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Authors
We send press releases to our media partners, and we also regularly feature author interviews - both written and video - on the PeerJ blog. PeerJ's blog is read by thousands of researchers every month, and with over 38,000 followers on social media, we'll be sure to share your research - and its story - with as many people as we can reach.
If you've published your research with PeerJ and would like to be featured in an author interview or would like to work with us on a press release, reach out to our Social Media Community Manager Euan Lockie.
Press
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PeerJ publishes seven open access journals
- PeerJ Life & Environment
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We publish impactful research. Since 2013 we've published over 13,000 articles, peer-reviewed by our international Editorial Boards of over 2,000 respected academics.
Authors love publishing with us, enjoying our industry leading customer service and our unique submission and peer review platform. Over 95% of authors recommend us. We pride ourselves on providing developmental peer review with quick turnaround times.
All reviews of published articles are made public. This includes manuscript files, peer review comments, author rebuttals and revised materials. Note: For submissions created before 13 February 2023, authors were able to opt-opt of publishing their peer review history. Peer reviewers are encouraged (but not required) to provide their names to the authors when submitting their peer review. If they agree to provide their name, then their personal profile page will reflect a public acknowledgment that they performed a review (even if the article is rejected). If the article is accepted, then reviewers who provided their name will be associated with the article itself.
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2023 Press Releases
August 8th, 2023
Bighorn sheep associations: understanding tradeoffs of sociality and implications for disease transmission
July 26th, 2023
Western science catches up with First Nations’ medicinal use of ant honey
July 17th, 2023
New Study Uncovers Taxonomic Breakthrough in the Common Ophiuroid Ophiothrix angulata (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea)
July 14th, 2023
New Study Demonstrates the Potential of Diseased Coral Parents in Restoring Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease-Affected Species
July 12th, 2023
2018–2022 Southern Resident killer whale presence in the Salish Sea: continued shifts in habitat usage
July 6th, 2023
Village dogs match pet dogs in reading human facial expressions
June 23rd, 2023
A New Species of Early Toothed Whale
June 13th, 2023
PeerJ announces Open Advances, a new journal series to address the world’s biggest challenges by unlocking Open Access
June 1st, 2023
Integrating Robotics into Wildlife Conservation: Enhancing Predator Deterrents through Innovative Movement Strategies
May 31st, 2023
Spinosaur Britain: multiple different species likely roamed Cretaceous Britain
May 18th, 2023
PeerJ announces a new Open Access model and the University of Bath as their first institutional partner
May 2nd, 2023
Accelerating coral reef science: building consensus around the assessment and interpretation of Symbiodiniaceae diversity
April 27th, 2023
Estimating the impact of new high seas activities on the environment: The effects of ocean-surface macroplastic removal on sea surface ecosystems
April 24th, 2023
If it Pays to be a Jerk, Why Isn’t Everyone That Way?
April 10th, 2023
Giant, swimming mouths: Oral dimensions of extant sharks do not accurately predict body size in Dunkleosteus terrelli (Placodermi: Arthrodira)
March 13th, 2023
Evaluation of DNA metabarcoding for identifying fish eggs: a case study on the West Florida Shelf
March 8th, 2023
Mezcal worm in a bottle: DNA evidence suggests a single moth species
February 24th, 2023
Is the middle Cambrian Brooksella a hexactinellid sponge, trace fossil or pseudofossil?
February 10th, 2023
Completing the long-standing puzzle of biodiversity: How ecology can help us identify missing pieces
February 3rd, 2023
New study has important implications for survival of the critically endangered Kākāpō parrot
February 3rd, 2023
Decline in wild bee species richness associated with honey bee abundance in an urban ecosystem
February 2nd, 2023
New research turns what we know about bird window strikes inside-out
2022 Press Releases
December 22nd, 2022
Opening the black box of bird-window collisions: passive video recordings in a residential backyard
November 25th, 2022
Trends and biases in African large carnivore population assessments: identifying priorities and opportunities from a systematic review of two decades of research
October 7th, 2022
Can Cats and Coyote Co-Exist?
September 27th, 2022
PeerJ Launches first PeerJ Hub in partnership with IABO
September 21st, 2022
New York City coyotes do not need to rely on human food
August 18th, 2022
Assessing the Toxicity of Reddit Comments
June 15th, 2022
A large predator from the Pyrenees
June 9th, 2022
Europe’s largest land predator found on the Isle of Wight.
May 17th, 2022
Forecasting the effects of roads and railways on endangered tigers
May 16th, 2022
Komodo National Park is home to some of the World’s Largest Manta Ray Aggregations, new study shows
May 3rd, 2022
A new 225-million-year-old reptile from Brazil
April 21st, 2022
PeerJ signs agreement with Western University to provide Three Year Publishing Memberships for their faculty
April 7th, 2022
Fish-like marine reptile buried in its own blubber in Southern Germany 150 million years ago
April 7th, 2022
A new basal ichthyosauromorph from the Lower Triassic (Olenekian) of Zhebao, Guangxi Province, South China
March 24th, 2022
PeerJ signs agreement with University of Sussex - the first UK institution to join their new Three Year Membership Program
March 22nd, 2022
PeerJ signs deal with the International Association for Biological Oceanography to launch first PeerJ Hub
March 15th, 2022
New Sabre-Tooth Predator Precedes Cats by Millions of Years
February 3rd, 2022
Scholarly journals have never sufficiently rewarded peer-reviewers - PeerJ introduces an innovative program to reward contributors with genuine benefits
February 1st, 2022
Two new species of potentially invasive hammerhead flatworms from Europe (France and Italy) and Africa (Mayotte)
January 11th, 2022
Iowa State University joins UC Berkeley and University of Ottawa in PeerJ Membership Pilot to provide Open Access publishing from as little as $80.
2021 Press Releases
August 18th, 2021
New records of a lost species and a geographic range expansion for sengis in the Horn of Africa
June 7th, 2021
A new giant sauropod, Australotitan cooperensis gen. et sp. nov., from the mid-Cretaceous of Australia
April 19th, 2021
Geology and taphonomy of a unique tyrannosaurid bonebed from the upper Campanian Kaiparowits Formation of southern Utah: implications for tyrannosaurid gregariousness
January 25th, 2021
Description and rediagnosis of the crested hadrosaurid (Ornithopoda) dinosaur Parasaurolophus cyrtocristatuson the basis of new cranial remains
2020 Press Releases
September 25th, 2020
Native milkweed cultivars planted by members of the public can support monarch butterflies and bees in urban gardens
September 7th, 2020
African wild dogs have a vestigial first digit and muscular adaptations for life on the run
August 24th, 2020
New species of Cretaceous brittle star named in honour of Nightwish vocalist
April 23rd, 2020
PeerJ appoints Director of Communities
2019 Press Releases
October 15th, 2019
PeerJ publishes first peer-reviewed chemistry articles
June 17th, 2019
Global commodities trade and consumption place the world’s primates at risk of extinction
April 18th, 2019
Why language technology can’t handle Game of Thrones (yet)
April 3rd, 2019
Gorillas gather around and groom their dead
January 15th, 2019
Open Access publisher PeerJ launches five new peer-reviewed journals in chemistry
2018 Press Releases
December 19th, 2018
The oldest large-sized predatory dinosaur comes from the Italian Alps
November 13th, 2018
Most Complete Enantiornithine Bird Fossil from North America
July 24th, 2018
Satellite tag study reveals Philippine waters are incredibly important for endangered whale sharks
July 24th, 2018
Bigfoot was a dinosaur
July 5th, 2018
Some of the world’s poorest people are bearing the costs of tropical forest conservation.
June 15th, 2018
Primates in peril: Our closest living relatives are facing an extinction crisis
May 30th, 2018
The smallest biggest theropod dinosaur
May 22nd, 2018
Giant invasive flatworms found in France and overseas French territories
March 28th, 2018
Monterey Bay Aquarium study finds sea turtles use flippers to manipulate food
February 1st, 2018
PeerJ marks 5th anniversary with editorial model reboot
January 11th, 2018
New turkey-sized dinosaur from Australia preserved in an ancient log-jam
2017 Press Releases
December 12th, 2017
Native fish species at risk following water removal from the Colorado River
December 11th, 2017
Scientists urge endangered listing for cheetahs
December 5th, 2017
UC Davis researchers collaborate on a census of microbial life on the International Space Station
October 24th, 2017
PeerJ announces expansion of its open access mega-journal to include Environmental Sciences
October 10th, 2017
Researchers map the illegal use of natural resources in the protected Brazilian Amazon
October 3rd, 2017
Ancient petrified salamander reveals its last meal
August 29th, 2017
An alternative to wolf control to save endangered caribou
August 29th, 2017
Woolly rhino neck ribs provide clues about their decline and eventual extinction
July 4th, 2017
Gigantic crocodile with T. rex teeth was a top land predator of the Jurassic in Madagascar
June 27th, 2017
The Blue-winged Amazon: A new parrot species from the Yucatán Peninsula
June 6th, 2017
New data for old bones: How the famous Cleveland-Lloyd dinosaur bone bed came to be
May 30th, 2017
Corals in peril at a popular Hawaiian tourist destination due to global climate change
May 23rd, 2017
Rare tooth find reveals horned dinosaurs in eastern North America
May 17th, 2017
Time flies: Insect fossils in amber shed light on India’s geological history
May 16th, 2017
New Zealand’s mainland Yellow-eyed penguins face extinction unless urgent action taken
March 7th, 2017
First underwater video footage of the True´s beaked whale
February 21st, 2017
Seven new species of Night Frogs from the Western Ghats biodiversity hotspot including four miniature forms
February 7th, 2017
A new species of gecko with massive scales and tear-away skin
January 31st, 2017
Boxer crabs acquire anemones by stealing from each other, and splitting them into clones
2016 Press Releases
August 22nd, 2017
A potential breeding site of a Miocene era baleen whale
November 15th, 2016
Three new species of miniaturized tropical salamanders are already endangered
October 4th, 2016
Extensive Deep Coral Reefs in Hawaii Harbor Unique Species and High Coral Cover
August 31st, 2016
The great elephant census reports massive loss of African Savannah elephants
July 18th, 2016
PeerJ launches a free jobs board for academic positions
June 30th, 2016
UK author and collaborator APC relief at PeerJ
June 14th, 2016
Discovery of a new mating position in frogs
May 10th, 2016
PeerJ Announces the Formation of the “PeerJ Preprints Advisory Group”
May 10th, 2016
Northern Galápagos Islands Home to World’s Largest Shark Biomass
May 4th, 2016
First-of-its-Kind Global Analysis Indicates Leopards Have Lost Nearly 75 Percent of Their Historic Range
April 12th, 2016
Swarming Red Crabs Documented on Video. Findings Represent New Southernmost Range for Species
April 5th, 2016
Architecture of the sperm whale forehead facilitates ramming combat
March 22nd, 2016
Researchers identify a single bacteria that grows 60 percent better on the International Space Station than on Earth
February 23rd, 2016
Untangling the Spider Tree of Life
February 2nd, 2016
Ship noise extends to frequencies used by endangered killer whales
January 19th, 2016
First Study of Arthropods in U.S. Homes Finds Huge Biodiversity
2015 Press Releases
November 10th, 2015
Scientists measure the “beauty” of coral reefs
October 19th, 2015
PeerJ announces new ‘APC’ option – a single low payment for full open access publication
September 22nd, 2015
New Research Finds that People Emit Their Own Personal Microbial Cloud
August 4th, 2015
Flexible vocalisations in wild bonobos show similarities to development of human speech
July 21st, 2015
‘Next-gen’ DNA sequencing of non-invasively collected hair expands the field of conservation genetics
June 23rd, 2015
Discovery in the US of the New Guinea flatworm - one of the worst known invasive species
June 12th, 2015
Can inhaled oxygen cause cancer?
June 4th, 2015
Seven new miniaturized frog species found in the Brazilian Atlantic Rainforest
May 26th, 2015
One to Ovoid? Using 3D printing, researchers can study what causes birds to reject eggs with greater precision and repeatability
April 28th, 2015
Endangered corals smothered by sponges on overfished Caribbean reefs
April 13th, 2015
A sex difference in competitiveness even among the fastest runners
April 9th, 2015
New Evidence for Combat and Cannibalism in Tyrannosaurs
April 7th, 2015
Brontosaurus is back! The iconic long-necked dinosaur was not Apatosaurus after all
February 3rd, 2015
PeerJ aims to speed up the pace and openness of Computer Science publishing with launch of new journal PeerJ Computer Science
January 13th, 2015
Sizing up the giants that live in the ocean. Research team corrects inaccuracies and elucidates measurements for 25 marine species.
2014 Press Releases
November 18th, 2014
Unexpected cross-species contamination in genome sequencing projects
September 30th, 2014
Smithsonian Scientists Discover Coral’s Best Defender Against an Army of Sea Stars
September 16th, 2014
What’s for dinner? Rapidly identifying undescribed species in a commercial fungi packet
September 2nd, 2014
Researchers Find Asian Camel Crickets Are Now Common in U.S. Homes
September 2nd, 2014
Exceptionally well preserved insect fossils from the Rhône Valley
August 19th, 2014
Sequencing at Sea – performing real-time DNA sequencing in the middle of the Pacific Ocean
August 12th, 2014
Is empathy in humans and apes actually different?
August 12th, 2014
The Maldives and the whale shark: the world's biggest fish adds value to paradise
July 17th, 2014
Birdsongs automatically decoded by computer scientists
June 24th, 2014
New Research Finds that Cell Phones Reflect Our Personal Microbiome
June 24th, 2014
Facelock: a new password alternative which plays to the strengths of human memory
June 12th, 2014
Tiny plants ride on the coattails of migratory birds
June 12th, 2014
Chimpanzees Spontaneously Initiate and Maintain Cooperative Behavior
June 3rd, 2014
Notifying speeding mariners lowers ship speeds in areas with North Atlantic Right Whales
April 3rd, 2014
Public exposure leads to an increase in corrections to the scientific record
March 25th, 2014
Neck ribs in woolly mammoths provide clues about their decline and eventual extinction
March 11th, 2014
Researchers show that bold baboons learn to solve tasks from other baboons
March 4th, 2014
Discovery in France of the New Guinea flatworm - one of the 100 worst invasive alien species in the world
February 27th, 2014
System-wide analyses have underestimated protein abundances and the importance of transcription in animals
February 18th, 2014
Asian elephants reassure others in distress
February 11th, 2014
With the addition of Stanford, 20 universities have now entered into an Institutional Arrangement with PeerJ
January 14th, 2014
A brief visit to a neighbourhood induces the social attitudes of that neighborhood
2013 Press Releases
December 10th, 2013
Europe's Rarest Orchid Rediscovered on 'Lost World' Volcano in the Azores
November 19th, 2013
Publish Open Access for free until end of the year in PeerJ
November 11th, 2013
Announcing unlimited free publishing in PeerJ Preprints
October 22nd, 2013
High school student discovers skeleton of baby dinosaur
October 1st, 2013
Scientists who share data publicly receive more citations
September 10th, 2013
UC Berkeley and the University of Cambridge enter into Institutional Arrangements for PeerJ publishing plans
September 10th, 2013
Positive emotion influences a depressive-to-happy state and increases life satisfaction
September 5th, 2013
New study shows scientific reproducibility is hampered by a lack of specificity of the material resources
August 13th, 2013
Study finds 'ray' wings sold to consumers includes vulnerable species & can be mislabeled
July 16th, 2013
The Line Islands Collection – Microbial dynamics of coral reef robustness and decline
April 10th, 2013
PeerJ Announces the First Institutions to Provide lifetime publishing plans to their Faculty
April 8th, 2013
PeerJ selected for indexing by PubMed Central (PMC), PubMed and Scopus
April 3rd, 2013
PeerJ Launches 'PeerJ Preprints' a new 'Preprint Server' for the Biological and Medical Sciences
April 2nd, 2013
Diversification in ancient tadpole shrimps challenges the term 'living fossil'
March 12th, 2013
What impact does a day of roller derby have on our skin microbiome?
March 5th, 2013
Viruses: More Survival Tricks than Previously Thought
February 19th, 2013
How the whale got its teeth
February 12th, 2013
PeerJ Publishes Its First Articles
February 12th, 2013
Study Shows Consumers Have Few Negative Reactions to the Results of Genetic Testing for Cancer Mutations
February 12th, 2013
Cognitive Scientists Advance the Art of Magic with a Study of Penn & Teller’s 'Cups and Balls' Illusion
2012 Press Releases
November 27th, 2012
Open Access journal PeerJ opens for submissions starting December 3rd
June 12th, 2012
New open access publisher introduces innovative business model - Pay once, publish for life