2020 PeerJ Award Winners The global COVID-19 pandemic saw the cancellation or postponement of a great number of academic meetings throughout 2020. Despite some choosing to switch to a fully virtual conference experience, this unfortunately reduced the number of awards...
Yesterday, we featured interviews with PeerJ Awards winners for the best full-length presentation at the virtual African Bioacoustic Community Conference 2020. Today, we talk to the winners of PeerJ Awards for best Speed Talk and discuss their research....
The African Bioacoustics Community strives to shine a light on bioacoustic research from Africa and by African scientists. As with many scientific meetings this year, the 2nd edition of the African Bioacoustic Community Conference was forced online as a virtual...
PeerJ is excited to work with PeerJ Computer Science Academic Editor Dr Pengcheng Liu and RiTA 2020 to publish a Collection on Advances in Computational Learning for Robotics. RiTA2020 The theme for the 8th International Conference on Robot Intelligence Technology and...
In the second of our series about new community projects at PeerJ we are excited to announce expertRχiv - connecting research experts through ideas. expertRχiv is a new and free community tool to connect research experts Find your next collaborator, fill a vacant...
A recurring theme in our research in the Communities Team has been the future of scholarly societies. Whether it’s authors choosing to publish with us to meet OA requirements their society cannot fulfill; concerns from society board members about slowly but steadily...
UPDATE: As Ann mentioned in this interview, in lieu of a retirement event or retirement gifts she asked her colleagues at the University of Tennessee to donate to UT's PeerJ Open Access Fund. The response was quite remarkable, and we have recently added those...
This week PeerJ Computer Science received its first Impact Factor and at 3.09 it places the journal in the top quartile of the Web of Science's category for Computer Science (Theory & Methods). But given the flaws and misuse of this metric should we, as a...
As a company that has fairness and equity of access to science as its heart, it is vital to state that we believe that should be true of society as a whole. To say nothing is to be complicit. We stand in solidarity with the Black community and against racism. Society...
Community and innovation have always been central to PeerJ. Last month Nathaniel Gore joined PeerJ as Director of Communities and formed a new Communities Team with Lead UX Designer Ali Adair. Here they share their aims for the new team and how they intend to keep...
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