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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 us, which will still work, we’ve created a tool for registered users to nominate articles.

Articles can be nominated either from the new ‘Nominate an Article’ box in MyF1000 (see left), or from PubMed search results within F1000Prime (see below; registered users of F1000Prime can directly interrogate PubMed via F1000, save PubMed searches and set up PubMed alerts). To nominate an article from MyF1000, the PubMed Identifier (PMID) or digital object identifier (DOI) should be submitted.

PMIDs are unique identifiers assigned by PubMed to every article in the PubMed database, and can be found at the end of the abstract in any PubMed record – and on any recommendation in F1000Prime. A DOI is another kind of unique identifier, traditionally used by journal publishers to help ensure the permanence of journal content on the web. Although DOIs, which are strongly associated with the ability to formally cite and link to scholarly content, are increasingly being assigned to other types of content – notably datasets.

Every F1000Prime recommendation has a DOI, so it can be cited and persistently linked to as a distinct, citable publication. DOIs for journal articles can usually be found within an article’s citation information on the first or last page of the paper.

When nominating, we just ask to be told if the person nominating an article is one of the paper’s authors. This is essential information for Faculty Members when they are considering the merits and potential competing interests associated with each nomination.