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| # Nature Communications
**Not to be confused with** [Nature (journal)](/Nature_(journal)).
**Academic journal**
| Discipline | [Natural sciences](/Natural_science) |
| Language | English |
| Edited by | [Nathalie Le Bot](/Nathalie_Le_Bot), Stephane Larochelle, Enda Bergin, Prabhjot Saini |
| Publication details |
| History | 2010–present |
| Publisher | [Nature Portfolio](/Nature_Portfolio) |
| Frequency | Continuous |
| Open access | Yes |
| License | [Creative Commons licenses](/Creative_Commons_license) |
| Impact factor | 15.7 (2024) |
| Standard abbreviations |
| ISO 4 (alt) · [Bluebook](/Wikipedia:WikiProject_Academic_Journals/Bluebook_journals) (alt) |
| NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt) |
| [ISO 4](/ISO_4_(infobox)) | Nat. Commun. |
| Indexing |
| CODEN (alt) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) |
| MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L |
| [CODEN](/CODEN_(identifier)) | NCAOBW |
| [ISSN](/ISSN_(identifier)) | 2041-1723 |
| [OCLC](/OCLC_(identifier)) | no. 614340895 |
| Links |
| • Journal homepage |
| • Online access |
| • Online archive |
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## Overview
*Nature Communications* is a [peer-reviewed](/Peer_review), [open access](/Open_access), [scientific journal](/Scientific_journal) published by [Nature Portfolio](/Nature_Portfolio) since 2010. It is a multidisciplinary journal that covers the [natural sciences](/Natural_sciences), including [physics](/Physics), [chemistry](/Chemistry), [earth sciences](/Earth_sciences), [medicine](/Medicine), and [biology](/Biology). The journal has editorial offices in London, Berlin, New York City, and Shanghai.
The founding [editor-in-chief](/Editor-in-chief) was Lesley Anson, followed by Joerg Heber, [Magdalena Skipper](/Magdalena_Skipper), and Elisa De Ranieri. As of 2022, the editors are [Nathalie Le Bot](/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 [article processing charge](/Article_processing_charge). 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 [preprints](/Preprint) of articles "under consideration" as part of the submission process.
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## Abstracting and Indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
- [Science Citation Index Expanded](/Science_Citation_Index_Expanded)
- [Current Contents](/Current_Contents)/Agriculture, Biology & Environmental Sciences
- Current Contents/Life Sciences
- Current Contents/Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences
- [The Zoological Record](/The_Zoological_Record)
- [BIOSIS Previews](/BIOSIS_Previews)
- [Chemical Abstracts Service](/Chemical_Abstracts_Service)
- [Index Medicus](/Index_Medicus)/[MEDLINE](/MEDLINE)/[PubMed](/PubMed)
- [Scopus](/Scopus)
According to the [Journal Citation Reports](/Journal_Citation_Reports), the journal has a 2024 [impact factor](/Impact_factor) of 15.7.
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## Subjournals
In 2017, the creation of three "subjournals" under the Communications brand was announced: [Communications Biology](/Communications_Biology), [Communications Chemistry](/Communications_Chemistry), and [Communications Physics](/Communications_Physics). In the following years, several additional Communications journals were established: [Communications Materials](/Communications_Materials) in 2020, [Communications Earth & Environment](/Communications_Earth_%26_Environment) in 2020, [Communications Medicine](/Communications_Medicine) in 2021, Communications Engineering in 2022, and Communications Psychology 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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## See Also
- [Nature (journal)](/Nature_(journal))
- [Science Advances](/Science_Advances)
- [Scientific Reports](/Scientific_Reports)
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