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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  • Cellular Responses to Stress

    This Collection aims to gain a deeper understanding of how cells face diverse stresses, offering insights into the fundamental principles of cellular response. It welcomes original research on cellular response to stress, from molecular mechanisms to disease treatment and cancer therapies.
    • Sabina Galiniak, PhD
    • Junichi Iwata, PhD
    Collection
    Submission status: Open Deadline: 08 November 2024

  • Immune cell engineering for cancer therapy

    In this cross-journal Collection, we invite submissions of primary research articles that focus on preclinical and clinical development of immune cell-based therapies for cancer treatment.
      Collection
      Submission status: Open Deadline: 08 November 2024

    • Non-equilibrium dynamics of biological droplets: from Phase Separation to Self-Assembly

      This cross-journal Collection between Communications Physics, Nature Communications, and Scientific Reports welcomes contributions where the description of the dynamics of biological droplets advances our understanding of specific biological processes, as well as more general contributions identifying common mechanisms and generating novel biophysical insight across the realm of biological droplets.
        Collection
        Submission status: Open Deadline: 06 November 2024

      • Advances in dialysis

        This multi-disciplined Collection welcomes original research from the fields of nephrology, biotechnology, bioengineering and membrane science that contribute to improving performance, implementation and tolerance of dialysis for the future.
        • Amira Abdelrasoul, PhD, PEng
        • Sola Aoun Bahous, MD, PhD
        • Akira Mima, MD, PhD
        Collection
        Submission status: Open Deadline: 05 October 2024

      • Biology of rare genetic disorders

        This cross-journal Collection between Nature Communications, Communications Biology, npj Genomic Medicine and Scientific Reports brings together research articles that provide new insights into the biology of rare genetic disorders, also known as Mendelian or monogenic disorders.
          Collection
          Submission status: Open Deadline: 30 October 2024

        • Regulatory T cells

          This Collection welcomes original research on all aspects of regulatory T cells, including their development, their function, and their roles in conditions and diseases such as autoimmunity and cancer.
          • Khalid Muhammad, PhD
          • Shresh Pathak, PhD
          Collection
          Submission status: Open Deadline: 30 October 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

        • 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

        • 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