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Nature Communications is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 24.3), WoS SCIE, DOAJ. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme, which pays the article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions. Published by Nature Research.
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ISSN 2041-1723Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Nature Research
Cost to publish: APC covered for authors at ONOS-subscribed Indian institutions
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physics and Astronomy (all) | 5 / 248 | 98th | Q1 |
| Multidisciplinary | 6 / 223 | 97th | Q1 |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all) | 8 / 223 | 96th | Q1 |
| Chemistry (all) | 16 / 402 | 96th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2010–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 24.3.
Nature Communications is Q1 in Physics and Astronomy (all) (rank 5 of 248), Q1 in Multidisciplinary (rank 6 of 223) and Q1 in Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (all) (rank 8 of 223), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Nature Communications is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 24.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 4.904, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 634.
For authors at Indian institutions covered by One Nation One Subscription (ONOS), the article processing charge is paid by the scheme. The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$6,990 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Nature Communications is published by Nature Research. Its ISSN is 2041-1723.
Yes. ONOS also covers its article processing charge for authors at eligible institutions.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Nature Communications has an h-index of 755 and a 2-year mean of 17.62 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 24.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #2 of 235 Scopus journals in Physics and Astronomy (all).
Nature Communications published 12,683 papers in 2025. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 94 research articles (2026), authors are most often from China (27.1%), United States (25.5%) and Germany (6.2%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 155 retracted papers are recorded (1.7 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags 5 of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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