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.

  • Biotechnology for a circular economy

    This collection welcomes research in, but not limited to carbon assimilation, biomanufacturing, waste management, and bioenergy. We are also interested in computational methodology development related to all of the above fields.
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      Submission status: Open Deadline: 15 August 2024

    • Experimental Ecology

      This Collection welcomes primary research articles from any branch of ecology that focus on new experimental findings.
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        Submission status: Open Deadline: 31 July 2024

      • 3D engineered tissues as disease models

        This Collection welcomes research on the recent advances in the development of engineered 3D disease models.
        • Ngan F. Huang, PhD
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        Submission status: Open Deadline: 16 July 2024

      • Molecular determinants of intracellular infection

        This Collection welcomes submissions focusing on pathogen-host biology and involving intracellular bacteria and parasites.
        • Nishith Gupta, PhD
        • Karthika Rajeeve, PhD
        • Bang Shen, PhD
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        Submission status: Open Deadline: 16 July 2024

      • Cancer and aging

        This cross-journal Collection invites original research that explicitly explores the role of aging in cancer and vice versa, from the bench to the bedside.
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          Submission status: Open Deadline: 31 July 2024

        • Immunoepigenomics

          This Collection welcomes research on 3D chromatin architecture or epigenomic remodelling in the context of immunity, hematopoesis, or inflammatory disease.
          • Guideng Li, PhD
          • Eirini Trompouki, PhD
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          Submission status: Open Deadline: 21 June 2024

        • Artificial intelligence in genomics

          Communications Biology, Nature Communications and Scientific Reports welcome submissions that showcase how artificial intelligence can be used to improve our understanding of the genetic basis for complex traits or diseases.
          • Kaoru Ito, PhD
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          Submission status: Open Deadline: 12 October 2024

        • Biology of reproduction

          For this Collection, we encourage submissions that push forward our understanding of reproduction and its impact on offspring in both model organisms and human studies.
          • Frank William Avila, PhD
          • Jun Wei Pek, PhD
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          Submission status: Open Deadline: 10 July 2024

        • Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals

          The year 2023 marks the mid-point of the 15-year period envisaged to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, targets for global development adopted in September 2015 by all United Nations Member States.
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            Submission status: Open