Applied Network Science | Call for Papers: Networks for everyday life
How can network science contribute to understanding, modelling, and responding to today's fast-evolving societal changes? This Special Collection welcomes contributions proposing theory, methods, and applications that address challenges arising in areas such as health, mobility, education, politics, and related societal domains. The aim is to provide rigorous evidence of how network science can enhance our understanding of complex social systems and improve human well-being at both the individual and collective levels.
About
Our reality has changed rapidly by the use and development of technology. How can network science contribute to understanding, modeling, and responding to these fast-evolving changes?
Applied Network Science is a multidisciplinary, fully open access journal focusing on novel and anticipated applications of network science. It offers a rigorous, high-visibility home for interdisciplinary work at the intersection of networks and real-world problems.
In this special collection, we welcome contributions proposing theory, methods, and applications that help address challenges arising in areas such as health, mobility, education, politics, and related societal domains. The aim is to provide rigorous evidence of how network science can enhance our understanding of complex social systems and improve human well-being at both individual and collective levels.
Some potential application areas include:
- The impact of emerging technologies on education and learning systems
- Sustainable and inclusive urban systems and infrastructure networks
- Participatory planning networks and citizen engagement in decision-making processes
- Healthcare, epidemics, and biological networks for enhancing human well-being
- Human mobility and transportation networks in urban and regional contexts
- Information diffusion and communication networks in digital societies
- Innovation, collaboration, and knowledge exchange networks across sector
- Sustainable finance systems and green investment networks supporting climate and social goals
Submission
Submission deadline: November 30, 2026.
Authors should select the appropriate Collection title “Networks for everyday life” under the “Details” tab during the submission stage.
All manuscripts will undergo the journal’s standard peer-review process and will be subject to the standard editorial policies. Articles will be assessed, reviewed and published in this special collection on a rolling basis.
Guest Editors
- Mariana Macedo (Constructor University Bremen)
- Riccardo Di Clemente (Northeastern University London)
- Ronaldo Menezes (University of Exeter)
Source and more information: https://link.springer.com/collections/fgcaicgjah
