Nature Reviews Methods Primers

Nature Reviews Methods Primers is a Nature Portfolio journal launched in 2021 that publishes introductory Primers on the analytical, applied, statistical, theoretical and computational methods used across the life and physical sciences, with a 2025 impact factor of 54.2（Nature Reviews Methods Primers）是 Nature Portfolio 于 2021 年创刊的期刊，刊载生命科学与物理科学中分析、应用、统计、理论与计算方法领域的入门综述，2025 年影响因子为 54.2。

Scope

• It covers analytical, applied, statistical, theoretical and computational methods used in the life sciences and the physical sciences覆盖生命科学与物理科学所用的分析、应用、统计、理论与计算方法。
• It is aimed at a broad, interdisciplinary audience of researchers at all career stages面向各职业阶段、跨学科的研究者群体。
• Its articles give readers the information needed to evaluate and apply methods, with a strong focus on interdisciplinary collaboration, reproducibility and open science文章提供评估与应用方法所需的信息，尤为关注跨学科合作、可重复性与开放科学。
• Each Primer is an introductory overview of a method or technique, including best practices for experimentation, analysis and applications每篇入门综述都是对某项方法或技术的入门概览，包含实验、分析与应用的最佳实践。
• Every Primer is accompanied by a PrimeView, an illustrated summary with original artwork written by the editors and designed by the art editors每篇综述都配有一份 PrimeView 图解摘要，文字由编辑撰写、插图由美术编辑绘制。
• Topics are wide-ranging, and recent and forthcoming examples include nanopore sequencing of cell-free DNA, synthetic thermogels, selective gas adsorption in microporous materials, polyoxometalates, optical photothermal infrared spectroscopy and bioinformatics for long-read genome sequencing选题范围很广，近期与即将刊出的例子包括游离 DNA 的纳米孔测序、合成热凝胶、微孔材料的选择性气体吸附、多金属氧酸盐、光热红外光谱以及长读长基因组测序的生物信息学。
• The journal is published exclusively online, which allows Primers and their PrimeViews to appear weekly该刊仅在线出版，因而综述与其图解摘要可按周刊出。

History

• It was launched in January 2021 as part of the Nature Reviews portfolio of journals from Nature Portfolio, which is part of Springer Nature该刊于 2021 年 1 月创刊，属 Springer Nature 旗下 Nature Portfolio 的 Nature Reviews 期刊系列。^[1]
• The founding Chief Editor, Dominique Morneau, began building the editorial team in January 2020, before the first articles appeared创刊主编 Dominique Morneau 于 2020 年 1 月起组建编辑团队，早于首批文章的发表。
• It is an exclusively online journal that publishes continuously rather than in numbered print issues该刊为纯在线期刊，以连续方式出版，而非按纸质卷期编号。
• Following the Nature Reviews editorial model, content is largely commissioned from experts and the in-house editors work closely with authors遵循 Nature Reviews 的编辑模式，内容以向专家约稿为主，内部编辑与作者紧密协作。
• It is a subscription journal with a hybrid open-access option, and it has not converted to full open access该刊为订阅制期刊，提供混合开放获取选项，并未转为完全开放获取。
• Its impact factor was 56.0 in 2024 and 54.2 in 2025, placing it in the top quartile of multidisciplinary sciences其影响因子 2024 年为 56.0、2025 年为 54.2，位居多学科科学领域前四分之一。

Editors

• The Chief Editor is Dominique Morneau, who holds a PhD in biology from Carleton University and mainly handles papers in the life sciences主编为 Dominique Morneau，拥有卡尔顿大学生物学博士学位，主要负责生命科学领域的稿件。
• A Senior Editor covers chemistry and chemical biology, having joined the journal in October 2021, and an Associate Editor based in the New York office joined in January 2025一位高级编辑负责化学与化学生物学，于 2021 年 10 月加入，另有常驻纽约办公室的副编辑于 2025 年 1 月加入。
• All editorial decisions are made by a dedicated team of full-time professional editors, with general enquiries handled by the editorial office所有稿件决定均由一支专职全职编辑团队作出，日常问询由编辑部受理。
• Peer review follows Nature Portfolio practice, in which most journals use single-anonymised review, and authors and referees may choose mutually anonymous review同行评审遵循 Nature Portfolio 的惯例，多数期刊采用单盲评审，作者与审稿人亦可选择双向匿名评审。
• As with other Nature Reviews titles, the editors commission much of the content and work closely with authors to shape each article与其他 Nature Reviews 刊物一样，编辑对相当部分内容进行约稿，并与作者密切合作打磨文章。
• Each Primer is paired with a PrimeView written and illustrated in house, giving the journal a distinctive editorial product每篇综述都配有由编辑部内部撰写与绘制的 PrimeView，构成本刊特有的编辑产品。