Open access publisher PeerJ has announced the expansion of its flagship journal PeerJ to include a dedicated section on Environmental Sciences. Starting October 24, 2017, researchers can submit manuscripts to PeerJ on a broad range of environmental science subject areas including ecosystem science, green chemistry, forestry, environmental contamination, anthropogenic factors contributing to climate change, and more.
Environmental sciences is a notably interdisciplinary field, with significant overlap into PeerJ's traditional scope of biology, medical and health sciences. The field is responsible for producing vital research necessary for addressing pressing global challenges, yet researchers face a number of obstacles to getting their findings heard. By expanding the scope of its existing journal, PeerJ provides an immediate global audience and high visibility for the latest findings. The innovative peer-reviewed, open access journal for biology and medical sciences, PeerJ, has published nearly 4,000 articles since 2013 receiving over 12 million views from around the world.
PeerJ aims to efficiently publish knowledge to help solve the world's greatest problems. Environmental science is a field where open access to peer-reviewed research is of great importance to the global ecosystem now, and in the coming decades. The explicit inclusion of environmental science subject areas allows PeerJ to provide a high-quality, low-cost publication venue for environmental science researchers around the world.
Over 300 new Academic Editors have been added to the PeerJ board to ensure efficient peer review is overseen by leading experts in these fields.
PeerJ is actively seeking submissions in this area and will be waiving all article processing charges for new manuscripts submitted to the new environmental science subject areas until the end of January 2018.
In addition to its two journals, PeerJ and PeerJ Computer Science, PeerJ also hosts a free preprint server, PeerJ Preprints, for biology, medical, environmental and computer sciences. PeerJ publishes all articles under a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC-BY), which allows users to share, copy and distribute a work, while at the same time crediting the authors of the article.
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