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. – 2.8 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. – 21.8 cites

75th pct. – 4 cites

Median – 2 cites

25th pct. – 2 cites

* 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

Articles • Editors

Recently cited

Brain structural and functional changes in patients with major depressive disorder: a literature review

Psychiatry and Psychology Public Health Radiology and Medical Imaging

18 citations · 2,925 views · 667 downloads

The timing mega-study: comparing a range of experiment generators, both lab-based and online

Neuroscience Psychiatry and Psychology

16 citations · 14,411 views · 2,194 downloads

A comparison of COVID-19, SARS and MERS

Epidemiology Infectious Diseases

12 citations · 3,836 views · 936 downloads

Roles of phytohormone changes in the grain yield of rice plants exposed to heat: a review

Agricultural Science Plant Science Environmental Impacts

11 citations · 1,128 views · 624 downloads

Alteration of the gut microbiota associated with childhood obesity by 16S rRNA gene sequencing

Bioinformatics Microbiology Gastroenterology and Hepatology

14 citations · 2,499 views · 831 downloads

Potential role of cellular miRNAs in coronavirus-host interplay

Bioinformatics Computational Biology Molecular Biology Virology Medical Genetics

7 citations · 3,588 views · 1,283 downloads

Assessment of North American arthropod collections: prospects and challenges for addressing biodiversity research

Biodiversity Entomology

14 citations · 2,866 views · 590 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.

Jeffrey Stuart

Brock University

Anne Marie Kuijpers-Jagtman

University of Groningen

Pamela Ronald

The University of California, Davis

Advisor

Annamaria Vezzani

Mario Negri Institute for Pharnacological Research

Christof Jäger

University of Nottingham

Gianluca Tettamanti

University of Insubria

Dominique Lison

Catholic University of Louvain

Maria Tretiakova

University of Washington

Annalisa Pastore

King's College London

Karl Friston

University College London

Advisor

Simon Baron-Cohen

Cambridge University

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

Find your institution

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.