期刊名称：NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
 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 Communications is an online-only, multidisciplinary journal dedicated to publishing high-quality research in all areas of the biological, physical and chemical sciences. Papers published by the journal represent important advances of significance to specialists within each field.
The scope of the journal reflects Nature Publishing Group's core strengths in the biological, chemical and physical sciences, including areas in which Nature research journals serve to publish the most outstanding community-focused research papers. In addition, Nature Communications encourages submissions in fields that aren't represented by a dedicated Nature research journal; for example developmental biology, plant sciences, microbiology, ecology and evolution, palaeontology and astronomy. The editors particularly welcome submissions from cross-disciplinary fields, including biophysics, bioengineering, chemical physics and environmental science, although no area is excluded from consideration. In all cases, papers published in Nature Communications will be of high quality, without necessarily having the scientific reach of papers published in Nature and the Nature research journals.
Nature Communications is committed to providing an efficient service for both authors and readers. A streamlined peer-review system, together with the support of an Editorial Advisory Panel, allows a team of independent editors to make rapid and fair publication decisions. Prompt dissemination of accepted papers to Nature Publishing Group's wide readership and beyond is achieved through a programme of continuous online publication. Published manuscripts are enhanced by innovative web technologies, including interactive browsing and efficient data- and text-mining.
Instructions to Authors
Aims and scope of the journal
Nature Communications is an online-only, multidisciplinary journal dedicated to publishing high-quality research in all areas of the biological, physical and chemical sciences. Papers published by the journal represent important advances of significance to specialists within each field.
The scope of the journal reflects Nature Publishing Group's core strengths in the biological, chemical and physical sciences, including areas in which Nature research journals serve to publish the most outstanding community-focused research papers. In addition, Nature Communications encourages submissions in fields that aren't represented by a dedicated Nature research journal; for example developmental biology, plant sciences, microbiology, ecology and evolution, palaeontology and astronomy. The editors particularly welcome submissions from cross-disciplinary fields, including biophysics, bioengineering, chemical physics and environmental science, although no area is excluded from consideration. In all cases, papers published in Nature Communications will be of high quality, without necessarily having the scientific reach of papers published in Nature and the Nature research journals.
Nature Communications is committed to providing an efficient service for both authors and readers. A streamlined peer-review system, together with the support of an Editorial Advisory Panel, allows a team of independent editors to make rapid and fair publication decisions. Prompt dissemination of accepted papers to Nature Publishing Group's wide readership and beyond is achieved through a programme of continuous online publication. Published manuscripts are enhanced by innovative web technologies, including interactive browsing and efficient data- and text-mining.
Editors and contact information
Like other Nature titles, Nature Communications has no external editorial board; editorial decisions are made by a team of full-time professional editors, who are PhD-level scientists. Information about the scientific background of the editors can be found here. If a paper's importance within the field is unclear, an editor may request advice from a member of the Editorial Advisory Panel in deciding whether to review it.
For general editorial enquiries relating to the launch of Nature Communications, including manuscript submission queries, please contact naturecommunications@nature.com.
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For sponsorship opportunities, please contact David Bagshaw.
Relationship to other Nature journals
Nature Communications is editorially independent, and its editors make their own decisions, independently of the other Nature journals. It is for authors alone to decide where to submit their manuscripts. Nature will continue to publish the most significant advances in science and the Nature research journals will publish landmark papers of interest to their specific communities. Nature Communications will publish high-quality papers from all areas of science that represent important advances within specific scientific disciplines but that might not necessarily have the scientific reach of papers published in Nature and the Nature research journals. For papers that could satisfy the scope of more than one Nature journal, the choice of which journal to submit to lies with the authors.
If a paper is rejected from one Nature journal, the authors can use an automated manuscript transfer service to submit the paper to Nature Communications via a link sent to them by the editor handling the manuscript. Authors should note that referees' comments (including any confidential comments to the editor) and identities are transferred to the editor of the second journal along with the manuscript. The journal editors will take the previous reviews into account when making their decision, although in some cases the editors may choose to take advice from additional referees. Alternatively, authors may choose to request a fresh review, in which case they should not use the automated transfer link, and the editors will evaluate the paper without reference to the previous review process. For more information, please consult the following:
Details of the manuscript transfer service
Listing of all NPG journals and subject areas
Listing of all Nature journals
A general explanation of the relationships between Nature titles
Editorial and publishing policies
Please see authors & referees @ npg for detailed information about author and referee services and publication policies of the Nature family of journals. These journals, including Nature Communications, share a number of common policies including the following:
Author responsibilities
Licence agreement and author copyright
Embargo policy and press releases
Use of experimental animals and human subjects
Competing financial interests
Availability of materials and data
Digital image integrity and standards
Biosecurity concerns
Refutations, complaints and corrections
Duplicate publication
Confidentiality and pre-publicity
Plagiarism and fabrication
Impact factor
The Thomson Reuters (formerly ISI) impact factor for Nature Communications is due in 2012
Editorial Board
Chief Editor: Lesley Anson
Associate Editor: Stefano Tonzani
Associate Editor: Katie Ridd
Associate Editor: Richard White
Contact details
The Nature Communications team will be based in London:
Nature Communications The Macmillan Building 4 Crinan Street London N1 9XW UK email: naturecommunications@nature.com
Editorial Advisory Panel
Professor Doron Aurbach
Department of Chemistry
Bar-Ilan University
Ramat Gan
Israel
Professor Chris Basler
Department of Microbiology
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
New York
USA
Professor Guy Bertrand
Department of Chemistry
University of California
Riverside
USA
Professor Jonathan Butterworth
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University College London
UK
Dr. Piero Carninci
Omics Science Center
RIKEN Yokohama Institute
Japan
Professor Lynda Chin
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Harvard Cancer Centre
Boston
USA
Professor David Clapham
Department of Cardiology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
Children's Hospital Boston
Department of Neurobiology,
Harvard Medical School
USA
Professor David Coltman
Department of Biological Sciences
University of Alberta
Edmonton
Canada
Professor Brendan Crabb
Burnet Institute
Melbourne
Australia
Dr. Barry J. Dickson
Research Institute of Molecular Pathology
Vienna
Austria
Professor Anne Ferguson-Smith
Department of Physiology, Development & Neuroscience
University of Cambridge
UK
Dr. Adrian R. Ferre-D'Amare
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Seattle
USA
Professor Brett Finlay
Michael Smith Laboratories
University of British Columbia
Vancouver
Canada
Professor Jonathan Foley
Institute on the Environment
University of Minnesota
USA
Professor Peter Fratzl
Department of Biomaterials
Max-Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces
Potsdam
Germany
Professor Richard A. Gibbs
Department of Molecular and Human Genetics
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston
USA
Professor Nicolas Gisin
Department of Physics
University of Geneva
Switzerland
Professor Ronald T. Hay
Wellcome Trust Centre for Gene Regulation and Expression
University of Dundee
UK
Professor Ian Hickson
Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine
University of Oxford
UK
Dr. Linda Holland
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
University of California
La Jolla
USA
Professor R. Paul Johnson
New England Primate Research Center
Harvard Medical School
Southborough
USA
Professor Reto Knutti
Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science
ETH Zürich
Switzerland
Professor Benjamin List
Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung
Mülheim an der Ruhr
Germany
Professor Zachary F. Mainen
Champalimaud Neuroscience Programme
Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência
Lisbon
Portugal
Dr. Olivier Marchal
Geology & Geophysics Department
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
USA
Professor Diane J. Mathis
Department of Pathology
Harvard Medical School
Boston
USA
Professor Mark Mattson
Laboratory of Neurosciences
National Institute on Aging
Baltimore
USA
Professor Marc Montminy
The Salk Institute for Biological Sciences
La Jolla
USA
Dr. Benjamin J. Nichols
MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
Cambridge
UK
Professor Kevin J. Peterson
Department of Biological Sciences
Dartmouth College
Hanover
USA
Professor Christian Pfleiderer
Department of Physics
Techische Universität München
Germany
Professor Tsvi Piran
Racah Institute of Physics
The Hebrew University
Jerusalem
Israel
Professor Lawrence Que, Jr.
Department of Chemistry
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis
USA
Professor Fred Spoor
Department of Human Evolution
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Leipzig
Germany
Professor Francesco Stellacci
Institute of Materials Science and Engineering
EPFL
Lausanne
Switzerland
Professor Azim Surani
Wellcome Trust/Cancer Research UK Gurdon Institute
University of Cambridge
UK
Professor Z. Valy Vardeny
Physics Department
University of Utah
Salt Lake City
USA
Professor Christopher Walsh
Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Harvard Medical School
Boston
USA
Professor Michael R. Wasielewski
Department of Chemistry
Northwestern University
Evanston
USA
Professor David A. Weitz
Department of Physics
Harvard University
Cambridge
USA
Professor Stephen H. White
Department of Physiology and Biophysics
University of California at Irvine
USA
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