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.

  • Biology of reproduction

    For this Collection, we encourage submissions that push forward our understanding of reproduction and its impact on offspring in both model organisms and human studies.
    • Frank William Avila, PhD
    • Jun Wei Pek, PhD
    Collection
    Submission status: Open Deadline: 10 July 2024

  • Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals

    The year 2023 marks the mid-point of the 15-year period envisaged to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, targets for global development adopted in September 2015 by all United Nations Member States.
      Collection
      Submission status: Open

    • Agrobiodiversity

      For this Collection, we welcome any submissions with novel exploration of biodiversity within agricultural settings across floral, faunal or microbial levels.
        Collection
        Submission status: Open Deadline: 03 July 2024

      • Spatial biology in cancer

        This Collection welcomes studies which apply spatial profiling technologies in pre-clinical or translational settings as well as in basic cancer research.
        • Ruby Yun-Ju Huang
        Collection
        Submission status: Open Deadline: 15 June 2024

      • Shift work and circadian biology

        For this Collection, we encourage submissions that highlight recent advances in our understanding of the mechanisms by which different shift work patterns in human occupations disturb circadian rhythms.
        • Tami Martino
        Collection
        Submission status: Open Deadline: 01 September 2024

      • DNA damage response and Immunity

        This collection welcomes submission on the function of DNA repair processes in regulating immune responses and tumorigenesis at the molecular and cellular level, and the consequences on a systemic level.
          Collection
          Submission status: Open Deadline: 31 May 2024

        • Biology of Mendelian disorders

          This Collection welcomes submissions that examine the molecular basis or pathogenesis of Mendelian disorders, including studies that establish new models to explore the foundations of specific disorders.
            Collection
            Submission status: Open Deadline: 12 July 2024