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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  • Minimal residual disease

    This Collection welcomes submissions focusing on developments in MRD detection methodology including RNA, DNA and cellular diagnostics; epidemiological studies investigating MRD; and research focused towards the identification of novel MRD biomarkers.
    • William Cho
    • Muhammad J. A. Shiddiky
    • Hirofumi Yamamoto
    Collection
    Submission status: Open Deadline: 26 May 2024
  • Electrochemical tools for basic science

    We bring together a collection of papers that explore the basics of energy, sensing, and biomedical devices via leading-edge electrochemical approaches. In particular, this collection will feature innovative electrochemical strategies (e.g., electrode and waveform designs) in probing the charge carrier motion, the molecular electronic junctions, and the signal transduction pathways for sensing biological specimens.
    • Bhavik Anil Patel
    • Siu-Tung Yau
    Collection
    Submission status: Open Deadline: 25 May 2024
  • Quantum dots

    This Collection aims to gather original research on quantum dots, covering not only their fabrication and characterisation, but also their exploitation in timely applications in the natural sciences.
    • Yong-Hoon Cho
    • Han Htoon
    • Sakthi Kumar
    Collection
    Submission status: Open Deadline: 23 May 2024
  • AI alignment

    This collection is dedicated to the latest developments in the field of AI alignment and welcomes unpublished research in computer science, machine learning, and engineering.
    • Ayman El-Baz
    • Jose M. Molina
    • Lianyong Qi
    • Michael A. Riegler
    Collection
    Submission status: Open Deadline: 22 May 2024
  • Rare cancers of the head and neck

    This Collection welcomes clinical, preclinical and epidemiological studies that contribute to the overall knowledge base around rare cancers of the head and neck including diagnosis, characterisation and treatment.
    • Panagiotis Balermpas
    • Jayprokas Chakrabarti
    • Natalia Issaeva
    • Ángeles Juarranz
    • Katsuhiro Uzawa
    Collection
    Submission status: Open Deadline: 22 May 2024
  • Targeting the tumor microenvironment

    This Collection focuses on efforts to target all aspects of the tumor microenvironment, including drugs targeting infiltrating cell types.
    • Carrie House
    • Sandeep Singh
    • Yoshikazu Yonemitsu
    Collection
    Submission status: Open Deadline: 04 September 2024
  • Monitoring of coastal zones

    This collection is dedicated to the latest research on the monitoring of coastal zones.
    • Asunción Baquerizo
    • Magaly Koch
    • David Menier
    • Ana Cláudia Moreira Teodoro
    Collection
    Submission status: Open Deadline: 31 May 2024
  • Receptor tyrosine kinases in disease

    This Collection is dedicated to the role of receptor tyrosine kinases in disease, including understanding how these signaling pathways promote pathogenesis, identifying novel mutations, improving treatment methods, and examining downstream signaling pathways.
    • Ira Daar
    • Paul Dent
    • Michael Simons
    Collection
    Submission status: Open Deadline: 27 May 2024
  • Crop genetic engineering in sustainable agriculture

    This Collection invites original research on plant genetic engineering as a tool towards a more sustainable agriculture, from the generation of new plant varieties, to more complex field trials.
    • Abdelhafid Bendahmane
    • Yinghua Huang
    • Prasanta Kumar Subudhi
    Collection
    Submission status: Open Deadline: 28 June 2024
  • Neuromorphic engineering/computing

    This Collection brings together the latest results in the topic of neuromorphic engineering, spanning from the design of artificial neural systems to their experimental realisations.
    • Ahmedullah Aziz
    • Bhagwati Prasad
    • J. Joshua Yang
    Collection
    Submission status: Open Deadline: 23 May 2024