Calls for papers

Highlight your research and enhance its visibility to your field and community by submitting a data descriptor to one of our Collections.

  • Soil science datasets

    This Scientific Data Collection features a series of articles that detail curated datasets focused on the functions of soil.
    • Shoji Hashimoto, PhD
    • Enqing Hou, PhD
    • Aleksi Lehtonen, PhD
    • Naishen Liang, PhD
    Collection
    Submission status: Open Deadline: 09 June 2025

  • Environmental pollution: emissions

    This Collection highlights a series of articles detailing curated datasets focused on air pollution emissions, such as greenhouse gas emissions, air toxins, and various pollutants.
    • Mingxi Du, PhD
    • Dabo Guan, PhD
    • Shushi Peng, PhD
    Collection
    Submission status: Open Deadline: 26 April 2025

  • Human microbiome metagenomics

    The microbiome is increasingly recognized as playing a pivotal role in human health and disease. This Collection highlights a series of articles detailing curated metagenomic domains, including gut, skin, and oral microbiota communities.
    • Pratik Banerjee, PhD
    • Seong-Tshool Hong, PhD
    Collection
    Submission status: Open Deadline: 25 April 2025

  • Climate-driven extremes and disasters

    Comprehensive, high-quality datasets are essential for advancing our understanding of climate-driven natural disasters and ensuring our resilience to future environmental challenges.
    • Saran Aadhar, PhD
    • Fernando Domínguez Castro, PhD
    • Vimal Mishra, PhD
    Collection
    Submission status: Open Deadline: 24 April 2025

  • Text and speech corpora for natural language processing and corpus linguistics

    This Collection presents a series of annotated text and speech corpora alongside linguistic models tailored for CL and NLP applications. These resources aim to enrich the arsenals of CL and NLP users and facilitate interdisciplinary research.
    • Dina Demner-Fushman, MD, PhD
    • Derek Gatherer, PhD
    • Jian Wu, PhD
    Collection
    Submission status: Open Deadline: 24 April 2025

  • Data structures and ontologies for clinical and medical research

    This Collection aims to give recognition to new research and developments in data structures and medical ontologies, and welcomes the submission of Data Descriptors and Articles.
    • Yongqun (Oliver) He, PhD
    • Haomin Li, PhD
    • Tom Pollard, PhD
    Collection
    Submission status: Open Deadline: 22 April 2025

  • Datasets for gait analysis

    This Collection of articles focuses on curated datasets related to gait patterns, encompassing a variety of populations and health contexts.
    • Athanassios Bissas, PhD
    • Edgar Bolívar-Nieto, PhD
    • Agnieszka Szczęsna, PhD
    Collection
    Submission status: Open Deadline: 20 March 2025

  • Neuroscience data to understand human behaviour

    This Collection presents descriptions of datasets combining brain imaging or neurophysiological data performed alongside real-world tasks or exposure to different stimuli.
    • Robert C. A. Bendall, PhD
    • Franco Pestilli, PhD
    • Zonglei Zhen, PhD
    Collection
    Submission status: Open Deadline: 30 January 2025

  • Data for epigenetics research

    This Collection presents data within epigenetics research including, but not limited to, data generated through techniques such as ChIP, bisulphite, nanopore and RNA sequencing, single-cell epigenetics/epigenomics, spatial genomics/epigenomics, and the role of non-coding RNAs in epigenetic modulation.
    • Roberta Tarallo, PhD
    • Charles Wang, MD, PhD, MPH
    Collection
    Submission status: Open Deadline: 28 December 2024