Calls for Papers

Journal Impact Due Date Topic Project
npj Genomic Medicine
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4.8 December 28, 2025 The microbiome in precision medicine
BMC Medicine
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9.4 December 29, 2025 Diabetes and infectious disease
Nature Communications
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15.7 December 31, 2025 Viral hepatitis
Nature Communications
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15.7 December 31, 2025 Infection and cancer
BMC Microbiology
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4.2 January 09, 2026 Artificial intelligence and machine learning applications in microbiology Link
npj Digital Medicine
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15.1 January 10, 2026 Economics of AI in Healthcare
Nature Communications
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15.7 January 14, 2026 Health policy and systems research
npj Antimicrobials and Resistance
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8.7 January 15, 2026 Pathogen Drug Permeability
Journal of Translational Medicine
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7.5 January 21, 2026 Computational Modelling and Network Medicine in Drug Toxicology and Clinical Pharmacovigilance Link
npj Drug Discovery
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January 21, 2026 Drug discovery of ion channels
npj Antimicrobials and Resistance
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8.7 January 28, 2026 Antimicrobials and Resistance in the Food Chain Link
npj Biofilms and Microbiomes
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9.3 February 20, 2026 Natural bioactives, Gut microbiome, and human metabolism Link
BMC Microbiology
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4.2 February 27, 2026 Advances in microbial ecology Link
Nature Communications
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15.7 February 27, 2026 Therapies for cystic fibrosis Link
Nature Communications
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15.7 February 28, 2026 Computational methodology for drug discovery Link
Nature Communications/Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
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15.7 February 28, 2026 Artificial Intelligence Methodology in Structural Biology Link
International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education
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16.7 March 01, 2026 Credentials in Artificial Intelligence: International Perspectives on Transforming Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Link
Nature Microbiology/Nature Health
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19.4 March 01, 2026 Climate change and infectious diseases Link
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BMC Medicine
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10.0 March 02, 2026 Climate change and human health Link
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Nature Microbiology/Nature Medicine
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19.4 / 87.3 March 11, 2026 The clinical microbiome Link
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npj Drug Discovery
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March 11, 2026 Drug discovery at G Protein-Coupled Receptors
npj Digital Medicine
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15.1 March 12, 2026 Impact of agentic AI on care delivery
npj Antimicrobials and Resistance
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8.7 March 24, 2026 Cracking the code of AMR: resistance genomics Link
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Tropical Medicine and Health
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3.5 March 25, 2026 Exploring the New Frontier in Tropical Medicine with Computational Intelligence, AI, and IoT Integration for Healthcare
Scientific Data
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4.0 March 26, 2026 Data on Science and Innovation Processes, Outputs and Outcomes
ACS Infectious Diseases
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3.8 April 01, 2026 Artificial intelligence for next-generation anti-infective discovery Link
npj Antimicrobials and Resistance
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8.7 April 07, 2026 Data Science, AI and Machine Learning Approaches to AMR Link
Scientific Data
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4.0 April 22, 2026 Data to support drug discovery Link
npj Digital Medicine
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15.1 April 24, 2026 Transforming Medical Education through Artificial Intelligence Link
Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation (JCTC)
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6.4 April 30, 2026 Call For Papers: 100 Years of Quantum Mechanics—All About Molecules
Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
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6.8 April 30, 2026 Pharmaceutical Innovation and Global Health: Breakthroughs and Future
British Journal of Pharmacology
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7.7 May 01, 2026 Virtual Cell Models and AI in Drug Discovery Link
npj Digital Medicine/npj Digital Public Health
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15.1 May 15, 2026 AI for Population Medicine and Public Health Link
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Genome Biology
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9.4 May 29, 2026 Biology of drug resistance and tolerance in bacteria, viruses, fungi
International Journal of Educational Technology in Higher Education
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16.7 May 31, 2026 Human Interaction with Gen AI Across Learning and Teaching Processes in Higher Education Link
Journal of Bacteriology
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3.2 May 31, 2026 Biofilms
Nature Communications
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15.7 May 31, 2026 Mechanistic insights into human host and microbiome interactions Link
npj Digital Medicine
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15.1 June 03, 2026 Evaluating the real-world clinical performance of AI
Microbiome
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12.7 June 16, 2026 Microbiome and Reproductive Health
BMC Medical Research Methodology
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5.2 June 18, 2026 Impact of AI on medical research
npj Genomic Medicine
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4.8 June 23, 2026 Artificial Intelligence in Genomic Medicine Link
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Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control
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5.5 June 25, 2026 What is new in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of hospital-acquired pneumonia? Link
BMC Immunology
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3.1 June 26, 2026 Fungal infections Link
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Journal of Epidemiology and Global Health
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6.1 June 26, 2026 Infectious disease outbreak in conflict-driven displacement
AAPS Open
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June 30, 2026 Artificial Intelligence and Computational Tools in Drug Development Link
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BMC Infectious Diseases
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3.1 June 30, 2026 Infectious disease management in infants and children
BMC Public Health
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4.2 July 03, 2026 Appropriate use of antibiotics: public health strategies, knowledge, and practice gaps
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
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3.9 July 09, 2026 Innovation, AI, and education Link
Cardiovascular Diabetology
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10.6 July 15, 2026 Cardiometabolic and Hepatic Interconnections: From Mechanisms to Clinical Implications
Human Genomics
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4.3 July 15, 2026 Artificial Intelligence in Omics and Translational Research Link
npj Biofilms and Microbiomes
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9.3 July 15, 2026 Gut microbiome-virome dynamics and interactions Link
BMC Microbiology
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4.2 July 16, 2026 Mycobacteria: advances in physiology and mycobacterial diseases research Link
BMC Genomics
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4.2 July 20, 2026 Genomics of human pathogens
BMC Infectious Diseases
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3.1 July 20, 2026 Urinary tract infections in older patients Link
BMC Infectious Diseases
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3.1 July 20, 2026 Hepatitis virus infections and treatment
BMC Infectious Diseases
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3.1 July 20, 2026 Genomics of Infectious Diseases Link
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BMC Infectious Diseases
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3.1 July 20, 2026 Staphylococcal infections Link
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BMC Genomics
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4.2 July 24, 2026 Genomics of human pathogens Link
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Genes & Nutrition
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4.6 July 24, 2026 Metabolomics, Metabolism, and Nutrition: Experimental Studies, Data Resources, and Computational Methods
Nature Communications
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15.7 July 27, 2026 Diagnosis and care of sepsis Link
BMC Urology
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2.3 July 28, 2026 Urinary tract infections: antibiotic resistance and management Link
Nature Methods/Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
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28.8 / 15.8 July 28, 2026 Methods development in Cryo-ET and in situ structural determination
npj Antimicrobials and Resistance
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8.7 July 28, 2026 Water Testing: Antimicrobial Resistance in Water Link
BMC Medical Research Methodology
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5.2 July 30, 2026 Causal inference and observational data vol. 2 Link
Nature Immunology
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25.6 July 30, 2026 Host-Pathogen Interactions – Infection, Immunity and Beyond Link
BMC Infectious Diseases
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3.1 July 31, 2026 Bacteremia: advances in diagnosis, treatment, and management Link
npj Drug Discovery
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July 31, 2026 Pharmacokinetic-driven strategies in personalized drug discovery
Patterns
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8.1 August 01, 2026 Reanalysis
BMC Infectious Diseases
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3.1 August 02, 2026 Infectious diseases of livestock
BMC Personalized Medicine
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August 05, 2026 Microbiome–drug interaction networks
Malaria Journal
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3.5 August 11, 2026 AI for Malaria Elimination: Data-Driven Innovations in Surveillance and Control
BMC Bioinformatics
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4.1 August 14, 2026 Predictive toxicology and chemical risk assessment
BMC Cancer
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4.7 August 14, 2026 Cancer control in low- and middle-income countries – Part II
BMC Anesthesiology
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3.5 August 19, 2026 Antimicrobial therapy in the intensive care unit Link
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BMC Infectious Diseases
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3.1 August 19, 2026 Systematic reviews on infectious diseases - Part II
Scientific Data
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4.0 August 19, 2026 Datasets in Education Link
BMC Microbiology
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4.2 August 28, 2026 Antimicrobial Resistance Link
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Nature Communications/Communications Health/Communications Biology
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15.7 August 28, 2026 Infectious disease modelling for health policy Link
BMC Artificial Intelligence
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4.6 December 01, 2026 AI for clinical trial optimization
BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
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3.5 December 01, 2026 Decision tools to manage and prevent antimicrobial resistance and healthcare-associated infections Link
Philosophy & Technology
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5.1 December 01, 2026 The ethics of medical artificial intelligence: Trust and adoption of AI in healthcare
International Journal of STEM Education
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4.6 January 31, 2027 AI Literacy and STEM Education
CID
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7.3 Ongoing Infection Complications of hurricanes, floods, and weather issues Link
JID
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5.8 Ongoing Moving the microbiome from the bench to the bedside Link
mBio
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4.7 Ongoing Clinical microbiology Link
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And other great journals across:

Science: - Nature - Science - Cell

Medicine: - The Lancet - New England Journal of Medicine - Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA) - Nature Medicine

Pharmacy: - American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy (AJHP) - American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education (AJPE)

Pharmacology - Nature Reviews Drug Discovery - Pharmacological Reviews - Trends in Pharmacological Sciences

Chemistry: - JACS - JCTC - JCIM - Chemical Reviews

Infectious Diseases: - Clinical Infectious Diseases (CID) - Nature Microbiology - Nature Reviews Microbiology - The Lancet Infectious Diseases - The Lancet Microbe - The Lancet HIV - Cell Host and Microbe - Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (AAC) - Clinical Microbiology Reviews (CMR) - Journal of Virology - Clinical Microbiology and Infection (CMI) - Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (JAC) - Anaerobe