Calls for Papers

See the latest calls for papers from our extensive journal range. Highlight your research and enhance its visibility to your field and community by submitting to one of our journals.

Cardiovascular System

Cardiology

Updates on Cardiovascular Prevention

In an effort to reduce the burden of cardiovascular diseases for individual patients and at a population level, research has been focusing on identifying risk factors, risk classification, and prevention strategies based on individual patient characteristics. Cardiology’s article collection ‘Updates on Cardiovascular Prevention’ aims to bring together recent research and review articles, as well as short communications, particularly on:

• Pharmacotherapy in CVD prevention
• Lifestyle modification and its role in CVD prevention
• The role of cardiovascular rehabilitation
• Adverse pharmacological effects of non-cardiovascular drugs – impact on CV disease
• Co-morbidities in CV disease
• Risk factors and markers in CV disease

Please select the option “Call for Papers: Updates on Cardiovascular Prevention” when submitting your manuscript and mention this Call for Papers in your cover letter.

Transformative Journals: Cardiology is a Transformative Journal and supports Open Access publications. Corresponding authors can publish Open Access articles at no or reduced cost if they are associated with or employed by one of these universities.

Pulse

Open Access Journal

Vascular Structure and Function in Exercise

The Pulse journal aims to bring together in this article collection research articles, review articles, as well as brief and case reports that focus on furthering our understanding of vascular structure and function in exercise.

Topics of particular interest are:

• Vascular adaptation to exercise
• Vascular function, similarity, and disparity in physical activity versus exercise
• Analyses of the effect of exercise on arteries: arterial hemodynamic versus endothelial function
• Exercise effect on vascular function: different exercise training modalities
• Epidemiology of exercise and vascular function

Please select the option Call for Papers: Vascular structure and function in exercise and mention this Call for Papers in your cover letter when submitting.

Karger has established agreements with consortia and institutions that include full or partial coverage of Article Processing Charges (APC). Corresponding authors can publish Open Access articles at no or reduced cost if they are associated with or employed by one of these universities.

Gastroenterology

Digestive Surgery

Article Collections of Digestive Surgery

We welcome the submission of Research, Review, Brief Report, and Methods articles to the following article collections:

• Treatment of Complications in Digestive Surgery
• Colorectal Cancer
• Upper Gastrointestinal Tract (GI) Cancers
• Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary (HPB) Cancers
• Rare Cancers of the Gastrointestinal Tract and Peritoneum

Please mention the article collection title in your Cover Letter when submitting your article. We look forward to receiving your manuscript.

Gastrointestinal Tumors

Open Access Journal

Article Collections of Gastrointestinal Tumors

We welcome the submission of Research, Review, Case Report, Brief Report, and Methods articles to the following article collections:

• Oesophagogastric Cancer and Immunotherapy
• Personalised Treatment of Colorectal Cancer

Please mention the article collection title in your Cover Letter when submitting your article. We look forward to receiving your manuscript.

Inflammatory Intestinal Diseases

Open Access Journal

Article Collections of Inflammatory Intestinal Diseases

We welcome the submission of Research, Review, Systematic Review, Brief Report, and Methods articles to the following article collections:

• Disease Monitoring, Including Biomarkers and Advanced Imaging Modalities in Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
• Short- and Long-term Real-World Outcomes of Advanced Therapies for Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
• Eosinophilic Oesophagitis
• Coeliac Disease and Non-Coeliac Gluten Sensitivity

Please mention the article collection title in your Cover Letter when submitting your article. We look forward to receiving your manuscript.

General Medicine

Biomedicine Hub

Open Access Journal

Advances in Palliative Care

As an interdisciplinary “hub”, the Biomedicine Hub journal aims to highlight recent advances in palliative care and the importance of an interdisciplinary approach to improving the quality of life of patients with life-threatening diseases. For this article collection the journal will consider research articles, review articles, evidence-based protocols, as well as case reports and brief reports.

Topics of particular interest are:

• model palliative care programs
• medical advances in pain and symptom management
• ways of improving the understanding of the illness and its progression
• how to help patients to cope with feelings and changes related to the illness
• ways of assisting in understanding treatment options, making treatment decisions, and coordinating care

Please select the option “Call for Papers: Advances in Palliative Care” when submitting your manuscript and mention this Call for Papers in your cover letter.

OA Journals: Karger has established agreements with consortia and institutions that include full or partial coverage of Article Processing Charges (APC). Corresponding authors can publish Open Access articles at no or reduced cost if they are associated with or employed by one of these universities.

Genetics

Molecular Syndromology

Genetic and Clinical Characterization of Genes Associated with Novel Genetic Disorders

We invite original research on the identification and characterization of novel genetic disorders using next-generation sequencing and other advanced technologies. The topics of interest include neurodevelopmental disorders, genetic skeletal disorders, rare skin disorders, infertility, and complex syndromes, as well as high-throughput technologies, new therapeutic approaches, gene editing and genomics, and GWAS. Join us in advancing our understanding of the genetic basis of human health and disease.

Please select the option “Call for Papers: Genetic and clinical characterization of genes associated with novel genetic disorders” when submitting your manuscript and mention this Call for Papers in your cover letter.

Hybrid Journals: Molecular Syndromology supports Open Access publications. Corresponding authors can publish Open Access articles at no or reduced cost if they are associated with or employed by one of these universities.

Immunology and Allergy

Journal of Innate Immunity

Open Access Journal

Immunometabolism

The impact of immunometabolites in the pathogenesis of infection is increasingly appreciated. In this focused issue of the Journal of Innate Immunity we are showcasing articles that illustrate the varied roles of immunometabolites in viral and bacterial infection. We hope to include both primary research and reviews that detail how both host and pathogen metabolites affect immune responses. Studies on the immunometabolic responses to viral infections, especially SARS CoV2 and influenza, are encouraged. Bacterial infection due to intracellular pathogens such as M. tuberculosis and Salmonellae as well as predominantly extracellular pathogens including S. aureus and S. pneumoniae will be included.

Please select the option “Call for Papers: Immunometabolism” when submitting your manuscript and mention this Call for Papers in your cover letter.

OA Journals: Karger has established agreements with consortia and institutions that include full or partial coverage of Article Processing Charges (APC). Corresponding authors can publish Open Access articles at no or reduced cost if they are associated with or employed by one of these universities.

Neuroimmunomodulation

COVID-19, Hormones and Brain

In the pathogenesis and the progression of COVID-19, Involvement of gender (sex hormones), secosteroids (Vitamin D), glucocorticoids (used for therapy, but also since altered by stress of the disease), together with other nonsteroidal hormones, and neuroendocrine pathways are recognized as critical pathophysiological factors.

A pioneer issue of Neuroimmunomodulation is now dedicated to “COVID-19, Hormones and Brain”. It will show an article collection on this topic from basic and clinical science, that helps to understand this fundamental aspect.

Potential authors are invited to submit articles that will be rapidly peer reviewed. The article should demonstrate crosstalk between hormones and viral infection in the context of COVID-19.

Please mention the Call for Paper in your Cover Letter when submitting.

Nephrology

Nephron

Genetics and Epigenetics of Renal Ciliopathies

Renal ciliopathies are a clinically and genetically heterogeneous group of disorders with widely varying manifestations, from in utero symptoms to clinically silent disease until adulthood. The group includes autosomal dominant and recessive polycystic kidney diseases, nephronophthisis, medullary cystic kidney disease, as well as less frequent cilia-related disorders.

The goal of this Call for Papers is to dedicate an article collection to emerging insights on cystic kidney disease phenotypes and the underlying genetic and epigenetic determinants. We will consider original research articles, brief reports, case reports, and review articles focusing on, but not strictly limited to, the following topics:

Topics of particular interest are:

• Identification of novel and/or complex genetic abnormalities in renal ciliopathies
• Epigenetic mechanisms in the pathogenesis of PKD
• Novel findings exploring the relation between genotype and disease phenotype
• Description of novel ciliopathy syndromes
• Cohort studies describing the impact of genetic background on the response to therapies
• In vitro and in vivo models to validate and characterize candidate ciliopathy genes and to test new therapies

Please select the option Call for Papers: Genetics and Epigenetics of Renal Ciliopathies when submitting your manuscript and mention this Call for Papers in your cover letter.

Nephron supports Open Access publications. Corresponding authors can publish Open Access articles at no or reduced cost if they are associated with or employed by one of these universities.

Neurology and Neuroscience

Neuroepidemiology

Costs of Neurological Disorders

Neurological disorders have become the leading cause of deaths and disabilities combined, but their societal costs (direct and indirect) remain largely unexplored. However, knowing the costs of neurological disorders (separate disorders and all such disorders combined) on the national, regional, and global levels is of great importance for health care planning and resource allocation. We are calling for review, analytic, and methodology papers on the costs of neurological disorders (including projections of the costs in the near 20-30 years) for an article collection in Neuroepidemiology entitled “Costs of Neurological Disorders”.

Potential authors are invited to submit articles on topics mentioned above that will be rapidly peer-reviewed.

Please select the option Call for Papers: Costs of Neurological Disorders when submitting your manuscript and mention this Call for Papers in your cover letter.

Neuroepidemiology supports Open Access publications. Corresponding authors can publish Open Access articles at no or reduced cost if they are associated with or employed by one of these universities.

Neuroepidemiology

Epidemiology of Sleep Disorders in Neurology

Neuroepidemiology is calling for reviews, systematic reviews, brief reports, and research articles to be published in a special article collection entitled Epidemiology of Sleep Disorders in Neurology.

Potential authors are invited to submit articles on topics mentioned above that will be rapidly peer-reviewed.

Please select the option Call for Paper: Epidemiology of Sleep Disorders in Neurology when submitting your manuscript and mention this Call for Papers in your cover letter.

Neuroepidemiology supports Open Access publications. Corresponding authors can publish Open Access articles at no or reduced cost if they are associated with or employed by one of these universities.

Psychiatry and Psychology

Complex Psychiatry

Biology, Genomics and Epidemiology of Mental Health Problems Related to COVID-19

The Complex Psychiatry journal aims to bring together in this article collection research articles, review articles, as well as brief reports that focus on furthering our understanding of the biology, genomics, and epidemiology of mental health problems related to COVID-19. Despite an increasing number of COVID-19 articles published since the beginning of the pandemic, we believe that there is still a gap in knowledge regarding the genetic epidemiology of mental health in this context, which this article collection aims to address.

Topics of particular interest are:

• Studies of the causal relationships of COVID-19 traits and psychiatric traits
• Epidemiology of COVID-19 with respect to psychiatric illness
• Genome-wide studies of comorbidities involving COVID-19 and mental health
• Pleiotropy analyses regarding COVID-19 and psychiatric traits

Please select the option Call for Papers: Biology, Genomics and Epidemiology of Mental Health Problems Related to COVID-19 when submitting your manuscript and mention this Call for Papers in your cover letter.

Complex Psychiatry supports Open Access publications. Corresponding authors can publish Open Access articles at no or reduced cost if they are associated with or employed by one of these universities.

Public Health

Public Health Genomics

Open Access Journal

Future Forecasting for Research and Practice in the Public Health Translation of Genomic Discovery

Public Health Genomics publishes rigorous research and evidence-based practice at the intersection of genomic discovery and public health. Under the leadership of the new Editor-in-Chief, Colleen M. McBride, the journal is calling for perspective pieces with the theme “Future forecasting for research and practice in the public health translation of genomic discovery” to be featured in a special collection highlighting the current breadth of research and practice opportunities for genomics to have a positive public health benefit. Submissions include but are not limited to the following questions:

• What innovations — in communications, community engagement, implementation, health care delivery, and public policy — are needed to expand the reach of genomic discovery to populations?
• How can we develop a sustainable workforce to ensure just access to evidence-based genomic applications?
• How can we foster the transdisciplinary collaborations needed for translational research aiming to integrate genomics into existing public health programs (e.g., expertise in social determinants of health, basic science, health promotion, population screening, big data collection)?
• What work is being done that exemplifies where the field needs to go to ensure health benefits population-wide and globally (e.g., testing of genomics-informed health interventions that are sustainable and scaleable)?
• What ongoing policies and legal reforms will be needed to ensure equitable access to evidence-based genomic applications?
• How might barriers to population-wide genetic risk assessment (e.g., newborn screening, family history, genetic counseling, and testing) be addressed to ensure equitable access to genomic advances?
• What study designs and methods will be needed to develop an evidence base to guide the translation and implementation of genomics to public health

Please select the option “Call for Papers: Future forecasting for research and practice in the public health translation of genomic discovery” when submitting your manuscript and mention this Call for Papers in your cover letter.

Karger has established agreements with consortia and institutions that include full or partial coverage of Article Processing Charges (APC). Corresponding authors can publish Open Access articles at no or reduced cost if they are associated with or employed by one of these universities.