Natural Product Reports is a peer-reviewed scientific journal

Scientific journal

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 published by the Royal Society of Chemistry

Royal Society of Chemistry

The Royal Society of Chemistry is a learned society in the United Kingdom with the goal of "advancing the chemical sciences." It was formed in 1980 from the merger of the Chemical Society, the Royal Institute of Chemistry, the Faraday Society and the Society for Analytical Chemistry with a new...

. It publishes reviews commissioned by the editorial board and stimulates progress in all areas of natural products research. Published monthly, the editor of NPR is Dr Richard Kelly. The current chair of the Editorial Board is Professor Marcel Jaspars, who is Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Aberdeen

University of Aberdeen

The University of Aberdeen, an ancient university founded in 1495, in Aberdeen, Scotland, is a British university. It is the third oldest university in Scotland, and the fifth oldest in the United Kingdom and wider English-speaking world...

, UK. Chemical biology papers published in Natural Product Reports are highlighted in Chemical Biology, the RSC’s point of access to chemical biology news and research from across all RSC journals.

NPR has an impact factor of 7.67

NPR hosts another RSC publication, Chemical Biology.

Subject coverage

The scope of the journal is very broad and many reviews discuss the role of natural products in the wider bioinorganic, bioorganic and chemical biology communities. Areas covered include enzymology, nucleic acids, genetics, chemical ecology, carbohydrates, primary and secondary metabolism, analytical techniques and synthesis.

Article types

Review articles can be a comprehensive overviews of an area or an in-depth critique of a more specialist area of work. These articles can be up to 25 pages in length.

Audience/Readership

Academic and industrial scientists working in all aspects of natural product chemistry.