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 Award winner, Danielle Quallich, describes her zebrafish lab research and its potential human applications
Congratulations go to Danielle Quallich, winner of the PeerJ Award for Best Overall Presentation at the inaugural Ohio Zebrafish Undergraduate Research Conference. The conference was held at Ashland University on March 23, 2019. She presented her current research that...
PeerJ Award winner Delphine Angst from French Paleontological Association meeting shares about fossils and giant extinct birds
Congratulations go to Delphine Angst, winner of the PeerJ Award for Best Oral Presentation at the annual meeting of the Association Paléontologique Française. The meeting was held last month in Aix-en-Provence, France. Her presentation was on the jaw of a giant bird...
New PeerJ Awards — Partnering with conferences in bioinformatics, biomechanics, chemistry, cognition and computer science
PeerJ is currently sponsoring nearly 25 conference awards within our PeerJ Awards Program. We are very pleased to partner with a number of societies and conferences so that together we can acknowledge rigorous science by students and early career researchers as well...
The “impact” of the Journal Impact Factor in the review, tenure, and promotion process
A new preprint was recently shared on PeerJ Preprints on the Use of the Journal Impact Factor in academic review, promotion, and tenure evaluations. Alice Fleerackers, Juan Pablo Alperin, and Erin McKiernan discuss the investigation and the findings on how the flawed...
Discovering the Pacific mastodon: the importance of challenging assumptions of well understood taxa
Earlier this month we published “Mammut pacificus sp. nov., a newly recognized species of mastodon from the Pleistocene of western North America“. In this study, researchers report on key taxonomic differences between the American mastodon, Mammut americanum, and the...
New PeerJ Awards for visualizing biological data, palaeontology, coral reefs, and zebrafish studies
Newly added to the PeerJ Awards Program -- four conferences being held next week through June 2019! Again, we are so pleased to acknowledge rigorous science by students and early career researchers as well as further efforts in open science at these conferences. Award...
Interview with Timothy Jenkins, PeerJ Award winner from Wellcome Genome Campus microbiome conference
Well deserved congratulations go to Timothy Jenkins, winner of the PeerJ Award for Best Short Talk at Exploring Human Host-Microbiome Interactions in Health and Disease. This Wellcome Genome Campus human microbiome conference was held in December 2018 near Cambridge,...
When and why did the giant mega-toothed shark Otodus megalodon become extinct?
Today we published “The Early Pliocene extinction of the mega-toothed shark Otodus megalodon: a view from the eastern North Pacific“. In this study, researchers review all records of the shark from western North America to get a better understanding of when and why...
Winner of PeerJ sponsored Best Presentation Award at International Biogeography Society’s 2019 meeting interviewed
Congratulations go to Christiana McDonald-Spicer, winner of the PeerJ Award for Best Oral Presentation at the International Biogeography Society meeting IBS 2019 in Malaga, Spain last month. The PeerJ Award includes a free publication in PeerJ (upon submission and...










