Scientific Reports

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Scientific Reports
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description Trade journal
Area of ​​Expertise Natural sciences
language English
First edition 2011
Frequency of publication continuously
Impact Factor 4.011 (2018)
Editor-in-chief Richard White
editor Nature Publishing Group
Web link www.nature.com/srep/index.html
ISSN (online)

Scientific Reports is a scientific journal published online by the Nature Publishing Group . The open access journal covers all areas of the natural sciences and has a peer review process. The concept of the journal, which has been published since 2011, is similar to that of the journal PLOS ONE of the Public Library of Science .

The impact factor in 2018 was 4.011, the 5-year impact factor was 4.525. This placed the journal in 15th place out of 69 journals in the "Multidisciplinary Sciences" category.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Journal Citation Reports 2018. Retrieved May 13, 2020 .
  2. ^ Announcing Scientific Reports , a new open access publication. In: Nature Publishing Group Press release archive. January 6, 2011, accessed January 16, 2013 .
  3. Nature's open-access offering may sound death knell for subs model. In: The Times Higher Education . January 13, 2011, accessed January 16, 2013 .
  4. ^ Martin Fenner: New journal Nature ONE launched today . In: Gobbledygook . January 6, 2011. Retrieved January 16, 2013.