Asia-Pacific Publishing Partnerships


Our partnerships focus on high levels of communication and tailored plans that enable each journal to develop its individual strengths. Strong face-to-face relationships between responsible NPG staff based in the region and our society partners are the cornerstone of our partnerships.
Our innovative company culture allows us to provide creative editorial, design, production, web and marketing services.
Our business is built on quality, vision and impact.
We provide Asia-Pacific societies with the ability to make a global impact with their journals.
With a presence in the Asia-Pacific that dates back more than 20 years and offices that span the region, NPG is the ideal local partner to take our partners’ journals to the broadest possible international audience.
To learn more about what NPG can offer your society and its publishing program, please contact:
Dugald McGlashan, PhD
Associate Publisher
NPG Nature Asia-Pacific
email: d.mcglashan@natureasia.com
NPG publishes these titles on behalf of their Asia-Pacific-based organizations:
Chinese Society of Immunology and University of Science and Technology of China
Cellular & Molecular Immunology is the first English-language journal in China to focus on immunology. Published bimonthly, Cellular & Molecular Immunology welcomes high-quality submissions from around the world and across a broad range of topics in the immunological sciences.
Society of Polymer Science, Japan
Polymer Journal aims to provide an integrated platform for scientific communication that assists the advancement of polymer science and related fields. The journal publishes top-quality peer-reviewed articles spanning all areas of polymer research, such as polymer synthesis and reactions, polymer structures, physical properties of polymers, functional polymers, biopolymers, polymer engineering, synthesis, polymerization mechanisms and kinetics, chemical modifications, solution/melt/solid-state characteristics, and surface properties of organic, inorganic and naturally occurring polymers.
Japan Antibiotics Research Association
The Journal of Antibiotics seeks to promote research on antibiotics and related types of medicinal substances. The journal will accept biochemical, chemical, microbiological and pharmacological studies. However, studies regarding human therapy do not fall under the journal's scope. Contributions regarding antibiotics and bioactive microbial products are particularly encouraged.
Japan Society of Human Genetics
The Journal of Human Genetics is the official journal of the Japan Society of Human Genetics, publishing high-quality original research articles, short communications, reviews, letters to the editor and editorials on all aspects of human genetics and genomics.
Japanese Society of Hypertension
Hypertension Research is the official journal of the Japanese Society of Hypertension, publishing high-quality original research articles, reviews, correspondences and editorials on all aspects of the field of hypertension and related cardiovascular diseases.
Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica
Acta Pharmacologica Sinica, China's leading journal in pharmacology, encourages submissions from all areas of pharmacology and the life sciences. Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to, anticancer pharmacology, cardiovascular and pulmonary pharmacology, clinical pharmacology, drug discovery, gastrointestinal and hepatic pharmacology, genitourinary, renal and endocrine pharmacology, immunopharmacology and inflammation, molecular and cellular pharmacology, neuropharmacology, pharmaceutics and pharmacokinetics.
Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica and Shanghai Jiao Tong University
The Asian Journal of Andrology focuses on new basic and clinical (including modern, traditional and epidemiological) research on andrology and is the leading clinical research journal in China.
Australasian Society for Immunology
Immunology and Cell Biology spans the breadth of immunology, with a particular emphasis on the cell biology of the immune system. Areas that are covered include, but are not limited to, cellular immunology, innate and adaptive immunity, immune responses to pathogens, tumour immunology, immunopathology, immunotherapy, immunogenetics and immunological studies in humans and model organisms.
Shanghai Institutes of Biological Sciences,
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Cell Research has a broad scope in basic molecular and cell biology research, including cell growth and differentiation, signal transduction, apoptosis, stem cells, development, immunology, neurosciences, plant cell biology, chromatin modulation, epigenetics and transcription. Cell Research is China's leading journal in the life sciences.
