Calls for papers

Highlight your research and enhance its visibility to your field and community by submitting to one of our carefully curated collections to highlight topical areas of medicine and public health. All manuscripts in curated collections are selected and managed by the journal's Editors according to our standard procedures.

  • Sleep in health and disease

    This Collection welcomes submissions focused on the study of sleep that consider factors that negatively impact sleep health, evaluate approaches to improve sleep and further the mechanistic understanding of sleep processes in health and disease.
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      Submission status: Open Deadline: 29 November 2024
    • Loneliness

      The Editors at Communications Psychology, Communications Medicine, Nature Communications, and Scientific Reports invite submissions on the topic of loneliness, including what makes people lonely, how it shapes their experience, and what loneliness means for health outcomes.
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        Submission status: Open Deadline: 27 November 2024
      • Resistance to targeted cancer therapy

        In this cross-journal Collection between Nature Communications, Communications Medicine, Communications Biology and Scientific Reports, welcomes research to improve our understanding of and address the issue of resistance to targeted cancer therapy.
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          Submission status: Open Deadline: 20 November 2024
        • RNA therapeutics

          In this cross-journal Collection, we welcome submissions of articles that focus on the basic principles, method developments, and applications of RNA-based therapeutics.
            Collection
            Submission status: Open Deadline: 10 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
            • Multimorbidity

              This joint collection welcomes clinical, epidemiological, and public health research focused on multimorbidity.
                Collection
                Submission status: Open Deadline: 30 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
                • Health and wellbeing of healthcare workers

                  This joint collection welcomes submissions that advance our understanding of the mental and physical impact of working in healthcare on the health of healthcare workers.
                    Collection
                    Submission status: Open Deadline: 25 September 2024
                  • Antimicrobial resistance: a silent pandemic

                    With this collection, Nature Communications, Nature Medicine, Communications Medicine and Scientific Reports aim to publish research articles spanning the breadth of AMR and across microbial pathogens (bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites). This includes, and is not limited to epidemiological monitoring of resistance incidence in clinical and environmental settings, novel strategies aiming to combat or prevent AMR (i.e. drug repurposing, drug synergy treatment, and vaccines), improvements in diagnostics, and subsequently tailored treatment, of drug-resistant infections.
                      Collection
                      Submission status: Open Deadline: 12 September 2024
                    • Childhood respiratory diseases

                      This joint Collection seeks primary research articles related to all aspects of infectious and non-communicable childhood respiratory diseases. Topics include biomarkers, vaccines, pathology, therapies, microbiome, epidemiology, and public health.
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                        Submission status: Open Deadline: 21 August 2024