About Nature Publishing Group

Nature is the world’s foremost weekly scientific journal and is the flagship journal for Nature Publishing Group (NPG). Launched in 1869, its original mission statement still leads the Group as NPG develop publications, explore opportunities arising from new technology and serve a growing audience of readers.

NPG publishes journals and online databases across the life, physical and applied sciences and, most recently, clinical medicine. Content encompasses daily news from award-winning journalists, expert opinion and practical methodology, and more high impact research and reviews than any science publisher. Over 30 journals are published in association with prestigious academic societies.

NPG has an enviable reputation for innovation, developing timely and award-winning solutions to scientists’ information needs. The file sharing resource, Connotea, was awarded the ALPSP Award for Publishing Innovation. The Nature Network series is connecting scientists at a global and local level. The success of the weekly Nature podcast has led to the construction of NPG’s own in-house podcast studio to accommodate our multi-media ambitions.

For today’s scientists and non-scientists, nature.com serves the NPG mission better than the original editors could have ever conceived. Nature.com is one of the most popular scholarly websites on the internet, serving almost 12 million visitors a month. Authors, editors and readers interact through letters, blogs, file-sharing and social networks. Site licenses are the most popular means of access with institutional accounts managed on a single-site, state-wide, national and international level.