Calls for papers

Highlight your research and enhance its visibility to your field by submitting to our Collections, carefully curated to capture trends in fast-moving fields of science and regularly associated with an open call for papers. All manuscripts in curated Collections are selected and managed by the journal's Editors according to our standard procedures.

  • 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.
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      Submission status: Open Deadline: 09 October 2024

    • Neurobiology of chronic pain

      Communications Biology, Nature Communications and Scientific Reports welcome submissions offering new insights into the neural mechanisms of transduction, transmission and processing underlying the initiation and chronicity of pain.
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        Submission status: Open Deadline: 28 September 2024

      • Immune Aging

        This collection aims to improve understanding how the immune system changes during aging and welcomes submissions to Nature Communications, Communications Biology, and Scientific Reports.
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          Submission status: Open Deadline: 27 August 2024

        • Oligodendrocytes in health and disease

          This cross-journal Collection welcomes the submission of primary research articles that focus on oligodendrocytes lineage cells in development, physiology, and disease.
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            Submission status: Open Deadline: 27 August 2024

          • Cultivated Meat and Alternative Protein Sources

            The editors at Nature Communications, npj Science of Food, Communications Biology and Scientific Reports invite submissions in the areas of alternative/non-animal protein sources, cultivated meat technology (including cell lines, tissue engineering, culture media) and general considerations around cultivated meat.
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              Submission status: Open Deadline: 22 August 2024

            • Microphysiological Systems

              The editors at Nature Communications, Communications Biology, Communications Engineering and Scientific Reports invite submissions on Microphysiological Systems, specifically Engineering Advances, Modeling Biological Phenomena and Modelling Disease & Drug Testing.
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                Submission status: Open Deadline: 22 August 2024

              • Memory engrams

                This Collection welcomes submissions on the neural mechanisms underlying the formation and transformation of engrams during the various stages of a memory lifetime.
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                  Submission status: Open Deadline: 21 August 2024

                • In vitro models of human development

                  This cross-journal collection curated by Editors of Nature Communications, Communications Biology and Scientific Reports is dedicated to primary research that showcases the use of in vitro models to widen our understanding about formation of the human body.
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                    Submission status: Open Deadline: 09 August 2024

                  • Plant Microbiomes

                    This Collection welcomes submissions to Nature Communications, Communications Biology and Scientific Reports that aim to advance our understanding of plant microbiomes.
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                      Submission status: Open Deadline: 09 August 2024