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• Founded in 1869
• The world’s leading, global,
scientific journal
• Across the full range of
scientific disciplines
• Nature’s mission:
To communicate the world’s best
and most important science to
scientists across the world and to
the wider community interested in
science
What makes a Nature paper?
• Highly selective — only a fraction of submissions are published.
• High impact.
• Each journal is run by team of full-time, professional editors.
• Each journal is independent from each other journal — rejection from one doesn’t prejudice consideration by another.
What makes a Nature paper?
• Reports the most significant advances that have the widest implications.
• Significance should be readily appreciated by non-specialists.
• Which means, the significance of physics papers should be readily apparent to biologists.
• And, the significance of biology papers should be readily apparent to physicists.
What makes a Nature research journal paper?
• Reports the most significant advances within the discipline it covers.
• Significance should be readily appreciated by non-specialists.
• The significance of papers in one specialty should be apparent to researchers in another.
But …
• Only limited space in Nature and the NatureResearch journals.
• Only the MOST important research with the WIDEST implications can be published.
• What about important advances in specialists areas of research whose principal appeal is to other specialists?
The solution…
Nature Communications• 2015 Impact Factor = 11.329
• Highest impact, multidisciplinary, Open Access journal in the world!
• Publishes significant advances that have to potential to influence thinking of specialists in a field
• New ideas, new insights, new technologies
• Broad appeal isn’t a prerequisite for publication… but great science is!
• Specialist scope means the chances of being published are more than twicethat of other Nature journals
• Longer format
Nature
Nature research journals
Nature Communications
Scientific Reports
Selectivity
for
impact
Copyediting
standards
Editorial
Input
Breadth of
audience
Nature
Nature research journals
Nature Communications
Scientific Reports
Selectivity
for
impact
Copyediting
standards
Editorial
Input
Breadth of
audience
Scientific Reports
● Impact Factor: 5.578.
● Speed: Scientific Reports is committed to providing rapid publication service.
● Acceptance rate: Over 60%
● Scope: Publishes technically sound, original research papers in all areas of the natural and clinical sciences.
● International Editorial Board: 1600 experts across all disciplines.
● Visibility: Over 800,000 article page views per month.
Nature Climate Change
focus is on climate
change, its impacts and
implications for the
economy, policy and
society
Scope
Key facts
• First issue March 29, 2011
• 12 issues per year
• Online and print (recycled paper)
• Impact factor of 17.184
• 4 in-house editors
• External advisory board
Team• Chief Editor: Bronwyn Wake (climate science, oceanography,
marine biology) (London)
• Senior Editor: Alastair Brown (ecological responses,
biogeochemistry, climate impacts, adaptation, vulnerability)
(London)
Joining us soon
• Senior Editor: Jennifer Richler (psychology, behavioral sciences)
(New York) – mid-September
• Associate Editor: Graham Simpkins (climate dynamics, modelling,
cryosphere) (London) – early November
• Currently being recruited
Senior Editor: Monica Contestabile (social science including economics, policy)
Content
• Original research in the natural and social
sciences, plus original interdisciplinary research
• Review articles on frontier topics
• Opinion and analysis from thought leaders in
business, academia and policy
• Original reporting from renowned journalists
Selection of manuscripts for review process
Overseeing the review process
Final decision on manuscripts
Editors’ Core Tasks
In addition, editorsCommission and edit News and Views articles
Write Research Highlights
Commission and edit commentaries, book reviews
Write editorials
Write press releases
Use social media
Interact with the community at conferences and lab visits
External Advisory Board
• All decisions made by in-house editors
• Ten external advisors to advise on publishing social
science
• In areas covering psychology, behaviour, anthropology,
human geography, sociology, policy, decision-making,
governance, communications, economics, human ecology,
adaptation, development and vulnerability.
• Suggest referees, topics for review, encourage
submissions and occasionally review articles and advise
on editorial thresholds.
• Like Nature, Nature Climate Change publishes original research on
understanding of the physical climate system and environmental
science.
• Nature Climate Change focuses exclusively on contemporary climate
change.
• And publishes much that neither Nature nor subject Nature research
journals would publish
• Social science research
• Research that has substantive/groundbreaking implications for
policy, the economy but not as great a scientific advance as
research published in Nature
Comparison to other Nature titles
Nature-branded journals and their overlap
Nature
(and Nature Communications)
Nature
Climate
Change
Social sciences &
humanities
Nature Energy
Also Nature Plants, Nature Geoscience, Nature Microbiology….
Nature Ecology &
Evolution (2017)
Natural sciences
Relation with Nature, Nature Research
Journals & Nature Communications
The journals are editorially independent
(different teams of editors)
It is the authors’ choice where
they wish to submit their papers
Think about your intended audience
Transfers & Consultation
Offer a transfer system:
• before review: manuscript transferred
• after review: manuscript plus referees’ reports & identities
Just an offer. Welcome to submit independently.
Consultation is an opt-in service
• permission to discuss manuscript with other Nature
Research editors
• able to provide advice on suitability
Submitting to Nature Climate Change
• Pre-submission enquiries: referenced abstract only
• Full letters (2,000 words) and articles (2,000-3,000 words)
• Reviews and Perspectives (3,000-5,000 words, usually invited;
proposals welcome and should include background, summary, key
references and list any previous reviews on the topic)
• Commentary (≤1,500 words; almost always invited, though
enquiries welcome in the form of a 200 word summary to the editor;
commentaries may be peer-reviewed at the editors’ discretion)
• Correspondence (500-1,000 words)
Criteria for publication
• Novelty – work must represent a conceptual advance in understanding
of climate change or of its impacts and/or implications for policy, society
and the economy
• Importance in own field
• Broad interest – the findings must be of interest to the wider climate
research community, spanning atmospheric science to anthropology
The editorial decision is made by the editor(s), and can
be made at all stages of the review process (at submission,
or after each round of review).
• Scientifically robust – determined during peer review
Peer review process
• Standard Nature peer review process
Experts in their field
Cover all aspects of the paper
Find unbiased, balanced, objective referees
Ask specific questions about the paper
Respect authors’ request for exclusion (within reason)
Avoid recent co-authors, PhD supervisors, close colleagues etc.
Ideally: geographical balance
• Interdisciplinary papers can have more than 3 referees,
however, depending on the diversity of expertise on the
paper
Common reasons for reject
General:
• Too specialized, aimed at a very narrow audience
• Incremental advance over previous work
• Unclear conclusion, unclear implications
Technical:
• Insufficient data to support the conclusions
• Flawed analysis
• Observations without interpretation
• Interpretations without observation
So, if you think you have a Nature Climate Change paper
• ask a friendly (but brutally honest) scientists outside your area
if they find the conclusions interesting
• ask yourself if you would accept the paper as a referee
If both are Yes
• write it up as brief as possible, ideally in 2,000 words
• explain in a cover letter why it’s of general interest
• submit through our website