PeerJ

Our open access journals

PeerJ

Covering life, biology, medicine, and environmental sciences

3-year citation distribution 30 Days to First Decision

95th pct. – 20 cites

75th pct. – 9 cites

Median – 5 cites

25th pct. – 2.9 cites

* 3-year distribution is calculated from articles published between 30 and 36 months ago.

* 2-year JCR Impact Factor is 2.38. Read about responsible usage of the Impact Factor.

PeerJ Computer Science

Covering all subject areas in computer science

3-year citation distribution 35 Days to First Decision

95th pct. – 26.4 cites

75th pct. – 4 cites

Median – 4 cites

25th pct. – 1 cite

* 3-year distribution is calculated from articles published between 30 and 36 months ago.

* 2-year JCR Impact Factor is 3.09. Read about responsible usage of the Impact Factor.

Chemistry

Five open access journals dedicated to advancing chemistry

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Recently cited

Impact of COVID-19 outbreak on the mental health status of undergraduate medical students in a COVID-19 treating medical college: a prospective longitudinal study

Epidemiology Psychiatry and Psychology Public Health Science and Medical Education

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Joint embedding VQA model based on dynamic word vector

Human-Computer Interaction Artificial Intelligence Computer Vision

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Let’s talk about pain catastrophizing measures: an item content analysis

Anesthesiology and Pain Management Evidence Based Medicine Psychiatry and Psychology

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Alternative dietary protein and water temperature influence the skin and gut microbial communities of yellowtail kingfish (Seriola lalandi)

Aquaculture, Fisheries and Fish Science Marine Biology Microbiology Molecular Biology

5 citations · 1,489 views · 472 downloads

Effects of microbial evolution dominate those of experimental host-mediated indirect selection

Developmental Biology Entomology Evolutionary Studies Microbiology

5 citations · 1,554 views · 275 downloads

Small molecule therapeutics for COVID-19: repurposing of inhaled furosemide

Cell Biology Immunology Infectious Diseases Pharmacology Respiratory Medicine

5 citations · 2,143 views · 517 downloads

No one-size-fits-all solution to clean GBIF

Biodiversity Biogeography Conservation Biology Ecology

6 citations · 2,348 views · 658 downloads

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More about PeerJ's journals

If you value thoughtful, constructive, rigorous review and want to publish quickly, our Journal Overview will help you assess if PeerJ is the right publisher for your research team.

Indexed

Web of Science, Journal Citation Reports, PubMed, Scopus, Google Scholar, ++

Prestigious
Editorial Board

Highly-qualified editors and advisors including 5 Nobel laureates

High-Impact Research

From the world's top institutions and academics. Median citation rate of 5

Quality Peer Review

Objective, in-depth reviewing based on methodological soundness

Publish fast, 24h Support

30 Days to first decision (median) and quick hands-on author support

Editors and advisors

Advisors and Academic Editors at PeerJ are experienced researchers who are experts in their respective fields. As a general rule, Academic Editors must be at Principal Investigator level or above and have published 25 or more peer-reviewed journal articles. Editors are vetted before being appointed, and their decisions are overseen for consistency.

Karl Friston

University College London

King's College London

Jeffrey Stuart

Brock University

Dominique Lison

Catholic University of Louvain

Anne Marie Kuijpers-Jagtman

University of Groningen

Christof Jäger

University of Nottingham

Annamaria Vezzani

Mario Negri Institute for Pharnacological Research

Maria Tretiakova

University of Washington

Pamela Ronald

The University of California, Davis

Advisor

Gianluca Tettamanti

University of Insubria

Full editorial board

Member institutions

151 institutions have a prepaid publishing arrangement with us, helping reduce publishing costs and making it easier for their researchers to publish Open Access.

University of Cambridge

Stanford University

Delft University of Technology

University of Pennsylvania

University College London

University of California, Berkeley

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Partner societies

PeerJ works with major conferences and societies through sponsorships and curated collections to highlight societal member and conference delegate work. Collections are available for in-depth peer-reviewed research articles as well as conference abstracts.