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Nature Portfolio · ISSN 2041-1723

Nature Communications 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: 18.60 citations per paper for Nature Communications, retrieved 23 Oct 2026.

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Key metrics

Two-year mean citedness
18.60Citations per paper, papers from the two prior yearsSource: OpenAlex
h-index
746Across all yearsSource: OpenAlex
Papers in 2025
12,67093,636 in totalSource: OpenAlex
Access
OpenAPC about $6,990Source: OpenAlex
Output

Papers per year.

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

05,00010,00015,000201920202021202220232024202512,670

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

Scope

What Nature Communications publishes.

Mostly Molecular Biology, Materials Chemistry and Genetics, within Multidisciplinary.

  • Genomics and Chromatin Dynamics
  • 2D Materials and Applications
  • Protein Structure and Dynamics
  • Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology
  • Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research
  • Developmental Biology and Gene Regulation

Most frequent research topics in OpenAlex.

Alternatives

Journals with a similar citation profile.

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

About Nature Communications.

Comment 1What is the Nature Communications 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: 18.60 citations per paper for Nature Communications, retrieved 23 Oct 2026.

Comment 2Is Nature Communications open access?
Response

Yes, Nature Communications is fully open access, with an article processing charge of about $6,990.

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

OpenAlex records 12,670 works in 2025, and 93,636 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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