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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  • Smart manufacturing systems and industry 4.0 technologies

    Explore how advanced sensors, robotics, and machine learning algorithms are optimizing production efficiency, quality control, and supply chain management.
    • Rodolfo Haber, PhD
    • Andrei Lobov, Dr. Sci
    • Jing Shi, PhD
    Collection
    Submission status: Open Deadline: 30 October 2024

  • Main group chemistry

    This Main Group Chemistry Collection invites submissions covering fundamental and applied research and welcomes both experimental and theoretical contributions.
      Collection
      Submission status: Open Deadline: 31 May 2024

    • Preterm labour and birth

      This Collection welcomes original research on the prevalence, causes, and treatment of preterm labour and birth, with an eye towards reducing the global toll of this phenomenon.
      • Fook-Choe Cheah, MD, MMed (Paeds), FRACP, FRCPCH, PhD, FASc
      • Pankaj Goyal, PhD
      • Sandra E. Reznik, MD, PhD
      Collection
      Submission status: Open Deadline: 29 October 2024

    • Self-Assembled Soft Matter

      In this cross-journal Collection, across Nature Communications, Communications Chemistry, Communications Materials and Scientific Reports, we focus on different forms of self-assembled soft matter, from fundamental studies to applied systems. This includes, for example, coacervation and liquid-liquid phase separation, chiral systems and polymer assemblies.
        Collection
        Submission status: Open Deadline: 29 October 2024

      • Subsoils for Sustainable Agriculture

        This Collection encourages original research on integrating subsoil management into holistic agricultural practices, with an emphasis on site-specific approaches that consider the unique characteristics of each subsoil and its interaction with the topsoil. This includes the use of precision agriculture technologies to map and monitor subsoil properties, enabling targeted interventions that optimize subsoil health and function.
        • Asim Biswas, PhD
        • Shah Fahad, PhD
        • Gloria Falsone, PhD
        • Ornella Francioso, PhD
        • Georgia Ntatsi, PhD
        Collection
        Submission status: Open Deadline: 29 October 2024

      • Healthy ageing and brain health

        The present Collection welcomes original research articles investigating the genetic, lifestyle, and environmental factors that influence brain health and accordingly, promote or compromise healthy ageing.
        • Carmela Rita Balistreri, PhD
        • Nafisa M. Jadavji, PhD
        • Veronica Mazza, PhD
        Collection
        Submission status: Open Deadline: 26 October 2024

      • Food security and resilience

        In this cross-journal Collection, we invite contributions that use holistic approaches to understand the distribution and economics of food systems and provide solutions to build resilience and make food systems more sustainable and equitable.
        • Ariel Soto-Caro, PhD
        Collection
        Submission status: Open Deadline: 25 October 2024

      • Pharmaceutical pollution

        In light of the role this research plays in UN Sustainable Development Goal 6, this Collection welcomes original research into all aspects of pharmaceutical pollution from monitoring levels and effects of pollutants to strategies for mitigation and remediation.
        • Pankaj Kumar Arora, PhD
        • Nadeem A. Khan, PhD
        • Rui C. Martins, PhD
        Collection
        Submission status: Open Deadline: 25 October 2024

      • RNA modifications

        This cross-journal Collection between Nature Communications, Communications Biology and Scientific Reports welcomes submissions on the molecular biology of RNA modifications and methods developed to identify and characterize them.
          Collection
          Submission status: Open Deadline: 25 October 2024

        • Ending plastic pollution

          Plastics are a crucial part of modern life, however tens of millions of tonnes of plastic waste is disposed of each year, much of which ultimately ends up in the ocean. In this Collection we showcase studies on understanding and mitigating (micro)plastic pollution, with a special focus on reducing plastic waste in the environment to coincide with 2024's upcoming binding UN treaty on Ending Plastic Pollution.
            Collection
            Submission status: Open Deadline: 24 October 2024