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Research scientists are the primary audience for the journal, but article summaries in the front of the journal make many of the most important articles accessible for the general public. Also toward the front of each issue are editorials and news articles on issues of general interest to scientists, often including articles on government funding of science, book reviews, scientific ethics, and the history and future of a branch of research. The remainder of the journal consists mostly of research articles which are often dense and highly technical.
Nature is edited and published in the United Kingdom by Nature Publishing Group, a subsidiary of Macmillan Publishers which in turn is owned by the Georg von Holtzbrinck Publishing Group. Nature has offices in London, New York City, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., TokyoTokyo (; Tokyo lit. eastern capital) is the capital of Japan as well as the most populous conurbation in Japan, and the world's largest metropolitan area by population with 33,750,000 people living within its urban influence. A little more than 12 million, ParisEiffel Tower has become the symbol of Paris throughout the world. Paris is the capital and largest city of France. The city is built on an arc of the River Seine, and is thus divided into two parts: the Right Bank to the north and the smaller Left Bank to, MunichMunich ( German: Munchen ) is the state capital of the German Bundesland of Bavaria. Behind Berlin and Hamburg, Munich is Germany's third largest city with a population of about 1. 261 million ( as of 2003). It is located on the river Isar. History The se, and BasingstokeBasingstoke is a new town in the county of Hampshire in the UK. It is the seat of the Basingstoke and Deane district. In 1996 it had a population of 86,600. Basingstoke is a prosperous town with an above-average standard of living and low unemployment.. Nature Publishing Group also puts out many other more specialized journals under the "Nature" name, including Nature NeuroscienceNature Neuroscience is a scientific journal published by Nature Publishing Group, the publisher of Nature''. Its focus is original research papers relating specifically to neuroscience. External links Biology journals., Nature Methods, and Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, to name a few.
For most scientists, having an article published in Nature is very prestigious, and can lead to promotions, grant funding, and attention from the mainstream media. Because of these benefits, competition among scientists to publish in high-level journals like Nature and its closest competitor, ScienceScience is the journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Science was founded by Thomas Edison in 1880. Science became the journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1900. A major concern of the j, can be very fierce. However all articles must undergo peer reviewPeer review (known as refereeing in some academic fields) is a scholarly process used in the publication of manuscripts and in the awarding of funding for research. Publishers and funding agencies use peer review to select and to screen submissions. The p for publication, in which other scientists, chosen by the editor, will read and critique the article before publication. The author or authors of the article must then respond to the critiques by changing the article or performing additional experiments, or the editor may choose to reject the article entirely.