Open Call for Papers

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Browse the Open Call for Papers in your relevant discipline

• Business & Management
• Clinical Medicine and Surgery
• Communication & Media Studies and Language & Linguistics
• Education
• Health & Nursing
• Material Science & Engineering
• Neurology
• Politics, Public Administration & International Relations
• Psychology & Counseling
• Public Health
• Sociology

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Open Call for Papers

Business & Management

Public Finance and Management

• Symposium Issue – Application of Blockchain Technology in PFM – deadline for abstracts April 30, 2024
• Symposium Issue—Budgeting Mechanisms and Behaviors – deadline for manuscripts July 1, 2024 

Journal of Interactive Marketing

• Intelligent Automation and AI – deadline Aug 31, 2024
• Brands and Branding in the Metaverse – deadline May 31, 2024

Journal of Tropical Futures: Sustainable Business, Governance & Development

• General call for papers
• Special issue call for papers - deadline May 6, 2024

Journal of Macromarketing

• Embracing Healthy Ageing in Marketing – deadline Aug 31, 2024

Social Marketing Quarterly

• Social Marketing’s Role in Racial Equity – ongoing

Journal of Marketing

• Expanding the Boundaries: Marketing as a Multidisciplinary Knowledge Creation Engine – ongoing

Clinical Medicine and Surgery

Cleft Palate Craniofacial Journal

• Spotlight on Early-Career Researchers of the American Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Association – Deadline June 1, 2024

Progress in Transplantation

• Amplifying the Patient Voice in Research and Healthcare – Deadline August 1, 2024

Wilderness & Environmental Medicine

• Space Medicine & Health Systems – Deadline June 1, 2024

The American Journal of Cosmetic Surgery

• General Call for Papers – ongoing

FACE

• International Special Issue Series – ongoing

Foregut

• General Call for Papers – ongoing

Journal of Cutaneous Medicine and Surgery

• General Call for Papers – ongoing

Journal of Dance Medicine & Science

• General Call for Papers – ongoing

Journal of Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis

• General Call for Papers – ongoing

Journal of VitreoRetinal Diseases

• General Call for Papers – ongoing

Progress in Transplantation

• General Call for Papers – ongoing

Seminars in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia

• General Call for Papers – ongoing

Communication & Media Studies and Language & Linguistics

Emerging Media

• AI from a Human and Responsible Perspective – Deadline April 30, 2024
• Decolonising Media Futures – Deadline September 15, 2024

Journal of Chinese Writing Systems

• Naxi Manuscripts – deadline 10-Jan-2024 for abstract, 30-Jun-2024 for submission

Education

Journal of Transformative Education

• Call for Proposals: Exploring Transformative Learning Theory in Asian Contexts – Deadline June 30, 2024

Journal of Advanced Academics

• Call for Proposals – Deadline July 31, 2024

Wilderness & Environmental Medicine

• General Call for Papers – Deadline December 31, 2024

ECNU Review of Education

• Understanding What Mathematics Teachers Notice in Instruction: A Cross-Cultural Dialogue Between East and West – deadline 15-Nov-2023 for abstract, 31-Mar-2024 for submission

Asian Journal for Mathematics Education

• General Call for Papers – ongoing

Gifted Child Today

• General Call for Papers – ongoing

Journal of Interpretation Research

• General Call for Papers – ongoing

Health & Nursing

Creative Nursing

• Activism, Advocacy, and Allyship – deadline TBD
• Social Media and Artificial Intelligence – deadline TBD
• Social Violence – deadline TBD
• Transforming Power Over to Power With – deadline TBD

Evaluation & the Health Professions

• General Call for Papers – ongoing

Hispanic Health Care International

• General Call for Papers – ongoing

Journal of Human Lactation

• State of the Science – deadline May 1, 2024

NASN School Nurse

• General Call for Papers – ongoing

New Solutions

• COVID-19 and the Workplace: Risk Factors and Solutions – ongoing
• Restoring Science and Reconstructing the Regulatory State – ongoing
• Racial Justice and Workplace and Environmental Health Equity – ongoing

Material Science & Engineering

European Journal of Mass Spectrometry

• General Call for Papers – ongoing

Neurology

Brain Science Advances

• The Application of Big Data Models in Brain Science – deadline July 31, 2024

Clinical EEG and Neuroscience

• Commemorating the 100th year anniversary of EEG – articles will be accepted on a rolling basis until early 2029
• General Call for Papers – ongoing

Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology

• General Call for Papers – ongoing

Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair

• General Call for Papers – ongoing

Politics, Public Administration & International Relations

Chinese Journal of Transnational Law

• Private International Law and Sustainable Development in Asia – deadline 20-Feb-2024 for abstract, 1-Oct-2024 for submission

Psychology & Counseling

Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology

• Unpacking Economic Inequality: A Psychological Perspective – Proposal deadline: Sep 9, 2024; Manuscript deadline: Jan 10, 2025

Journal of Prevention and Health Promotion

• Special Issue: Harm Reduction Strategies to Address Substance Misuse and the Associated Challenges – deadline July 31, 2024

Emerging Adulthood

• General Call for Papers – deadline June 1, 2024

Perceptual and Motor Skills 

• Special Issue: The Role of Psycho-Affective Factors in Second/Foreign Language Learning – deadline September 15, 2024

Illness, Crisis & Loss 

• Special Issue: Public Dying and Public Grieving – deadline Feb 10, 2024

Public Health

Food and Nutrition Bulletin

• General Call for Papers – ongoing

Health Promotion Practice

• General Call for Papers – ongoing

International Journal of Social Determinants of Health and Health Services

• Special Sections – ongoing

Medical Decision Making

• Interface between Human Users and Machine Learning Models in Medical Decision Making – ongoing

Sociology

Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

• Pedagogy Section Call for Submissions for Teaching about Race and Racism Outside the Classroom Special Issue - Abstracts due May 1, 2024

• Pedagogy Section Call  for Submissions for 10 Year Reflection and the Future Special Issue - Abstracts due July 15, 2024

American Behavioral Scientist

• A Sampling of Pre-Internet Networked Operations – deadline November 1, 2024

World Futures Review

• Environmental Futures – advancing images of mutual human-nature relationships – deadline feb 29, 2024: Abstract submission (300-500 words)

Chinese Journal of Sociology

• Toward a Hopeful Sociology of Digital China – Deadline May 31, 2024
• China and the Environment – Deadline August 31, 2024