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Today is the two year anniversary of the official launch of F1000Research. In that time, over 2200 authors published 682 articles that have been viewed more than 800,000 times! You can find these stats, and more,in our infographic.

Our many authors and reviewers come from almost a thousand institutes around the world, representing all Ivy League universities in the US, and more than 90% of top research universities in the UK, Australia, and Canada. (And many others!)

It has been really great to get such broad support for our innovative peer review model, and the feedback from our authors about the review process has been overwhelmingly positive.

“I found the transparency of the review process, the professional editorial work and efficiency of the entire publication process laudable”, says Lars Chittka, Professor of Sensory and Behavioural Ecology at Queen Mary University of London, and author of two articles in F1000Research. He added, “I am convinced that the transparent review process favours high-quality referee work, and ultimately, better and fairer publication of scientific work.”

Sam Schwarzkopf, Independent Research Fellow in Experimental Psychology at University College London, added his thoughts about the F1000Research model from the point of view of a referee: “The transparent review process was very inspiring and educational, as I gained a far deeper understanding of the authors’ work than I would have in a standard review model.”

Schwarzkopf also took advantage of the underlying data that are published with each F1000Research article. Part of his peer review was based on an analysis of the data the authors had made available.

Our data sharing policy is in line with that of many funding agencies. Indeed, the NIH, which asks researchers to make the data resulting from their work available to the public, tops the list of organisations that funded work published in F1000Research.

Our first two years of open science publishing have demonstrated that researchers, funders and institutes are supportive of immediate and transparent publishing with open research data, and we are already planning for the future. To quote our Managing Director, Rebecca Lawrence (from today’s press release):

“It has been an exciting two years transforming the stagnant world of scientific publishing through revolutionary new processes and technologies. We will continue our ground-breaking work with several exciting announcements planned for the first half of 2015. There continue to be many difficult challenges in science publishing and we look forward to developing solutions together with the research community.”

You can find our formal press release here, as pdf, and view the full infographic here.