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Our open access journals
PeerJ
Covering life, biology, medicine, and environmental sciences
3-year citation distribution
30 Days to First Decision
95th pct. – 19 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 2.98. 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. – 11 cites
75th pct. – 6 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 1.39. Read about responsible usage of the Impact Factor.
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
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
Select journal to view the Editorial board:
Lisa DeBruine
Annalisa Pastore
Gianluca Tettamanti
Anne Marie Kuijpers-Jagtman
Christof Jäger
Jeffrey Stuart
Karl Friston
Advisor
Annamaria Vezzani
Pamela Ronald
Advisor
Dominique Lison
Simon Baron-Cohen
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
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