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Even though we just recently launched our campaign to encourage you to submit your negative results to F1000Research, we have a few papers with negative results in the journal already. One of these papers was Dianna Bartel’s work on taste nerve injury, which she performed in Thomas Finger’s lab at the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine in Aurora. She expected to find that the central microglial response to peripheral injury of a taste nerve would rely on similar molecular signals as generated by nerves conveying pain information, but her observations did not support this theory.

Recently, I met with Thomas Finger, who explains in the video below why they submitted the work, and how they formatted part of Dianna’s thesis to an article for F1000Research.

If you or your students also have a PhD thesis chapter that reports largely negative results, now is the time to format it for submission to F1000Research. Until the end of August, we’re waiving the article processing fee on any papers that report negative results. That can be a full-length research article (like Dianna’s), or a short research article (for example based on a poster).