''Nature Structural & Molecular Biology'' is a monthly

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, with an emphasis on papers that further a "functional and mechanistic understanding of how molecular components in a biological process work together".Nature Structural & Molecular Biology: About the Journal
(accessed 30 June 2021) It is published by the

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and was established in 1994 under the title ''Nature Structural Biology'', obtaining its current title in January 2004. Like other ''Nature'' journals, there is no external

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, with editorial decisions being made by an in-house team, although peer review by external expert referees forms a part of the review process. According to the ''

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'',2020 Journal Citation Reports. Clarivate. 2021
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of 15.369, ranking it 13th out of 298 journals in the category "Biochemistry & Molecular Biology", 1st out of 72 journals in the category "Biophysics", and 16th out of 195 journals in the category "Cell Biology".

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