National Science Open is an open access journal that disseminates the most influential research of profound impact in advancing human knowledge, covering the full arc of natural sciences and engineering. Papers with transformative originality and pivotal development in multidisciplinary area, or their distinctive fields are published in this journal with fair, rigorous review, and fast production. Led by a global team of distinguished researchers, National Science Open also publishes timely, insightful commentaries and perspectives, engaging the interest of academic community and wider public.
National Science Open is an open access journal that disseminates the most influential research of profound impact in advancing human knowledge, covering the full arc of natural sciences and engineering. Papers with transformative originality and pivotal development in multidisciplinary area, or their distinctive fields are published in this journal with fair, rigorous review, and fast production. Led by a global team of distinguished researchers, National Science Open also publishes timely, insightful commentaries and perspectives, engaging the interest of academic community and wider public.
Types of Manuscripts
Editorials
Editorials are written by the Editor-in-Chief, Associate Editors, Editorial Board Members, or invited scientists and policy makers, on a broad range of topics from science to science policy and issues related to the broader society.
Reviews
Extensive reviews cover recent progress in specific areas of science, including historical overviews, recent advances made by scientists within China and internationally, and perspectives for future development. The content should be based on, or closely related to, the author’s own research work and appropriate for readers of a broad range of scientific disciplines. Reviews can be short or long formats, up to 50,000 words, with up to 20 figures/tables, and up to 300 references.
Research Articles
Research articles originally report substantial advances regarding an important scientific problem. Articles are flexible in length, up to 20,000 words, with up to 10 figures/tables, and up to 100 references. Other supporting information should usually be included in supplementary materials that will only be published online.
Perspectives
Perspectives include articles on the latest developments in a specific area of research, viewpoints on recent progress in science and technology, scientific research funding and administration, as well as science-related societal issues. Perspectives are limited to 1000 words, with no more than 10 references and one figure/table.
Commentaries
These include comments received by NSO on contents and subjects covered by NSO that are of general interest to our readers. Commentaries are limited to 1000 words, with no more than 10 references and one figure/table.
Journal Policies
Peer Review Policy
All manuscripts sent for publication in NSO are strictly and thoroughly peer-reviewed, and the peer review process is single blind. Our science editor and executive editor first review the submitted manuscript. The criteria used in the initial review include whether the paper is interesting for a broad scientific audience, and whether the content is innovative and valuable. The results of the initial review will be returned to the author in seven days, although this will not include specific opinions. Papers that pass the initial review will be forwarded to one editorial board member for the recommendations of 2–3 referees. The Editorial Office will invite those referees to review the paper and collect at least two review reports and ask the authors for adequate revision (peer-review again whenever necessary) before requesting the decision of the Executive Editor. Regardless of whether a paper is accepted or rejected, editorial office will inform the author of the evaluation results. In the case of manuscripts in which one of the authors is an editor on the editorial board of the journal, that editor will be blinded from reviewing or making decisions on the manuscript.
Originality
By submitting your manuscript to the journal it is understood that this it is an original manuscript and is unpublished work and is not under consideration elsewhere. Plagiarism, including duplicate publication of the author’s own work, in whole or in part without proper citation is not tolerated by the journal. Manuscripts submitted to the journal may be checked for originality using anti-plagiarism software.
Open Accesss
All articles published by NSO are available online for free under a Creative Commons CC BY copyright agreement. The journal is supported by article processing charge (APC) which is currently waived for all authors. Details about CC BY can be found at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
Conflicts of Interest
NSO policy requires that each author reveals any financial interests or connections, direct or indirect, or other situations that might raise the question of bias in the work reported or the conclusions, implications, or opinions stated including pertinent commercial or other sources of funding for the individual author(s) or for the associated department(s) or organization(s), personal relationships, or direct academic competition. In addition, financial competing interests, such as awards, pending patents, ownership of stock shares/options, along with non-financial competing interests, such as advisory board members, related consulting services, personal relationships, are also required to be disclosed by authors.
Animal Experiments
When reporting animal experiments authors should indicate whether the institution’s, national research council’s, or any other law on the care and use of laboratory animals was followed.
Human Subjects
When reporting on human subjects, authors should indicate whether the procedures followed were in accordance with the ethical standards of the Helsinki Declaration (1964, amended most recently in 2008) of the World Medical Association. Manuscripts should include a statement that the patient’s written consent was obtained and any information, including illustrations, should be as anonymized as far as possible. Authors should indicate that the design of the work has been approved by local ethical committees or that it conforms to standards currently applied in the country of origin. The name of the authorizing body should be stated in the paper.
Disclaimer
The opinions expressed in NSO are those of the authors and contributors, and do not necessarily reflect those of the editors, the editorial board, Science Press and EDP Sciences or the organization to which the authors are affiliated.
Contacts
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Editorial Office
National Science Open
16 Donghuangchenggen North Street, Beijing 100717, China
