Calls for Papers

Journal Impact Due Date Topic Project
Nature Communications
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15.7 December 31, 2025 Viral hepatitis
BMC Microbiology
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4.2 January 09, 2026 Artificial intelligence and machine learning applications in microbiology
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
Journal of Translational Medicine
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7.5 January 21, 2026 Computational Modelling and Network Medicine in Drug Toxicology and Clinical Pharmacovigilance
Nature Communications
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15.7 February 28, 2026 Computational methodology for drug discovery
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
BMC Medicine
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10.0 March 02, 2026 Climate change and human health
Nature Microbiology/Nature Medicine
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19.4 / 87.3 March 11, 2026 The clinical microbiome
npj Viruses
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March 20, 2026 Antiviral Therapy
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
npj Cardiovascular Health
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March 25, 2026 In pursuit of novel drug targets for cardiovascular disease
Scientific Data
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4.0 March 26, 2026 Data on Science and Innovation Processes, Outputs and Outcomes
npj Genomic Medicine
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4.8 March 28, 2026 The microbiome in precision medicine Link
BMC Medicine
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9.4 March 29, 2026 Diabetes and infectious disease
Nature Communications
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15.7 March 31, 2026 Infection and cancer
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
npj Antimicrobials and Resistance
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8.7 April 15, 2026 Pathogen Drug Permeability
Scientific Data
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4.0 April 22, 2026 Data to support drug discovery
Nature Medicine/Nature Metabolism
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87.3 April 24, 2026 Obesity
npj Digital Medicine
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15.1 April 24, 2026 Transforming Medical Education through Artificial Intelligence
npj Aging
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April 29, 2026 Immuno-senescence
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
Nature Cities
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April 30, 2026 Urban air quality
Nature Structural and Molecular Biology
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April 30, 2026 DNA repair and human disease
Value in Health Regional Issues
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April 30, 2026 Economics of Antimicrobial Resistance: Costs, Consequences, and Policy Responses
npj Drug Discovery
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April 30, 2026 Drug discovery of ion channels
British Journal of Pharmacology
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7.7 May 01, 2026 Virtual Cell Models and AI in Drug Discovery Link
npj Gut and Liver
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May 14, 2026 The immune cells landscape in the gut-liver axis
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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Nature Cancer/Communications Medicine/Communications Biology/Scientific Reports
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May 19, 2026 Global Cancer Care: Obstacles, Solutions, and Impact on Survivorship
BMC Microbiology
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4.2 May 20, 2026 Advances in microbial ecology Link
npj Biofilms and Microbiomes
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9.3 May 20, 2026 Natural bioactives, Gut microbiome, and human metabolism Link
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
Journal of Bacteriology
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3.2 May 31, 2026 Biofilms
Nature Cell Biology
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28.0 May 31, 2026 Signalling Pathways of Innate Immunity
Nature Communications
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15.7 May 31, 2026 Therapies for cystic fibrosis Link
Nature Communications
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15.7 May 31, 2026 Mechanistic insights into human host and microbiome interactions Link
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Nature Communications/Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
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15.7 May 31, 2026 Artificial Intelligence Methodology in Structural Biology Link
Nature Genetics
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May 31, 2026 Mechanisms and impact of 3D genome organisation
Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation (JCTC)
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6.4 June 01, 2026 Modeling the Impact of Protein Mutations on Chemical Reactions for Biochemistry, Protein Engineering, and Drug Discovery
Nature Microbiology/Nature Health
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19.4 June 01, 2026 Climate change and infectious diseases Link
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npj Digital Medicine
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15.1 June 03, 2026 Evaluating the real-world clinical performance of AI Link
Nature Communications
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15.7 June 09, 2026 Repetitive elements in health and disease
npj Viruses
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June 12, 2026 Viruses and cancers
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
npj Antimicrobials and Resistance
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8.7 June 24, 2026 Cracking the code of AMR: resistance genomics 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
ACS Infectious Diseases
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3.8 June 30, 2026 Celebrating 80 years of the β-lactam Nobel Prize
ACS Infectious Diseases
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3.8 June 30, 2026 Nontuberculous Mycobacterial (NTM) Pathogens ─ Biology, Infection, and Drug Discovery
BMC Infectious Diseases
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3.1 June 30, 2026 Infectious disease management in infants and children
JASMS
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June 30, 2026 Call for Papers: Mass Spectrometry in Microbial Sciences
Nature Communications
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15.7 June 30, 2026 Phages: from biology to the clinic
Nature Water
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June 30, 2026 Tropical cyclones impacts and preparedness
npj Drug Discovery
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June 30, 2026 Medicinal Chemistry Approaches for Small-Molecule Drug Discovery
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 07, 2026 The economics of social mobility
Scientific Data
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4.0 July 08, 2026 Transcriptomics data from clinical isolates
npj Antimicrobials and Resistance
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8.7 July 08, 2026 Antimicrobials and Resistance in the Food Chain Link
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
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3.9 July 09, 2026 Innovation, AI, and education
npj Artificial Intelligence
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July 10, 2026 AI in Chemistry
npj Digital Medicine
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15.1 July 12, 2026 Impact of agentic AI on care delivery
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
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
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
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
BMC Urology
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2.3 July 28, 2026 Urinary tract infections: antibiotic resistance and management
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
npj Viruses
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July 29, 2026 Animal influenza virus epidemiology
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
npj Exercise Medicine and Health
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July 30, 2026 Physical Activity and Mental Health: From Mechanisms to Global Implementation
BMC Infectious Diseases
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3.1 July 31, 2026 Bacteremia: advances in diagnosis, treatment, and management
npj Drug Discovery
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July 31, 2026 Pharmacokinetic-driven strategies in personalized drug discovery
npj Viruses
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July 31, 2026 Virome
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 Link
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
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3.9 August 05, 2026 Research futures: opportunities, challenges, and competitiveness of doctoral and early-career researchers
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
npj Autoimmunity
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August 17, 2026 Environmental Triggers and Autoimmune Diseases
BMC Anesthesiology
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3.5 August 19, 2026 Antimicrobial therapy in the intensive care unit
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
npj Viruses
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August 21, 2026 Phages in the environment
npj Viruses
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August 21, 2026 Phages as antimicrobial therapy
BMC Microbiology
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4.2 August 28, 2026 Antimicrobial Resistance
Nature Communications/Communications Health/Communications Biology
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15.7 August 28, 2026 Infectious disease modelling for health policy
ACS Infectious Diseases
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3.8 September 01, 2026 Emerging Tools for Infection Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Spread Control
Patterns
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8.1 September 01, 2026 Computational Imaging for Healthcare
npj Exercise Medicine and Health
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September 03, 2026 Exercise and Physical Activity in Health and Disease
npj Systems Biology and Applications
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September 12, 2026 Systems immunology: multi-omics approaches, dynamical modeling and novel agentic AI approaches
Nature Communications/Communications Biology/Communications Earth & Environment/Communications Medicine/Scientific Reports
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September 22, 2026 Evolutionary responses to contemporary global change
npj Fungal Science
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September 22, 2026 Emerging Fungal Pathogens
ACS Infectious Diseases/ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters/ACS Pharmacology & Translational Science/Journal of Medicinal Chemistry
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3.8 / 4.0 / 3.7 / 6.8 September 30, 2026 Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacology of Antiviral Drugs
npj Drug Discovery
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September 30, 2026 Drug discovery at G Protein-Coupled Receptors
Communications Earth & Environment/Nature Communications
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15.7 October 28, 2026 One Health 2026
Nature Immunology/Nature Cell Biology
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25.6 / 28.0 October 28, 2026 Cell death and inflammatory signalling
npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
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October 31, 2026 AI-Driven Innovation in Atmospheric Chemistry and Composition–Climate Interactions
npj Emerging Contaminants
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October 31, 2026 Antimicrobial Drugs and Antimicrobial Resistance in the Environment
Nature Immunology
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25.6 November 02, 2026 Crosstalk Between Tissue-Resident Adaptive and Innate Memory Cells
Nature Medicine
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87.3 November 09, 2026 Digital Medicine for Infectious Diseases
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
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3.9 November 24, 2026 Pharmaceutical intellectual property
npj Exercise Medicine and Health
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November 25, 2026 Nutritional strategies to optimise the health outcomes of physical activity and exercise interventions
npj Toxicology
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November 25, 2026 Pollutants and Toxicology: Gut Microbiota Dysbiosis as a Critical Biomarker
Nature Human Behaviour
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November 27, 2026 Basic Psychological Needs and Well-Being
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
Philosophy & Technology
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5.1 December 01, 2026 The ethics of medical artificial intelligence: Trust and adoption of AI in healthcare
Experimental & Molecular Medicine
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December 02, 2026 Single-cell omics: from technology to biology (Reviews)
Nature Neuroscience
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25.0 December 05, 2026 The Gut-Brain Axis and Health
Nature Medicine/Nature Metabolism
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87.3 December 06, 2026 Microbiome and Energy Metabolism
Scientific Data
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4.0 December 12, 2026 Bacteria, archaea and virus genomics
International Journal of STEM Education
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4.6 January 31, 2027 AI Literacy and STEM Education
Academic Medicine
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TBD National trends in pharmacy education outcomes Link
Biophysical Journal
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TBD Biophysical analysis of protein machinery Link
Cell Host & Microbe
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TBD Microbiome and metabolome in colorectal cancer Link
Gut Microbes
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TBD C. difficile and VRE co-colonization / Treatment of *C. difficile* infection Link
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Implementation Science
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TBD Digital twin of society's health for implementation science Link
Journal of Virology
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TBD Pharmacology of DdmDE degradation of HBV cccDNA / Structure and physical properties of HIV-1 capsid hyperstabilization by lenacapavir Link
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Microbiome
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TBD Atlas of *C. difficile* phylogeography, AMR, and host-microbe interactions Link
Molecular Pharmacology
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TBD Spatiotemporal model of receptors, enzymes, and pharmacology / Structure-function relationships in pharmacology Link
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Nature Microbiology
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TBD HIV drug resistance Link
Pharmacoeconomics
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TBD ROI analysis for antimicrobial drug development Link
The Lancet Infectious Diseases
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TBD Requirements of HBV elimination in the United States / Pulmonary metagenomics of community-acquired pneumonia Link
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Value in Health
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TBD Return on investment analysis for CDI interventions Link
npj Antimicrobials and Resistance
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TBD AMR in *N. gonorrhoeae* Link
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
Seminars in Immunopathology
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Ongoing Global Pandemics
mBio
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4.7 Ongoing Clinical microbiology Link

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