Senior Executive Editors
Keith Fox
Barry Stoddard
About the journal
Nucleic Acids Research ( NAR ) publishes the results of leading edge research into physical, chemical, biochemical and biological aspects of nucleic acids and proteins involved in nucleic acid metabolism and/or interactions...
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Breakthrough articles
These articles represent the very best NAR papers, in terms of originality, significance and scientific excellence.
Surveys and Summaries
Articles offering reviews, analyses, insights, and opinions in areas relevant to the NAR audience.
NAR Methods
A comprehensive collection of methods papers published in Nucleic Acids Research since 1999, listed by category.
Publish with NAR
NAR publishes leading research fast, with an average of just 1.9 weeks from acceptance to online publication. Read the Instructions to Authors to learn more about submitting your work.
2019 Database issue
The 2019 Nucleic Acids Research Database Issue contains 168 papers spanning molecular biology. Among them, 64 are new and 92 are updates describing resources that appeared in the Issue previously. The remaining 12 cover databases most recently published elsewhere.
2019 Web Server issue
The 2019 web server issue of Nucleic Acids Research is the 17th in a series of annual issues dedicated to web-based software resources for analysis and visualization of molecular biology data.
Nucleic Acids Therapeutics collection
Read a collection of 35 NAR articles on Nucleic Acids Therapeutics, as well as an editorial by the Editors.
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Referee information
To be considered for publication, a manuscript must present some novel development and meet the general criteria of originality, timeliness, significance and scientific excellence.
Open Access
NAR has been a fully open access title since 2005, with all content freely available upon publication.
Institutional Membership
When institutions are enrolled in NAR’s membership program, authors receive a substantial discount on publication fees.
