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.

  • 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

    • 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

      • 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
        Collection
        Submission status: Open Deadline: 13 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

          • Biology of rare genetic disorders

            This cross-journal Collection between Nature Communications, Communications Biology, npj Genomic Medicine and Scientific Reports brings together research articles that provide new insights into the biology of rare genetic disorders, also known as Mendelian or monogenic disorders.
              Collection
              Submission status: Open Deadline: 30 October 2024

            • RNA modifications

              This cross-journal Collection between Nature Communications, Communications Biology and Scientific Reports welcomes submissions on the molecular biology of RNA modifications and methods developed to identify and characterize them.
                Collection
                Submission status: Open Deadline: 25 October 2024

              • Microscopic Imaging in Deep Tissue

                This Collection will highlight Articles that involve new tools and emerging techniques for imaging at increased penetration depths within tissue as well as considering advances in conventional and state-of-the-art light microscopy techniques.
                  Collection
                  Submission status: Open Deadline: 09 October 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