Calls for Papers
Opportunities to publish scientific research on topics in the field of aging.
Open calls for academic papers
An updated list of academic and scientific journals actively seeking submissions on aging research topics.
nature
Submission deadline: 06/28/2024
Special Issue: Mild cognitive impairment and dementia: Diagnosis and treatment
This Collection welcomes original research articles from Psychology, Psychiatry, and Neuroscience, reporting studies on the characteristics and prevalence of mild cognitive impairment and dementia, as well as potential advances in clinical diagnostics and treatment.
nature
Submission deadline: 06/30/2024
Special Issue: Slowing the advancement of neurodegenerative disease
This Collection will bring together manuscripts presenting research into the mechanisms underlying neurodegenerative disease and potential interventions, including pharmacological and lifestyle interventions, that may help to delay disease onset or slow disease progression.
The Journals of Gerontology, Series B: Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences
Submission deadline: 7/1/2024
Special Issue: AI-driven measurement in gerontological research: Digital metrics, biomarkers, and phenotypes in cognitive, behavioral, and psychological sciences
We invite researchers and scholars to submit original contributions that integrate and examine AI and specific ML approaches to provide deeper insights into the complex dynamics of aging, neurobehavioral functioning, clinical and ecological validity, precision medicine, and ethical considerations.
nature
Abstract deadline: 7/30/2024
Special Issue: Theorising and implementing smart healthy age-friendly environments
This Special Collection focuses on both theoretical and practical dimensions of the smart healthy age-friendly environments (SHAFE). The SHAFE concept is more and more widely discussed and used in the fields and interventions related to population ageing and intergenerational relationships around the world.
nature
submission deadline: 7/31/2024
Special Issue: Cancer and aging
The risk of developing cancer increases dramatically with age. Incidence rates roughly double from the age of 50 to 60, and again from the age of 60 to 80. After the age of 65, the approximate median age of diagnosis, around 40% of all individuals will be diagnosed with a new cancer. As the global population ages, the cancer burden is rising accordingly. At a mechanistic level, notable drivers of aging also play important roles in tumorigenesis, implicating cancer as an age-related disease. These drivers include cellular senescence, chronic inflammation, DNA damage accumulation, mitochondrial dysfunction, disrupted protein homeostasis, epigenetic modifications, and altered energy metabolism, among others. Conversely, cancer can itself accelerate the aging process, both through increased psychosocial stress and side effects of treatments. For example, radiation therapy can damage DNA, chemotherapy can induce harmful transcriptomic changes, and both chemo- and immunotherapy can trigger senescence in non-malignant cells, potentially creating a vicious cycle. Many patients with cancer also experience loss of appetite, leading to malnutrition that exacerbates these pro-aging effects. Despite the tight epidemiological and molecular links between cancer and aging, older adults are underrepresented in clinical trials, and most cancer drugs are preclinically validated in young mice.
nature
submission deadline: 8/7/2024
Special Issue: Geroprotective interventions for healthy aging
Geroprotectors are therapeutic interventions that aim to tackle the root causes of aging and thus help prevent age-related decline and age-related diseases. Examples of previously described geroprotectors include senolytic treatments (such as Quercetin and Dasatanib), VEGF, metformin and NMN. The editors of Nature Communications, Communications Medicine and Scientific Reports invite submissions on the preclinical development of geroprotectors, their preclinical testing, as well as their involvement in observational studies and clinical trials.
nature
submission deadline: 8/22/2024
Special Issue: Aging and public health
This Collection invites original research on the intersection of aging and public health and welcomes studies examining all aspects of promoting healthy aging.
nature
submission deadline: 8/27/2024
Special Issue: Sarcopenia
This Collection welcomes research on all aspects of sarcopenia, including its etiology, incidence, and treatment.
nature
submission deadline: 8/27/2024
Special Issue: Immune aging
Nature Portfolio is launching a new open Collection to call for submissions on immune aging, and encourages submissions of primary research studying related topics, including but not limited to cellular and molecular, mechanistic analyses using animal, human or non-human primate models. We welcome new insights on both of the innate and adaptive immune systems, as well as their crosstalk in relevant settings. In parallel, we are also interested in under-represented groups or cohorts even with exploratory outcomes, and appreciate broad contexts such as infection, cancer and autoimmunity. Finally, we may consider Review articles but primary research will be the main priority in this Collection.
Advanced Robotics
submission deadline: 8/31/2024
Special issue on the future of assistive robotics: Innovative approaches and insights into enhancing lives
Assistive robotics has become one of the key innovations to ensure that everyone, including vulnerable groups like the elderly and people with disabilities, can live independently and enrich their lives without feeling left behind. This special issue invites contributions that lead the development of assistive robotics and those from related fields that leverage these advanced technologies. It also welcomes contributions on the operational methods of assistive robotics, based on accumulated insights from verification experiments aimed at their societal implementation. We sincerely hope that by sharing innovative and practical research in this special issue with the community, we can collectively advance the field of assistive robots, creating a future where everyone’s life experiences can be enhanced.
The Journal of Adult Protection
submission deadline: 09/01/2024
Special issue: Safeguarding carers
The Journal of Adult Protection welcomes this Special Issue on topics relating to safeguarding carers from abuse, harm and neglect. The special issue aims to bring together what is known about safeguarding carers in the UK and internationally.
nature
submission deadline: 09/29/2024
Special issue: Polypharmacy in the over 60s
This Collection will bring together primary research that considers incidence of polypharmacy and its impact on patients over 60 or evaluates interventions to reduce inappropriate prescription.
Psychology & Aging
Proposal deadline: 12/31/2024
Special issue: Age-related processes in daily life
This special issue will provide a forum on how research examining daily and momentary assessments of age-related processes inform the study of adult aging and lifespan development.
The Gerontologist
ABSTRACT deadline: 1/15/2025
Special issue: Hispanic/Latinx healthy aging
This Special Issue will focus on new research regarding life course exposures, migration experience, physical and mental health, and social and economic well-being of aging Hispanic/Latinx populations in the United States and in their country of origin.
Journal of Marketing Management
submission deadline: 1/20/2025
Special issue: Ageing consumers: Reconceptualising perceptions of old age in marketing and management
Many assumptions are made about older people – that they are lonely, unwell, frail, vulnerable, and possess limited capacities – which become embedded within society, relationships, and markets. These stereotypes are dangerous as they shape how older people view themselves and how others view them, including ageist interactions from younger people (Nelson, 2005). The assumptions stem from overlooking older people that do not have to bear any of these characteristics and challenges alongside a lack of knowledge about an often-dismissed generation (Schau et al., 2009). Older people, for example, are challenging stereotypical perceptions of old age by are taking up graffiti, becoming influencers, adopting new technologies, and reclaiming grounds in the dating arena. Nevertheless, the public debate continues to routinely portray ageing consumers as a marginalised population segment characterised by ailments and creating issues and problems for society. We welcome conceptual, methodological, and empirical (qualitative or quantitative) contributions grounded in a range of perspectives that offer insights into the central topic of this Special Issue.
The Journals of Gerontology, Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences
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Special issue: Translational geroscience
Recurring section dedicated to translational geroscience.
The Journals of Gerontology, Series A: Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences
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Special issue: Translational geroscience
Recurring section dedicated to translational geroscience.
