Calls for papers

Highlight your research and enhance its visibility to your field and community by submitting to one of our carefully curated collections to highlight topical areas of medicine and public health. All manuscripts in curated collections are selected and managed by the journal's Editors according to our standard procedures.

  • Cancer epigenetics

    With this cross-journal Collection, the editors at Nature Communications, Communications Biology, Communications Medicine, and Scientific Reports invite submissions covering the breadth of research carried out in the field of cancer epigenetics. We will highlight studies aiming at the improvement of our understanding of the epigenetic mechanisms underlying cancer initiation, progression, response to therapy, metastasis and tumour plasticity as well as findings that have the potential to be translated into the clinic.
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      Submission status: Open Deadline: 29 July 2024

    • Leveraging AI to facilitate clinical decision-making

      This Collection welcomes submissions that address the challenges in clinical implementation of AI approaches to facilitate or improve clinical decision-making, with a focus on medical practice or education and on green, fair, and ethical AI.
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        Submission status: Open Deadline: 22 June 2024

      • Research to address the global sanitation crisis

        This collection welcomes submissions of articles that can help further our understanding and/or offer solutions to address the global sanitation crisis.
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          Submission status: Open Deadline: 20 June 2024

        • Health in Africa

          We aim to promote high-quality research that advances our understanding of health issues in Africa, and advocates for better healthcare on the continent in line with the UN’s SDGs.
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            Submission status: Open Deadline: 19 June 2024

          • Molecular approaches to prevent atherosclerosis

            This cross-journal Collection welcomes submissions on molecular approaches for risk stratification, or focused on established or new targets, to reduce hyperlipidaemia, with a view to clinical translation and prevention of ASCVD.
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              Submission status: Open Deadline: 18 June 2024

            • Advances in heart failure

              This cross-journal Collection welcomes submissions focused on unmet needs in heart failure and that will improve our understanding of, or address, health disparities in heart failure incidence and care.
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                Submission status: Open Deadline: 15 June 2024

              • Next-generation vaccines for infectious diseases

                This cross-journal Collection welcomes submissions that propose technological advancements in vaccine/antigen design, target combinations, delivery systems for any pathogen groups, as well as adjunctive therapies.
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                  Submission status: Open Deadline: 01 September 2024

                • Health equity for marginalized populations

                  This Collection welcomes submissions focused on evaluating or addressing health inequities experienced by marginalized populations.
                  • Daniel Demant, PhD, MPH
                  • Jo River, PhD
                  • Horas Wong, PhD, MPH
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                  Submission status: Open Deadline: 30 May 2024

                • Climate change and mental health

                  The Editors at Communications Psychology, Communications Medicine, and Communications Earth and Environment invite submissions of public health, medical, environmental, and psychological research that shed light on the predictors, mechanisms, and knock-on effects of the interaction between climate change and mental health.
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                    Submission status: Open Deadline: 28 June 2024

                  • Liquid biopsy

                    This Collection welcomes clinical and translational research on liquid biopsy approaches in cancer.
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                      Submission status: Open Deadline: 13 August 2024