Calls for papers

Highlight your research and enhance its visibility to your field and community by submitting a data descriptor to one of our Collections.

  • Data for epigenetics research

    This Collection presents data within epigenetics research including, but not limited to, data generated through techniques such as ChIP, bisulphite, nanopore and RNA sequencing, single-cell epigenetics/epigenomics, spatial genomics/epigenomics, and the role of non-coding RNAs in epigenetic modulation.
    • Roberta Tarallo, PhD
    • Charles Wang, MD, PhD, MPH
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    Submission status: Open Deadline: 30 September 2024

  • Politics and elections data

    This Collection aims to showcase recent efforts in election and political science data creation, describing datasets sourced from primary government data sources or quantitative research methods with the aim of advancing areas such as of policy, political engagement and other fields.
    • Samuel Baltz, PhD
    • Soubhik Barari, PhD
    • Jose M. Pavía, PhD
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    Submission status: Open Deadline: 30 September 2024

  • Epidemiological data

    This Collection presents a series of articles describing epidemiological datasets spanning diverse populations, ecosystems, and disease contexts. Data are presented without hypotheses or significant analyses, and can be derived from population surveys, health registries, electronic health records, field sampling, or other sources.
    • Francesco Branda, PhD
    • Amélie Desvars-Larrive, PhD
    • Michele Tizzoni, PhD
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    Submission status: Open Deadline: 30 September 2024

  • Metabolomics

    This collection presents a series of articles describing metabolomics datasets, covering data from any organism type, collected via any valid metabolomic technique, and for any application.
    • Animesh Acharjee, PhD
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    Submission status: Open Deadline: 31 August 2024

  • Chemistry data from simulations

    This Collection presents a series of articles describing annotated datasets of theoretical chemistry datasets.
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      Submission status: Open Deadline: 31 July 2024

    • Remote sensing data for changes in land use

      This Collection comprises a series of articles presenting data on changes to land use in urban areas, farmland, forests, and natural environments, as determined using remote sensing techniques.
      • Jinwei Dong
      • Gregory Giuliani
      • Yuyu Zhou
      Collection
      Submission status: Open Deadline: 30 April 2024

    • Medical imaging data for digital diagnostics

      This Collection presents a series of articles describing annotated datasets of medical images and video. All medical specialities are considered and data can be derived from study participants, tissue samples, electronic health records (EHRs) or other sources.
      • Simon J Doran
      • Alba García Seco de Herrera
      • Lena Maier-Hein
      • Henning Müller
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      Submission status: Open Deadline: 20 June 2024

    • Data from the MOSAiC Arctic Ocean drift experiment

      The MOSAiC Data Legacy is a principal result of the multi-national year-round research activity in the Arctic. This collection describes the main achievements in terms of publicly available research data. Furthermore, it highlights the data management principles and data policy as a milestone in pushing scientific collaboration in a huge international research project consortium in Earth System Sciences to reality.
      • Stephan Frickenhaus, PhD
      • Kirstin Schulz, PhD
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      Submission status: Open