Journal · All fields of science · Updated 13 November 2026
Nature
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Nature at a glance
- Full title
- Nature
- Abbreviation (ISO 4 and NLM)
- Nature
- Publisher
- Springer Nature (Nature Portfolio)
- Print ISSN
- 0028-0836
- Online ISSN (eISSN)
- 1476-4687
- First published
- November 1869
- Frequency
- Weekly
- Editor in Chief
- Magdalena Skipper
- Editorial model
- Full-time professional editors, no external board
- Subjects
- All fields of science and technology
- Access model
- Hybrid: subscription, with an open access option for research articles
- On DeepDyve
- Research articles from 1953 to recent issues; availability varies by article
Ways to access Nature
More than half of the research articles Nature published from January 1 to November 13, 2026 are open access and free to read. For the rest, look for a preprint or the authors’ manuscript, check a library, or read them on DeepDyve.
- Open access articles. 59% of Nature research articles published from January 1 to November 13, 2026 carry a Creative Commons license, per Crossref, and are free on nature.com. They’re marked “Open access” below.
- Preprints. Nature encourages authors to post preprints of their research on servers such as arXiv or bioRxiv. A preprint can differ from the published paper.
- The authors’ accepted manuscript. For subscription articles, Nature lets authors make their accepted manuscript public 6 months after publication, on a personal website or in a repository such as PubMed Central.
- NIH-funded research. For papers accepted on or after July 1, 2025, the US National Institutes of Health requires the accepted manuscript in PubMed Central, free with no embargo from the official publication date.
- A library. University libraries, and some public libraries, subscribe to Nature. Check your library’s journal list and whether it offers remote access.
- DeepDyve. Read Nature research articles online, from recent issues back to 1953, for $59 a month or $499 a year after a free first month. Articles marked LitStream below are in DeepDyve’s LitStream collection, which a subscription lets you read online. PDFs are sold separately, and availability varies by article.
Sources: Nature Portfolio self-archiving policy; Nature Portfolio preprint policy; NIH Public Access Policy; open access share from Crossref license data.
Impact factor and metrics
Nature’s 2025 Journal Impact Factor is 56.1, and its 5-year Impact Factor is 56.7.
56.1
Journal Impact Factor (2025)
56.7
5-year Impact Factor (2025)
19.713
SCImago Journal Rank (2025)
8 days
Median time to first editorial decision
321 days
Median time from submission to acceptance
59%
Research articles published open access, Jan 1 to Nov 13, 2026
Source: Springer Nature journal metrics for Nature. Impact Factor from Clarivate Journal Citation Reports. Open access share: 724 of 1,226 research articles published January 1 to November 13, 2026 carry a Creative Commons license, per Crossref.
This week’s issue · Volume 659, Issue 8140 · 12 November 2026
On the cover: metamaterials designed like networks
Albert-László Barabási and colleagues use ideas from network science, the field behind maps of the internet and social media, to design materials from rods whose sizes span several orders of magnitude.
Read the cover story on DeepDyveRecent Nature articles worth reading
Picked from the 12 November 2026 issue. Summaries describe what the authors report.
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Scale-rich network-based metamaterials
The authors build mechanical metamaterials on network-science principles and report properties that single-scale designs can’t reach.
Both et al. · Nature 659, 345–356 (2026) · DOI 10.1038/s41586-026-11191-2
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Independent interferometric observable confirms black hole shadow in M87*
Applying a new imaging method to existing radio telescope data, the authors independently recover the ring-shaped shadow of the black hole in M87 and its mass.
Lai et al. · Nature 659, 317–323 (2026) · DOI 10.1038/s41586-026-11241-9
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Australia’s current wildfire crisis linked to colonial land-use change
From a 1,000-year lake sediment record, the authors report that the end of Indigenous cultural burning turned open woodland into dense, fire-prone forest.
Fletcher et al. · Nature 659, 395–401 (2026) · DOI 10.1038/s41586-026-11097-z
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Targeted genomic integration and rearrangement using prime assembly
The authors describe prime assembly, an RNA-guided way to insert medium to large DNA sequences into human cells without cutting both DNA strands.
Levesque et al. · Nature 659, 532–541 (2026) · DOI 10.1038/s41586-026-11024-2
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Spatial and sectoral water demand assessment for the African continent
A continent-wide estimate of water use across six sectors finds that demand already exceeds supply in parts of northern and southern Africa.
Vanham et al. · Nature 659, 386–394 (2026) · DOI 10.1038/s41586-026-11199-8
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Amphibious stem-insect sheds light on colonization of land
A fresh look at the fossil Chosha praecursor identifies it as a probable early insect, helping fill a long gap in the record of how insects reached land.
Tihelka et al. · Nature 659, 409–416 (2026) · DOI 10.1038/s41586-026-10961-2
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Conjugation-regulated self-assembled molecules for tandem solar cells
The authors engineer ordered molecular layers that they report lift the performance of perovskite-on-silicon tandem solar cells.
Fang et al. · Nature 659, 337–344 (2026) · DOI 10.1038/s41586-026-11226-8
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Questions about Nature
How can I read Nature articles without a subscription?
Most Nature research articles published from January 1 to November 13, 2026 are open access and free on nature.com. For subscription articles, look for a preprint on a server such as arXiv or bioRxiv, or the authors’ accepted manuscript, which Nature lets authors make public 6 months after publication. Your library may also subscribe; check its journal list. DeepDyve lets you read Nature research articles in full for $59 a month or $499 a year after a free first month.
What is the impact factor of Nature?
Nature’s Journal Impact Factor is 56.1 (2025), and its 5-year Impact Factor is 56.7, according to Springer Nature’s published metrics.
What is the abbreviation for Nature?
Nature isn’t abbreviated. Its ISO 4 abbreviation and its NLM (PubMed) abbreviation are both simply Nature, so a reference reads, for example, Nature 659, 345–356 (2026).
What is the ISSN of Nature?
The print ISSN is 0028-0836 and the online ISSN is 1476-4687.
Is Nature open access?
Nature is a hybrid journal. Authors of research articles can choose to publish open access, which makes their paper free for everyone; otherwise it’s published under the subscription model. From January 1 to November 13, 2026, 724 of 1,226 Nature research articles (59%) were published open access. Reviews, comments and other pieces that aren’t primary research can’t be published open access.
How long does Nature take to decide on a paper?
The median time from submission to a first editorial decision, whether to send the paper out for peer review or reject it, is 8 days. The median time from submission to acceptance, including peer review and revisions, is 321 days.
Nature articles on DeepDyve are licensed from Springer Nature. Journal facts as of 13 November 2026.
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