News & Comment

As a counterpoint to the increasing complexity and amount of data in manuscripts, we introduce Brief Communications as our shortest article type yet.

When preparing your manuscript, clear presentation of the data and concise writing are key. In this Editorial, we offer tips on how to better communicate your results.

This month, Nature Metabolism turns five. For a young journal such as ours, this anniversary represents a milestone worth celebrating, and a welcome opportunity to look back.

Nature Metabolism is launching a joint collection of articles focusing on dietary interventions to improve cardiometabolic health, together with Nature Communications, npj Metabolic Health and Disease and Scientific Reports.

Here we reflect on touching points between basic science and clinical research, while highlighting key points to consider when submitting clinical work to our journal.

Metabolic networks in microbial organisms are highly diverse. Unravelling this metabolic flexibility not only reveals fundamental metabolic insights but also can yield benefits for society at large

Reproducibility and replication are cornerstones of scientific research and depend on detailed reporting of experimental conditions. Here, we discuss key points and editorial policies that authors need to be aware of when submitting an article to Nature Metabolism.

Lab websites are an important resource for making yourself known to the research community. Here we explain why having an informative, up-to-date website can be a great tool for keeping the research community informed about your current projects.

Scientific meetings are the perfect venue for staying on top of the field and building new relationships with researchers from all career stages, as well as solidifying bonds with current authors. Here we explain why editors of Nature Metabolism attend conferences and what we do when we get there.

Work in non-mammalian model organisms has shed light on many fundamental biological processes. At Nature Metabolism, we are interested in studies that make use of the unique advantages of these models to unravel new insights into metabolic biology.

Nature Metabolism is launching an online collection with articles highlighting best practices in experimental design, analysis and reporting to support the metabolic research community and increase the reproducibility of research in the life sciences.

A better understanding of how the brain controls whole-body energy use and storage, as well as eating behaviour, will pave the way for improving therapeutics to fight metabolic diseases. This Focus presents a collection of Reviews, Perspectives and research Articles that integrate the most recent evidence on how the brain controls key aspects of whole-body metabolism.

Nature Metabolism and the Nature journals are raising the standards for reporting on sex and gender in research. Starting this June, authors will be prompted to provide details on how sex and gender were considered in study design.

Global scientific collaboration should endure despite the humanitarian crisis in Europe.

One year ago, we introduced open access publishing at Nature Metabolism. Here, we review the publishing options for authors and our progress so far.

Discovering that a different lab has reached similar findings to yours before publishing can be frustrating. But it does not have to be. Communication between labs might be the best way forward.

Although the COVID-19 pandemic brought the conference circuit to a standstill, virtual spaces were able to bring us together, albeit with less opportunity for social bonding. Taking clues from the technology and entertainment industries, virtual scientific conference organizers should offer a more meaningful social experience.

Since the publication of its first issue in January 2019, Nature Metabolism has come a long way. Here, we reflect on watching our journal develop and grow, highlighting some of the important milestones on our journey.

Few technologies have changed the language and approach of biological research as dramatically and pervasively as single-cell technology, which has joined lipidomics, GFP, ChIP–seq and CRISPR–Cas in the pantheon of biotechnology. Here, we reflect on the influence of single-cell technology on metabolism research, some of which can be found in our new Collection on Single-cell technology in metabolism, featuring articles published in Nature Metabolism.

On the second anniversary of Nature Metabolism, we reflect on some of the developments at the journal against the backdrop of this extraordinary year.