PeerJ
Last updated ISSN 2167-8359
PeerJ is published by PeerJ, Inc. in agricultural and biological sciences. It is open access. The article processing charge is $1,395.
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What it publishes
Recent work in PeerJ concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Plant and animal studies
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Evolution and Paleontology Studies
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Ichthyology and Marine Biology
- Amphibian and Reptile Biology
Key facts
| Publisher | PeerJ, Inc. |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 2167-8359 |
| Subject area | Agricultural and Biological Sciences |
| Access | Open access |
| Article processing charge | $1,395 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Science Citation Index Expanded · Scopus · DOAJ |
| Articles published | 21,591 |
| Publishing since | 1939 |
| Journal website | www.peerj.com/ |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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