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It has been nearly six years since we first announced our intention to launch F1000Research, and it is five years since it formally started publishing. In this time, more than 1,400 articles have passed peer review, and we have published more than 5100 peer review reports.  The transparent post-publication peer review that was developed on F1000Research is now being or will be used on six other open research platforms, with more due to follow.

We believe that the transparent peer review model we use changes the nature of the peer review process to a more collaborative approach between authors and reviewers where the focus is purely on trying to help the authors improve their article. To explore this further we interviewed Camilla Ip, University of Oxford, who is an author on one of the most cited articles on F1000Research and Nick Loman, University of Birmingham, who acted as a reviewer on the article.

In this short video, Camilla discusses how the F1000Research publication process supported getting the results of the work of her and her co-authors out there quickly to inform the Nanopore community. In breaking down the wall of blinded peer review, Camilla and Nick talk about how transparency in the peer review process made it more like a conversation and less like a grading exercise, and how they felt it made for a better and more fair review and ultimately a more rigorous article.