Outlook on Nature(Journal) and Nobel Prizes

Document Type : Promotion Article

Authors

1 Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics (IBB), University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

2 Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

Nature is one of the premier journals with a long history of publishing scientific articles. It was opened in 1869 in Cambridge, England. This journal publishes scholarly articles, scientific news in simple language, advertising, and job opportunities. It has two main goals: First, to bring scientific results and achievements to the public's view so as to gain a general understanding of science and daily life. Second, helping scientists and researchers make new interdisciplinary information available. For the first hundred years of its work, the journal focused primarily on the publication of important articles of the era and began to expand and internationalize it in the 1970s and began collaborating with other publications. It is not only scientifically up-to-date but also publicly available as a website and software applications. The Nature Publisher advises and even edits emerging researchers to publish articles in appropriate journals. About 30% of Nobel Prize-winning scholars published their papers in Nature.

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