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
• Criminology & Criminal Justice
• Education
• Geography, Urban Studies & Planning
• 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

Group & Organization Management

• A Critical Perspective on the Leadership-Inclusion Relationship – deadline December 1, 2024

Journal of Management Scientific Reports

• Theory Testing and Replications in Leadership Science – deadline December 1, 2024

Advances in Developing Human Resources

• General Call for Papers – ongoing

Human Resource Development Review

• General Call for Papers – ongoing

Organization Studies

• Platform Organizations and Societal Change - deadline February 28, 2025
• The Future of Strategizing and Organizing as Practice: Extensions and Connections - deadline September 30, 2025 

Business and Professional Communication Quarterly

• Positive Communication Scholarship of Teaching and Learning – deadline September 15, 2024

Journal of Interactive Marketing

• Intelligent Automation and AI – deadline December 31, 2024
• Advancing Interactive Marketing Through Cross-Disciplinary Approaches – deadline January 31, 2025

Journal of International Marketing

• Marketing’s Role in the Management of Fast-Evolving Global Supply Chains – deadline March 1, 2025
• Digital Platforms and Ecosystems in International Marketing – deadline May 30, 2025
• Global Luxury Branding – deadline January 15, 2025

Journal of Tropical Futures: Sustainable Business, Governance & Development

• General call for papers
• Environmental Justice and Corporate Social Responsibility in the Tropics – deadline January 5, 2025

Journal of Macromarketing

• Embracing Healthy Ageing in Marketing – deadline Oct 31, 2024
• Futurology and Macromarketing – deadline Oct 31, 2024
• Innovations in Data-Driven Macromarketing and Transformative Technologies: Empowering the Future – deadline Nov 15, 2024

Clinical Medicine and Surgery

Paramedicine

• The Future of Paramedicine -  Deadline October 31, 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

• Decolonising Media Futures – Deadline September 15, 2024

Criminology & Criminal Justice

Journal of Drug Issues

• General call for papers – ongoing

Education

Journal for the Education of the Gifted

• General call for papers - ongoing

Journal of Teacher Education

• General call for papers - ongoing

Exceptional Children

• Call for Papers: Equity-Driven and Youth-Centered Research Practices in the Transition to Adulthood – Deadline May 1, 2025

Journal of Transformative Education

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

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

Geography, Urban Studies & Planning

Transactions in Earth, Environment, and Sustainability

• Special issue on Nature-based Urban Climate, Liveable and Health Solution - deadline January 31, 2025
• Special issue on Sustainable Landscape Pattern - deadline January 31, 2025
• Special issue on Impacts of Environmental Policies on the Dynamics of Coupled Human and Natural Systems - deadline March 31, 2025
• Special issue on Ecosystem services performance of highly fertile agricultural soils: insights on trade-offs & synergies, current challenges and future perspectives for protection  - deadline June 30, 2025 

Transactions in Urban Data, Science, and Technology

• Special issue on Empowering Cities through Active Sensing Initiatives - deadline October 31, 2024
• Special issue on GeoAI for urban dynamics: Crowdsensing, smart computing, and decision-making in a changing world - deadline January 31, 2025
• Special issue on Spatiotemporal Intelligence-Supported Delicacy Management of Cities - deadline January 31, 2025
• Special issue on Virtual-real behaviours and the transformation of urban space - deadline January 31, 2025

• Special issue on Sensing the Built Environment - deadline March 31, 2025

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 the American Psychiatric Nurses Association

• Workplace Violence – deadline July 31, 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

Surface Engineering

• General Call for Papers – Deadline November 30, 2024

Applied Spectroscopy Practica

• Portable Spectroscopy and Miniature Spectral Sensors – Deadline November 30, 2024

Journal of Vibration and Control

• Dynamics Analysis and Control in Wind-induced Vibration on Structures – Deadline December 10, 2024

Structural Health Monitoring

• Impact of Climate Change on the Structural Health Monitoring of Civil Infrastructure – Deadline September 30, 2024

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 Child Neurology

• Diversity in Neurology – submission deadline: December 15, 2024 , goal for edition: June or July 2025

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

Alternatives

• General Call for Papers – ongoing

Chinese Public Administration Review

• General Call for Papers – deadline October 5, 2024

Public Personnel Management

• General Call for Papers – ongoing

The American Review of Public Administration

• General Call for Papers – ongoing

Review of Public Personnel Administration

• General Call for Papers – ongoing

Public Works Management & Policy

• General Call for Papers – ongoing

 Journal of Health and Human Services Administration

• General Call for Papers – ongoing

Public Administration Quarterly

• General Call for Papers – ongoing

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

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

Humanity and Society

• Palestine, Self-Determination, & Liberation – deadline December 15, 2024

American Behavioral Scientist

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

Chinese Journal of Sociology

• China and the Environment – Deadline August 31, 2024