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Nucleic Acids Research Template

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About the Nucleic Acids Research format

Nucleic Acids Research is a peer-reviewed journal published by Oxford University Press, covering RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, RNA modifications and cancer, DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry. Over its lifetime it has published 56,221 papers, which have received 6,113,326 citations.

PublisherOxford University Press
Reference styleNumbered (OUP)
Numbered — [1], [2] in the text
[1] A. Smith, B. Jones, and C. Lee, A representative article title, Nucleic Acids Research 12 (2023) 45–58.

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Publishes research inRNA and protein synthesis mechanisms RNA modifications and cancer DNA and Nucleic Acid Chemistry RNA Research and Splicing DNA Repair Mechanisms
ISSN0305-1048
Citation impact (2-yr)15.19
h-index880
i10-index45,049
Article processing charge$3,630
Open accessYes — indexed in DOAJ
Top institutions publishing hereCentre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Journal websitenar.oxfordjournals.org
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Papers published in Nucleic Acids Research per year

1.4K
2014
1.5K
2015
1.4K
2016
1.4K
2017
1.3K
2018
1.2K
2019
1.3K
2020
1.3K
2021
1.2K
2022
1.3K
2023
1.3K
2024
1.6K
2025

Citation impact of Nucleic Acids Research by publication year

188.4K
2014
260.6K
2015
232.5K
2016
175.3K
2017
252.3K
2018
164.9K
2019
147.1K
2020
130.3K
2021
101.9K
2022
53.6K
2023
43.4K
2024
7.9K
2025

Citations each year’s papers have accumulated so far — the most recent years are still building up.

Most-cited papers in Nucleic Acids Research

Gapped BLAST and PSI-BLAST: a new generation of protein database search programs

Stephen F. Altschul · 1 Sep 1997

The BLAST programs are widely used tools for searching protein and DNA databases for sequence similarities. For protein comparisons, a variety of definitional, algorithmic and statistical refinements described here permits the execution time of the BLAST programs to be decreased substantially while enhancing their sensitivity to weak similarities. A new criterion for triggering the extension…

74,714 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
CLUSTAL W: improving the sensitivity of progressive multiple sequence alignment through sequence weighting, position-specific gap penalties and weight matrix choice

Julie Thompson, Desmond G. Higgins, Toby J. Gibson · 1 Jan 1994

The sensitivity of the commonly used progressive multiple sequence alignment method has been greatly improved for the alignment of divergent protein sequences. Firstly, individual weights are assigned to each sequence in a partial alignment in order to down-weight near-duplicate sequences and up-weight the most divergent ones. Secondly, amino acid substitution matrices are varied at different…

65,082 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
MUSCLE: multiple sequence alignment with high accuracy and high throughput

R. C. Edgar · 8 Mar 2004

We describe MUSCLE, a new computer program for creating multiple alignments of protein sequences. Elements of the algorithm include fast distance estimation using kmer counting, progressive alignment using a new profile function we call the log-expectation score, and refinement using tree-dependent restricted partitioning. The speed and accuracy of MUSCLE are compared with T-Coffee, MAFFT and…

46,809 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
limma powers differential expression analyses for RNA-sequencing and microarray studies

Matthew E. Ritchie, Belinda Phipson, Di Wu et al. · 20 Jan 2015

limma is an R/Bioconductor software package that provides an integrated solution for analysing data from gene expression experiments. It contains rich features for handling complex experimental designs and for information borrowing to overcome the problem of small sample sizes. Over the past decade, limma has been a popular choice for gene discovery through differential expression…

43,606 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →
The Protein Data Bank

Helen M. Berman · 1 Jan 2000

The Protein Data Bank (PDB; http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/ ) is the single worldwide archive of structural data of biological macromolecules. This paper describes the goals of the PDB, the systems in place for data deposition and access, how to obtain further information, and near-term plans for the future development of the resource.

40,025 citations Cite SaveGo to paper →

Nucleic Acids Research template — frequently asked questions

How do I write a paper in the Nucleic Acids Research format?
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What reference style does Nucleic Acids Research use?
Nucleic Acids Research uses Numbered (OUP) references, shown as numbered [1], [2] markers in the text. DocuGuru formats every in-text citation and the reference list in this exact style automatically. A reference appears like this: [1] A. Smith, B. Jones, and C. Lee, A representative article title, Nucleic Acids Research 12 (2023) 45–58.
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