About this journal
Aims and scope
Nucleus is a fully open access peer-reviewed journal, providing a platform to publish cutting-edge research on all aspects of cell biology and nucleus structure.
The journal aims to bring together a multidisciplinary community of scientists, covering the following topics of interest:
- Nuclear structure and dynamics
- 3D and 4D genomics
- Subnuclear organelles
- Chromatin organization
- Nuclear transport
- DNA replication and DNA damage repair
- Gene expression and RNA processing
- Nucleus in signaling and development
- Nuclear proteomics, lipidomics and metabolomics
- Nuclear mechanics and biophysics
- Omics analyses of nuclear functions (will only be considered if the study provides novel insight into nuclear processes and functions)
Nucleus accepts the following article types: Original Research, Short Reports, Reviews, Commentaries, Extra Views, and Methods Manuscripts.
Nucleus is an Open Access international journal publishing high-quality, original research. The journal operates a single-anonymized peer review policy.
Journal metrics
Usage
- 190K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 2.7 (2023) Impact Factor
- 3.1 (2023) 5 year IF
- 5.6 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- 0.701 (2023) SNIP
- 1.546 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 30 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 35 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
- 14 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
- 40% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
Journal metrics can be a useful tool for readers, as well as for authors who are deciding where to submit their next manuscript for publication. However, any one metric only tells a part of the story of a journal’s quality and impact. Each metric has its limitations which means that it should never be considered in isolation, and metrics should be used to support and not replace qualitative review.
We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
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Journal metrics in brief
Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of the following metrics (find out why).
- Usage: the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
- Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles published in the journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
- Impact Factor Best Quartile*: the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
- 5 Year Impact Factor*: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal within a five-year window.
- CiteScore (Scopus)†: the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over a four-year period.
- CiteScore Best Quartile†: the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
- SNIP (Source Normalized Impact per Paper): the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation potential in the field.
- SJR (Scimago Journal Rank): Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
- From submission to first decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a first decision in the last six months.
- From submission to first post-review decision: the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review. Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last six months.
- From acceptance to online publication: the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published in the last six months.
- Acceptance rate: articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
For more details on the data above, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
Editorial board
Editor-in-Chief
Roland Foisner
Medical University Vienna
Vienna, AT
Acquistion Editor
Adam Weiss - Prague, Czechia
Associate Editors
Jan Lammerding - Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
Tom Misteli - National Cancer Institute NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
Michael Rout - Rockefeller University, New York City, NY, USA
Maria Carmo-Fonseca - University of Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
Editorial Board
Geneviève Almouzni - Institut Curie, Paris, France
Laura Baranello - Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
Andrew S. Belmont - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL, USA
Qian Bian - Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
Julian Blow - University of Dundee, Dundee, UK
Jason Brickner - Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
Abigail Buchwalter - University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
Kan Cao - University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA
M. Cristina Cardoso - Technical University Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany
Giacomo Cavalli - CNRS Montpellier, Montpellier, France
Orna Cohen-Fix - National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
Yamini Dalal - National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
Titia de Lange - Rockefeller University, New York, NY, USA
Valérie Doye - Institut Jacques Monod, Paris, France
Maximiliano D'Angelo - Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, CA, USA
Miroslav Dundr - Rosalind Franklin University, Chicago, IL, USA
Dennis Discher - University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Archa Fox - University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
Susan Gasser - Friedrich Miescher Institute, Geneva, Switzerland
Robert Goldman - Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
Katja Graumann - Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK
Susana Gonzalo - Saint Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA
Martin W. Hetzer - Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Klosterneuburg, Austria
Pavel Hozak - Institute of Molecular Genetics, Prague, Czechia
Sui Huang - Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
Gary H. Karpen - University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
Hao Jiang - University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, USA
Hiroshi Kimura - Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
Antonis Kirmizis - University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
Ulrike Kutay - ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Dan Larson - National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
Guohong Li - Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
Roderick Lim - University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Darío Lupiáñez - Max-Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany
C. Patrick Lusk - Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
Kazuhiro Maeshima - National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Shizuoka, Japan
Jurgen Marteijn - Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Iris Meier - The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
Ohad Medalia - University of Zurich,, Zurich, Switzerland
Mohammad R. K. Mofrad - University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA
Karla Neugebauer - Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
Marcelo Nollmann - CNRS Montpellier, Montpellier, France
Benoit Palancade - Institut Jacques Monod, Paris, France
Piergiorgio Percipalle - New York University Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Thomas Schwartz - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA
Yaron Shav-Tal - Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
David Spector - Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, NY, USA
David Stanek - Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czechia
Satoshi Tashiro - Hiroshima University, Hiroshima, Japan
Katharine S. Ullman - University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Bas van Steensel - Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, NL
Joana Vidigal - National Cancer Institute, USA
Lori L. Wallrath - University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA
Vassie Ware - Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, USA
Sara Wickström - University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
Howard Worman - Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Weidong Yang - Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Yixian Zheng - Carnegie Institution of Washington, Baltimore, MD, USA
Abstracting and indexing
- Biological Abstracts (Online)
- BIOSIS Previews
- DOAJ
- EBSCOhost
- EMBASE
- MEDLINE
- PubMed Central
- Science Citation Index Expanded
- Scopus
Open access
Nucleus is an open access journal and only publishes open access articles. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.
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- Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
- Make an impact and reach new readers, not just those with easy access to a research library
- Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
- Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
- Rigorous peer review for every open access article
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