Aims & Scope
Nature Neuroscience is a multidisciplinary journal that publishes papers of the highest quality and significance in all areas of neuroscience. The editors welcome contributions in molecular, cellular, systems and cognitive neuroscience, as well as psychophysics, computational modeling and diseases of the nervous system. No area is excluded from consideration, although priority is given to studies that provide fundamental insights into the functioning of the nervous system.

Nature Neuroscience provides readers and authors high visibility, emphasis on interdisciplinary communication, accessibility to a broad readership, high standards of copy editing and production, rigorous peer review, rapid publication, and independence from academic societies and other vested interests.

In addition to primary research, Nature Neuroscience publishes news and views, reviews, editorials, commentaries, perspectives, book reviews and correspondence. In this way, the journal aims to be the voice of the worldwide neuroscience community.

Nature Neuroscience

Additional information
Journal abbreviation
The correct abbreviation for abstracting and indexing purposes is Nat. Neurosci.

ISSN
Our international standard serial number (ISSN) is 1097-6256. Our electronic international standard serial number (EISSN) is 1546-1726.

Journal and article metrics
For articles published from 2010 to the present, article metrics such as citations and online attention are available from each article page, and provide an overview of the attention received by a paper.

The 2018 journal metrics for Nature Neuroscience are as follows:
2-year Impact Factor: 21.126
5-year Impact Factor: 21.403
Immediacy Index: 5.165
Eigenfactor Score: 0.164700
Article Influence Score: 11.783
2-year Median: 15
For a further description of these metrics and a summary of the metrics for all Nature journals (including metrics on peer review turnaround times), visit our journal metrics page. More information underlying our approach to journal metrics may be found here.