MASLD is a multisystem metabolic liver disease closely linked to cardiometabolic and other systemic comorbidities, and this Collection focuses on its mechanisms, clinical impact, and management across diverse populations and healthcare settings.

This Special Issue explores integrated decision-making in the built environment, linking cost, energy, and emissions within cross-disciplinary frameworks to support sustainable, transparent, and coordinated choices across design, construction, and operations.

This Special Issue highlights cutting-edge research on AI‑empowered catalytic technologies for deep decarbonization and sustainable development. It focuses on smart catalyst design, advanced applications for green hydrogen, ammonia, and sustainable fuels, AI‑aided investigations of mechanisms and kinetics, and integrated AI+ approaches for optimizing catalytic systems and circular economy solutions.

EJNMMI Research invites contributions focusing on the latest imaging innovations in neurological diseases, including advancements in diagnostic imaging, molecular imaging techniques, and the development of new radiopharmaceutical agents. Researchers are encouraged to submit studies that explore the applications of these technologies in enhancing diagnostic accuracy and understanding disease mechanisms, ultimately contributing to improved patient care and management in the field of neurology.

This Collection explores the mechanistic foundations, emerging technologies, and translational strategies needed to detect, understand, and mitigate neurotoxic processes arising from the complex interplay of environmental stressors, genetic susceptibility, and nervous system health.

This Collection invites interdisciplinary contributions that critically examine the political, institutional, and social dimensions of informal circular economies in the Global South.

The goal of this collection is to collect high-quality contributions on security and privacy topics in AIoT systems or softwares. This will promote the development of IoT and contribute to improve their quality of service.

This collection aims to showcase cutting-edge research that integrates these technologies, addresses implementation challenges such as energy efficiency and scalability, and explores real-world applications in smart cities, Industrial IoT, healthcare, and vehicular networks.

This Scientific Reports Collection welcomes original research on geomechanics and geotechnics, linking fundamental research to civil and ocean engineering applications. Topics include, but are not limited to, advances in experimental techniques, numerical modelling, data-driven approaches, and pioneering case studies focusing on geological materials’ complex behaviour.

This special issue for the Journal of Inequalities and Applications (JIAP) explores the vital role of control theory and optimization in advancing sustainable development amid growing environmental and resource challenges. Dedicated to the Third Pacific Optimization Conference (POC2023) in Kuala Lumpur, it highlights innovative methods addressing inequalities in complex sustainable systems.

This Collection invites research on the impact of digital exclusion on health equity, examining the barriers to accessing digital health resources and the strategies needed to overcome them. We welcome submissions that explore eHealth disparities, digital literacy, and innovative digital health interventions aimed at promoting equity in health systems, ensuring that all individuals can benefit from advancements in digital health.

This Collection invites research on strengthening health insurance models to enhance affordability and financial protection in healthcare. We welcome submissions that explore cost reduction strategies, risk pooling mechanisms, and equitable access to quality healthcare. The aim is to identify innovative solutions that contribute to universal health coverage and improve health outcomes across diverse populations.

The Collection is focused on fundamental criteria, methods both theoretical and practical, experimental monitoring campaigns, urban built-up and green areas energy vs thermodynamic modelling, machine learning and artificial intelligence applications, for environmental energy sustainability, climate change adaptation, wellbeing of human and nature, energy resilience and people proactive, responsive readiness to change and smart activities.

This Collection explores the intersection of artificial intelligence and energy systems, focusing on data-driven methods for energy flexibility, smart grids, and sustainable optimisation. Contributions are sought on AI-enabled load forecasting, digital twins, demand response, and human-centric solutions that enhance resilience, efficiency, and decarbonisation pathways in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

This collection brings together conceptual and empirical insights into bottom-up measurement of urban health through citizen sensing in their living environment.

This Collection aims to compile evidence on diagnostic modalities, prognostic indicators, and treatment approaches for OPMDs. By providing researchers with comprehensive insights, it endeavors to guide them toward optimal management strategies, ultimately enhancing patient outcomes and mitigating the risk of malignant progression.

Immunogenic modulators help the immune system recognize and fight cancer by using techniques like checkpoint inhibitors, CAR–T cell therapy, and cancer vaccines, offering targeted and personalized treatment options. However, these therapies can have limitations such as resistance, side effects, high costs, and limited effectiveness across cancer types.

This collection aims to explore how genetic alterations, chromosomal instability, and signalling pathways confer proliferative advantages; how stress responses and metabolic reprogramming sustain sarcoma cells under hostile conditions; how immune modulation and inflammatory processes shape tumour progression; how the microenvironment contributes to therapeutic resistance; and how mechanisms of invasion and metastasis define clinical outcomes.

This collection aims to explore the dynamic interlinkages between entrepreneurship and economic progress, focusing on how entrepreneurial ecosystems shape innovation, job creation, competitiveness, and inclusive growth.

This Topical Collection is dedicated to the latest advancements in Structural Concrete Insulated Panel (SCIP) and other similar energy efficient sandwich systems.