''Nature Medicine'' is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal published by Nature Portfolio covering all aspects of

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 pr ...

. It was established in 1995. The journal seeks to publish research papers that "demonstrate novel insight into disease processes, with direct evidence of the physiological relevance of the results". As with other ''Nature'' journals, there is no external

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, with editorial decisions being made by an in-house team, although

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by external expert referees forms a part of the review process. The

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is João Monteiro. According to the ''

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'', the journal has a 2021

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of 87.241, ranking it 1st out of 296 journals in the category "Biochemistry & Molecular Biology".

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