Something I was involved with a long time ago, and then promptly forgot about, was working out how authors of F1000-evaluated papers might like to advertise the fact. Buried deep within our About pages is a little badge you can put on your own website, or your CV, or whatever: If you’ve had a paper…
I’ve been playing with Google Plus, and we’re going to be putting a +1 button on our evaluations soon. We’re thinking about how we might use G+ in a way that’s beneficial to our Faculty Members as well as our users. Any thoughts, let us know. In the meantime, I’m rpgrant on google and you…
Here at F1000 we’re big fans of John Ioannidis’s work. He continues to be a zealous (in the best sense) promoter of the basic tenets of the scientific method and the design, execution and reporting of clinical studies. His 2005 paper in PLoS Medicine is still the most viewed article on F1000 (and most viewed…
A comment thread on one of The Scientist articles gives me the opportunity to mention F1000 Factors. Hidden away in our about pages there’s an explanation of how we calculate the F1000 Factor for evaluated articles. As it says there, Faculty Members rate each article ‘Recommended’, ‘Must Read’ or ‘Exceptional’. These correspond to a number,…
After a month or so of preview, all of F1000 is now sporting the new design. This means if you go to f1000biology.com or f1000medicine.com, you’ll be redirected to the new look F1000.com. This includes The Scientist magazine, and of course Naturally Selected, as you can probably tell. There are a few wrinkles to sort…
Just to let our regular readers (both of you) know that this place will be closing shortly (boo!), but all our bloggy-type content will continue to appear at Naturally Selected (yay!). This’ll happen just as soon as a last few tweaks are made: URL redirects, happy linkage, etc. Nip over to Naturally Selected anyway, as…
As you might know, Steve is leaving F1000 next month. I’m going to be ever more busy with The Scientist, and so that we can continue to entertain, amuse and inform on a reasonably frequent basis, I’ve recruited my very young apprentice onto the blog team. Callum came to us from Cases Network last year…
A quick round-up of all that’s new and approved in the world of f1000. Or at least my corner of it. M’learned colleague Steve P is in North Carolina today, hobnobbing with the geeks at Science Online 2010. I decided not to go because I’d done quite a bit of travelling just before Christmas (admittedly…
One of the great things about my job is that I see into many aspects of the publishing juggernaut that is Faculty of 1000. So not only am I privy to what Sales and Marketing get up to (this morning, for example, they were making up new words to Christmas Carols*), but I can also…
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