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 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

      • 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

        • Novel Theranostics

          This collection seeks submissions of original research from researchers and clinicians actively involved in applying PET imaging techniques with novel biological targets and radiotracers, as well as from scientists working on the development of new radiotracers for PET.
          • Anne M Landau, PhD
          • Mukesh K Pandey, PhD
          Collection
          Submission status: Open Deadline: 19 October 2024