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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  • Lab on a chip

    This Collection invites the submission of original research articles that highlight advances in the development or original applications of “lab on a chip” devices.
    • Suman Chakraborty
    • Muthukumaran Packirisamy
    Collection
    Submission status: Open Deadline: 24 April 2024
  • Plastic degradation/recycling

    This Collection aims to attract original research that develops or employs methods to break down and recycle plastic materials by mechanical, chemical, or biological means.
    • C. Marisa R. Almeida
    • Bipro Dhar
    • Jay N. Meegoda
    Collection
    Submission status: Open Deadline: 20 July 2024
  • Auditory processing and perception

    This Collection welcomes original research articles from Psychology, Psychiatry, and Neuroscience focusing on all aspects of auditory processing and perception and its associated disorders. The Collection considers studies reporting basic or applied research, as well as methodological advances in this domain. Research studies conducted with children, adults, and special populations are all welcome.
    • Bonnie K. Lau, Ph.D, CCC-SLP
    • Hanjun Liu, PhD
    • Hidehiko Okamoto, PhD
    Collection
    Submission status: Open Deadline: 19 April 2024
  • Dietary interventions for cardiometabolic health

    This is a joint Collection across Nature Metabolism, Nature Communications, npj Metabolism in Health and Disease and Scientific Reports. Please see the relevant journal webpages to check which article types the journals consider. When preparing your submission, please refer to the relevant journal guidelines.
    • Nature Metabolism
    • Nature Communications
    • npj Metabolic Health and Disease
    • Suowen Xu
    • Hisashi Yokomizo
    Collection
    Submission status: Open Deadline: 19 July 2024
  • Atmospheric Chemistry

    This themed Collection welcomes original research on advancing field measurements, laboratory experiments, and computer simulations for atmospheric chemistry, with an attempt of bridging the gap between theoretical understanding and real-world implications.
    • Mohd Talib Latif, PhD
    • Prabir K. Patra, PhD
    • Weigang Wang, PhD
    Collection
    Submission status: Open Deadline: 18 April 2024
  • Gene therapy for cancer

    This Collection welcomes original research examining gene therapy in cancer, including preclinical and clinical studies on gene editing and delivery and chimeric antigen receptor T cells.
    • Mariangela Garofalo
    • Dumitru Andrei Iacobas
    • Weidong Xiao
    Collection
    Submission status: Open Deadline: 18 April 2024
  • Change in the Amazon

    In this Collection, we present a selection of papers that delve into both natural and human-induced disturbances in Amazonia and aim to address the environmental challenges facing this vital ecosystem through a multidisciplinary approach.
    • Rodolfo Nobrega, PhD
    • Gerbrand Koren, PhD
    • José Alexandre Felizola Diniz-Filho, PhD
    • Ning Lin, PhD
    Collection
    Submission status: Open
  • 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.
      Collection
      Submission status: Open Deadline: 31 July 2024
    • MEMS

      This Collection brings together original research in the topic of MEMS, looking at their design, fabrication as well as their use in medicine, engineering, and natural sciences applications.
      • Mahmoud Almasri
      • Kazunori Hoshino
      • Meiyong Liao
      Collection
      Submission status: Open Deadline: 31 July 2024
    • Sustainable transportation and mobility solutions

      This Collection aims to attract original research studying new modes of sustainable transport, approaches to increase accessibility to sustainable mobility solutions, and intelligent transportation systems.
      • Natalia Barbour
      • Yujie Hu
      • Kaveh Khalilpour
      • Keemin Sohn
      Collection
      Submission status: Open Deadline: 10 July 2024