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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  • Geroprotective interventions for healthy aging

    This cross-journal collection welcomes content on the development and testing of geroprotectors at any stage including clinical trials.
      Collection
      Submission status: Open Deadline: 07 August 2024

    • 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.
        Collection
        Submission status: Open Deadline: 29 July 2024

      • Connection between the gut microbiota and colorectal cancer

        This Collections seeks original research that continues to refine our understanding of the intricate connection between the gut microbiota and colorectal cancer.
        • Neelendu Dey, MD
        • Ramesh Pothuraju, PhD
        • Jun Sun, PhD
        Collection
        Submission status: Open Deadline: 01 July 2024

      • Mass spectrometry Imaging

        This Collection presents original research highlighting new applications of MSI or refinements to the technique and associated instrumentation or software allowing for improved performance.
        • Bhaswati Chatterjee, PhD
        • Amna Jabbar Siddiqui, PhD
        Collection
        Submission status: Open Deadline: 22 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.
          Collection
          Submission status: Open Deadline: 19 June 2024

        • Characterizing immune cell subsets in cancer

          This Collection invites original research on tumor-infiltrating immune cells, including new methods for characterizing different subsets and investigations into their different functional roles.
          • Tanapat Palaga, PhD
          • Daniel R. Principe MD, PhD
          Collection
          Submission status: Open Deadline: 15 June 2024

        • Spinal health

          The Collection is dedicated to original research on all aspects related to spinal health and broader public health impacts.
          • Deborah Falla, BPhty(Hons I), PhD
          • Qigen Fang, MD, PhD
          • Jacobo Rodríguez-Sanz, Pt PhD
          • Daisuke Sakai, MD, PhD, FICOR
          Collection
          Submission status: Open Deadline: 15 June 2024

        • Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

          This Collection brings together original research that elucidates the mechanisms underlying NAFLD, describes methods to improve the diagnosis and monitoring of NAFLD in patients, or presents new models for study of the disease.
          • Jin-Wook Kim, PhD
          • Avik Majumdar, PhD
          • Yanqiao Zhang, PhD
          Collection
          Submission status: Open Deadline: 31 July 2024

        • Pulmonary hypertension

          This Collection will include original research that increases our understanding of the underlying causes of pulmonary hypertension or supports improved diagnosis, treatment or management of the disease.
          • Kazufumi Nakamura, PhD,
          • Yih-Jer Wu, MD, PhD.
          Collection
          Submission status: Open Deadline: 31 July 2024

        • 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