Nucleic Acids Research

Nucleic Acids Research, abbreviated Nucleic Acids Res is a scientific journal that is published by the Oxford University Press publishing house. The first issue appeared in January 1974. Currently 22 issues per year are published. Since 2005, the journal provides free access to the articles (Open Access).

The journal publishes research articles that deal with physical, chemical, biochemical and biological aspects of nucleic acids. There are also published papers on topics such as gene regulation, Genome integrity, repair and replication, genomics and molecular biology.

The Impact Factor was in 2012 at 8,278. According to the statistics of the ISI Web of Knowledge, the journal impact factor with this in the category Biochemistry and Molecular Biology is performed on 27 out of 290 journals.

Chief editors are Keith Fox, University of Southampton, UK, and Barry Stoddard, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, United States of America.