Early career researcher benefits

• Publishing in 228 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.