Move over Oscars, the 'Finches' are here.
| 4 March, 2013 | Adie Chan |
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We are thrilled, once again, to announce the F1000 ‘Faculty Member of the Year’ awards, in recognition of the hard work of our Faculty in 2012. Our 10,000-strong members submitted 16,465 recommendations in 2012 – the highest yearly total yet! – contributing to the current total of over 135,000 recommendations of 104,021 articles.
Managing Director, Jane Hunter, said,
“F1000Prime continues to grow and improve – 2012 saw our busiest year ever, and we are grateful for the support of our many Faculty Members from around the world who, collectively, made this possible. Their energy and generosity makes the extraordinary contributions of this year’s FM of the Year Award winners all the more remarkable. The announcement of our awards is our chance to celebrate and recognize the 32 Faculty Members, one from each Faculty, who worked especially diligently on our behalf in the past 12 months. We hope that our winners will proudly display their F1000 Galapagos finches award plaques for all to see, and that those who have won two years running (and there are a few) will even more proudly display them both!”
Please click to view the winners of our 2012 ‘Faculty Member of the Year’ Awards.
Philip Rosenthal with his 2012 FM of the Year award for Gastroenterology & Hepatology.
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Thanks F of 1000, I would be a lier if I would say that I am not VERY happy and proud to be reconfirmed as Faculty member of the year for Ecology. There is a word I do not deserve in the general description that should apply to my work with you: diligent(ly). The definition is: having or showing care and conscientiousness in one’s work or duties. It is an apt adjective for… a clerk! My favorite say is: without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible. Those who follow the norms are diligent, those who do not are (sometimes) provocative, even illuminating, or challenging. That’s what I try to do with my reviews. And I am pushing my associate editors to do the same, to find little cracks and to get into them, to dig into the subjects and try to squeeze unexpected juices out of them. If there were the possibility of reviewing papers with negative comments, especially when they are published by high-rank journals, I would go for that opportunity much. That’s why I like dissents. My “philosophical model” is Frank Zappa (the sentence about the necessity of deviations from norms to produce progress is from him). He could be labeled with many adjectives, but not with diligent. He was diligent in not being diligent. On the other hand, my other “philosophical model” is Charles Darwin, and he was indeed very diligent in breaking the current rules, to show new rules. So, yes, he was diligent, but diligent would not describe his work completely. I am particularly pleased to see that in the All time most viewed articles in the Ecology section, seven out of 10 have been chosen also by myself. They are all provocative, and I tried to be even more provocative in the reviews. Articles on the sequencing of a genome can be diligent. And also very useful, but I will never review a paper just because it is diligent. Well, I am uncorrectable, I receive an award and I dissent on the motivation for it! But I am VERY pleased to receive it. I will try very diligently to do my best to deserve it also next year, so, Ecology Faculty Fellows, watch out.