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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  • Biofilm diversity

    This Collection welcomes submissions of original research articles that focus on characterising biofilm diversity and the range of functions this conveys. Submissions from the fields of microbiology, genetics and biotechnology are encouraged.
    • Sung-Hwan Choi, D.D.S, PhD
    • Joseph O. Falkinham, III PhD
    • Sueli Fumie Yamada-Ogatta, PhD
    Collection
    Submission status: Open Deadline: 28 September 2024
  • Chronic kidney disease

    This Collection aims to bring together primary research papers that describe methods for improved CKD early diagnosis, monitoring or treatment or provide mechanistic insight into the underlying causes of the disease.
    • Giuseppe Coppolino, PhD
    • Jin Ho Hwang, MD, PhD
    • Akira Mima, MD, PhD
    Collection
    Submission status: Open Deadline: 28 September 2024
  • Fluorescent probes for bioimaging and biosensing

    This Collection aims to offer insights and inspiration for the development of fluorescent probes for biological imaging and sensing. We encourage submissions that focus on design strategies and rational response mechanisms, electronic and spectral characteristics, and biological applications as powerful tools for chemical biology.
      Collection
      Submission status: Open Deadline: 30 September 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.
        Collection
        Submission status: Open Deadline: 28 September 2024
      • 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
        • Metamaterials

          This Collection showcases original manuscripts reporting the latest advances in metamaterials, looking at optical as well as mechanical metamaterials. It spans from metamaterial growth and characterisation technologies to their use in exciting applications from energy harvesting to medical imaging.
          • Mohsen Khalily, PhD
          • Shobha Shukla, PhD
          Collection
          Submission status: Open Deadline: 27 September 2024
        • Musculoskeletal disorders in aging

          This Collection will attract original research investigating the diagnosis, progression, risk factors, and treatment of age related musculoskeletal disorders.
          • İlke Coşkun Benlidayı, MD
          • Chih-Hsiu Cheng, PT, PhD
          Collection
          Submission status: Open Deadline: 27 September 2024
        • Natural language processing in Clinical Medicine

          This Collection welcomes research on Natural Language Processing innovations to improving medical and population health outcomes, with a particular emphasis on computational linguistics approaches and applications for health and digital medicine.
            Collection
            Submission status: Open Deadline: 27 September 2024
          • Neural Architecture Search (NAS)

            This Collection presents original research highlighting efforts in creating more efficient and scalable NAS algorithms that can adapt to different tasks and hardware constraints.
            • Snigdhansu Chatterjee, PhD
            • Vasileios Maroulas, PhD
            Collection
            Submission status: Open Deadline: 27 September 2024