On the 12th February, we passed the one year mark for publishing in PeerJ and celebrated by offering 12 PeerJ T-Shirts to people who used our annotation functionality. We are pleased to now announce the following lucky recipients of a sought after PeerJ shirt: Anupama...
Interview With an Author – Joshua Plotnik
Today, we are pleased to publish “Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) reassure others in distress”, and we invited Dr. Joshua Plotnik, first author on the paper, to comment on his research. Joshua Plotnik is founder and CEO of Think Elephants International,...
Year One – An Interview with the PeerJ Co-Founders
The Queen celebrates two birthdays each year, and so does PeerJ! We announced PeerJ the company on June 12, 2012, but we published our first PeerJ articles on Feb 12, 2013. So today, we are very pleased to announce that this is the one-year anniversary of PeerJ...
Celebrating a year of publishing at PeerJ
Today we celebrate, not just Darwin Day, but also the one year anniversary of publishing PeerJ articles. We published our first peer-reviewed articles on Feb 12th, 2013 and PeerJ PrePrint articles followed in April 2013. Since that time we have published almost 500...
Ask Questions – Win T-Shirts!!
To celebrate our one year anniversary of publishing articles (we published our first PeerJ articles on Feb 12th, 2013) we are running a PeerJ T-Shirt Giveaway. We're giving away 12 shirts one for each month of publication. These stylish fashion accessories are the...
Stanford University leads latest group to join PeerJ
We are pleased to announce the latest universities to have signed up with PeerJ to centrally fund Publication Plans for their faculty (meaning that authors from their institutions will have their publication plans automatically paid using funds made available via the...
Plankton and marine biology: PeerJ research highlights
Feb. 10, 1835 was the birthday of Victor Hensen, German oceanographer, who coined the term plankton (singular plankter). They consist of microscopic animals (zooplankton) and plants (phytoplankton). On the smaller end of the spectrum are the bacterioplankton. Plankton...
PeerJ supports the Resource Identification Initiative
PeerJ is committed to improving scholarly communications and as part of this commitment, we are pleased to support a pilot project from the Resource Identification Initiative (#RII). What is it? RII is a community led effort (originating out of the FORCE11 group)...
2014 World Cancer Day – Interview with Nobel Laureate Harald zur Hausen
World Cancer Day is celebrated on February 4th every year to raise awareness and education about cancer, and pressing governments and individuals across the world to take action against the disease. According to WHO, 7.6 million people worldwide died from cancer in...
Ask Me Anything – Correcting the Scientific Record in Plant Science
Live Event – ‘Ask Me Anything’ session with Prof. Pamela Ronald, Dr. Ofir Bahar, Dr. Rory Pruitt, Dr. Benjamin Schwessinger, and Dr. Arsalan Daudi Who & What: Ask Prof. Ronald, Dr. Bahar, Dr. Pruitt, Dr. Schwessinger, and Dr. Daudi will discuss...








