About this journal
Aims and scope
Nature and Science of Sleep is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal covering all aspects of sleep science and sleep medicine, including the neurophysiology and functions of sleep, the genetics of sleep, sleep and society, biological rhythms, dreaming, sleep disorders and therapy, and strategies to optimize healthy sleep.
Specific topics covered in the journal include:
- The functions of sleep in humans and other animals
- Physiological and neurophysiological changes with sleep
- The genetics of sleep and sleep differences
- The neurotransmitters, receptors and pathways involved in controlling both sleep and wakefulness
- Behavioral and pharmacological interventions aimed at improving sleep, and improving wakefulness
- Sleep changes with development and with age
- Sleep and reproduction (e.g., changes across the menstrual cycle, with pregnancy and menopause)
- The science and nature of dreams/li>
- Sleep disorders
- Impact of sleep and sleep disorders on health, daytime function and quality of life
- Sleep problems secondary to clinical disorders
- Interaction of society with sleep (e.g., consequences of shift work, occupational health, public health)
- The microbiome and sleep
- Chronotherapy
- Impact of circadian rhythms on sleep, physiology, cognition and health
- Mechanisms controlling circadian rhythms, centrally and peripherally
- Impact of circadian rhythm disruptions (including night shift work, jet lag and social jet lag) on sleep, physiology, cognition and health
- Behavioral and pharmacological interventions aimed at reducing adverse effects of circadian-related sleep disruption
- Assessment of technologies and biomarkers for measuring sleep and/or circadian rhythms
- Epigenetic markers of sleep or circadian disruption
Nature and Science of Sleep welcomes submitted papers covering original research, basic science and technology, clinical and epidemiological studies, reviews and evaluations, guidelines, expert opinion and commentary. Case reports and study protocols will only be considered if they make a valuable and original contribution to the literature.
When considering submission of a paper utilizing publicly-available data authors should ensure that such studies add significantly to the body of knowledge. Further guidelines for the dataset and analyses can be found here.
All meta-analyses require a pre-submission check prior to submitting to Nature and Science of Sleep. Please complete the pre-submission check form.
Journal metrics
Usage
- 231K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 3.0 (2023) Impact Factor
- Q2 Impact Factor Best Quartile
- 3.7 (2023) 5 year IF
- 5.7 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q2 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 0.954 (2023) SNIP
- 0.956 (2023) SJR
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.
For more details, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
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:
Prof. Dr. Ahmed BaHammam, University Sleep Disorders Center, Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
Associate Editors-in-Chief:
Dr. Valentina Alfonsi, Laboratory of Sleep Psychophysiology, University of Rome "Sapienza", Italy
Dr Sarah Appleton, Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute "AISH (Adelaide Institute for Sleep Health), Flinders University, Australia
Editorial Board:
Professor Ning-Hung Chen, Taoyuan Chang Gung Sleep Center and Chang Gung University, Taiwan
Dr Seockhoon Chung, Department of Psychiatry, ASAN Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Korea
Dr David Cunnington, Sleep Medicine, Melbourne Sleep Disorders Centre, Australia
Prof. Dr. Luigi De Gennaro, Department of Psychology;, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Professor Derk-Jan Dijk, Surrey Sleep Research Centre, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom
Dr Christopher Drake, Sleep Research, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, United States
Prof. Dr. Sy Duong-Quy, Clinical Research Center, Lam Dong Medical College, Vietnam
Professor Christian Franceschini, Department of Medicine and Surgery, University of Parma, Italy
Professor Fang Han, Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Peking University People's Hospital, Beijing, China Mainland (PRC)
Dr David Harper, Department of Psychiatry, McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School, United States
Professor Craig Heller, Department of Biology, Stanford University, United States
Dr Zhi-Li Huang, Department of Pharmacology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Fudan University, China Mainland (PRC)
Dr Dimitrios Kantas, Pulmonologist/Intensivist-Somnologist, Sleep Medicine Center, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota,United States
Professor James Krueger, Washington State University, United States
Professor Leon Lack, Psychology, Flinders University, Australia
Dr Shyong Li, Department of Anesthesiology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Mainland China.
Dr Mauro Manconi, Sleep Center, Neurocenter of Southern Switzerland, Civic Hospital of Lugano, Lugano, Università della Svizzera Italiana and Bern University Hospital, Bern, Switzerland
Dr Maniaci, School of Medicine, University of Enna kore, Italy.
Dr Md Dilshad Manzar, Department of Nursing, College of Applied Medical Sciences, Majmaah University, Saudi Arabia
Dr Runtang Meng, PhD, MM, MBBS, School of Public Health, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China Mainland (PRC)
Professor Emmanuel Mignot, Department of of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University, United States
Dr Antonio Moffa, Unit of Otolaryngology, University of Campus Biomedico, Italy
Dr Gabriel Natan Pires, Departamento de Psicobiologia, Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo, Brazil
Dr Arcady A Putilov, Independent Research Group, Group of Biomedical Math-Modelling, Research Institute for Molecular Biology and Biophysics of the Federal Research Centre for Fundamental and Translational Medicine, Novosibirsk, Russia
Professor Shantha MW Rajaratnam, School of Psychological Sciences, Monash University, Australia
Professor Susan Redline, Sleep Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States
Dr Federico Salfi, MSc, Research Fellow, Department of Biotechnological and Applied Clinical Sciences, University of L'Aquila, Italy
Dr Serena Scarpelli, Dr, Department of Psychology, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Dr Neomi Shah, System Vice Chair of Medicine for Faculty Affairs; Professor of Medicine; Samuel Bronfman Department of Medicine; Associate Division Chief (Academic Affairs), Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine; Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai; New York, USA
Dr Virend Somers, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Mayo Clinic, United States
Dr Rao Sun, MD, PhD, Department of Anesthesiology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China.
Professor Redha Taiar, Professor, Teacher at UFRSTAPS, University of Reims Champaign France.
Dr Pasquale Tondo, Pulmonology, Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Foggia, Foggia, Italy
Dr Elena Urrestarazu, Sleep Unit, Clinical Neurophysiology, Universidad de Navarra, Spain
Prof. Dr. Eus van Someren, Department of Sleep and Cognition, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience, Amsterdam,Netherlands
Dr John Winkelman, Departments of Psychiatry and Neurology, Massachusetts General Hospital,, United States
Dr Nevin Zaki, Professor, ESRS Somnologist, Consultant Psychiatrist at NAAFH, Psychiatry and Sleep Medicine, Mansoura University, Manager of sleep research unit, Middle East coordinator of world sleep day, Egypt
Dr Jamie M Zeitzer, Department of Psychiatry, University Center for Sleep Sciences and Medicine, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, United States
Abstracting and indexing
Nature and Science of Sleep is indexed/tracked/covered by the following services:
Current Contents®/Clinical Medicine
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
EMBASE (Elsevier)
Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition
Pubmed (NLM)
PubMed Central Selective Deposit Medicine & Health (NLM)
Science Citation Index Expanded (Clarivate Analytics)
Scopus (Elsevier)
Open access
Nature and Science of Sleep 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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- 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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