The XXXIV Argentinian Meeting of Plant Physiology (RAFV 2023) was held in Rosario, Argentina between 24th - 27th September 2023. The meeting aims to promote the interaction and collaboration of national and international scientists who study different aspects of plant...
PeerJ Award Winners: ProgPal 2023
Progressive Palaeontology (ProgPal) is an annual conference supported by the Palaeontological Association, and is run by postgraduate students, for postgraduate students. Every year, ProgPal aims to provide a supportive space for postgraduate students working in...
PeerJ Award Winners: 3rd Palaeontological Virtual Congress
At the end of 2021, PeerJ were delighted to sponsor two awards at the 3rd Palaeontological Virtual Congress (PVC). We recently talked to the winners of these awards, to find out more about them and their research! If you are organising a conference and would like to...
Navigating Early Careers as Women in Marine Science: A WCMB panel discussion
Every scientist transitions through the initial phases of their career as an early career researcher. It is a challenging career phase, marked by numerous transitions, short term contracts and a lot of uncertainty. In addition, navigating this phase as women in marine...
PeerJ Computer Science – Spotlight on our Awards Program for computer science researchers
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...
Virtual conferences and PeerJ Awards — science goes on!
Rigorous science continues and we are pleased to continue recognizing it within the PeerJ Awards program. We are cheering on all efforts by authors and researchers during these challenging times. Many conferences are of course postponed or waiting to see what the...
Using big data tools for small data (how PeerJ moved from Google Analytics to EMR)
At PeerJ, each article and each preprint has a counter for how many times that article or preprint has been viewed, downloaded (as a pdf), and how many visitors have been on that page. We've recently updated our analytics process for how we determine those counts and...
“We need to be vigilant to stop biases occurring” – Solving the challenges of gender balance in science. An interview with Professor Jonathan Eisen
We are delighted to be sponsoring Finding Ada an event celebrating women in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM). At PeerJ we believe the achievements of women deserve to...
Celebrating our most read articles … so far
Last week we celebrated our most cited articles since we first began publishing in February 2013, so this week we wanted to turn the spotlight on to our most highly read articles during that time. We are proud that many of the articles published in PeerJ are already...
PeerJ awarded the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) Seal
PeerJ is delighted to announce that we have been awarded the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) Seal. The DOAJ only award the seal to “journals that adhere to an exceptionally high level of publishing standards and best practice”, so we are honored to be...