Nature Communications
Last updated ISSN 2041-1723
Nature Communications is published by Nature Portfolio in biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology. It is open access. The article processing charge is $6,990.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Nature Communications concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
- RNA modifications and cancer
- RNA Research and Splicing
- CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
- Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
- Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
- Neural dynamics and brain function
- Topological Materials and Phenomena
- Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
- Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
Key facts
| Publisher | Nature Portfolio |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 2041-1723 |
| Subject area | Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | $6,990 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus · DOAJ |
| Articles published | 92,566 |
| Publishing since | 1800 |
| Journal website | www.nature.com/ncomms/index.html |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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