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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  • Dietary interventions for cardiometabolic health

    This is a joint Collection across Nature Metabolism, Nature Communications, npj Metabolism in Health and Disease and Scientific Reports. Please see the relevant journal webpages to check which article types the journals consider. When preparing your submission, please refer to the relevant journal guidelines.
    • Nature Metabolism
    • Nature Communications
    • npj Metabolic Health and Disease
    • Suowen Xu
    • Hisashi Yokomizo
    Collection
    Submission status: Open Deadline: 19 July 2024

  • Cancer and aging

    This cross-journal Collection invites original research that explicitly explores the role of aging in cancer and vice versa, from the bench to the bedside.
      Collection
      Submission status: Open Deadline: 31 July 2024

    • Pregnancy and thyroid dysfunction

      This Collection will showcase original research on the causes, consequences, and incidence of thyroid disorders during and after pregnancy.
      • Shiao-Yng Chan
      • Victoria HJ Roberts
      Collection
      Submission status: Open Deadline: 29 June 2024

    • Childhood noncommunicable disease prevention

      This Collection offers a platform for original, integrative, and multidisciplinary research on the prevention of childhood noncommunicable diseases.
      • Simone Appenzeller
      • Mohammed Nadeem Bijle
      • Shirley Siu Ming Fong
      Collection
      Submission status: Open Deadline: 30 June 2024

    • Heart valve disease

      This Collection brings together primary research articles presenting advances in the diagnosis, treatment or monitoring of heart valve disease.
      • Kewei Li
      • Georges Nemer
      • Tetsu Watanabe
      Collection
      Submission status: Open Deadline: 30 June 2024

    • Metabolic bone disease

      This Collection aims to bring together research that focusses on novel prognostic and diagnostic markers of bone diseases, which improves our understanding of the underlying causes of these conditions, and presents beneficial strategies for disease prevention, treatment, and management.
      • Chi Zhang
      • Yuxiao Zhou
      Collection
      Submission status: Open Deadline: 30 June 2024

    • Air pollution and health during pregnancy and childhood

      This Collection invites original research on the health consequences of air pollution in children and during pregnancy, including the underlying mechanisms and the epidemiological patterns.
      • A. Kofi Amegah
      • Sagnik Dey
      • Anna Nolan
      Collection
      Submission status: Open Deadline: 15 June 2024

    • Clinical research in neurological disorders

      The editors at Nature Communications, Communications Medicine, npj Parkinson’s disease and Scientific Reports invite original research articles on the clinical aspects of neurological disorders and neurodegenerative diseases.
      • Nature Communications
      • npj Parkinson's Disease
      • Communications Medicine
      • Hideki Mochizuki
      • Antonio Suppa
      Collection
      Submission status: Open Deadline: 30 June 2024

    • Slowing the advancement of neurodegenerative disease

      This Collection will bring together manuscripts presenting research into the mechanisms underlying neurodegenerative disease and potential interventions, including pharmacological and lifestyle interventions, that may help to delay disease onset or slow disease progression.
      • Kanae Ando
      • Vincent Beringue
      • Ruiqing Ni
      Collection
      Submission status: Open Deadline: 30 June 2024

    • Muscular dystrophies: causes and treatment

      This Collection brings together original research that assesses the underlying causes of muscular dystrophies, presents potential biomarkers for the diagnosis and monitoring of disease progression, focuses on the potential treatment of symptoms to improve quality of life or establishes new disease models for muscular dystrophy research.
      • Catherine Coirault
      • Krishna Mallela
      Collection
      Submission status: Open Deadline: 30 June 2024