Communications Medicine is a selective open access journal from Nature Portfolio publishing high-quality research, reviews and commentary across all clinical, translational and public health research fields. Primary research papers published by the journal represent significant advances in preventing, diagnosing or treating human disease of relevance to a specialized field. The journal is equally interested in publishing in well-established as well as emerging areas of medicine and public health.

Communications Medicine is a recently launched fully open access journal already indexed in ESCI, PubMed Central, DOAJ, and Google Scholar. Articles published in the journal were downloaded 732,769 times in 2023. It takes 8 days from submission to the first editorial decision (median).

Communications Medicine complements the other Nature Portfolio journals by providing a new open access option for clinical, translational and public health research while applying less stringent criteria for impact and significance than the Nature-branded journals, including Nature Communications.