Why Propose a Special Issue

Special issues provide a venue for coordinated work on emerging lipid research challenges.

We welcome proposals on topics such as lipidomics standardization, cardiometabolic risk, or lipid signaling pathways.

Special issues are ideal for themes such as lipidomics workflows or cardiometabolic risk.

Summaries linking lipid outcomes to clinical relevance strengthen translation to care.

Report software versions and packages to support reproducibility.

Provide details on internal standards and extraction protocols.

Explain how missing lipid values were handled during analysis.

Include quality assurance steps for instrument calibration.

Clarify whether analyses were preregistered or exploratory.

Proposal Components

Include a theme description, list of potential contributors, and a realistic timeline for submissions and review.

Guest editors should outline how they will coordinate peer review and maintain quality standards.

Proposals should outline the theme, contributors, and review timeline.

Define lipid classes and abbreviations clearly for multidisciplinary readers.

If data access is restricted, describe approval processes and timelines.

Summarize participant demographics to contextualize lipid findings.

Provide a rationale for chosen lipid biomarkers or panels.

Report confidence intervals for key lipid effects.

Summarize limitations related to lipid measurement or sample size.

Planning Timeline

Clear lipid reporting improves interpretability for clinicians and metabolic researchers.

When using lipidomics, report normalization and quality control procedures.

Describe sample storage temperatures and timing to support lipid stability assessment.

Clarify fasting status or dietary controls when relevant to lipid measures.

Highlight how lipid findings inform prevention or therapeutic decisions.

When using animal models, specify strain, diet, and lipid outcome timing.

Explain the choice of statistical model for lipid outcome distributions.

Guest Editor Responsibilities

• Curate contributors aligned with the lipid theme
• Coordinate reviewer selection with the editorial office
• Maintain ethical and methodological standards
• Track timelines and submission milestones

We encourage authors to document assay conditions so lipid measurements remain comparable.

Provide uncertainty measures for key estimates when applicable.

Include calibration standards and quality control materials for lipid assays.

Report variability across cohorts or sites for multicenter lipid studies.

Discuss biological plausibility for lipid associations observed.

Describe tissue sources and sampling methods for lipid analyses.

Report sensitivity analyses to test robustness of lipid findings.

Editorial Support

The editorial office supports special issue planning and can be reached at [email protected].

Transparent reporting of sample handling helps readers interpret lipid stability.

Explain how confounders were selected in observational lipid studies.

Document batch effects and correction methods for multi run lipidomics.

Describe statistical correction for multiple testing in lipidomics.

Describe how lipid ratios or indexes were calculated.

Provide context for effect sizes in relation to clinical thresholds.

Include discussion of sex or age differences in lipid outcomes when applicable.