nature-science-pnas-advice
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Advice on submitting to Nature, Science, and PNAS Brief summary: • Have scientists from the relevant non-CS disciplines read and review your work before you submit. • For Nature/Science: write for a broad audience, have an interesting story, emphasize conceptual contributions. New ideas and interdisciplinary results are emphasized; mathematics is not valued, and should be significantly downplayed. • Science appears to be a little more receptive to CS papers than Nature. PNAS is more receptive to “mathy” papers, but the previous bullet-point…
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