With this cross-journal collection, the editors of Nature Communications and Communications Health invite submissions that advance understanding of implementation research as a comprehensive approach to investigating and improving the effectiveness of interventions in real world settings.

This Collection showcases advances in understanding metabolic dysfunction, highlighting pathways, biomarkers, and novel therapies to accelerate translation into effective treatments.

The agri-food sector faces rising demand for lipids and proteins amid sustainability goals. This special issue highlights technologies and policy frameworks for eco‑efficient lipid and protein processing. We invite research and reviews on green processing, byproduct valorization, preservation, circular economy approaches, AI optimization, and policies enabling resilient value chains.

Edible fungus is well known as valuable healthy and nutritious food because of admire flavors, extraordinary texture, plenty nutritional ingredients and special functions. Many literatures have reported the functional components, nutritional mechanism and treatment of diseases in edible fungi. More and more functional foods, drugs and cosmetics have been successfully developed to markets.

Edible fungi are key to building sustainable, nutritious food systems, yet challenges in postharvest handling and preservation limit their full potential. This Special Issue highlights innovative technologies that enhance processing efficiency, extend shelf life, and maintain quality. By integrating advances in smart packaging, omics, digital tools, and zero‑waste strategies, it supports the development of high‑value mushroom-based products.

This Collection explores innovative biological strategies for managing nutrient pollution in aquatic environments, emphasizing microbial, ecological, and bioengineering approaches that transform excess nutrients into valuable resources. By integrating nutrient recovery with circular bioeconomy principles, it aims to advance sustainable solutions for water quality restoration, bloom control, and the production of bio-based products such as biofertilizers, biopolymers, and bioenergy.

This Collection invites researchers to contribute their findings on the intersection of climate change and emergency response systems. This Collection aims to explore the implications of climate-related health emergencies, innovations in telemedicine, and strategies for integrating climate data into emergency planning. By fostering collaboration and advancing knowledge in this critical area, we seek to enhance preparedness and and resilience in the face of climate change's growing challenges.

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This Collection focuses on the current standing of plastic surgery in Africa, examining advancements and ongoing challenges within the field. We welcome submissions that explore various sub-specialties, including cleft lip and palate repair, burn care, and surgical training initiatives, with the goal of enhancing understanding and improving patient outcomes across the continent.

This Scientific Data collection focuses on remote‑sensing datasets used to address research questions related to urban planning, civil engineering, hazard assessment, urban land use, infrastructure, and other topics relevant to city science.

This Collection highlights the design, synthesis, and surface engineering of hybrid nanocomposites to tailor their structure–property relationships. Submissions exploring advanced characterization, functional performance, and sustainable applications in energy, environment, biomedical, or industrial contexts are encouraged.

This Collection showcases digital innovations—including AI, IoT, and blockchain—for Virtual Power Plants and decentralized, low-carbon energy systems.

This collection aims to highlight interdisciplinary advances in the engineering and modeling of organoid systems, with particular focus on design of biomimetic microenvironment, that integrate biomaterials with dynamic culture platform, connecting these developments to translational and clinical applications.

This Collection explores how innovative governance, smart city systems, and digital transformation contribute to building and communicating competitive urban identities. It brings together interdisciplinary research on sustainable urban development, strategic urban planning, and technology-enabled resilience to support inclusive and future-ready cities.

This Collection focuses on the physicochemical and chemical interactions between dust aerosols and secondary organic aerosols (SOA), emphasizing how heterogeneous processes on mineral dust surfaces influence aerosol composition, aging, and climate-relevant properties. It also addresses the health and environmental impacts of dust–SOA interactions, aiming to improve interdisciplinary understanding and their representation in air quality and climate models.

This Collection seeks to engage scholars, practitioners, and policymakers concerned with ethical and institutional approaches to improving social welfare in a global context. By bringing together diverse research perspectives, this Collection aims to advance understanding of how corporate ethics and financial governance can foster more inclusive, sustainable, and equitable societies worldwide. This Collection supports and amplifies research related to SDG 8, SDG 9, and SDG 17.

This Topic Collection focuses on recent advances in the design, characterization, and application of carbon dots for sustainable environmental and energy technologies, including photocatalysis, environmental remediation, sensing, and clean energy conversion. Contributions addressing fundamental structure–property relationships as well as experimental, computational, and application‑oriented studies that advance the practical deployment of carbon‑dot‑based systems are welcomed.

This Collection highlights the immune system as a central player in tissue repair and engineering. It focuses on biomaterials, cellular therapies, and combined cell-biomaterial strategies that actively modulate immune responses to promote regeneration and restore tissue function.

This Special Issue highlights advances in Hybrid Computational Intelligence for trustworthy decision support, uniting Knowledge Engineering with advanced machine learning, including fuzzy‑logic‑enhanced models and XAI. Building on the joint FLINS‑ISKE 2026 conference, it showcases novel methods for robust, interpretable, and knowledge‑driven information fusion in complex environments.

A central aim of this Collection is to integrate scientific rigor with equity, ethics, and governance. We welcome contributions addressing inclusive participation and benefit‑sharing; data sovereignty and responsible access; community and indigenous engagement; privacy‑preserving computation; biosecurity; and responsible applications of AI in genomics.