Scientific publisher Nature Publishing Group (NPG), UK, has announced that Nature Communications has joined Nature at the top of the multidisciplinary sciences category in the 2011 Journal Citation Report (JCR). The journal received its first impact factor of 7.396, when Thomson Reuters published the 2011 JCR. Nature remains the leading multidisciplinary science journal (1/55), with an Impact Factor of 36.280, followed by Science (31.201), PNAS (9.681) and Nature Communications (7.396).
Launched in April 2010, Nature Communications is a multidisciplinary online-only journal publishing high quality research across the biological, physical, and chemical sciences. The journal offers authors the option to make their published article open access, through payment of an article processing charge (APC).
Nature Publishing Group (NPG) achieved outstanding results in the 2011 JCR. Eighteen NPG titles are in the top 50 journals by Impact Factor of the 8281 titles included in the JCR Science Edition. A number of titles published by NPG lead their JCR categories. These include: Nature Geoscience, Nature Materials, Nature Medicine, Nature Methods, Nature Nanotechnology, Nature Photonics, Nature Reviews Drug Discovery, Nature Reviews Genetics, Nature Reviews Microbiology, Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology, Nature Reviews Neuroscience, Molecular Psychiatry and Journal of Investigative Dermatology.
Nature is the most highly cited journal in the JCR for a second year, with 526,505 citations in 2011.
