Skip to main content

Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in Internet Explorer). In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript.

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.

  • Root Biology

    This cross-journal collection welcomes research and reviews on mechanisms of plant root growth, functions, and interaction with biotic and abiotic factors and how this knowledge could be employed for agricultural improvement.
      Collection
      Submission status: Open Deadline: 03 December 2025

    • Plant reproductive development

      This cross-journal Collection welcomes submissions aiming to elucidate the molecular insights into plant reproductive development.
        Collection
        Submission status: Open Deadline: 21 November 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.
          Collection
          Submission status: Open Deadline: 18 November 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.
            Collection
            Submission status: Open Deadline: 11 November 2025

          • Neuro-immune crosstalk

            The editors wish to invite submissions of original biological research that focus on any crosstalk between the neuronal and immunological systems.
              Collection
              Submission status: Open Deadline: 24 October 2025

            • Obesity

              This cross-journal collection welcomes submissions of clinical and preclinical work that explores all aspects of obesity, including causes, pathophysiological mechanisms, incidence, prevention, treatment and impact.
                Collection
                Submission status: Open Deadline: 24 October 2025

              Search

              Advanced search

              Quick links