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Submissions are OPEN!

We are currently accepting submissions for the May 2026 edition. Please submit your manuscript and all accompanying documents by December 1, 2025 to be eligible for publication.

If you have any questions about submission or the deadline which are not addressed on the website, please contact us at young.scientist@vanderbilt.edu.

Who is the audience?

The Young Scientist is a peer-reviewed journal focused on communicating scientific work performed by high school students. The Abstract and Introduction (which includes Background and Significance) will be written for a more general audience such that anyone with or without a science background can understand the purpose and overall goal of the work subsequently described. These sections will be followed by more technical Methods, Results, and Discussion sections which should be readable to a person familiar with scientific research (but not necessarily in the field of expertise).

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