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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  • Advances in climate modeling

    This Collection welcomes original research on climate models of variable complexity, including at the global or regional scale.
    • AP Dimri, FNA, FNASc
    • Wei Zhang, PhD
    Collection
    Submission status: Open Deadline: 30 October 2024

  • Exceptional climate conditions in 2023

    In this cross-journal Collection, we invite submissions that investigate at a local, regional or global scale how the climate or climate impacts of the year 2023 were remarkable or unexpected.
    • Seung-Ki Min, PhD
    • Joy Merwin Monteiro, PhD
    Collection
    Submission status: Open Deadline: 30 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

  • 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

    • Early Earth’s oxygenation

      This Collection presents articles that enhance our understanding of the two primary oxygenation events that occurred on the Early Earth, as well as the weaker events that preceded and followed them. The articles in this Collection show the connection between the oxygenation events and the changes happening in the solid Earth, its atmosphere, oceans, and all biogeochemical cycles within these systems.
        Collection
        Submission status: Open Deadline: 02 October 2024

      • Carbon dioxide removal, capture and storage

        In this cross-journal Collection, we bring together studies that address novel and existing carbon dioxide removal and carbon capture and storage methods and their potential for up-scaling, including critical questions of timing, location, and cost. We also welcome articles on methodologies that measure and verify the climate and environmental impact and explore public perceptions.
          Collection
          Submission status: Open Deadline: 22 March 2025

        • Sustainable fashion

          This Collection welcomes submissions of original research on fashion sustainability, including studies on its impact on health and the environment, as well as ecologically friendly alternatives to the current production methods, materials, and dyes. This Collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 12.
          • Shahid Adeel, PhD
          • Veronika Kapsali, PhD
          • Anika Kozlowski, PhD
          Collection
          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.
            Collection
            Submission status: Open Deadline: 20 June 2024

          • Combating desertification

            This Collection invites submissions in the fields of environmental sciences, climate and land use change, agriculture, ecology, engineering, sustainability, and interdisciplinary research.
            • Auroop Ratan Ganguly, PhD
            • Pingping Luo, PhD
            • Tafadzwanashe Mabhaudhi, PhD
            • Ram L Ray, PhD, PE
            Collection
            Submission status: Open Deadline: 18 June 2024

          • Micropollutant treatment

            This Collection is for research on the treatment of micropollutants, from methodological and technological advancements, to application in real-world scenarios.
            • Junho Jeon, PhD
            • Tabish Nawaz, PhD
            • Chunpeng Zhang, PhD
            Collection
            Submission status: Open Deadline: 18 June 2024