PeerJ

PeerJ  
Discipline Biology, medicine
Language English
Edited by
  • Jason Hoyt
  • Peter Binfield
Publication details
Publisher
PeerJ
Publication history
 2013–present
Frequency Upon acceptance
Yes
License CC-BY 4.0
2.183
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 CEO Jason Hoyt (formerly at Mendeley) and publisher Peter Binfield (formerly at PLOS ONE),[2][3][4] with financial backing of US$950,000 from O'Reilly Media and O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures.[5] 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 company is a member of CrossRef,[6] CLOCKSS,[7] ORCID,[6] and the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association.[8] The company's offices are in Corte Madera (California), and London.

Business model

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.[9] PeerJ is complemented by a preprint service named PeerJ Preprints which launched on April 3, 2013.[10] 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.[11]

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.[12] Submitted research is judged solely on scientific and methodological soundness (like at PLoS ONE), with peer reviews published alongside the papers.[13]

Reception

The journal is abstracted and indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded, PubMed Central, Scopus, EMBASE, CAB Abstracts, and ACS databases.[14][15][16][17] According to the Journal Citation Reports, it has a 2015 impact factor of 2.183.[18]

In April 2013 The Chronicle of Higher Education selected PeerJ CEO and co-founder Jason Hoyt as one of "Ten Top Tech Innovators" for the year.[19]

On September 12, 2013 the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers awarded PeerJ the "Publishing Innovation" of the year award.[20]

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