Scholarly communication in the 21st century is about providing access to the latest findings and being as transparent as possible about the scientific process. We are particularly aware of how efficient and open scholarly...
Early career researchers bear the brunt of negative effects created by closed research practices in a complex system of authority and assessment. In this guest post, Corina Logan, Research Fellow at the University of...
As part of our interview series with our Academic Editors, we caught up with paleobiologist Kenneth De Baets. We asked him about his research, his thoughts on academic publishing and open access, and how he balances...
What can a 4D view of bone structure tell us about the range of mechanisms that occur under axial loading in a typical vertebrate long bone? PeerJ recently published A study of the progression...
Last week we published Glial and stem cell expression of murine Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptor 1 in the embryonic and perinatal nervous system by Jantzen Collette, Lisha Choubey, and Karen Müller Smith. Fibroblast Growth Factor signaling...
A few months ago, we announced that PeerJ is now formally accepting a few new article types. You can choose from the following article types when starting your submission: We are thrilled to report that...
Today we published Revision of “Balaena” belgica reveals a new right whale species, the possible ancestry of the northern right whale, Eubalaena glacialis, and the ages of divergence for the living right whale species by Michelangelo...
Who reads your work and who are you intending to reach in publishing your research? As mentioned in a previous post on how researchers assess journal quality, authors decide where to publish based on...
We are pleased to announce that we will be publishing a PeerJ Collection for the upcoming Annual Meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE 2017) in Austin, TX. The meeting will...
‘Impact’ is one of those words that can simultaneously provoke hope, anger, anxiety, and derision among scientists, publishers and research funders alike. We expect the full range of emotions following last week’s release of...
Changes to bio-oceanographic conditions can trigger devastating mortality events for marine mammals. In March 2015, by far the largest reported mass mortality of baleen whales took place in a gulf in Southern Chile. In...
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