Shirley Wu kicked off an interesting conversation on Friendfeed yesterday, reporting on a conversation that questioned the ‘quality’ of our old friend PLoS One. Now there’s a debate that’s going to go round and round, possibly generating rather more heat and noise than useful work. The conversation, thanks to Peter Binfield, then turned onto article…

Who are we? We’re the Faculty of 1000. We specialize in post-publication peer review. What this means is that we publish brief summaries of what our Faculty think are interesting, exciting, or otherwise noteworthy published articles in the biomedical literature. That’s the ‘post-publication’ and ‘review’ bits. The Faculty consists of about 5,000 senior scientists and…

Somewhere in the depths of PLoS One an article lurks… Liz Allen and her friends at the Wellcome performed an interesting study on papers that came out of labs that were at least partially funded by Wellcome grants. What they did was to figure where each of the nearly 700 papers ended up being published,…