Nature Communications

《自然通讯》是一本开放获取的多学科期刊，致力于出版生物、物理、化学和地球科学所有领域的高质量研究。该杂志发表的论文代表了对每个领域的专家都具有重要意义的重要进展。该期刊的范围反映了自然出版集团在自然科学领域的核心实力，包括自然研究期刊服务于发表最杰出的以社区为重点的研究论文的领域。此外，《自然通讯》鼓励在没有专门的《自然研究杂志》代表的领域提交论文;例如发育生物学、植物科学、微生物学、生态学和进化、古生物学和天文学。编辑们特别欢迎来自跨学科领域的投稿，包括生物物理学、生物工程、化学物理学和环境科学，尽管没有任何领域被排除在外。在所有情况下，发表在《自然通讯》上的论文都将是高质量的，不一定具有发表在《自然》和《自然研究期刊》上的论文的科学范围。自然传播致力于为作者和读者提供高效的服务。一个精简的同行评审系统，加上编辑顾问小组的支持，允许独立的编辑团队做出快速和公平的出版决策。透过持续的网上出版计划，可迅速向《自然》出版集团的广大读者及其他人士发放已获接纳的论文。创新的web技术，包括交互式浏览和高效的数据和文本挖掘，增强了出版的手稿。《自然通讯》是独立于编辑的，其编辑将独立于其他《自然》杂志作出自己的决定。只有作者才能决定在何处提交他们的手稿。《自然》杂志将继续发表科学上最重要的进展，《自然》研究期刊将发表其特定社区感兴趣的具有里程碑意义的论文。《自然通讯》将发表来自各个科学领域的高质量论文，这些论文代表了特定科学学科的重要进展，但不一定具有发表在《自然》和《自然研究期刊》上的论文的科学影响力。对于能够同时满足多个自然期刊的论文，先提交哪一种期刊由作者选择。如果一篇论文被《自然》杂志拒绝发表，作者可以使用自动稿件传输服务，通过编辑发送给他们的链接将论文提交给《自然》通讯。作者应注意，审稿人的“”“”“”“”“”评论(包括对编辑的任何保密评论)和身份将随稿件一起移交给第二期刊的编辑。期刊编辑在做决定时将考虑先前的评论，尽管在某些情况下，编辑可能会选择听取其他审稿人的意见。或者，作者可以选择请求一个新的评审，在这种情况下，他们不应该使用自动转换链接，编辑将在不参考以前的评审过程的情况下评估文章。《自然通讯》与其他《自然》杂志的不同之处在于，编辑在决定是否审阅稿件时，偶尔会征求编辑顾问小组成员的意见。有关编辑咨询小组的进一步信息可在作者指南中找到。

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