Calls for papers

Highlight your research and enhance its visibility to your field and community by submitting to one of our carefully curated collections to highlight topical areas of medicine and public health. All manuscripts in curated collections are selected and managed by the journal's Editors according to our standard procedures.

  • Viral hepatitis

    This joint collection welcomes preclinical, clinical, epidemiological, and public health research focused on viral hepatitis.
      Collection
      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.
        Collection
        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.
          Collection
          Submission status: Open Deadline: 30 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.
            Collection
            Submission status: Open Deadline: 29 November 2024
          • Loneliness

            The Editors at Communications Psychology, Communications Medicine, Nature Communications, and Scientific Reports invite submissions on the topic of loneliness, including what makes people lonely, how it shapes their experience, and what loneliness means for health outcomes.
              Collection
              Submission status: Open Deadline: 27 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.
                Collection
                Submission status: Open Deadline: 20 November 2024
              • RNA therapeutics

                In this cross-journal Collection, we welcome submissions of articles that focus on the basic principles, method developments, and applications of RNA-based therapeutics.
                  Collection
                  Submission status: Open Deadline: 10 November 2024
                • Immune cell engineering for cancer therapy

                  In this cross-journal Collection, we invite submissions of primary research articles that focus on preclinical and clinical development of immune cell-based therapies for cancer treatment.
                    Collection
                    Submission status: Open Deadline: 08 November 2024
                  • Multimorbidity

                    This joint collection welcomes clinical, epidemiological, and public health research focused on multimorbidity.
                      Collection
                      Submission status: Open Deadline: 30 October 2024
                    • Advances in organ transplantation

                      This cross-journal Collection welcomes submissions of original preclinical and clinical research studies focused on addressing unmet needs in organ transplantation.
                        Collection
                        Submission status: Open Deadline: 14 October 2024