''Nature Communications'' is a

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published by

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since 2010. It is a multidisciplinary journal and it covers the

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, including

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chemistry Chemistry is the science, scientific study of the properties and behavior of matter. It is a natural science that covers the Chemical element, elements that make up matter to the chemical compound, compounds made of atoms, molecules and ions ...

earth sciences Earth science or geoscience includes all fields of natural science related to the planet Earth. This is a branch of science dealing with the physical, chemical, and biological complex constitutions and synergistic linkages of Earth's four sphere ...

medicine Medicine is the science and practice of caring for a patient, managing the diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, treatment, palliation of their injury or disease, and promoting their health. Medicine encompasses a variety of health care pract ...

, and

biology Biology is the scientific study of life. It is a natural science with a broad scope but has several unifying themes that tie it together as a single, coherent field. For instance, all organisms are made up of cells that process hereditary i ...

. The journal has editorial offices in London, Berlin, New York City, and Shanghai. The founding

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was Lesley Anson, followed by Joerg Heber,

Magdalena Skipper Magdalena Skipper is a British geneticist and the editor-in-chief of the journal ''Nature''. She previously served as an editor of ''Nature Reviews Genetics'' and the open access journal ''Nature Communications''. Education Skipper obtained a ...

, and Elisa De Ranieri. As of 2022, the editors are Nathalie Le Bot for health and clinical sciences, Stephane Larochelle for biological sciences, Enda Bergin for chemistry and biotechnology, and Prabhjot Saini for physics and earth sciences. Starting October 2014, the journal only accepted submissions from authors willing to pay an

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. Until the end of 2015, part of the published submissions were only available to subscribers. In January 2016, all content became freely accessible. Starting from 2017, the journal offers a deposition service to authors for

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s of articles "under consideration" as part of the submission process.

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2021

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of 17.690.

Subjournals

In 2017, the creation of three "subjournals" under the ''Communications'' brand was announced: '' Communications Biology'', '' Communications Chemistry'', and ''

Communications Physics ''Communications Physics'' is a peer-reviewed, open access, scientific journal in the field physics published by Nature Portfolio since 2018. The chief editor is Elena Belsole. Communications Physics was created as a sub-journal to Nature Commu ...

''. In 2020, several additional ''Communications'' journals were established: ''Communications Materials'' in 2020, '' Communications Earth & Environment'' in 2020, ''Communications Medicine'' in 2021, and ''Communications Engineering'' in 2022. These open-access journals offer a lower publication fee than ''Nature Communications'', reflecting their more specialist remits. Manuscripts rejected by Nature Publishing Group journals can choose to transfer the manuscript together with reviewers' reports to the ''Communications''-branded journals via an automated transfer service. Alternatively, authors may choose to request a fresh review.

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