This is a guest post by F1000 Faculty Member Ferdinando Boero. Dr. Boero’s post is a commentary on a previously published article, Biomechanical Characteristics of Hand Coordination in Grasping Activities of Daily Living, Liu MJ, Xiong CH, Xiong L, Huang XL. PLoS ONE 2016; 11(1):e0146193.
Note: the author has done extensive research and tested all methods below in the process of writing this blog. Therefore this blog actually made it out in February as opposed to some time later this year…
We are now well into the New Year. You may have started out with many good resolutions; maybe you have joined the gym, given up smoking, started running or cycling to the lab. You have probably told yourself that this year, you will give up procrastinating, and you will finish that paper/grant proposal/your thesis….
The most comprehensive analysis to date finds that F1000Prime-recommended articles receive more citations compared to other articles, and that a higher F1000Prime score is associated with higher numbers of citations. Assuming these findings stand the test of peer review, now is the time to focus on new questions about how we assess the impact and…
The first #F1000talks live chat had a great audience turnout. We summed up what was discussed with a Storify. We enjoyed interacting with the audience so much that we decided to do it again on February 19! We will announce the topic and special guests shortly.
Daylight savings gave us an extra hour recently, and I’m already short on time. We scientists never have enough minutes in the day to get everything done. If only we could clone ourselves, we’d be golden. As previously mentioned, before taking up the Outreach Director position at F1000Prime, I was a scientist at Stonybrook University…
I’d like to introduce myself – I’m Kinga Hosszu, and I‘ve recently joined as Outreach Director for the Americas. Before joining the F1000 staff, I was part of the F1000 Faculty for over two years. My love affair with F1000 started at Stony Brook University. While a graduate student and postdoc, I served as an…
Analysis of methods for research assessment, particularly in light of the huge public investment in the current Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014 exercise, is welcome. A new study published in PLOS Biology aiming to assess different methods of post-publication assessment of research, including an analysis of F1000Prime data from 2005, raises important questions – possibly…
Last week the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) launched, with Faculty of 1000 as one of the original 75 scientific organizations to sign the Declaration. DORA is a laudable initiative and anyone with an interest in improving the way we assess the quality and impact of research should read and, if you agree…
Advice to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) on data release from clinical trials, published last week, should ultimately help to improve healthcare but reveals widely divided opinion on exactly how data sharing should happen. The advice documents cover different aspects of clinical data sharing and reuse. Five advisory groups discussed: protecting patient confidentiality, data formats,…
We have a little bit of an interest in Open Access here at F1000 (yes, I know F1000 itself is a subscription service, but bear with me). We’re part of the same company that brought you BioMed Central; we publish original, open access reviews; and we have the world’s largest? first? best? research poster repository.…
