peers and colleagues. Author reprints are offered in quantities ranging up to 300 copies. Authors can order reprints in print or as an E-Print (encrypted PDF), and can place an order either before or after publication of their paper.

Commercial reprints are an excellent way for companies to promote and inform the medical community about their activities and products. They are recognized as a credible and timely source of information, and the Nature Portfolio contains some of the most highly cited and influential journals in the world.

Springer Nature grants permission for authors, readers and third parties to reproduce material from its journals, books and online products as part of another publication or entity. This includes, for example, the use of a figure in a presentation, the posting of an abstract on a web site, or the reproduction of a full article within another journal. Certain permissions can be granted free of charge; others incur a fee.

Details of how to order single issues of Nature Portfolio journals, posters of covers from recent issues of selected journals, or translated reprints.

For more information or to order.