Online and open access, Scientific Reports is a brand new primary research publication from the publishers of Nature, covering all areas of the natural sciences — biology, chemistry, physics and earth sciences.

Scientific Reports exists to facilitate the rapid peer review and publication of research that is of interest to specialists within any given field in the natural sciences, without barriers to access.

Scientific Reports is:

·        Fast — rapid review and publication

·        Rigorous — peer review by at least one member of the academic community

·        Open — articles are freely available to all and authors retain copyright

·        Visible — enhanced browsing and searching to ensure your article is noticed

·        Interlinked — to and from relevant articles across nature.com

·        Global — housed on nature.com with worldwide media coverage

www.nature.com/scientificreports