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.

  • 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.
            Collection
            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

                • Developmental insights from non-traditional model organisms

                  This Collection seeks submissions to Nature Communications, Communications Biology and Scientific Reports that highlight the unique insights that can be gained from research on non-traditional model organisms.
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                    Submission status: Open Deadline: 15 September 2024

                  • Cancer epigenetics

                    With this cross-journal Collection, the editors at Nature Communications, Communications Biology, Communications Medicine, and Scientific Reports invite submissions covering the breadth of research carried out in the field of cancer epigenetics. We will highlight studies aiming at the improvement of our understanding of the epigenetic mechanisms underlying cancer initiation, progression, response to therapy, metastasis and tumour plasticity as well as findings that have the potential to be translated into the clinic.
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                      Submission status: Open Deadline: 29 July 2024