Open access journal PeerJ, which began publishing on February 12, 2013, has published 760 articles, and over 1,000 PrePrints across all of the life sciences and medicine, culminating in the work of over 4,000 authors. PeerJ is not only celebrating its two-year anniversary of PeerJ publishing articles in the life sciences and medicine, but also the opening of peer-reviewed article submissions to PeerJ's newly announced journal PeerJ Computer Science. PeerJ are currently offering free publishing credit to anyone registering at PeerJ Computer Science.
All articles published in PeerJ adhere to the original mission of the journal, which is to publish the world's best research openly to the world at a minimal cost to authors. Authors pay a one time only fee of $99 to publish their work for the rest of their scientific career whilst maintaining ownership of their research through open access CC BY 4.0 licensing.
After just two years PeerJ is making an impact. In a recent Author Survey 100 percent of published authors said they would recommend PeerJ to a colleague. Articles and PrePrints in PeerJ have had over one million views and over 4000,000 downloads. With recent articles being covered in globally renowned media outlets such as Scientific American, National Geographic, Boston Globe, Newsweek, Huffington Post, New York Times, The Guardian, Nature and El Pais amongst many others. The discoverability of these articles is also helped by the global indexing services PeerJ is signed up to, including most recently the Web of Science which means that PeerJ is due to receive an early Impact Factor this year.
PeerJ is also working with 131 world-class institutions by offering Institutional Publishing plans that enable the institution to offer free open access publishing for their faculty members. Notable institutions include Cambridge University, Duke University, Max Planck Society, Stanford University and UCLA amongst others.
