Nature Publishing Group (NPG) is an international publishing company that publishes academic journals, magazines, online databases, and services in science and medicine. NPG's flagship publication is Nature, a weekly multidisciplinary journal first published in 1869. It also publishes Nature research journals, Nature Reviews journals (since 2000), and society-owned academic journals. NPG also publishes Scientific American in 16 languages, a magazine intended for the general public. In 2013, Nature Publishing Group bought a controlling stake. in Frontiers.
NPG is a division of Springer Nature. Before Springer Nature was formed in 2015, it was part of Macmillan Science and Education, a fully owned subsidiary of Holtzbrinck Publishing Group.