Exploring understudied inflammatory diseases

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About the Article Collection

Inflammatory diseases represent a growing and significant concern in global healthcare, yet many conditions remain poorly understood and under-researched. This Article Collection aims to highlight these gaps in knowledge, specifically focusing on understudied inflammatory diseases.

While many inflammatory conditions, such as rheumatoid arthritis and inflammatory bowel disease, receive considerable attention, many rare, emerging, or poorly defined inflammatory disorders remain underrepresented in current research. These diseases often present unique challenges in diagnosis, treatment, and patient care, emphasising the urgent need for deeper investigation and understanding.

Featuring contributions from key opinion leaders across academia and industry, this Article Collection will explore the latest research on rare, emerging, and neglected inflammatory diseases. By bringing these overlooked conditions into focus, we aim to inspire further investigation and address critical unmet needs within clinical immunology.

The scope of this Collection includes, but is not limited to, the following areas:

  • Rare and orphan inflammatory diseases

  • Novel or atypical presentations of inflammatory conditions

  • Inflammatory diseases understudied in specific populations

  • Emerging diseases with inflammatory components

  • Unexplored sex, genetic, epigenetic, or environmental factors contributing to inflammation

  • Advances in diagnostic biomarkers, imaging techniques, or tools for understudied inflammatory diseases

  • Innovative therapeutic approaches

  • Understudied autoimmune, autoinflammatory, chronic inflammatory, infectious inflammatory, and allergic diseases

We encourage authors to submit relevant editorials, reviews, perspectives, drug profiles, and original research.

The benefit of publishing as part of an Article Collection is that they often become a key resource, driving a research community forward. This has a synergistic effect on every article in the Collection. The articles often receive more views and higher citation numbers as the Collections receive increased promotion via social media and our marketing team.

If you are interested in contributing to the Article Collection or want to learn more, then please reach out to the Commissioning Editor, Amelia Dennis, who will be happy to assist.

Submission information

Submission deadlines:

Standard track: February 21st, 2025

Accelerated Publication: April 11th, 2025

Accelerated Publication Plus: May 9th, 2025


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  • Increase the discoverability of your research with MEDLINE listings and more

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