Dates and deadlines verified against official conference sites in August 2026.
Where a deadline has not been published yet it says Not yet announced rather than a guess —
always confirm on the official page before you plan around it.
Impact factors are 2024 Journal Citation Reports (Web of Science), checked August 2026.
Acceptance rates are published estimates and vary by article type — treat them as rough guidance.
"Effort" reflects how much polish a submission typically needs to be competitive.
Live from the Europe PMC API,
which indexes PubMed/MEDLINE. Sorting by most cited over the last 12 months is the
closest honest answer to "what topics won last year" — these are the recent papers the field is
actually citing. Citation counts lag publication, so a 6-month window will show lower numbers.