Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA

General information ?

Published by:

The National Academy of Sciences

ISSN:

1091-6490

Last checked date:

03/2020

Scope:

The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), the official journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), is an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans the biological, physical, and social sciences. The journal is global in scope and submission is open to all researchers worldwide.

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An NAS member may contribute up to two of her or his own manuscripts for publication in PNAS each year. Contributed papers go through open peer review (named reviewers), with the administrative aspects of the review process handled by PNAS. About 25% of articles published in PNAS are contributed. Website Instructions for authors

Subject?

Main subject area:

Interdisciplinary Sciences

Breadth of subject area:

All of science

Peer review?

Peer review type:

Conventional

Peer review openness:

Closed, single blind

Selectivity:

Selective (IF ~8-15)

Open access?

Free to read option:

Paper can be free for anyone to read

Allows green OA:

Yes

Has waivers:

Yes

Has membership system:

Institutional membership

Access type:

Hybrid

Licence:

Choice of CC BY or CC BY-NC or CC BY-NC-ND

Level of APC:

$2500-4500

Speed?

Speed to first decision:

Less than a month

Speed from acceptance to publication:

Less than 3 months

Other?

Ownership of publisher:

Society

Length restrictions:

Strong

Provides altmetrics:

Altmetric

CrossMark implemented:

Yes

Has a 2015 impact factor:

Yes

Copyedits:

Yes