Nature Communications

The journal has editorial offices in London, Berlin, New York City, and Shanghai.

The founding editor-in-chief was Lesley Anson,[1] followed by Joerg Heber,[2] Magdalena Skipper, and Elisa De Ranieri.

[4] Starting October 2014, the journal only accepted submissions from authors willing to pay an article processing charge.

[5] Starting from 2017, the journal offers a deposition service to authors for preprints of articles "under consideration" as part of the submission process.

[19] These open-access journals offer a lower publication fee than Nature Communications, reflecting their more specialist remits.