Calls for papers

Highlight your research and enhance its visibility to your field and community by submitting to one of our calls for papers, for our upcoming Guest Edited Collections. For enquiries, please contact scirep.collection@springernature.com.

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  • Structural alloys for nuclear reactors

    This cross-journal Collection between Communications Materials, Nature Communications and Scientific Reports brings together the latest research on alloys used in nuclear reactors.
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      Submission status: Open Deadline: 18 August 2025
    • Drug-tolerant persister cells in cancer

      With this cross-journal collection, Nature Communications, Communications Biology, and Scientific Reports welcomes submissions aiming to elucidate the molecular mechanisms, potential therapeutic targets and biomarkers of drug-tolerant persister (DTPs) cells for cancer.
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        Submission status: Open Deadline: 18 August 2025
      • Women’s Health

        In this cross-journal Collection we invite submissions of pre-clinical and clinical studies focusing on Women's Health.
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          Submission status: Open Deadline: 14 August 2025
        • Multifunctional hydrogels

          This cross-journal Collection between Communications Materials, Nature Communications, and Scientific Reports brings together the latest advances in multifunctional hydrogels covering materials synthesis, analytical studies, and their demonstrations in biomedical, environmental, engineering, and natural sciences applications.
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            Submission status: Open Deadline: 13 August 2025
          • The Cell Biology of Cell Motility

            This Collection welcomes submissions of primary research articles that report novel molecular and mechanistic insights underpinning cellular movement.
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              Submission status: Open Deadline: 11 August 2025
            • Cachexia

              This Collection welcomes original research into cachexia, including preclinical and clinical studies examining cachexia development, course, and treatment.
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                Submission status: Open Deadline: 10 November 2025
              • Volcanic calderas

                This cross-journal collection presents articles that advance our understanding of volcanic calderas and their associated risks and hazards. We welcome submissions from diverse disciplines such as seismology, geochemistry, petrology, numerical modelling and remote sensing, as well as advances in risk and hazard mitigation strategies.
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                  Submission status: Open Deadline: 07 August 2025