"Nature Magazine", "Nature (magazine)", and "Nature News" redirect here. For the American magazine published 1923–1959, see American Nature Association. For the French scientific magazine, see La Nature. For the fake news site, see Natural News. Nature is a British weekly scientific journal founded and based in London , England. As a multidisciplinary publication, Nature features peer-reviewed research fr om a variety of academic disciplines, mainly in science and technology. It has core editorial o ffices across the United States, continental Europe, and Asia unde r the international scientific publishing company Springer Nature . Nature was one of the world's most cited scientific journals by the Science Edition of the 2022 Journal Citation Reports (with an ascribed impact factor of 50.5), [ 1 ] making it one of the world's most-read and most prestigious academic journals . ...