Nature Research
Nature Portfolio, a division of the publisher Springer Nature, is a global scientific publishing company. Its flagship journal, Nature, was founded in 1869 and is a highly cited, weekly, multidisciplinary science journal.
As of February 2020, Nature Portfolio publishes 156 academic journals across various disciplines, including the Nature-branded research journals and the Nature Reviews series. The organization also owns and publishes journals on behalf of various scientific societies. Its impact factor for the flagship journal Nature is 48.5, and its average acceptance rate is 7.6-8%.