Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG) has announced that Nature Communications and Scientific Reports are now the fastest growing journals published by NPG. Launched in 2010 and 2011 respectively, both journals reached the milestone of 2000 published papers in June 2013, and their submission and publication rates continue to grow rapidly.
The 2012 Journal Citation Report (JCR) places Nature Communications at #3 and Scientific Reports at #8 in the top 10 Multidisciplinary Sciences titles. Nature remains #1 in the Multidisciplinary Sciences, with an Impact Factor of 38.597, and is the most cited science journal in the world with 554,745 citations in 2012.
Nature Communications, with over 7000 citations in 2012 and an Impact Factor of 10.015, is now in the top 2 percent of all science journals worldwide, according to the 2012 JCR. Scientific Reports received its first impact factor this year (2.927) ranking eighth out of 56 journals in the Multidisciplinary Sciences category.
The Nature Communications website had over 4.3 million page views in 2013 (January-June), and now receives more submissions per month than Nature. The journal has already published more articles in the first six months of 2013 (723 articles) than in the whole of 2012 (702 articles). The first six months of 2013 account for 36 percent of Nature Communications' total output to date. The journal is projected to publish 1650 articles in 2013. Nature Communications offers an open access publication option to authors, and 38 percent of content published since launch is open access under Creative Commons (CC) licenses.
Scientific Reports is NPG’s fastest growing journal. More than 1,000 papers have been published in Scientific Reports so far in 2013, 50 percent of the total output since the publication launched in June 2011. All articles in Scientific Reports are open access under CC licenses. The Scientific Reports website has had 3.5 million page views to date in 2013.
