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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 Metabolic Health and Disease 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.

  • Microbiome and energy metabolism

    This collection invites research on microbial energy metabolism including studies characterizing microbial metabolic pathways or impacts of microbial metabolites on host metabolism.
      Collection
      Submission status: Open Deadline: 06 December 2026
    • Hormone-based therapies in metabolic disease

      This Collection seeks to highlight new innovative research and clinical advancements in hormone-based therapies for metabolic diseases, particularly emphasizing the critical role of incretins in treatment strategies.
        Collection
        Submission status: Open Deadline: 16 September 2026
      • Cancer Metabolism

        This collection run by Profs Jiajun Zhu & Feng Rao invites submissions from a broad spectrum of topics on cancer metabolism. Related research concerns like organelle metabolic communication, intracellular metabolic reprogramming, metabolic crosstalk within the tumor microenvironment, metabolic adaptation in metastasis, and cancer therapeutics targeting metabolic pathways are all welcome.
          Collection
          Submission status: Open Deadline: 30 September 2026
        • Circadian Signaling and Metabolism

          This collection invites research on how circadian rhythms regulate metabolism, highlighting effects on health and disease across diverse systems.
            Collection
            Submission status: Open Deadline: 30 April 2026

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