The Nature Research journal portfolio, published by Springer Nature and launched less than two weeks ago, aspires to be the home of high quality single-discipline, multidisciplinary and open access research. The stable has demonstrated a strong showing in the 2015 Journal Citation Report as well as when broader citation and alternative metrics are considered.
The Nature Research portfolio encompasses the long-established multidisciplinary leader Nature and other relatively established players such as Nature Genetics and Nature Biotechnology. It also incorporates more recently launched journals including Nature Climate Change, which includes social sciences research, and a number of open access journals including Nature Communications and Scientific Reports.
The Nature Research titles, both subscription and open access, continue to perform well in their respective fields in Journal Impact Factors, as described in the 2015 Journal Citation Report (JCR), which indicate citation impact at a journal level. Nature-branded titles account for six of the top ten titles in the 2015 JCR Science Edition, and 17 of the top 50 (34%), more than any other publisher. 14 journals rank #1 in one or more subject category.
Nature remains #1 in the multidisciplinary sciences for the ninth consecutive year with an Impact Factor (IF) of 38.138. For the fourth year in a row, Nature Research's flagship open access journal Nature Communications, sits #3 in the multidisciplinary sciences, and Scientific Reports, another key open access offering, delivers a place in the top ten multidisciplinary sciences with an IF of 5.228.
Looking beyond the 2015 JCR, the Nature Research portfolio also performs well when other metrics such as alternative metrics are considered. 20 articles from Nature Research titles featured in the Altmetric top 100 of 2015, receiving coverage from over 5,000 news outlets, nearly 90,000 mentions on Twitter, and over 200 Wikipedia articles references. The number one article in the list, 'A new antibiotic kills pathogens without detectable resistance', was published in Nature in January 2015.
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