"No animal should ever have to ‘qualify’ for pain medication” Today, we publish a very interesting article dealing with the evaluation of pain in animals undergoing surgical procedures, by Dr Carolyn McKune and her group. Dr McKune has had the...
In a well-received and cited PeerJ article “Assessing insect responses to climate change: What are we testing for? Where should we be heading?” published last year, Dr Nigel Andrew et al. examined how research on climate change affecting insects was being...
To be clear, we have no indication that the bug was exploited on PeerJ, but there are a few things you should know and possibly do: A new vulnerability 'Heartbleed' (officially CVE-2014-0160) in OpenSSL was announced on April 7, 2014. This makes...
Today’s Interview is with Dr Darren Naish, first author of ‘‘Mystery big cats’ in the Peruvian Amazon: morphometrics solve a cryptozoological mystery’ which we published last month. We were very interested in hearing more about the...
Today, PeerJ published a study entitled “Internet publicity of data problems in the bioscience literature correlates with enhanced corrective action” by Dr Paul Brookes. This article deals with the topic of how corrections to the scientific literature are...
One year ago, on April 3rd 2013, we launched PeerJ PrePrints (and just one day later we published our first PrePrint articles). Despite failed preprint launches in previous years, we believed that preprints were an idea whose time had finally come. So one year later,...
In honor of the 7th annual World Autism Awareness Day (April 2nd), we invited Professor Simon Baron-Cohen, Academic Editor at PeerJ, to share his vision of autism. Simon Baron-Cohen is Professor of Developmental Psychopathology at the University of Cambridge and...
PeerJ has now been publishing for over a year (as of today we have published 329 peer-reviewed articles) and citations are starting to accrue to our articles from the wider literature. As a result, we are now displaying citation information on each PeerJ article....
The ability to distinguish between different ions such as sodium, potassium and calcium is critical to the function of many biological molecules and has been a topic of considerable intellectual debate for more than 50 years. The determination of a number of protein...
For immediate release. We know from experience that people looking to confirm previously reported results often can’t find a suitable image of the study’s authors. This leads to concerns such as whether or not the conclusions can be trusted. It also means...
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