PeerJ

Our open access journals

PeerJ

Covering life, biology, medicine, and environmental sciences

3-year citation distribution 30 Days to First Decision

95th pct. – 19.3 cites

75th pct. – 9 cites

Median – 5 cites

25th pct. – 2.1 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. – 27.6 cites

75th pct. – 5 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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Recent update in diagnosis and treatment of human pythiosis

Mycology Infectious Diseases Ophthalmology

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Microbiology Gastroenterology and Hepatology

10 citations · 1,346 views · 715 downloads

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Bioinformatics Computational Biology Genomics Virology Infectious Diseases

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Assessment of biomass potentials of microalgal communities in open pond raceways using mass cultivation

Biodiversity Freshwater Biology

6 citations · 1,158 views · 632 downloads

Mutational spectra of SARS-CoV-2 isolated from animals

Microbiology Virology

8 citations · 2,041 views · 521 downloads

Joint embedding VQA model based on dynamic word vector

Human-Computer Interaction Artificial Intelligence Computer Vision

4 citations · 518 views · 158 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

Pubmed Central (PMC), Scopus, Web of Science SCIE and Journal Citation Reports.

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.

Pamela Ronald

The University of California, Davis

Advisor

Annalisa Pastore

King's College London

Karl Friston

University College London

Advisor

Jeffrey Stuart

Brock University

Anne Marie Kuijpers-Jagtman

University of Groningen

Dominique Lison

Catholic University of Louvain

Gianluca Tettamanti

University of Insubria

Annamaria Vezzani

Mario Negri Institute for Pharnacological Research

Simon Baron-Cohen

Cambridge University

Maria Tretiakova

University of Washington

Christof Jäger

University of Nottingham

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.