期刊名称：NATURE CELL BIOLOGY
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Nature Cell Biology
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Editor:
Bernd Pulverer |
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Volume 6:
12 issues per year |
ISSN:
1465-7392 |
Impact factor:
20.699* |
Date Established:
May 1999 | |
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Aims and Scope: Nature Cell Biology publishes papers in all areas of cell biology, shedding light on the molecular mechanisms responsible for fundamental cell biological processes. Every issue of Nature Cell Biologyincludes a timely and informative collection of News and Views articles, book reviews and editorials as well as peer-reviewed original research.
In addition, issues contain Reviews, Historical Perspectives and commentaries on a regular basis. This influential, informative and entertaining collection of material not only highlights major advances, but also places them in a broader context within the field of cell biology. |
Instructions to Authors
General Policy
Scope
Mission
Editorial procedure
Rapid peer review process
Advance online publication (AOP)
Policy on the release of materials and data
Competing financial interests
Relationship between Nature Cell Biology and Nature
Scope
Nature Cell Biology publishes papers of the highest quality from all areas of cell biology, encouraging those that shed light on the molecular mechanisms responsible for fundamental cell biological processes. The journal's scope is broad and includes the following areas (not listed in order of preference):
- Membrane traffic and protein sorting
- Cell adhesion and migration
- Signal transduction
- Proteolysis
- Apoptosis
- Organisation of the nucleus and nuclear transport
- Developmental biology
- Cell cycle and cell division
- Cytoskeletal dynamics and molecular motor function
- Transcription and chromatin
- Cell cycle
- DNA replication and repair
- Cellular mechanisms of neurobiology, immunology and human disease (provided that the primary focus is on general processes of cell biology)
- Microbiology
- Plant cell biology
- Stem cells
Mission
Our aim is to publish high-impact research relevant to a broad range of cell biologists. Manuscripts selected for publication in this journal will have to contain data of exceptional quality that provides a striking conceptual advance and an in-depth understanding of the processes under study. We place a high priority on maintaining an open, active dialogue with the community, and encourage you to contact the editors.
Nature Cell Biology will:
- Place a priority on rapid peer review and publication
- Provide high-quality figure reproduction in print and online
- Publish papers at a length to allow full presentation of results and methods
- Provide full textand figures, as well as additional supplementary information, online
- Provide Advance Online Publication (AOP) of all papers on our websire, before the papers appear in print
Editorial procedure
Nature Cell Biology receives about 10 times more papers than it can publish each month. Only a fraction of submitted manuscripts are formally peer-reviewed in order to maintain a highly efficient selection process at this journal. The decision of whether to have a manuscript formally peer-reviewed is made by the full-time editorial staff. The editors are responsible for selecting independent experts to act as peer reviewers, and for ensuring that the process is rapid and constructive. The editors then make a decision based on the referees' advice and other editorial considerations. Manuscripts selected for publication should be interesting, intellectually stimulating and represent a major conceptual advance in the field.
Authors are welcome to suggest possible referees. Authors may also request the exclusion of individuals with a potential conflict of interest (up to a maximum of four researchers). We will honour these requests wherever possible.
The editors are responsible for selecting independent experts to act as peer reviewers, and for ensuring that the process is rapid and constructive. The editors then make a decision based on the referees' advice and other editorial considerations. Manuscripts selected for publication should be interesting, intellectually stimulating and represent a major conceptual advance in the field.
Rapid peer review process
Nature Cell Biology places a high priority on rapid review and confidentiality. Decisions on whether to send a manuscript out for peer review and editorial decisions about publication are generally made within two working days of receipt of the manuscript or referee reports, respectively. The receipt of manuscripts and referee reports is confirmed by e-mail. We will usually inform the referees as to the outcome of the decision and relay the opinions of the other referees back to them.
Policy on the release of materials and data
As a condition of publication, authors are required to make materials and methods used freely available to academic researchers for their own use. Authors are required to state in the methods section any conditions for use of materials, and to provide full disclosure of the conditions on a freely accessible, identified web site.
This requirement includes antibodies and the constructs used to make transgenic animals, but not the animals themselves. Mutant strains of mice generated without the use of constructs must be submitted to a public repository at the time of publication, unless authors can ensure prompt distribution to academic researchers on request.
Papers reporting protein or DNA sequences and crystallographic structures will not be accepted without an accession number to Genbank/EMBL/DDBJ, Brookhaven , SWISS-PROT or other appropriate, identified, publicly available database in general use in the field that gives free access to researchers from the date of publication (see Nature 394, 105; 1998 and 404, 317; 2000). Accession numbers are provided directly to authors by these databases on deposition of data, and must be included in the Nature Cell Biology paper before publication.
Microarray data should comply with the 'Minimal Information about a Microarray Experiment' (MIAME) standards. All relevant accessions numbers should be included and the data must be posted on either of the two public databases endorsed by the Microarray and Gene Expression group (MGED) - GEO (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/) and/or ArrayExpress (www.ebi.ac.uk/arrayexpress). Authors must also submit five compact disks containing microarray data in a format that complies with the checklist suggested by MGED (see http://www.mged.org/Workgroups/MIAME/miame_checklist.html). For further information please see Nature Cell Biology 4, E244, (2002).
Other supporting data sets must be made available to any interested reader on the publication date from the authors directly.
Researchers who encounter a persistent refusal by an author of a Nature paper to comply with these guidelines should contact the Editor of Nature Cell Biology, at cellbio@nature.com
Advance online publication
For more information please refer to www.nature.com/naturecellbiology/aop
Competing financial interests
In the interest of transparency, the Nature journals now require authors of Research, Review and Perspective articles to declare any competing financial interests in relation to papers accepted for publication. For details, please see our policy.
Relationship between Nature Cell Biology and Nature
Like the other Nature monthly titles, Nature Cell Biology is editorially independent of Nature. Thus, it will be for authors alone to decide where to submit their manuscripts, and Nature will not divert papers to Nature Cell Biology unless authors specifically request it. This system has served Nature and its monthly titles well.
However, if a paper cannot be accepted by Nature, the authors are welcome to resubmit to Nature Cell Biology. Nature will then release referees' comments to the editors of Nature Cell Biology with the permission of the authors, allowing a rapid editorial decision. In cases where the work was felt to be of high quality, papers can sometimes be accepted without further review, but if there are serious criticisms, we will consider these in making our editorial decision. It is helpful to the editors if the authors include with any resubmission a letter explaining the relationship between the submitted manuscript and the previous Nature submission and (assuming it has been revised in light of the referees' criticisms) giving a point-by-point response to the referees. Based on the referees' reports and the authors' response, the editors will then decide whether to seek further advice from referees. Authors whose paper has not been formally reviewed at Nature are also welcome to resubmit to Nature Cell Biology, in which case Nature will release the submission (regardless of the current format of the paper) directly to Nature Cell Biology to speed up the submission process.
Editorial Board
Bernd Pulverer, Editor
Bernd Pulverer obtained his PhD in 1994 from the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, London, under the supervision of Jim Woodgett. He went on to conduct postdoctoral research in the laboratory of Bob Eisenman (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle) before taking up a lectureship at Innsbruck University. His research interests have included analysis of mitogenic and stress signalling cascades, focusing on regulation of the transcription factors c-Jun and c-Myc by phosphorylation, as well as analysis of the Myc/Max/Mad transcriptional network.
Bernd joined Nature in 1999 as an associate editor and later became senior editor. He then moved on to take up the present post in 2002.
He can be contacted at b.pulverer@nature.com or +44 (0)207 8434 924.
Sarah Greaves, Senior Editor
Sarah Greaves obtained her PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1999. She studied at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology under the supervision of Jean-Paul Vincent, concentrating on the link between Wingless signalling and adhesion. Following this she continued her studies at the National Institute for Medical Research in London where she examined the roles of cell adhesion molecules in Drosophila melanogaster border cell migration.
She can be contacted at s.greaves@nature.com or +44 (0)20 7843 4769.
Jack Horne, Associate Editor
Jack obtained his Ph.D. in Cell Biology from Duke University in 1997. His thesis research in the laboratory of Tobias Meyer was on InsP3-mediated calcium signalling. He went on to do postdoctoral work in the laboratories of David Ogden at the National Institute for Medical Research in Mill Hill, England, and then at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena with Scott Fraser. His research interests have included neuronal calcium signalling and cell biological aspects of axon pathfinding in the Xenopus visual system. Jack joined the Nature Publishing Group as an editor at Nature Neuroscience in 2000, and then moved to Nature Cell Biology in June, 2003.
He can be contacted at j.horne@boston.nature.com
Alison Schuldt, Associate Editor
Alison Schuldt obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge in 1999. She studied at the Wellcome/CRC Institute in Cambridge with Andrea Brand and then continued her studies there for a year as a postdoctoral fellow. During both her graduate and postdoctoral research, Alison focused on the molecular mechanisms that direct asymmetric cell division in Drosophila neural precursor cells, including the role of the cytoskeleton in this process. Previous to joining Nature Cell Biology, Alison worked on Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology.
She can be contacted at a.schuldt@nature.com or +44 (0)207 843 3606.
Sowmya Swaminathan, Associate Editor
Sowmya Swaminathan received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1999. Her doctoral research in Mark Hochstrasser's laboratory focussed on the role of deubiquitinating enzymes in ubiquitin-dependent processes.Sowmya then carried out post-doctoral research in Frauke Melchior's laboratory at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Martinsreid. During this time, Sowmya's research was directed toward understanding the mitotic functions of the small GTPase Ran.
She can be contacted at s.swaminathan@nature.com or +44 (0) 207 843 4656.
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