With our five-year celebrations fully underway, we've had a busy month! Here is an overview of what has been going on at PeerJ this month. Over 1500 submissions received in February for #PeerJ5Years! Last month, we celebrated our fifth anniversary of publishing by...
PeerJ Sections cover most of the subjects published in PeerJ Life & Environment. We want Sections to be your community’s home at PeerJ. Sections are community led and exemplify a research community’s shared values, norms and interests. Section Editors provide...
To commemorate our fifth year of publishing, we have put together a timeline of our achievements over the last five years. Together we have proven that high-quality academic publishing can be fast, low-cost, open and easy. Here is a quick look at some of the...
The month of February marks five years since we published our first peer-reviewed article in PeerJ – February 12th to be exact (and coincidentally shared with Charles Darwin’s birthday). To celebrate we are waiving all publication fees for any new February submission...
2018 is already shaping up to be an exciting year with new discoveries and incremental research across disciplines playing an important role. At PeerJ we're looking at ways we can contribute further to advancing wider access to scientific knowledge from journal...
How do butterflies choose their mate? Research has largely focused on male visual attraction towards female colour patterns, but a recent study finds there are more signals at play here. Kathy Darragh from the University of Cambridge shares more on the research...
Here is a quick November round-up of news and developments at PeerJ. We have had a busy month launching a new community website at peerj.org, publishing 99 record breaking achievements of spiders, and featuring a discussion on the secrets hidden within koala poop!...
Yesterday we published an exciting paleontology paper by Caleb Brown titled 'An exceptionally preserved armored dinosaur reveals the morphology and allometry of osteoderms and their horny epidermal coverings'. This 'one-in-a-billion' nodosaur specimen is currently on...
Back in October, we published Infection of army ant pupae by two new parasitoid mites (Mesostigmata: Uropodina) by Adrian Brückner, Hans Klompen, Andrew Iain Bruce, Rosli Hashim, and Christoph von Beeren. The study describes two new Macrodinychus species of mites. The...
Software is an essential component of 21st-century science workflows, yet it often receives little attention in formal scientific publication. Software citation is one way to encourage wider recognition of software's role in scientific analysis. In 2016, we published...
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