Scientific Reports: Your hub for global discovery

Author: Siobhan Bates

Your hub for global discovery. Every word in that phrase, starting with “your,” is essential to how Scientific Reports strives to support researchers. But don't just take our word for it; listen to the evidence—specifically, the testimonials from researchers like you who have recently published in Scientific Reports. Over the next few weeks, you will hear directly from researchers worldwide, working across various disciplines, about their experiences publishing in Scientific Reports

What does the phrase “your hub for global discovery” mean in practice? The phrase embodies the essence of Scientific Reports, an esteemed open access multidisciplinary journal from the Nature Portfolio. In action, it means Scientific Reports is a home for researchers worldwide to publish their innovative work and access significant and trustworthy research.

A home for multidisciplinary research

Some of the most interesting novel research happens across disciplines. However, many discipline-specific community journals often lack the means to showcase interdisciplinary work. In contrast, journals like Scientific Reports, that celebrate and recognise the value of work that bridges different fields and facilitates communication across disciplines, are an ideal home for multidisciplinary research. Additionally, as an open access journal, Scientific Reports serves as an ideal venue for groundbreaking research that transcends conventional boundaries.

Part of Springer Nature’s 180+-year tradition

Nature Portfolio, itself a part of Springer Nature, publishes Scientific Reports. This means that peer review, editing, and production are done to the same high standards. That Scientific Reports can do this at scale (Scientific Reports is the world’s fifth most-cited journal) with no loss of rigour in review and editing is one of the things that sets the journal apart; and also, how you know you can trust both the research that you find there, and also that your submission will get the utmost attention.  

Supporting researcher career growth

When you put both of those previous pillars together, you get a journal that supports researcher career growth, for researchers at every career stage. Because Scientific Reports publishes sound work without regard to discipline or to arbitrary criteria like “fit” and “scope,” early career researchers can publish their work here. And because Scientific Reports aims to publish work that crosses boundaries, more senior researchers can publish the discoveries they’ve made with colleagues in other departments. Scientific Reports is highly read (over 60 million articles article downloads in 2024), so the work you publish here will have impact. 

Hear from researchers like you

Meet three researchers — two early career researchers and a senior research leader — and hear about their experiences publishing in Scientific Reports. Find out what impact publishing with Scientific Reports has had on their research. In this video, you’ll meet Anurag Roy, Kristina Wolf, and Simona Francese.

And over the course of the next few weeks, you’ll also hear from two other researchers: Faith Ka Shun Chan and Amisha Singh. These five researchers come from a variety of disciplines, including cancer research, engineering, environmental science, and more.

Scientific Reports is an open access journal publishing original research from across all areas of the natural sciences, psychology, medicine and engineering. As the 5^th most-cited journal in the world, we offer authors a trustworthy and highly respected  home for their research. Learn more about how we support researchers at every stage of their research career and how you can publish with us.