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PeerJ

PeerJ
PeerJ
ISSN: 21678359
SCImago
Q1
WOS
Q2
Impact factor
2.3
SJR
0.623
CiteScore
4.7
Categories
Agricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous)
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous)
Medicine (miscellaneous)
Neuroscience (miscellaneous)
Areas
Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Medicine
Neuroscience
Years of issue
2013-2025
journal names
PeerJ
Publications
18 774
Citations
266 575
h-index
125
Publications
10 547
Citations
216 901
Top-3 citing journals
PeerJ
PeerJ (7202 citations)
Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports (6080 citations)
PLoS ONE
PLoS ONE (4374 citations)
Top-3 countries
China (5652 publications)
USA (4032 publications)
United Kingdom (1340 publications)
China (3803 publications)
USA (1590 publications)
United Kingdom (475 publications)

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PeerJ
7202 citations, 2.7%
Scientific Reports
6080 citations, 2.28%
PLoS ONE
4374 citations, 1.64%
Frontiers in Microbiology
3381 citations, 1.27%
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2845 citations, 1.07%
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2102 citations, 0.79%
Science of the Total Environment
2046 citations, 0.77%
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2000 citations, 0.75%
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1844 citations, 0.69%
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1469 citations, 0.55%
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1421 citations, 0.53%
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1364 citations, 0.51%
Nature Communications
1104 citations, 0.41%
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
1053 citations, 0.4%
Diversity
1050 citations, 0.39%
Molecular Ecology
951 citations, 0.36%
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
900 citations, 0.34%
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889 citations, 0.33%
Frontiers in Genetics
882 citations, 0.33%
Agronomy
818 citations, 0.31%
Heliyon
799 citations, 0.3%
Forests
790 citations, 0.3%
Insects
785 citations, 0.29%
Microbiome
783 citations, 0.29%
BMC Genomics
759 citations, 0.28%
Sustainability
719 citations, 0.27%
Molecules
688 citations, 0.26%
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678 citations, 0.25%
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661 citations, 0.25%
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655 citations, 0.25%
Coral Reefs
650 citations, 0.24%
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619 citations, 0.23%
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618 citations, 0.23%
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608 citations, 0.23%
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607 citations, 0.23%
Frontiers in Psychology
605 citations, 0.23%
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592 citations, 0.22%
Applied Sciences (Switzerland)
591 citations, 0.22%
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
584 citations, 0.22%
Environmental Science and Pollution Research
576 citations, 0.22%
Environmental Microbiology
572 citations, 0.21%
BMC Plant Biology
567 citations, 0.21%
Marine Pollution Bulletin
543 citations, 0.2%
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541 citations, 0.2%
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541 citations, 0.2%
Viruses
540 citations, 0.2%
Ecological Indicators
539 citations, 0.2%
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527 citations, 0.2%
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525 citations, 0.2%
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521 citations, 0.2%
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520 citations, 0.2%
Molecular Ecology Resources
512 citations, 0.19%
Applied and Environmental Microbiology
511 citations, 0.19%
Marine Ecology - Progress Series
509 citations, 0.19%
Zootaxa
506 citations, 0.19%
Sensors
492 citations, 0.18%
Global Ecology and Conservation
483 citations, 0.18%
Frontiers in Oncology
471 citations, 0.18%
Journal of Anatomy
470 citations, 0.18%
Frontiers in Physiology
465 citations, 0.17%
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
464 citations, 0.17%
Microbiology spectrum
458 citations, 0.17%
Biological Conservation
443 citations, 0.17%
International Journal of Biological Macromolecules
438 citations, 0.16%
Cancers
434 citations, 0.16%
Frontiers in Veterinary Science
424 citations, 0.16%
Environmental DNA
415 citations, 0.16%
Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology
412 citations, 0.15%
Journal of Clinical Medicine
406 citations, 0.15%
Frontiers in Pharmacology
402 citations, 0.15%
Foods
401 citations, 0.15%
ZooKeys
392 citations, 0.15%
Biological Reviews
388 citations, 0.15%
Communications Biology
387 citations, 0.15%
eLife
384 citations, 0.14%
Environmental Pollution
371 citations, 0.14%
Water (Switzerland)
370 citations, 0.14%
Ecosphere
368 citations, 0.14%
Cells
367 citations, 0.14%
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
358 citations, 0.13%
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351 citations, 0.13%
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350 citations, 0.13%
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349 citations, 0.13%
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347 citations, 0.13%
Microbial Ecology
345 citations, 0.13%
Mitochondrial DNA Part B: Resources
345 citations, 0.13%
Agriculture (Switzerland)
338 citations, 0.13%
F1000Research
336 citations, 0.13%
Horticulturae
334 citations, 0.13%
Life
330 citations, 0.12%
Global Change Biology
321 citations, 0.12%
Journal of Hazardous Materials
319 citations, 0.12%
Marine Biology
317 citations, 0.12%
Gene
313 citations, 0.12%
Biomolecules
310 citations, 0.12%
Marine Environmental Research
309 citations, 0.12%
Journal of Fungi
309 citations, 0.12%
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307 citations, 0.12%
iScience
297 citations, 0.11%
Antioxidants
297 citations, 0.11%
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Elsevier
47387 citations, 17.78%
Springer Nature
46083 citations, 17.29%
MDPI
29696 citations, 11.14%
Wiley
28302 citations, 10.62%
Frontiers Media S.A.
17762 citations, 6.66%
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
11535 citations, 4.33%
Taylor & Francis
9146 citations, 3.43%
Oxford University Press
7659 citations, 2.87%
PeerJ
7386 citations, 2.77%
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
5328 citations, 2%
American Society for Microbiology
3076 citations, 1.15%
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
2517 citations, 0.94%
SAGE
2001 citations, 0.75%
The Royal Society
1988 citations, 0.75%
American Chemical Society (ACS)
1755 citations, 0.66%
Cambridge University Press
1754 citations, 0.66%
Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
1561 citations, 0.59%
Hindawi Limited
1343 citations, 0.5%
Pensoft Publishers
1266 citations, 0.47%
Inter-Research Science Center
802 citations, 0.3%
Magnolia Press
729 citations, 0.27%
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
727 citations, 0.27%
IOP Publishing
691 citations, 0.26%
JMIR Publications
672 citations, 0.25%
Research Square Platform LLC
648 citations, 0.24%
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
643 citations, 0.24%
Pleiades Publishing
617 citations, 0.23%
Bentham Science Publishers Ltd.
590 citations, 0.22%
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
585 citations, 0.22%
Walter de Gruyter
553 citations, 0.21%
Mary Ann Liebert
546 citations, 0.2%
Microbiology Society
539 citations, 0.2%
BMJ
529 citations, 0.2%
Canadian Science Publishing
510 citations, 0.19%
Scientific Societies
507 citations, 0.19%
The Company of Biologists
482 citations, 0.18%
Spandidos Publications
472 citations, 0.18%
eLife Sciences Publications
465 citations, 0.17%
CSIRO Publishing
447 citations, 0.17%
F1000 Research
432 citations, 0.16%
Copernicus
366 citations, 0.14%
Annual Reviews
366 citations, 0.14%
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
351 citations, 0.13%
IntechOpen
342 citations, 0.13%
SciELO
336 citations, 0.13%
EDP Sciences
334 citations, 0.13%
AME Publishing Company
301 citations, 0.11%
University of Chicago Press
294 citations, 0.11%
Georg Thieme Verlag KG
287 citations, 0.11%
Emerald
286 citations, 0.11%
American Physiological Society
258 citations, 0.1%
Impact Journals
248 citations, 0.09%
Baishideng Publishing Group
248 citations, 0.09%
235 citations, 0.09%
IOS Press
231 citations, 0.09%
AIP Publishing
221 citations, 0.08%
IGI Global
213 citations, 0.08%
Brill
198 citations, 0.07%
S. Karger AG
175 citations, 0.07%
King Saud University
166 citations, 0.06%
Human Kinetics
157 citations, 0.06%
Medknow
150 citations, 0.06%
Entomological Society of America
146 citations, 0.05%
The Russian Academy of Sciences
127 citations, 0.05%
American Geophysical Union
123 citations, 0.05%
Portland Press
105 citations, 0.04%
American Astronomical Society
101 citations, 0.04%
Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology (ARVO)
97 citations, 0.04%
American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
94 citations, 0.04%
World Scientific
93 citations, 0.03%
Academia Brasileira de Ciencias
92 citations, 0.03%
Hans Publishers
85 citations, 0.03%
Acoustical Society of America (ASA)
84 citations, 0.03%
Scientific Research Publishing
82 citations, 0.03%
IWA Publishing
79 citations, 0.03%
American Medical Association (AMA)
79 citations, 0.03%
Geological Society of London
79 citations, 0.03%