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. – 3 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. – 16.8 cites

75th pct. – 6.8 cites

Median – 3.5 cites

25th pct. – 1.3 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

Endosymbiotic adaptations in three new bacterial species associated with Dictyostelium discoideum: Paraburkholderia agricolaris sp. nov., Paraburkholderia hayleyella sp. nov., and Paraburkholderia bonniea sp. nov

Ecology Evolutionary Studies Microbiology Taxonomy

11 citations · 1,014 views · 179 downloads

MetaBAT 2: an adaptive binning algorithm for robust and efficient genome reconstruction from metagenome assemblies

Bioinformatics Computational Biology Genomics Microbiology Statistics

108 citations · 5,249 views · 1,065 downloads

Hierarchical generalized additive models in ecology: an introduction with mgcv

Ecology Statistics Data Science Spatial and Geographic Information Science

40 citations · 22,298 views · 5,698 downloads

Phylogenomic analysis of 589 metagenome-assembled genomes encompassing all major prokaryotic lineages from the gut of higher termites

Bioinformatics Ecology Genomics Microbiology

7 citations · 1,676 views · 532 downloads

Optical microscopic study of surface morphology and filtering efficiency of face masks

Public Health Environmental Contamination and Remediation Environmental Impacts

12 citations · 16,136 views · 4,790 downloads

Factors affecting the composition of the gut microbiota, and its modulation

Microbiology

26 citations · 2,549 views · 1,112 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.

Pamela Ronald

The University of California, Davis

Advisor

Annalisa Pastore

King's College London

Christof Jäger

University of Nottingham

Dominique Lison

Catholic University of Louvain

Annamaria Vezzani

Mario Negri Institute for Pharnacological Research

Gianluca Tettamanti

University of Insubria

Maria Tretiakova

University of Washington

Anne Marie Kuijpers-Jagtman

University of Groningen

Karl Friston

University College London

Full editorial board

Member institutions

151 institutions have prepaid PeerJ article fees, 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.