Nature Methods
| Nature Methods
 
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| description | Peer-reviewed journal | 
| Area of Expertise | biochemistry | 
| language | English | 
| publishing company | Nature Publishing Group ( United Kingdom ) | 
| First edition | 2004 | 
| Frequency of publication | per month | 
| editor | Allison Doerr | 
| Web link | www.nature.com/nmeth | 
| ISSN (print) | 1548-7091 | 
| ISSN (online) | 1548-7105 | 
Nature Methods , abbreviated Nat. Methods , is a monthly scientific journal published by the Nature Publishing Group . The first edition was published in October 2004. The journal publishes articles on novel methods and significant improvements to established methods from the life sciences. A broad, interdisciplinary readership in industry and science is addressed.
The journal's impact factor in 2014 was 32.072. According to the statistics of the ISI Web of Knowledge , the journal with this impact factor ranks first out of 79 journals in the Biochemical Research Methods category.
The editor is Daniel Evanko , who works full-time for the magazine.
Nature Methods has been awarding a method of the year award since 2007. The following were awarded:
- 2007: second generation DNA sequencing
 - 2008: High-resolution fluorescence microscopy
 - 2009: Induced pluripotent stem cell
 - 2010: Optogenetics
 - 2011: Genome Editing
 - 2012: mass spectrometry of proteins
 - 2013: Third generation DNA sequencing
 - 2014: Light disk microscopy
 - 2015: Cryo EM
 - 2016: Epitranscriptome Analysis
 - 2017: Organoids
 
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b website of the journal at the NPG publishing house ; Retrieved October 17, 2012.
 - ↑ 2014 Journal Citation Reports Science Edition (Thomson Reuters, 2015).
 - ↑ Epitranscriptome analysis
 - ↑ organoid