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.

  • Health equity for marginalized populations

    This Collection welcomes submissions focused on evaluating or addressing health inequities experienced by marginalized populations.
    • Daniel Demant, PhD, MPH
    • Jo River, PhD
    • Horas Wong, PhD, MPH
    Collection
    Submission status: Open Deadline: 30 August 2024

  • Climate change and mental health

    The Editors at Communications Psychology, Communications Medicine, and Communications Earth and Environment invite submissions of public health, medical, environmental, and psychological research that shed light on the predictors, mechanisms, and knock-on effects of the interaction between climate change and mental health.
      Collection
      Submission status: Open Deadline: 28 June 2024

    • Liquid biopsy

      This Collection welcomes clinical and translational research on liquid biopsy approaches in cancer.
        Collection
        Submission status: Open Deadline: 13 August 2024

      • Precision medicine in diabetes

        This Collection includes a series of systematic reviews published by the ADA/EASD Precision Medicine in Diabetes Initiative consortium and is also open to other submissions on precision diabetes medicine.
          Collection
          Submission status: Open Deadline: 25 July 2024

        • Diagnosis of ischemic stroke

          This Collection welcomes research focused on improvements of prediction, detection or monitoring of ischemic stroke.
          • Bing Han, PhD
          Collection
          Submission status: Open Deadline: 23 July 2024

        • Substance use disorders

          This Collection welcomes submissions that focus on all aspects of substance use disorders, from different disciplines including medicine, epidemiology, and public health.
          • Brian Johnson, MD
          • Wendy Masterton, PhD
          • Solja Niemelä, MD, PhD
          • April Shaw, PhD
          Collection
          Submission status: Open Deadline: 23 July 2024

        • 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

          • Human health and the environment

            In this Collection, we present articles that explore emerging threats to health and wellbeing posed by the environment, health benefits the environment can provide, and policies that can help improve air, water and soil quality, limit pollution and mitigate against extreme events.
            • Niheer Dasandi, PhD
            • Kerstin Schepanski, PhD
            • Fiona Tang, PhD
            Collection
            Submission status: Open

          • Clinical research in neurological disorders

            The editors at Nature Communications, Communications Medicine, npj Parkinson’s disease and Scientific Reports invite original research articles on the clinical aspects of neurological disorders and neurodegenerative diseases.
            • Nature Communications
            • npj Parkinson's Disease
            • Communications Medicine
            • Hideki Mochizuki
            • Antonio Suppa
            Collection
            Submission status: Open Deadline: 30 June 2024

          • Post COVID-19 condition/Long COVID

            This Collection welcomes submissions of primary research with a focus on all aspects of post COVID-19 condition and its direct or indirect implications for society.
            • Linda N. Geng
            • Lisa McCorkell
            • Esther Melamed
            • Sharon H. Saydah
            Collection
            Submission status: Open Deadline: 14 August 2024