Calls for papers

Highlight your research and enhance its visibility to your field and community by submitting to one of our Collections. Collections at npj Viruses provide a high-profile venue for topics of substantial interest to the community. Papers included in a Collection are published in the journal and featured on our collection page.

  • Viruses at the crossroads of innate immunity and inflammation

    This collection examines the crucial role of a balanced inflammatory immune response in effective virus control. Dysregulation of this response may lead to the development of severe diseases during infections.
    • Shashank Tripathi, PhD
    • Kesavardana Sannula, PhD
    Collection
    Submission status: Open Deadline: 16 September 2024

  • Giant viruses

    This Collection invites research in several areas of the giant viruses field, encompassing the discovery, evolution, ecology, metagenomics, isolation, virus-host interaction, biotechnological potential, structural analysis, and future horizons.
    • Jônatas S. Abrahão
    Collection
    Submission status: Open Deadline: 13 September 2024

  • Arbovirus infections

    This Collection invites novel work on arborvirus research, with emphasis given to emerging arboviruses, arbovirus-vector-host interactions, molecular biology of arboviruses, arboviral pathogenicity and novel arbovirus control strategies.
    • Alexander Franz
    Collection
    Submission status: Open Deadline: 29 November 2024

  • Basic and Applied Research on Influenza

    This Collection invites contributions on Influenza from basic to applied research including epidemiology, biology, virology, genetics, prevention and control.
    • El-Sayed M. Abdelwhab
    Collection
    Submission status: Open Deadline: 30 September 2024

  • Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals

    The year 2023 marks the mid-point of the 15-year period envisaged to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, targets for global development adopted in September 2015 by all United Nations Member States.
      Collection
      Submission status: Open