We drive forward new research, encouraging dialogue between different scientific communities.
Our mission is to translate science for all audiences, to be understood by anyone. We ensure that the results of science are rapidly disseminated to the public throughout the world, in a fashion that conveys their significance for knowledge, culture and daily life.
We exercise a ‘convening power’ in bringing different scientific communities together and launch new titles to meet their ongoing needs. For example, Nature Food crosses the disciplines of related research in the natural, applied and social sciences.
Or take Nature Reviews Methods Primers, a journal that aims to bridge the gaps between disciplinary silos to help researchers evaluate, adopt and build on methods across different areas.
Ideal for readers who need a quick but comprehensive overview of recent developments or a new research area, Primers remain invaluable to researchers in their scientific endeavours. See infographic:
What is a Primer?
We also believe that science should represent everyone. As such, we recognise that it is our responsibility to work towards overcoming inequities and to foster a culture of diversity and inclusion in our communities and on the pages of our journals.
Our priorities in action for equity and inclusion include working gender parity for our commissioned authors and peer reviewers, reporting on diversity, truly inclusive Nature conferences, and equitable representation in the language and imagery that we use.
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Nature journals provide increasing opportunities for researchers to reach a broad audience of researchers and policy makers.
As a progressive authority in academic publishing, we are seen as a key driver in the evolution of practices in our communities. We launch innovative journals across the natural, applied and social sciences, using our convening power to bring together communities that are tackling some of global society’s most pressing and important challenges.
Springer Nature's Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Programme aims to help tackle the world’s toughest challenges. We connect researchers with policy makers and the industry, publish scientific insights that improve the world and make our publishing activities more visible to key communities through a variety of channels.
Research for the World’s Toughest Challenges – SDG Programme
SDGs are inherently interdisciplinary and the aims and scope of journals in our portfolio such as Nature Climate Change, Nature Ecology & Evolution, Nature Sustainability showcase our ability to bring together experts to tackle some of the most pressing challenges humanity currently faces.
At Nature Portfolio, we continuously develop content that puts original research into context (Reviews, News & Views, Policy Briefs) all in the spirit of aiding better knowledge sharing. Our policies and approaches continuously evolve to meet the needs of our authors, readers and the communities we serve, including the general public. Our teams working on nature.com continually review and improve the information and design of journal web pages. Through extensive research that has included website audits, author workshops and usability testing, we have significantly improved our websites to maximise content visibility, and to save authors’ time in the submission process.
