One centralised, wide-ranging live window into emerging research topics to guide your decision making relating to where you dedicate your research resources, and who to collaborate with.
In a market filled with raw data and search-based tools, Nature Navigator helps you make smarter research decisions without the need for a data engineer or data scientists.
With this Nature Navigator, you get:
Use Nature Index online via the free-to-access website, or with Nature Navigator and Nature Strategy reports to develop strategies to grow high-quality research in your organisation.
High-quality, comprehensive data from trusted sources
Diverse data sources for comprehensive benchmarkingNature Index is building on its history of monitoring publication output to include a richer, more valuable set of metrics. We’re combining leading sources of data from surveys, public and government sources, our bibliographic data partners, and more, to provide a set of measures that help you assess your research performance, and then determine how to improve it.
Nature Index is expanding to deliver data beyond publication and citationsGet access to the wide range of metrics you need to understand your organisation’s research performance. The Nature Index team monitors organisations on meaningful academic, societal, and economic indicators to support a rounded view of impact, which will become available as part of our future free to access releases. That gives you greater freedom to decide what metrics are important to you, and to track your progress accordingly.
Nature Index can form a central part of your monitoring strategyThe easy-to-use and transparent Nature Index can support your monitoring activity. You can compare current and historical data to track trends over time. And you can combine Nature Index with other data sets for deeper, more meaningful analysis that uncovers valuable insights to inform your research strategy.
The Nature Index is an open database of author affiliations and institutional relationships. The Index tracks contributions to research articles published in 82 high-quality natural-science journals, chosen based on reputation by an independent group of researchers.
The Nature Index provides absolute Count and fractional Share counts of article publication at the institutional and national level and, as such, is an indicator of global high-quality research output and collaboration. Data in the Nature Index is updated regularly, with the most recent 12 months made available under a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) at nature.com/nature-index/. The database is compiled by Nature Portfolio, part of Springer Nature.
Users of the Nature Index can track an institution’s output in the Nature Index and compare it with peer institutions by place, broad field and sector; globally, by country or by region; across the four broad fields of Chemistry, Life Sciences, Earth and Environmental Sciences and Physical Sciences; and by sector whether Academic, Government, Corporate, Healthcare or NPO/NGO.
Users can also identify which institutions and countries are collaborating with each other in research tracked by the Nature Index, the strength of these collaborations as indicated by output in the Nature Index, and how that is changing over time.
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Strengthen your reputationNature Portfolio publishes high-quality, independently peer-reviewed research and publishing which are available online via site licenses to academic, corporate and government institutions and consortia. Nature Portfolio supports projects aimed at making current research available to a broader community of scientists and practitioners. Publishing in a Nature Portfolio journal leads to affiliation awareness and strengthens the reputation of your institution.
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