Researchers analyze over 2 billion posts and comments from cross-community Redditors to assess how toxicity changes depending on the community in which they participate New research, published in the Open Access journal PeerJ Computer Science, which analyses over 87...
Method Development Articles in PeerJ chemistry journals
PeerJ Analytical Chemistry has recently published our first Method Development Article, which investigates a method for direct determination of the optical density at 260 nm (OD260) of Oligodeoxynucleotides (ODNs) using the area of the peaks in high-performance liquid...
A large predator from the Pyrenees
A fossilized lower jaw has led an international team of palaeontologists, headed by Bastien Mennecart from the Natural History Museum Basel, to discover a new species of predator that once lived in Europe. These large predators belong to a group of carnivores...
Europe’s largest land predator found on the Isle of Wight
Research led by palaeontologists at the University of Southampton has identified the remains of one of Europe’s largest ever land hunters in recently published PeerJ Life & Environment article A European giant: a large spinosaurid (Dinosauria: Theropoda) from the...
A new 225-million-year-old reptile from Brazil
In a new study published in PeerJ – Reassessment of Faxinalipterus minimus, a purported Triassic pterosaur from southern Brazil with the description of a new taxon – researchers present Maehary bonapartei a small reptile that is considered to be the most basal of the...
Fish-like marine reptile buried in its own blubber in Southern Germany 150 million years ago
A new study published in PeerJ - The soft tissue and skeletal anatomy of two Late Jurassic ichthyosaur specimens from the Solnhofen archipelago - uses modern methods to understand the preservation of unique ichthyosaur fossils. One complete animal and one tail are the...
Top 5 most-viewed articles in PeerJ Computer Science in 2018
PeerJ Computer Science continues to offer a publication venue suitable for the unique research needs of the computer sciences community. Beyond the journal article, computer scientists require a journal to receive peer review and adequate recognition for their...
PeerJ Articles appearing in ‘highlights’ lists for 2015
2015 was a great year for publications in PeerJ and some of our articles made their way into various 'highlights' lists for the year. Here are a few that we spotted: In June we published "Seven new microendemic species of Brachycephalus (Anura: Brachycephalidae) from...
The Top PeerJ Articles of 2015
As 2015 draws to a close, please join us as we review some of 'top' articles from 2015. A list like this is always going to be subjective, however, in order of ‘publication date’ here are our Staff Picks for the 10 most significant and interesting articles we...







