Who can submit to PNAS?

PNAS welcomes submissions in all scientific disciplines from researchers worldwide. Information on submitting your manuscript is included below. Please contact us if you have any questions about the submission process.

How do I get permission from PNAS?

How much does it cost to submit to PNAS?

$2,425 per article with either a CC BY or CC BY-NC-ND license. All Brief Report articles are immediately open access upon publication. All PNAS articles, regardless of their license, are free within six months of publication. Publication charges may be paid by credit card, check, or wire transfer.

What is the rejection rate for PNAS?

Peer Review Process

The Board may reject manuscripts without further review, or review and reject manuscripts that do not meet PNAS standards. More than 50% of submissions are declined at initial evaluation.

What is the acceptance rate for PNAS direct submission?

With a competitive impact factor of 9.6 and a 19% acceptance rate for papers submitted directly, PNAS remains one of the most prestigious and highly cited multidisciplinary research journals.

How to submit a research article to PNAS journal.

Is PNAS hard to publish?

Publishing in PNAS is not an easy job even if you think your work is good enough. In general Science publishes strikingly novel work while Nature usually publishes extensive work. PNAS papers are not that remarkably novel but some of them present interesting and new ways of analysis.

What is the average time to first decision on PNAS?

The average time to first decision is 21 days; articles may be published as soon as 4–5 weeks after acceptance. PNAS supports open access.

Is PNAS a top tier journal?

Nature, Science, and PNAS are the three most prestigious general-science journals, and Nature and Science are among the most influential journals overall, based on the journal Impact Factor (IF).

How reputable is PNAS?

With a competitive impact factor of 9.6 and a 19% acceptance rate for papers submitted directly, PNAS remains one of the most prestigious and highly cited multidisciplinary research journals.

What is the difference between PNAS and PNAS Nexus?

Both PNAS and PNAS Nexus publish high-quality research that spans all branches of the biological, physical, and social sciences. However, whereas PNAS Editorial Board members are all members of NAS, PNAS Nexus Board members include members from NAS, NAE, and NAM, as well as select non-member experts.

Is PNAS online only?

Active subscribers can access all published content, including the full text of any published article in HTML or PDF format. All subscriptions are based on the calendar year (January to December) and are for online-only access.

What is the figure limit for PNAS?

A standard 6-page article is approximately 4,000 words, 50 references, and 4 medium-size graphical elements (i.e., figures and tables). Direct Submissions: Most PNAS articles are Direct Submissions.

How often does PNAS publish?

PNAS publishes articles online daily. Articles are published directly into their respective issues. Most articles are published in an issue two weeks after proof corrections are returned. Corresponding authors will receive an email once the article is scheduled for publication.

Is PNAS free?

PNAS is available by subscription, and all content is free within six months. Authors who choose the open access option can have their articles made available without cost to the reader immediately upon publication. More than 120 countries have free and immediate access to PNAS through our Equitable Access Initiatives.

Does PNAS allow preprints?

Authors retain the following rights under the PNAS default license: The right to post the manuscript on preprint servers such as arXiv or bioRxiv, as long as authors retain distribution rights to the work, that PNAS-formatted files (HTML and PDF) are not used, and that a link to the article in PNAS is included.

What are PNAS used for?

The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed 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.

How do you pronounce PNAS?

It's pronounced /pi:nəs/. Huh? In the northeast it's invariably pronounced /pi:nIs/. /I/ and /æ/ are phonetically close enough to be substitutable in the syllable "nas".

Why publish in PNAS?

PNAS Nexus encourages transparency and speed in the publication of scientifically rigorous research and is committed to high ethical standards. All papers go through a constructive and timely review process to maximize their potential impact.

How long does peer review take PNAS?

PNAS averages 10 days from submission to initial decision, 45 days from submission to decision on a full review, and 6.4 months for submission to publication. This is, however, a highly selective journal. Open-access journal PLOS ONE takes around 43 days to first decision.

Where is PNAS indexed?

PNAS is indexed in PubMed Central (PMC). All PNAS articles are deposited upon publication and discoverable within three to four weeks of online publication.

Is science or nature more prestigious?

Nature is considered the most reputable science journal in the world due to its long history of publishing groundbreaking and influential research, its high impact factor (a measure of the average number of citations of articles in a journal), and its rigorous peer-review process.

What is the impact factor of PNAS review?

The 2023-2024 Journal's Impact IF of PNAS is 12.779, which is just updated in 2024.