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Nature Communications
Biology and life sciencesOpen accessIn DOAJ
Among the 50 biology and life sciences journals in this index it has the 6th highest h-index and the 14th highest two-year mean citedness. Both are explained under how venues are ranked.
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Where its authors come from
Share of the 42 762 papers since 2023 with at least one author in each country.
| Country | Share of papers |
|---|---|
| China | 41% |
| United States | 40% |
| Germany | 15% |
| United Kingdom | 14% |
| France | 8% |
What it publishes
Mix of article types:
| Type | Share |
|---|---|
| Research articles | 96% |
Most cited papers since 2023
- Segment anything in medical images (2024, 3 003 citations)
- High resolution mapping of the tumor microenvironment using integrated single-cell, spatial and in situ analysis (2023, 915 citations)
- Physics-informed neural network for lithium-ion battery degradation stable modeling and prognosis (2024, 866 citations)
- Roadmapping the next generation of silicon photonics (2024, 852 citations)
- Revealing the closed pore formation of waste wood-derived hard carbon for advanced sodium-ion battery (2023, 848 citations)
Official rankings
Many evaluations use a national or commercial list rather than raw citation counts. We don't reproduce those lists here; check the journal on each one directly (search for ISSN 2041-1723):
- Scimago (SJR and quartile): what quartiles mean
- Norwegian register (level 1 or 2): national lists explained
- Finnish Publication Forum (JUFO level 0 to 3)
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