A growing number of tools aim to help scientists filter and discover relevant papers and, in some cases, provide information on research impact not based on the Impact Factor. Amongst these alternative or article-level metrics tools is F1000Prime. F1000Prime adds expert commentary and context to the raw numbers – social media shares, page views, etc…
Much of the power and value of F1000Prime is down to the caliber of the Faculty who recommend articles. But we also encourage non-Faculty (users and subscribers) to nominate articles for inclusion in F1000Prime. Their suggestions are considered by Faculty Members who may then write recommendations. To make this process more efficient than just emailing…
Follow an article If a user of F1000Prime follows an article it means he or she will be alerted to new recommendations and dissenting opinions on the article and user comments. To follow an article, click ‘Save to MyF1000/Follow’ on any article page (see below), while logged in. F1000Prime authors – of published papers recommended…
The contemporary arts curator Hans-Ulrich Obrist once said that the most important things at a conference happen in the coffee breaks. He famously took this observation to its logical conclusion by running a science/arts event, “Art & Brain” that was essentially an extended coffee break.
Last week I met up with a Certain Editor from a Certain Journal. We had a nice chat about, among other things, the policy of Certain Journals as regards the wind direction in the publishing industry. From the research side of the fence it’s easy to assume that publishing houses are monolithic edifices intent on…
