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

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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  1. Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
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  4. Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
  5. Rigorous peer review for every open access article

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