Senior researcher benefits
PeerJ is a great option for senior researchers
Use your power
As a senior researcher you are in a unique position to help improve the way science is published
- Open access publishing democratises access to the scientific literature.
- You can lead the way by championing Open Access journal publishing within your team.
- Help address the reproducibility crisis through the publication of supporting data (open data), publishing replication experiments, and negative or inconclusive results.
- Read our recent blog post to learn more about these issues, and the Bullied into bad science campaign.
Broaden your audience
PeerJ's multidisciplinary nature offers you a great opportunity to reach new academics
- Your article will be read by more academics in a broader range of subjects.
- Publishing in 228 subject areas so a great fit for multi and interdisciplinary research.
- 10.5M views and downloads (500,000+ monthly visitors).
- 26k+ researchers subscribed to PeerJ article alerts.
Streamlined submission
Our submission system is optimized for speed and ease of use.
- Built with modern web technologies.
- Continuously improved and enhanced with usability and speed improvements.
- Succinct, useful checklists for each section.
- LaTeX submissions encouraged.
- 'One click' submission supported from bioRxiv, Overleaf, and Peerage of Science.
Preview submission interface
Efficient review
PeerJ's reviewing platform makes robust review a straightforward process.
- Reviewers are asked to submit their reviews 10 to 14 days after accepting to review.
- Continuing innovation in reviewer-matching tools for editors.
- Best-practice guidance and support for reviewers.
- Smooth, pain-free review submission interface.
- Helpful, personable email updates keep you, your editor, and your reviewers on track and on time!
- A suite of innovative tools enable our editorial staff to handle articles with more care and focus, whilst delivering tremendous efficiency gains.
More citations
Boost the measurable impact of your work
- Open access articles receive more views and downloads and are accessed for a longer period of time than paywalled articles.
- Sharing your data boosts your citation rate.
- The way your article is published online matters - particularly the way your article page is coded for discoverability. We use the most effective metadata formats, including the Journal Article Tag Suite standard (JATS).
- Most of your readers will arrive via a database search (e.g. Google Scholar). PeerJ articles are automatically indexed in 14+ indexing and archival services to guarantee this vital traffic.
