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Wikipedia Search Photograph your local culture, help Wikipedia and win! Hide Nature (journal) Article Talk Language Download PDF Watch Edit "Nature Magazine", "Nature (magazine)", and "Nature News" redirect here. For the American magazine published 1923–1959, see American Nature Association. For the French scientific magazine, see La Nature. For the fake news site, see Natural News. Nature is a British weekly scientific journal founded and based in London, England. As a multidisciplinary publication, Nature features peer-reviewed research from a variety of academic disciplines, mainly in science and technology. It has core editorial offices across the United States, continental Europe, and Asia under the international scientific publishing company Springer Nature. Nature was one of the world's most cited scientific journals by the Science Edition of the 2022 Journal Citation Reports (with an ascribed impact factor of 50.5),[1] making it one of the world's most-read and most prestigious academic journals.[2][3][4] As of 2012, it claimed an online readership of about three million unique readers per month.[5] Nature Cover of a 2016 issue of Nature featuring artistic representation of Proxima Centauri and its planet Proxima Centauri b Discipline Natural sciences Language English Edited by Magdalena Skipper Publication details History 4 November 1869 – present Publisher Nature Portfolio (subsidiary of Springer Nature) (United Kingdom) Frequency Weekly Open access Hybrid Impact factor 50.5 (2023) Standard abbreviations ISO 4 Nature Indexing CODEN NATUAS ISSN 0028-0836 (print) 1476-4687 (web) LCCN 12037118 OCLC no. 01586310 Links Journal homepage Online access Online archive Founded in autumn 1869, Nature was first circulated by Norman Lockyer and Alexander MacMillan as a public forum for scientific innovations. The mid-20th century facilitated an editorial expansion for the journal; Nature redoubled its efforts in explanatory and scientific journalism. The late 1980s and early 1990s saw the creation of a network of editorial offices outside of Britain and the establishment of ten new supplementary, speciality publications (e.g. Nature Materials). Since the late 2000s, dedicated editorial and current affairs columns are created weekly, and electoral endorsements are featured. The primary source of the journal remains, as established at its founding, research scientists; editing standards are primarily concerned with technical readability. Each issue also features articles that are of general interest to the scientific community, namely business, funding, scientific ethics, and research breakthroughs. There are also sections on books, arts, and short science fiction stories. The main research published in Nature consists mostly of papers (articles or letters) in lightly edited form. They are highly technical and dense, but, due to imposed text limits, they are typically summaries of larger work. Innovations or breakthroughs in any scientific or technological field are featured in the journal as either letters or news articles. The papers that have been published in this journal are internationally acclaimed for maintaining high research standards. Conversely, due to the journal's exposure, it has at various times been a subject of controversy for its handling of academic dishonesty, the scientific method, and news coverage. Fewer than 8% of submitted papers are accepted for publication.[6] In 2007, Nature (together with Science) received the Prince of Asturias Award for Communications and Humanity.[7][8] Nature mostly publishes research articles. Spotlight articles are not research papers but mostly news or magazine style papers and hence do not count towards impact factor nor receive similar recognition as research articles. Some spotlight articles are also paid by partners or sponsors.[9] History Publication in Nature Science fiction Publication Communications journals Citations General bibliography External links Last edited 11 days ago by 64.114 etc Related articles Water memory Refuted theory behind homeopathic remedies Philip Campbell (scientist) British astrophysicist, former editor in Chief of Nature Scholarly peer review Subjecting an author's work or research to scrutiny Wikipedia Wikimedia Foundation Powered by MediaWiki Content is available under CC BY-SA 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Privacy policy Contact Wikipedia Code of Conduct Developers Statistics Cookie statement Terms of Use Desktop