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Nature Methods is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 40), WoS SCIE. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Nature Research.
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ISSN 1548-7091Verify ISSN ↗1548-7105Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Nature Research
Cost to publish: About US$12,690 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Biochemistry | 3 / 448 | 99th | Q1 |
| Biotechnology | 4 / 325 | 98th | Q1 |
| Cell Biology | 4 / 289 | 98th | Q1 |
| Molecular Biology | 7 / 414 | 98th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2004–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 40.
Nature Methods is Q1 in Biochemistry (rank 3 of 448), Q1 in Biotechnology (rank 4 of 325) and Q1 in Cell Biology (rank 4 of 289), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Nature Methods 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 40, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 15.624, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 432.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$12,690 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 Methods is published by Nature Research. Its print ISSN is 1548-7091 and its online ISSN is 1548-7105.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Nature Methods has an h-index of 519 and a 2-year mean of 22.29 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 40, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #3 of 442 Scopus journals in Biochemistry.
Nature Methods published 433 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 445. 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 65 research articles (2026), authors are most often from United States (34.7%), Germany (11.6%) and China (10.1%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. 5 retracted papers are recorded (0.6 per 1,000 papers). The Problematic Paper Screener flags none 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.
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