Aims & Scope

Nature Communications is an open access, multidisciplinary journal dedicated to publishing high-quality research in all areas of the biological, health, physical, chemical, Earth, social, mathematical, applied, and engineering sciences. Papers published by the journal aim to represent important advances of significance to specialists within each field.

We are committed to providing an efficient service for both authors and readers. Our team of independent editors make rapid and fair publication decisions. Prompt dissemination of accepted papers to a wide readership and beyond is achieved through a programme of continuous online publication.

Indexing

Nature Communications is indexed in DOAJ, MEDLINE, Web of Science, Scopus and Google Scholar.

Further information for Nature Communications and other Nature Research journals can be found on the authors and referees pages.

Archiving

To facilitate self-archiving NPG deposits open access articles in PubMed Central and Europe PubMed Central on publication. Authors are also permitted to post the final, published PDF of their article on a website, institutional repository or other free public server, immediately on publication.

Learn more about self-archiving and manuscript deposition.

Abbreviation

The correct abbreviation for abstracting and indexing purposes is Nat. Commun.

Press releases

Nature Communications articles that are deemed especially newsworthy may be press released, to a registered list, by our press office. Journalists wishing to receive press releases while papers are still under embargo should contact press@nature.com for further information.