PeerJ is an award-winning, innovative, affordable, and high-integrity journal publishing articles in bioscience and computer science. There are many benefits to publishing in PeerJ:
PeerJ supports researchers. The journal’s mission is to help the world efficiently publish its knowledge. PeerJ keeps authors at the center of its business model (see PeerJ’s beliefs).Researchers can read and download your articles for free. PeerJ is widely read, with over 2.5 million views and 700,000 downloads, so your research will have the greatest impact. See article-level metrics such as how many times an article has been cited or shared on social media.
PeerJ is free to publish. Pendergrass Library has an Institutional Arrangement with PeerJ to cover the cost ($99) of a basic publishing plan when an article is submitted. The membership entitles researchers to publish one article per year without any additional cost. As of August 2015, 17 authors at UT Knoxville have memberships with PeerJ paid for by Pendergrass.
PeerJ is reliable. PeerJ has over 800 Editorial Board members including 5 Nobel Prize winners. Prestigious editors come from Harvard, Cambridge, Oxford, and MIT.
PeerJ is fast. PeerJ allows you to get your research out quickly and openly to the world. The journal is currently getting first decisions back to authors with a median time of 24 days. You can also publish a PeerJ PrePrint, or a draft of an article that has not yet been peer reviewed for publication, within 24 hours. PrePrints let you establish precedent when you are the first to make a new discovery.
PeerJ is collaborative. After publishing in PeerJ, authors are asked to contribute to the PeerJ community by commenting on articles or serving as a reviewer. Comments can be displayed on a profile so others can see the conversation. Reviews on PrePrints can help you revise your work before final publication. “Open peer review,” where reviewers provide their names and authors can reproduce their peer-review history on a final article, is also an option.
PeerJ can advance your career. PeerJ boosts your credit and visibility by helping others find your work using social media, compelling figures and images, and news media. PeerJ indexes your work in PubMed, Google Scholar, Scopus, CAB Abstracts, the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), and more.
To submit your research:
1. Fill out the Pendergrass Library Form to receive approval for your free membership. We will send you a code that will entitle you to a basic publishing plan.
