Collections and calls for papers

Current aspects in diagnostics and treatment of embryonal CNS tumors

This is a topical collection about Current aspects in diagnostics and treatment of embryonal CNS tumors

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

Ongoing

Annual Focus Collection 2026: Controversies in Monosutural Craniosynostosis Management

This is the Annual focus topical collection for 2026 which focuses on the topic of Controversies in Monosutural Craniosynostosis Management. Submission to this collection are welcome until September 2026.

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

31 August 2026

Annual Focus Collection 2024: Pediatric Low Grade Gliomas (PLGG)

This is a topical collection for the annual issue 2024 which focuses on the topic of pediatric low grade gliomas (PLGG). Submission to this collection are welcome until September 2024.

Submission status

Closed

Pediatric Neurosurgery: a half century of progress

This is a topical collection to collate breakthroughs in the field of pediatric neurosurgery from the last 50 years. It will be released as a Special Issue in 2023.

Submission status

Closed

Purely endoscopic and endoscope-assisted approaches to lesions of the third ventricle in pediatric age

This is a topical collection about purely endoscopic and endoscope-assisted approaches to lesions of the third ventricle in pediatric age.

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

31 May 2026

Focus Session on Folate Fortification for Prevention of Spina Bifida

This is one of the Focus Sessions of Child's Nervous System dealing with Folate Fortification for Prevention of Spina Bifida

Submission status

Closed

Focus session on the Parasitic Diseases

This is one of the Focus Sessions of Child's Nervous System dealing with the Parasitic Diseases.

Submission status

Closed

Focus Session on tumors of the pineal region

This is one of the Focus Sessions of Child's Nervous System dealing with tumors of the pineal region.

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

01 December 2025

Annual Focus Collection 2025: Myelomeningocele

Annual Focus Session 2025: This Focus Sessions of Child's Nervous System is dealing with Myelomeningocele.

Submission status

Closed

Focus session on Temporal Arachnoid Cysts

This is one of the Focus Sessions of Child's Nervous System dealing with Temporal Arachnoid Cysts.

Submission status

Closed

Focus Session on the use of Sodium Fluorescein in the surgical treatment of cerebral tumors in children

This is one of the Focus Sessions of Child's Nervous System dealing with the use of Sodium Fluorescein in the surgical treatment of cerebral tumors in children.

Submission status

Open

Submission deadline

31 December 2025

Abusive Head Injury

The Annual Special Issue of Child's Nervous System will summarize findings about abused children. Submissions to this Special Issue are welcomed until end of September 2022.

Submission status

Closed