Early career researcher benefits
PeerJ is a great option for early career researchers (ECRs)
Broaden your CV
Publishing in PeerJ opens up your research to a wider readership and broadens your CV
- Publishing in 269 subject areas so a great fit for multi and interdisciplinary research.
- Expose your research to a broader range of academics.
- Reach your specific field audience through our subject pages.
Some researchers prefer to rotate between publishing in narrow field journals, and broad subject journals. PeerJ is an excellent broad subject publishing option.
When we decided that the findings would be of general interest to a number of different scientific fields, we looked for a journal with a broad audience that was open access, which colleagues had had good experiences with. PeerJ fit the bill.
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Establish your reputation
PeerJ's innovative tools and open philosophy help you establish your reputation.
- Multiple studies show that publishing in Open Access journals boosts citations. For more info jump to More citations section below.
- We motivate you to share your article after publication, with proven techniques shown to boost citations.
- Smart X (Formerly Twitter) integration helps you make best use of the social network to help raise awareness of your work.
- Your PeerJ profile pages lists all your publications, signed reviews and other activities.
- We're always looking for ways to extend the reach of our published research.
The speed and simple, effective approach was a real winner. I also appreciate that PeerJ does the best to publicise articles widely and help authors use social media to get the word out.
Paul Fremantle, PeerJ author.
Learn best-practice
PeerJ provides you with excellent tools, and best-practice guidance
- Our peer-review system is designed to foster engaged, supportive, hands-on reviewing.
- Along with your published article, we want you to experience best-practice peer-review, and learn from our techniques and workflows.
- Excellent guidance provided for you, your reviewer and editor.
- Learn the most effective ways to share your research with PeerJ's post-publication sharing tools.
- Our blog and editorial content includes author interviews, publishing tips and guidance.
PeerJ published our paper very quickly and the chosen reviewers were great experts. After the revision, the final article became a sound and well-written piece of science.
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More citations
Boost the measurable impact of your work
- Open access articles receive more views and downloads and are accessed for a longer period of time than paywalled articles.
- Sharing your data boosts your citation rate.
- The way your article is published online matters - particularly the way your article page is coded for discoverability. We use the most effective metadata formats, including the Journal Article Tag Suite standard (JATS).
- Most of your readers will arrive via a database search (e.g. Google Scholar). PeerJ articles are automatically indexed in 14+ indexing and archival services to guarantee this vital traffic.
Despite being relatively new, PeerJ is a very promising journal. It was a great choice for me and with open access, I know my work can have higher visibility and reach.
Sonali Garg, PeerJ author
Funder friendly
A growing number of funding bodies now mandate Open Access publication.
- Your article is published with a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) licence, the standard for Open Access publication.
- Our publishing fees are significantly lower than the vast majority of other journals (e.g. Scientific Reports, PLOS ONE).
- All PeerJ journals are 100% compliant with the RCUK preferred Gold Open Access standard.
It is open access and the APC is covered by my university - I didn't have the funding to cover an APC but value OA.
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