Nature Genetics

Nature Genetics is a monthly peer-reviewed journal published by Nature Portfolio (Springer Nature), founded in 1992 and covering genetics and functional genomics across human, plant and model-organism traits, with a 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 25.5《自然·遗传学》是由（Nature Portfolio）出版、1992 年创办的月刊同行评审期刊，涵盖人类、植物与模式生物性状的遗传学与功能基因组学，2025 年影响因子为 25.5。

Scope

• It publishes the highest-quality research in genetics, encompassing genetic and functional genomic studies on human and plant traits and on other model organisms该刊刊载遗传学领域最高水准的研究，涵盖人类与植物性状以及其他模式生物的遗传学与功能基因组研究。
• Its current emphasis is on the genetic basis of common and complex diseases and on the functional mechanism, architecture and evolution of gene networks studied by experimental perturbation该刊当前的关注重点是常见与复杂疾病的遗传基础，以及通过实验扰动研究的基因网络功能机制、结构与演化。
• Integrative topics include genes in the pathology of human disease, the molecular analysis of simple and complex genetic traits and cancer genetics其整合性主题包括人类疾病病理中的基因、简单与复杂遗传性状的分子分析以及癌症遗传学。
• It further covers agricultural genomics, developmental genetics and regulatory variation in gene expression该刊还涵盖农业基因组学、发育遗传学以及基因表达的调控变异。
• It also addresses strategies and technologies for extracting function from genomic data, pharmacological genomics and genome evolution该刊还涉及从基因组数据中提取功能的策略与技术、药物基因组学以及基因组演化。
• Its broad scope is intended to ensure that published work reaches the widest possible audience, and all editorial decisions are made by a team of full-time professional editors其广泛的报道范围旨在确保所发表的研究触及尽可能广的读者群，所有编辑决定均由全职专业编辑团队作出。

History

• It was launched in 1992 as the first spin-off journal bearing the Nature logo, and its first issue appeared in April 1992该刊于 1992 年创办，是首本沿用（Nature）品牌的衍生期刊，首期于 1992 年 4 月出版。^[1]
• Its founding editor was Kevin Davies, who had joined the Nature editorial staff in 1990 and later developed Cancer Cell at Cell Press其创刊主编为 Kevin Davies，他 1990 年加入（Nature）编辑团队，后参与创办（Cell Press）旗下的（Cancer Cell）。
• It began publication in the early years of the Human Genome Project, nearly a decade before the draft human genome sequence was completed该刊创刊之时正值人类基因组计划的早期阶段，距人类基因组草图完成尚有近十年。
• It marked its 25th anniversary in 2017 with retrospectives on the development of the field该刊于 2017 年迎来创刊 25 周年，并以回顾文章梳理该领域的发展。
• Landmark papers include the Gene Ontology framework for unifying the description of gene function, one of the most cited papers in the field该刊发表的里程碑论文包括用于统一基因功能描述的基因本体（Gene Ontology）框架，是该领域被引最多的论文之一。^[2]
• It has been published by Nature Portfolio (Springer Nature) throughout its history as part of the Nature research journals, and its 2025 Journal Impact Factor of 25.5 ranks second among 192 genetics and heredity journals该刊始终由（Nature Portfolio）出版，隶属（Nature）研究期刊系列；其 2025 年影响因子为 25.5，在 192 种遗传学与遗传期刊中排名第二。

Editors

• The Chief Editor is Tiago Faial, who obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge and joined the journal in 2015, becoming Chief Editor in 2022现任主编为 Tiago Faial，他于（University of Cambridge）取得博士学位，2015 年加入该刊，并于 2022 年出任主编。
• He was previously a postdoctoral researcher in Joanna Wysocka's laboratory at Stanford University, studying epigenetic landscapes in pluripotency, and is based in San Francisco他此前在（Stanford University）的 Joanna Wysocka 实验室从事博士后研究，研究多能性状态下的表观遗传景观，现驻旧金山。
• Kyle Vogan serves as Team Leader, having joined the journal in 2003 after studying neural tube closure genetics at McGill University and Harvard Medical SchoolKyle Vogan 任团队负责人，他于 2003 年加入该刊，此前在（McGill University）与（Harvard Medical School）研究神经管闭合遗传学。
• Senior editors include Chiara Anania, Margot Brandt, Petra Gross, Hui Hua and Wei Li, based across Madrid, New York and London资深编辑包括 Chiara Anania、Margot Brandt、Petra Gross、Hui Hua 与 Wei Li，分布于马德里、纽约与伦敦。
• Wei Li joined in 2017 and handles mammalian metabolic disease genetics, while Petra Gross handles front-half and commissioned content across Nature Genetics and Nature Cell BiologyWei Li 于 2017 年加入，负责哺乳动物代谢疾病遗传学方向；Petra Gross 负责（Nature Genetics）与（Nature Cell Biology）的前部内容与约稿内容。