Calls for papers

Highlight your research and enhance its visibility to your field by submitting to our Collections, carefully curated to capture trends in fast-moving fields of science and regularly associated with an open call for papers. All manuscripts in curated Collections are selected and managed by the journal's Editors according to our standard procedures.

  • Tumour microenvironment

    This Collection welcomes submissions on the interplay between tumours and their microenvironment, as well as how these interactions impact on cancer therapy.
    • Toril Holien, PhD
    • Mythreye Karthikeyan, PhD
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    Submission status: Open Deadline: 07 June 2024

  • Diversity in Human Genetics

    With this Collection, Nature Communications, Nature Genetics, Communications Biology and Scientific Reports aim to publish research articles based on genetic studies in diverse human populations. This Collection includes the breadth of human genetics research, including but not limited to complex trait association studies, rare variant studies, population genetics and bioinformatics methods. We will also consider Reviews, Perspectives, and Comments addressing these topics.
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      Submission status: Open Deadline: 17 May 2024

    • Biotechnology for a circular economy

      This collection welcomes research in, but not limited to carbon assimilation, biomanufacturing, waste management, and bioenergy. We are also interested in computational methodology development related to all of the above fields.
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        Submission status: Open Deadline: 15 August 2024

      • Experimental Ecology

        This Collection welcomes primary research articles from any branch of ecology that focus on new experimental findings.
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          Submission status: Open Deadline: 31 July 2024

        • Biomaterials-based therapeutics

          This Collection welcomes submissions focusing on targeted drug delivery vehicles, biomaterials, nanoparticles and the exciting field of nanotheranostics.
          • Huan Bao, PhD
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          Submission status: Open Deadline: 01 August 2024

        • 3D engineered tissues as disease models

          This Collection welcomes research on the recent advances in the development of engineered 3D disease models.
          • Ngan F. Huang, PhD
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          Submission status: Open Deadline: 16 July 2024

        • Molecular determinants of intracellular infection

          This Collection welcomes submissions focusing on pathogen-host biology and involving intracellular bacteria and parasites.
          • Nishith Gupta, PhD
          • Karthika Rajeeve, PhD
          • Bang Shen, PhD
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          Submission status: Open Deadline: 16 July 2024

        • Cancer and aging

          This cross-journal Collection invites original research that explicitly explores the role of aging in cancer and vice versa, from the bench to the bedside.
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            Submission status: Open Deadline: 31 July 2024

          • Immunoepigenomics

            This Collection welcomes research on 3D chromatin architecture or epigenomic remodelling in the context of immunity, hematopoesis, or inflammatory disease.
            • Guideng Li, PhD
            • Eirini Trompouki, PhD
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            Submission status: Open Deadline: 21 June 2024