Robin Haunschild and Lutz Bornmann compared metrics from different sources in two studies published as preprints. But what different metrics actually tell us about the quality of research when compared to expert opinion?
The end of 2017 is pretty much with us now and what a year it has been here at F1000 with various announcements, discussions of peer review and the ethics of publishing. We take a look back at what blog posts you have been the most in read in 2017.
Tatyana Dubich was one of the organisers of this year’s N2 Science Communication Conference that took place earlier this year to encourage science communication among early career researchers in Germany. In this guest blog, she gives us a round-up some of the discussions that took place during the conference.
Today is another step on on the Montreal Neurological Institute’s journey to become an open science institute, as MNI Open Research publishes its first articles. The platform launches with three articles from its researchers and their collaborators, with more on the way.
Integrated development raises a lot of questions. Tessa Ahner-McHaffie and colleagues from FH360 tried to answer some of these in a Systematic Review published on Gates Open Research and currently being peer reviewed. In this guest blog, she describes the work that her and colleagues have done in exploring the evidence around this area of development work.
Our Managing Director, Rebecca Lawrence, announces another new publication platform – AAS Open Research – in partnership with the African Academy of Sciences. Rebecca sets out how this new platform could bring about a transformation in how the African research community works.
Gates Open Research, a new publication platform for grantees of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has published its first articles this week. One of the first articles to be published there is by Lisa Reimer and colleagues. Here, she describes their work in monitoring pathogens present in mosquitoes from their feces captured using a superhydrophobic cone and why they chose to publish on Gates Open Research.
Expanding on their recent post on the Center for Global Development’s Global Health Policy Blog, Amanda Glassman and Rebecca Forman talk about the new book on Health Benefits Package design and the accompanying policy brief published on the iDSI Knowledge Gateway.
We end Open Access week by talking to Jennifer Hansen, Senior Program Officer & Ashley Farley, Associate Program Officer from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation who work on Gates Open Research and the foundation’s open access program.
In this Q&A, Martin Elliott, Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery at University College London (UCL) and an Advisory Board Member for UCL Child Health Open Research platform, shares his views on open access, anticipating an increase in its use by institutions and grant-giving bodies, and explains how this could improve trust and transparency in the scientific community.
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