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.

  • Precision gene editing

    This cross-journal Collection between Nature Communications, Communications Biology and Scientific Reports welcomes submissions on the mechanisms/tools of precision gene editing and the applications of precision gene editing in different fields.
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      Submission status: Open Deadline: 26 January 2025

    • Immunity to infection and microbiota

      In this cross-journal collection, we invite submissions with a focus on the immune response to bacterial infection and immune interplay with the host microbiome, spanning basic immunobiology, translational and clinical work.
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        Submission status: Open Deadline: 15 January 2025

      • Viral hepatitis

        This joint collection welcomes preclinical, clinical, epidemiological, and public health research focused on viral hepatitis.
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          Submission status: Open Deadline: 05 January 2025

        • Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Cancer

          In this cross-journal collection between Nature Communications, npj Digital Medicine, npj Precision Oncology, Communications Medicine, Communications Biology, and Scientific Reports, we invite submissions with a focus on artificial intelligence in cancer.
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            Submission status: Open Deadline: 30 December 2024

          • Smart Materials for Bioengineering and Biomedicine

            In this cross-journal Collection at Nature Communications, Communications Biology, Communications Engineering, Communications Materials, Communications Medicine and Scientific Reports, we welcome submissions focusing on various aspects, from mechanistic understanding to clinical translation, of smart materials for applications in bioengineering and biomedicine, such as, drug delivery, biosensing, bioimaging and tissue engineering.
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              Submission status: Open Deadline: 30 December 2024

            • Prokaryotic Immunity and Viral Evasion Systems

              In this cross-journal Collection, we invite submissions investigating prokaryotic immunity and viral evasion systems, drawing on genomics, genetics, cell and structural biology, virology and other approaches.
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                Submission status: Open Deadline: 12 December 2024

              • Conservation Genomics

                This Collection seeks submissions to Nature Communications, Communications Biology and Scientific Reports that highlight the contribution of genomic data to animal conservation strategies and population management
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                  Submission status: Open Deadline: 03 December 2024

                • Sleep in health and disease

                  This Collection welcomes submissions focused on the study of sleep that consider factors that negatively impact sleep health, evaluate approaches to improve sleep and further the mechanistic understanding of sleep processes in health and disease.
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                    Submission status: Open Deadline: 29 November 2024

                  • Resistance to targeted cancer therapy

                    In this cross-journal Collection between Nature Communications, Communications Medicine, Communications Biology and Scientific Reports, welcomes research to improve our understanding of and address the issue of resistance to targeted cancer therapy.
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                      Submission status: Open Deadline: 20 November 2024

                    • Plant responses and adaptations to abiotic stress

                      Communications Biology, Nature Communications and Scientific Reports welcome the submission of articles spanning the breadth of research on plant responses and adaptations to abiotic stress.
                      • Showkat Ganie, PhD
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                      Submission status: Open Deadline: 13 November 2024