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The Journal of Life and Environmental Sciences
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9,463 peer-reviewed articles published since 2013.

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Highly-qualified editors and advisors including 5 Nobel laureates
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From the world's top institutions and academics. Median citation rate of 5
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PeerJ — the Journal of Life and Environmental Sciences is a peer-reviewed & Open Access journal publishing primary research and reviews in biology, life sciences, environmental sciences, and medicine.

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If you value thoughtful, constructive, rigorous review and want to publish quickly, our Journal Overview will help you assess if PeerJ is the right journal 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
25 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.

Dorothy Bishop
Dorothy Bishop
University of Oxford
Advisor
Mya Breitbart
Mya Breitbart
University of South Florida
Vladimir Uversky
Vladimir Uversky
University of South Florida
D. Gareth Evans
D. Gareth Evans
University of Manchester
Yves Van de Peer
Yves Van de Peer
Ghent University
Shuihua Wang
Shuihua Wang
University of Leicester
Annalisa Pastore
Annalisa Pastore
King's College London
Paula Soares
Paula Soares
Medical Faculty, University of Porto and IPATIMUP
Cristina Nogueira
Cristina Nogueira
Federal University of Santa Maria
Jeffrey Stuart
Jeffrey Stuart
Brock University
Paula Moreira
Paula Moreira
University of Coimbra, Portugal
Christof Jäger
Christof Jäger
University of Nottingham
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Member institutions

150 institutions have prepaid PeerJ article fees, helping reduce publishing costs and making it easier for their researchers to publish Open Access.

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Imperial College London
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.

WCMB World Congress on Marine Biodiversity
Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution
International Conference on Bioinformatics
German Conference on Bioinformatics
Association of Marine Laboratories of the Caribbean
Symposium of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy
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