Aims & Scope Open-access journal publishing high quality, editorially selected and peer reviewed advances across clinical, translational, and public health research. Communications Medicine is a selective open access journal from Nature Research publishing high-quality research, reviews and commentary across all clinical, translational, and public health research fields. The journal aims to foster collaboration across these different communities to facilitate discovery that will promote health and improve patients' lives. Primary research papers published by the journal represent significant advances in preventing, diagnosing, or treating human disease of relevance to a specialized field. We provide a forum to discuss issues of importance to researchers across all the communities in our readership, regardless of sub-discipline or medical specialty. The scope of Communications Medicine covers studies in: all clinical specialties, such as oncology, cardiology or neurology emerging fields, such as precision medicine, microbiome, or anti-aging therapies any area of translational research regional or global public health  We are also interested in submissions at the intersection of medicine with other scientific disciplines, such as computational science and physics, where the central advance of the study is of interest to the medical community, for example digital medicine and medical devices or imaging. Primary research published in Communications Medicine includes the following study types: observational and interventional clinical studies (all phases of trials and case studies/series) observational and interventional epidemiological studies (prospective and retrospective) systematic reviews and meta-analysis new methods, technologies or resources of significant translational or clinical relevance studies in pre-clinical models of significant relevance to human disease diagnosis/therapy The submission and review processes are managed by our in-house professional editors supported by our Editorial Board Members, who provide technical expertise across the breadth of the clinical, translational and public health research fields. We are committed to rapid dissemination of important research results. Articles are published on a continuous basis with minimal time from acceptance to publication. Criteria for publication To be published in Communications Medicine a paper should meet several general criteria: The results are novel (novelty is not compromised by either abstracts or internet preprints) The paper provides strong evidence for its conclusions The data are technically sound Clinical research results are reported following ICMJE and EQUATOR recommendations The manuscript is important to scientists or clinicians in a specific sub-field of medicine or public health .