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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  • Genomic instability and cancer

    This Collection invites original research into genomic instability in cancer, from basic research assessing the underlying mechanisms to preclinical and clinical studies targeting genomic instability.
    • Xingzhi Xu, PhD, Professor
    • Yasunaga Yoshikawa, DVM, PhD
    • Ken-ichi Yoshioka, PhD
    Collection
    Submission status: Open Deadline: 16 October 2024

  • Complexity and dynamics in ecological systems

    This cross-journal Collection between Communications Physics, Communications Earth & Environment, and Scientific Reports aims at showcasing the methodological advances in treating the complexity of ecological systems, as well as the application of already established methods to generate new insight in the dynamics and response of ecological networks.
      Collection
      Submission status: Open Deadline: 15 January 2025

    • Sodium-based battery development

      This cross-journal Collection brings together the latest developments in electrodes, electrolytes, and battery components used in aqueous and non-aqueous sodium-based battery applications.
        Collection
        Submission status: Open Deadline: 15 October 2024

      • Advances in organ transplantation

        This cross-journal Collection welcomes submissions of original preclinical and clinical research studies focused on addressing unmet needs in organ transplantation.
          Collection
          Submission status: Open Deadline: 14 October 2024

        • Pregnancy and cancer

          This Collection invites original research on pregnancy or fertility in cancer in biological females, including clinical research and preclinical studies assessing the effect of cancer treatment on pregnancy and fertility.
          • Kazunori Nagasaka, MD, PhD, Chief Professor
          • Yong Sang Song, MD, PhD, Professor Emeritus
          • Yudong Wang, PhD, Professor
          Collection
          Submission status: Open Deadline: 12 October 2024

        • Chloroplast Function and Photosynthesis

          This Collection welcomes original research on chloroplast function or photosynthesis, from cyanobacteria and algae to plants, including molecular and cellular strategies in solar energy transformation.
          • Boon Leong Lim, DPhil
          • Arun K. Shanker, PhD
          • Yoshihiro Shiraiwa, PhD
          Collection
          Submission status: Open Deadline: 11 October 2024

        • Coastal blue carbon

          In this cross-journal Collection, we invite articles that document the climate mitigation potential of carbon storage in coastal ecosystems and the potential exacerbation of climate change due to their degradation.
          • Christopher Cornwall, PhD
          • Nadine Schubert, PhD
          Collection
          Submission status: Open Deadline: 11 October 2024

        • Digital pathology

          This Collection welcomes original research into digital pathology, including studies examining technologies for digitizing pathology and machine learning techniques for digitized data.
          • Zeeshan Ahmed, PhD
          • Madhusudhanan Balasubramanian, PhD
          • Andrew J, PhD
          • Sandeep Kumar Singhal, PhD
          Collection
          Submission status: Open Deadline: 09 October 2024

        • Microscopic Imaging in Deep Tissue

          This Collection will highlight Articles that involve new tools and emerging techniques for imaging at increased penetration depths within tissue as well as considering advances in conventional and state-of-the-art light microscopy techniques.
            Collection
            Submission status: Open Deadline: 09 October 2024

          • Condensed matter physics at high pressure

            This cross-journal Collection between Nature Communications, Communications Materials and Scientific Reports brings together the latest advances in the use of high-pressure methods to induce, manipulate, and probe novel states of matter, and to improve the fundamental understanding and technological potential of quantum materials.
              Collection
              Submission status: Open Deadline: 08 October 2024