Nature is a British weekly scientific journal founded and based in London, England. As a multidisciplinary publication Nature features peer-reviewed research from a variety of academic disciplines, mainly in science, technology, and the natural sciences. It has core editorial offices across the United States, continental Europe, and Asia under the international scientific publishing company Springer Nature. During the late-2010s the weekly had a circulation of 53,000 with a readership of over 400,000. Nature was the world's most cited scientific journal by the Science Edition of the 2018 Journal Citation Reports, making it one of the world's most-read academic journals. As of 2012, it claimed an online readership of about 3 million unique readers per month.