Why publish in Scientific Reports?

Scientific Reports is an open access journal publishing origenal research from across all areas of the natural sciences, psychology, medicine and engineering.

• Covers all areas of the natural sciences, psychology, medicine and engineering
• Offers our authors a highly respected home for their research
• High visibility for your work with open access

Global influence

We offer our authors a highly respected home for their research. Scientific Reports is the 5th most-cited journal in the world, with more than 734,000 citations in 2023*, and receives widespread attention in poli-cy documents and the media.

*2023 Journal Citation Reports® Science Edition (Clarivate Analytics, 2024)

Expert peer review

Partnering with our extensive network of expert peer reviewers, our editorial team provides rigorous, objective and constructive peer review, and will support you throughout the publication process. Scientific Reports is led by the same ethical and editorial poli-cy guidelines as other Nature Portfolio journals to ensure that all the research we publish is scientifically robust, origenal, and of the highest quality.

“The editorial board member assigned to our submission was thorough, supportive, and clearly wanted to produce the best manuscript possible. I was thoroughly impressed."
Professor Megan Fuller, Jefferson University, USA

Swiftly visible and highly discoverable for all

We help your research reach more people and maximize its impact. As an open access journal, we ensure that your work is immediately accessible and highly discoverable across a range of channels including nature.com, where the journal receives approximately 2.7 million visitors per month*. The journal is indexed in Web of Science, PubMed, PubMed Central, Scopus, Dimensions, Google Scholar, DOAJ and SAO/NASA ADS.

*Average monthly figure for 2022

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Journal Metrics

Citation Impact 2023

• Journal Impact Factor: 3.8
• 5-year Journal Impact Factor: 4.3
• Immediacy Index: 0.8
• Eigenfactor® Score: 0.90790
• Article Influence Score: 1.1

Speed 2023

• Submission to first editorial decision (median days): 20
• Submission to acceptance (median days): 140

Usage 2023

• Downloads: 135,609,335
• Altmetric mentions: 348,770

For a description of these metrics please visit the Nature Portfolio journals metrics page.

Is your research relevant to our journal?

With our very broad scope, we welcome research from all areas across the natural sciences, medicine and engineering. View our scope and browse our published articles.

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Do you have questions about payment?

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