Nutrients | Call for Special Issue Proposals for Section “Nutrigenetics and Nutrigenomics”

The completion of the human genome sequencing project and the advances in high-throughput ‘omic’ technologies place nutrigenetics and nutrigenomics at the very core of the modern nutrition science. These achievements are enabling novel hypothesis- and nonhypothesis-driven approaches to study how an individual’s genome and other variable biological layers (epigenome, gut microbiome, health status, etc.) impact and modulate the relationship between nutrition and health and are themselves affected/programmed by nutritional conditions, particularly at early life stages. Current goals are to define the biomarkers of effect and exposure, biological targets, and mechanisms of action of dietary factors/patterns, both in health and disease states (particularly diet-related noncommunicable complex diseases), to translate this knowledge into personalized nutrition strategies for optimal health and disease prevention, and to advance our understanding of the impact of diet on systems biology.

This Section of Nutrients (ISSN: 2072-6643) aims to publish contributions on all aspects of nutrigenetics and nutrigenomics. We encourage the submission of manuscripts that provide novel and mechanistic insights and papers that report significant advances in the field.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: nutrigenetics; nutrigenomics; functional genomics; metabolomics; nutriomics; microbiota and microbiomics; epigenetics and epigenomics; gene–diet interactions; personalized nutrition; dietary patterns; metabolic programming; biomarkers; circulating RNAs; obesity; diabetes; cardiovascular disease; and cancer.

Nutrients is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal advancing knowledge in the field of human nutrition. Nutrients is fully covered by the leading indexing services, including PubMed/MEDLINE, Science Citation Index Expanded (Web of Science), Scopus/SciVerse and Google Scholar. Full-text articles are also available in PubMed Central. The newly released Impact Factor of Nutrients is 5.719.

The following information should be provided in a proposal:

A 150–200-word summary that clearly states the significance, novelty, technical advancement, and adherence to the scope of the journal of the proposed topic;
A list of 5–10 keywords relating to the topic;
A proposed submission deadline (a Special Issue will usually be open for submissions for 6–8 months);
A list of at least 20 potential contributors, or a list of 8 planned papers.

As a Guest Editor, you would be responsible for:

Inviting your peers to submit papers to be published in your Special Issue;
Checking the suitability of abstracts/manuscripts submitted to the Special Issue;
Making pre-check decisions on whether a manuscript can be sent out for peer review;
Making decisions on whether a manuscript can be accepted based on the reports we collect;
Promoting the Special Issue and increasing its visibility at related academic conferences.

As a Guest Editor, you would have the following privileges:

A certificate of recognition as a Guest Editor of Nutrients;
Publishing one paper free of charge in your Special Issue;
Inviting senior authors to submit high-quality papers to be published in your Special Issue with certain discounts;
If ten or more papers are published in this Special Issue, a Special Issue book can be made and a hard copy sent to each Guest Editor.

Please do not hesitate to contact the Editorial Office (nutrients@mdpi.com) for further information. We look forward to receiving your proposals.