Nature Medicine

Nature Medicine
Abbreviated title (ISO)	Nat. Med.
Discipline	Medicine
Language	English
Edited by	Juan Carlos López
Publication details
Publisher	Nature Publishing Group (United Kingdom)
Publication history	1995–present
Frequency	Monthly
Impact factor (2010)	25.430
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ISSN	1078-8956 (print) 1546-170X (web)
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Nature Medicine is an academic journal publishing research articles, reviews, news and commentaries in the biomedical area, including both basic research and early-phase clinical research. Topics covered include cancer, cardiovascular disease, gene therapy, immunology, vaccines, and neuroscience. The journal seeks to publish research papers that 'demonstrate novel insight into disease processes, with direct evidence of the physiological relevance of the results.'^[1]

Founded in 1995, Nature Medicine is published by the Nature Publishing Group, a division of Macmillan Publishers Ltd, and is one of the rapidly expanding stable of Nature journals. As with other Nature journals, there is no external Editorial Board, with editorial decisions being made by an in-house team, although peer review by external expert referees forms a part of the review process.

Nature Medicine is published monthly. Articles are archived online in text and PDF formats; access is by subscription only. Its 2010 impact factor was 25.430, making it the highest-cited research journal in preclinical medicine.^[2] It is also among the highest impact of primary (non-review) scientific journals.

References

1. ^ Anon. (2004) Dear author, (Editorial) Nature Medicine 10: 1
2. ^ Nature Medicine: For authors (accessed 1 January 2010)

External links

• Nature Medicine website