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Nature Portfolio · ISSN 0028-0836 · 1476-4687

Nature impact factor, and the open numbers behind it.

Short answer

The Journal Impact Factor is a licensed Clarivate metric, so we do not reproduce it. The closest open equivalent is OpenAlex's two-year mean citedness: 19.50 citations per paper for Nature, retrieved 23 Oct 2026.

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Key metrics

Two-year mean citedness
19.50Citations per paper, papers from the two prior yearsSource: OpenAlex
h-index
1,840Across all yearsSource: OpenAlex
Papers in 2025
4,561449,064 in totalSource: OpenAlex
Access
SubscriptionAPC about $12,690Source: OpenAlex
Output

Papers per year.

How many works Nature published in each complete year, as indexed by OpenAlex.

3,0003,5004,0004,5005,00020192020202120222023202420254,561

Fig. 1 — Works per year from OpenAlex. Retrieved 23 Oct 2026.

Scope

What Nature publishes.

Mostly History and Philosophy of Science, Information Systems and Management and Astronomy and Astrophysics, within Multidisciplinary.

  • History of Science and Medicine
  • Research, Science, and Academia
  • History of Science and Natural History
  • History and Developments in Astronomy
  • Biographical and Historical Analysis
  • Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies

Most frequent research topics in OpenAlex.

Alternatives

Journals with a similar citation profile.

JournalTwo-year mean citednessh-indexAccess
Nature19.501,840Subscription
Nature Communications18.60746Open
Science21.671,754Subscription
Science Advances13.32378Open
PNAS8.951,167Subscription
Questions

About Nature.

Comment 1What is the Nature impact factor?
Response

The Journal Impact Factor is a licensed Clarivate metric, so we do not reproduce it. The closest open equivalent is OpenAlex's two-year mean citedness: 19.50 citations per paper for Nature, retrieved 23 Oct 2026.

Comment 2Is Nature open access?
Response

Nature is not a fully open-access journal; check its author guidelines for open-access options and charges.

Comment 3How many papers does Nature publish a year?
Response

OpenAlex records 4,561 works in 2025, and 449,064 in total.

Sources

  1. 1. OpenAlex source record · retrieved 23 Oct 2026

The Journal Impact Factor is a Clarivate metric and is not reproduced here.

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