Nature Computational Science
Last updated ISSN 2662-8457
Nature Computational Science is published by Nature Portfolio in materials science. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $12,690.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Nature Computational Science concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Machine Learning in Materials Science
- Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
- Computational Drug Discovery Methods
- Cell Image Analysis Techniques
- Protein Structure and Dynamics
- Gene Regulatory Network Analysis
- Quantum Computing Algorithms and Architecture
- Gene expression and cancer classification
- Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
- Scientific Computing and Data Management
Key facts
| Publisher | Nature Portfolio |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 2662-8457 |
| Subject area | Materials Science |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $12,690 |
| Indexed in | Scopus |
| Articles published | 1,048 |
| Publishing since | 1972 |
| Journal website | www.nature.com/natcomputsci/ |
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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