Nature Methods

Nature Methods
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

• Article index of the current issue

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} website of the journal at the NPG publishing house ; Retrieved October 17, 2012.
2. ↑ 2014 Journal Citation Reports Science Edition (Thomson Reuters, 2015).
3. ↑ Epitranscriptome analysis
4. ↑ organoid