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science-advances
Use when targeting Science Advances (Sci Adv) or deciding whether a multidisciplinary open-access manuscript fits this AAAS venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.
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# Science Advances (science-advances)
## Journal positioning
Science Advances is the AAAS open-access multidisciplinary journal, launched as a sister to Science. It publishes significant advances across the sciences — broader in scope and lower in the significance bar than Science itself, but demanding more than the typical disciplinary society journal. The AAAS family framing means the editorial culture values cross-disciplinary reach, methodological rigor, and clear societal or scientific relevance. Science Advances is the natural destination for solid, important work that falls just below Science's exceptional-significance threshold or for papers where open-access publishing is a mandate. Its breadth across natural science, social science, and engineering makes it unusual among open-access multidisciplinary venues.
This skill is a **fit / venue-selection / re-framing** tool. It does not replace the journal's current official submission guidelines. Before submitting, re-check the live author instructions on the AAAS / Science Advances site.
## When to trigger
- The author names Science Advances as the target venue.
- A manuscript has been considered at Science and needs re-routing within the AAAS family.
- An open-access mandate applies and the author wants an AAAS-brand multidisciplinary home.
- The author needs to distinguish Science Advances from Nature Communications and PNAS for venue selection.