The PeerJ Awards program together with the journal PeerJ Computer Science recognizes outstanding research by early career researchers across multiple subject areas within computer science. We have been pleased to be able to support the computer science community in...
Announcing a new initiative to help speed the peer review of COVID-19 articles
PeerJ is pleased to announce that we are joining several other scholarly publishers in a new initiative to maximize the efficiency of peer review, to help ensure that key work related to COVID-19 is reviewed and published as quickly and openly as possible. The group...
Recognizing the vital role of museum collections in supporting interdisciplinary research and fostering open science
This week we are thrilled to attend and sponsor the Natural History Museum's Student Conference on the 2-3 March 2020. The event is a great opportunity for student researchers working across the Natural History Museum's vast natural sciences collections to come...
Seven years of publishing – take a look at our Top Cited papers
This week, we celebrate seven years of publishing! PeerJ - the Journal of Life and Environmental Sciences has now published over 8,000 peer-reviewed articles -- all open access for our millions of readers to discover. Seven years later and we are up to seven journals....
PeerJ in Review 2019: Top cited papers of the year
As the year winds down, we thought we would take the opportunity to look back at some of the especially noteworthy papers we published this year across our journals. More and more researchers are choosing to publish their work Open Access and we are proud to provide...
#OAWeek19: Reviewing the literature on Open Access policies, citations, and scientific behaviors.
To celebrate Open Access Week this year, we have pulled together peer-reviewed research published in PeerJ journals about topics related to this year's theme: equity in open knowledge. We are encouraged to see the many different events taking place this week on a...
Peer review futures: Balancing efficiency and transparency to crack the issues in peer review
Peer Review Week is here and a great time for us to reflect on what we do best at PeerJ! With seven peer-reviewed publications to our name, we know that detailed, thoughtful, constructive improvement of scientific work is what authors are looking for and what quality...
Researchers develop photographic identification methods for monitoring the movement of the mysterious but massive smalleye stingray
Today we published “Spotting the “small eyes”: using photo-ID methodology to study a wild population of smalleye stingrays (Megatrygon microps) in southern Mozambique“. In this study, scientists assessed the suitability of photographic-identification for identifying...
Announcing the PeerJ Chemistry raffle winners!
In addition to the Outstanding Manuscript and ECR Open Science PeerJ Chemistry awards, we are also hosting a monthly raffle of $100 Amazon gift cards for all co-authors of new submissions to the chemistry journals. We are pleased to announce the first raffle winner...
PeerJ announces bundle of research awards to celebrate the launch of PeerJ Chemistry
PeerJ is celebrating the launch of our five new peer-reviewed Open Access journals in chemistry by announcing two major awards for chemistry researchers aimed at recognizing significant contributions to the field and rewarding open practices with award money to be won...









