Calls for papers

All Collections are carefully curated by the editors to capture trends in fast-moving fields of science. Our curated Collections may be 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.

  • Emotion and language

    The Editors at Communications Psychology, Nature Communications, and Scientific Reports invite research submissions that address the bidirectional link between emotion and language.
      Collection
      Submission status: Open Deadline: 27 September 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

      • Psychological dimensions of immigration

        The Editors at Communications Psychology, Nature Communications, and Scientific Reports invite submissions on the psychological dimensions of immigration.
          Collection
          Submission status: Open Deadline: 27 August 2024

        • Technology and learning

          This cross-journal collection welcomes submissions on the topic of technology and learning, that investigate for instance digital literacy, the promise and challenge of adaptive technology, the role and effect of digital tools, social media, and artificial intelligence in learning.
            Collection
            Submission status: Open Deadline: 06 August 2024

          • Behavioural change and health

            The Editors at Communications Psychology, Communications Medicine, Nature Communications, and Scientific Reports invite submissions that address the contextual conditions, psychological predictors and effects that diminish or widen the gap between public advice, people’s intention to make healthy choices, and actual behaviour and health outcomes.
              Collection
              Submission status: Open Deadline: 30 July 2024

            • Climate change and mental health

              The Editors at Communications Psychology, Communications Medicine, and Communications Earth and Environment invite submissions of public health, medical, environmental, and psychological research that shed light on the predictors, mechanisms, and knock-on effects of the interaction between climate change and mental health.
                Collection
                Submission status: Open Deadline: 28 June 2024

              • AI and human decision making

                The Editors at Communications Psychology invite submissions that address the interaction between AI and human decision making.
                  Collection
                  Submission status: Open Deadline: 16 May 2024

                • Group diversity

                  The editors at Nature Communications, Communications Psychology and Scientific Reports invite submissions to a Collection on the topic of group diversity.
                  • Jennifer Kubota, PhD
                  Collection
                  Submission status: Open Deadline: 24 April 2024

                • Ageing and well-being

                  This curated Collection of research articles seeks to bring together high-quality publications that address the relationship between aging and psychological, cognitive, or subjective wellbeing.
                  • Communications Psychology
                  Collection
                  Submission status: Open Deadline: 26 June 2024

                • Foreign language learning

                  The Editors at Communications Psychology invite submissions on the topic of foreign language learning, featuring work that addresses the research topic from an educational, cognitive, or developmental perspective.
                  • Marike Schiffer
                  Collection
                  Submission status: Open Deadline: 30 April 2024