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.

  • 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
          • Health and wellbeing of healthcare workers

            This joint collection welcomes submissions that advance our understanding of the mental and physical impact of working in healthcare on the health of healthcare workers.
              Collection
              Submission status: Open Deadline: 25 September 2024
            • Antimicrobial resistance: a silent pandemic

              With this collection, Nature Communications, Nature Medicine, Communications Medicine and Scientific Reports aim to publish research articles spanning the breadth of AMR and across microbial pathogens (bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites). This includes, and is not limited to epidemiological monitoring of resistance incidence in clinical and environmental settings, novel strategies aiming to combat or prevent AMR (i.e. drug repurposing, drug synergy treatment, and vaccines), improvements in diagnostics, and subsequently tailored treatment, of drug-resistant infections.
                Collection
                Submission status: Open Deadline: 12 September 2024
              • Childhood respiratory diseases

                This joint Collection seeks primary research articles related to all aspects of infectious and non-communicable childhood respiratory diseases. Topics include biomarkers, vaccines, pathology, therapies, microbiome, epidemiology, and public health.
                  Collection
                  Submission status: Open Deadline: 21 August 2024
                • Geroprotective interventions for healthy aging

                  This cross-journal collection welcomes content on the development and testing of geroprotectors at any stage including clinical trials.
                    Collection
                    Submission status: Open Deadline: 07 August 2024
                  • Cancer immunotherapy

                    With this Collection, a partnership between Nature Communications, Communications Medicine, and Scientific Reports, we welcome submissions of primary research papers that focus on cancer immunotherapy.
                      Collection
                      Submission status: Open Deadline: 31 July 2024
                    • Behavioural change and health

                      The Editors at Communications Psychology, Communications Medicine, Nature Communications, and Scientific Reports invite submissions that address the contextual conditions, psychological predictors and effects that diminish or widen the gap between public advice, people’s intention to make healthy choices, and actual behaviour and health outcomes.
                        Collection
                        Submission status: Open Deadline: 30 July 2024