Is Nature Communication credible?

Nevertheless, Nature, Nature Genetics, and Nature Communications are all very highly regarded. Scientific Reports is fine but a paper there is much less likely, in itself, to make your career.

Is PNAS a good journal?

With a competitive impact factor of 9.6 and a 19% acceptance rate for papers submitted directly, PNAS remains one of the most prestigious and highly cited multidisciplinary research journals.

Is Nature Communications double blind?

The positive reactions to the trial from surveyed authors are a big part in the decision to start offering double-blind review at Nature and the Nature monthly journals as well. (Nature Communications will join later.)

Is PLOS a high impact journal?

PLOS journals also have fairly high impact factors. In 2018, the impact factor of PLOS ONE was 2.776. However, the importance of the impact factor is up for debate.

Why publish with Nature Communications?

Since its inception 10 years ago Nature Communications has strived to publish papers of high quality and relevance to communities of researchers across the whole of the natural sciences. In more recent years, we have happily seen an increase in the submission and publication of clinical research studies.

What is the ranking of Nature Communications?

The ranking percentile of Nature Communications is around 96% in the field of Chemistry (all). · In the Physics and Astronomy (all) research field, the Quartile of Nature Communications is Q1. Nature Communications has been ranked #9 over 233 related journals in the Physics and Astronomy (all) research category.

How many articles does Nature Communications cite each year?

Nature Communications Year IF Total Articles Total Cites 2019/2020 12.121 5469 312599 2018 11.878 5058 243793 2017 12.353 4316 178348 2016 12.124 3534 123958

How important is impact factor?

We believe that Impact Factor is just one of a number of metrics that can be used to evaluate a journal, and a small number of highly cited papers can have a disproportionate effect on the mean number of citations per paper.