Nature

Type: venue Slug: venue—nature Last updated: 2026-05-13

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Summary

Nature is the dominant venue in the corpus with 14 papers — more than any other journal. These include DeepMind’s highest-impact results: DQN, AlphaGo, AlphaGo Zero, AlphaZero, AlphaFold2, and the neuroscience-AI bridge review. Publication in Nature signals a result intended for broad scientific impact beyond a single discipline.

Corpus papers (14)

1. When fear is near (2009)
2. Patients with hippocampal amnesia cannot imagine (2007)
3. Decoding neuronal ensembles in the human hippocampus (2008)
4. Human-level control through deep RL (2015)
5. Mastering the game of Go (2016)
6. Hybrid computing using a neural network with dynamic external memory (2016)
7. Mastering the game of Go without human knowledge (2017)
8. Neuroscience-inspired artificial intelligence (2017)
9. A general RL algorithm (2018)
10. Human-level performance in 3D multiplayer games (2019)
11. Grandmaster level in StarCraft II (2019)
12. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold (2021)
13. Protein structure predictions to atomic accuracy (2021)
14. Advancing mathematics by guiding human intuition (2024)

Pattern

Nature publications cluster in two bursts: neuroscience (2007–2009, 4 papers) and DeepMind flagship results (2015–2024, 10 papers). The neuroscience papers were driven by the Maguire lab’s established Nature publication record; the DeepMind papers reflect strategic targeting of the journal for maximum impact.

Connections

• Periods: period—phd-period, period—early-deepmind, period—deepmind-ascent, period—alphafold-era, period—post-alphafold