Nature Reviews Methods Primers

Nature Reviews Methods Primers is a peer-reviewed and online-only scientific journal published by Nature Portfolio. Established in 2021,^[1] it covers review articles on analytical, applied, statistical, theoretical and computational methods used in the life and physical sciences.^[2] As of 28 October 2025^[update], its editor-in-chief is Joseph Willson.^[3]

Nature Reviews Methods Primers

Discipline	Life sciences, physical sciences
Language	English
Edited by	Joseph Willson
Publication details
History	2021—present
Publisher	Nature Portfolio
Frequency	Continuous
Impact factor	56 (2024)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Nat. Rev. Methods Primers
Indexing CODEN (alt) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
CODEN	JQSRAE
ISSN	2662-8449 (print) 2662-8449 (web)
Links
Journal homepage Online access Online archive

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in:

• Chemical Abstracts Core^[4]
• Current Contents/Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences^[5]
• Science Citation Index Expanded^[5]
• Scopus^[4]

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2024 impact factor of 56.^[6]