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Impact Factor
11.561
5 year Impact Factor
10.235
Senior Executive Editors
Keith Fox
Barry Stoddard

About the journal

Nucleic Acids Research ( NAR ) publishes the results of leading edge research into physical, chemical, biochemical and biological aspects of nucleic acids and proteins involved in nucleic acid metabolism and/or interactions...

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Breakthrough articles

These articles represent the very best NAR papers, in terms of originality, significance and scientific excellence. 

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Surveys and Summaries

Articles offering reviews, analyses, insights, and opinions in areas relevant to the NAR audience.

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NAR Methods

A comprehensive collection of methods papers published in Nucleic Acids Research since 1999, listed by category.

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Publish with NAR

NAR publishes leading research fast, with an average of just 1.9 weeks from acceptance to online publication. Read the Instructions to Authors to learn more about submitting your work.

2018 Database issue

The 2018 Nucleic Acids Research Database Issue contains 181 papers spanning molecular biology. Among them, 82 are new and 84 are updates describing resources that appeared in the Issue previously. The remaining 15 cover databases most recently published elsewhere.

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2018 Web Server issue

The 2018 web server issue of Nucleic Acids Research is the 16th in a series of annual issues dedicated to web-based software resources for analysis and visualization of molecular biology data.

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Nucleic Acids Therapeutics collection

Read a collection of 35 NAR articles on Nucleic Acids Therapeutics, as well as an editorial by the Editors.

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Referee information

To be considered for publication, a manuscript must present some novel development and meet the general criteria of originality, timeliness, significance and scientific excellence.

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Open Access

NAR has been a fully open access title since 2005, with all content freely available upon publication.

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Institutional Membership

When institutions are enrolled in NAR’s membership program, authors receive a substantial discount on publication fees.

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