Calls for papers

Highlight your research and enhance its visibility to your field and community by submitting to one of our calls for papers, for our upcoming Guest Edited Collections. For enquiries, please contact scirep.collection@springernature.com.

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  • Antibiotic resistance

    This Collection explores the current state of antibiotic resistance and welcomes original research on the cause, prevention and overcoming of antibiotic resistance.
    • Brandon L. Findlay
    • Simone Marini
    • Richard Van Vleck Pereira
    • Guang-Guo Ying
    Collection
    Submission status: Open Deadline: 18 July 2024

  • Liquid crystals

    This Collection includes original research articles in the topic of liquid crystals, spanning from their characterisation to their exploitation in timely applications.
    • Luiz Roberto Evangelista
    • Wei Hu
    • Miha Ravnik
    Collection
    Submission status: Open Deadline: 18 July 2024

  • Play and playfulness across species and environments

    This Collection will bring together primary research articles on all aspects of play and playfulness, including their neurological basis, evolutionary history, developmental patterns, and functional benefits.
    • Giada Cordoni
    • Fanli Jia
    • René Proyer
    Collection
    Submission status: Open Deadline: 30 July 2024

  • Urban heat island effect

    This Collection invites original research on the impact of the urban heat island effect on populations and interdisciplinary strategies to minimize it, from urban landscape and building design to the development of new materials to be used in infrastructure.
    • Aya Hagishima
    • Ronnen Levinson
    • Mat Santamouris
    Collection
    Submission status: Open Deadline: 13 July 2024

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics for the Study of Cardiovascular Disease

    This Collection will bring together primary research studies that explore developments in CFD and its application for the study and treatment of cardiovascular disease.
    • Lik-Chuan Lee
    • Zahra Motamed
    • Niema Pahlevan
    • Amirtahà Taebi
    Collection
    Submission status: Open Deadline: 31 July 2024

  • Artificial intelligence in genomics

    Communications Biology, Nature Communications and Scientific Reports welcome submissions that showcase how artificial intelligence can be used to improve our understanding of the genetic basis for complex traits or diseases.
    • Kaoru Ito, PhD
    Collection
    Submission status: Open Deadline: 12 October 2024

  • Cystic fibrosis

    This Collections seeks to combine submissions that present new treatment options for cystic fibrosis with articles advancing our knowledge about its causes and risk factors.
    • Martin Donnelley
    • Carlos M. Farinha
    • Harvey B. Pollard
    Collection
    Submission status: Open Deadline: 07 July 2024

  • Engineering Human-Machine Interfaces

    This collection is dedicated to the latest engineering research in the heterogenous field of human-machine interfacing (HMI).
    • Sanja Dogramadzi
    • Rossi Setchi
    • Woon-Hong Yeo
    Collection
    Submission status: Open Deadline: 07 July 2024

  • Land use change impacts on ecosystem services

    This Collection invites studies from all fields of environmental, conservation, and sustainability sciences, providing insights into land use change and impacts on ecosystem services.
    • Zahra Kalantari
    • Wan-Yu Liu
    • Yiping (Rocky) Wu
    Collection
    Submission status: Open Deadline: 30 June 2024

  • Lipid rafts

    This Collection welcomes biochemical, biophysical and cell biology research focussing on the isolation and characterisation of lipid rafts, as well as studies assessing their functional role in cell signalling, membrane trafficking and other cellular pathways.
    • Boyan Bonev
    • Xue Pan
    • Roger Schneiter
    Collection
    Submission status: Open Deadline: 05 July 2024