PeerJ

PeerJ  
Discipline Biology, medicine
Language English
Edited by Peter Binfield
Publication details
Publisher
PeerJ
Publication history
 2013–present
Frequency Upon acceptance
Yes
License CC-BY 4.0
Indexing
ISSN 2167-8359
OCLC no. 793828439
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PeerJ is an open access peer-reviewed scientific mega journal covering research in the biological and medical sciences.[1] It is published by a company of the same name that was co-founded by publisher Peter Binfield (formerly at PLOS ONE) and CEO Jason Hoyt (formerly at Mendeley),[2] with financial backing of USD 950,000 from O'Reilly Media and O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures.[3] It was officially launched in June 2012, started accepting submissions on December 3, 2012, and published its first articles on February 12, 2013.[1] The journal is indexed in PubMed Central, Scopus, EMBASE, CAB Abstracts, and the ACS databases, among others.[4][5][6][7] In October of 2014 it was announced that the journal will be included in the Science Citation Index Expanded and that the journal will also be included in the Journal Citation Reports (hence receiving a 2014 impact factor in 2015).[8] The company is a member of CrossRef,[9] CLOCKSS,[10] ORCID,[9] and the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association.[11] They have offices in Corte Madera (California), and London.

PeerJ uses a business model that differs both from traditional publishers – in that no subscription fees are charged to its readers – and from the major open-access publishers in that the publication fees are levied not per article but per publishing researcher and at a much lower level.[12] PeerJ is complemented by a preprint service named PeerJ Preprints which launched on April 3, 2013.[13] The low costs are in part achieved by using cloud infrastructure: both PeerJ and PeerJ Preprints run on Amazon EC2, with the content stored on Amazon S3.[14]

PeerJ charges authors a one-time membership fee that allows them – with some additional requirements, such as commenting upon, or reviewing, at least one paper per year – to publish in the journal for the rest of their life.[15] Submitted research is judged solely on scientific and methodological soundness (like at PLoS ONE), with peer reviews published alongside the papers.[16]

In April 2013 The Chronicle of Higher Education selected PeerJ and co-founder Jason Hoyt as one of "Ten Top Tech Innovators" for the year.[17]

On September 12, 2013 the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers awarded PeerJ "Publishing Innovation" of the year.[18]

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