In her recent Research article published on F1000Research, Saskia den Boon and colleagues surveryed health workers around personal protective equipment during the West Ebola outbreak in 2014-2015. In this guest blog, Saskia describes the findings of this survey and how they were used to inform WHO guidelines.
Laura Boykin and Anders Savill discuss the value of a updated reference dataset to help researchers rapidly and accurately identify members of the whitefly species and what this means for crop management.
Last summer we launched our interactive figures initiative with plotly. Since then, we have published 22 interactives figures in seven articles across two platforms. In this post authors describe their figures and share why they wanted to make them interactive.
A recent Research Article published by Chiara Gabella explored how best to fund knowledgebases, which are relied on by many life scientists as highly accurate and reliable sources of scientific information. There are many questions about how to fund these, Chiara explores these questions further with Helen Berman, one of the reviewers of her articles.
F1000Research operates a transparent post-publication peer review model. We believe this style of peer review creates a conversation between authors and reviewers. To bring this conversation to life, we hear from Camilla Ip, an author on one of F1000Research’s most cited articles and reviewer Nick Loman.
A study published in F1000Research found that short-term group body psychotherapy had a positive effect on a small group of cancer patients. The group participants attended 6 sessions. In this blog, the authors discuss what the sessions involved and how the patients profited from them, attaining new insights into their perceptions of their body and the relationship between their feelings and their body.
As we draw to the end of another year here at F1000Research, we thought it would be the perfect opportunity to take a look back at what you’ve been reading the most on our blog. We share with you what have been our most read posts in 2017 covering a wide range of topics from peer review to puzzles in biology.
Karolina Wartolowska explains the importance of blinding and shares the methods used to imitate audio, visual and physical cues to reduce bias during surgical trials
In June, we asked researchers to show us their code and send us their latest Software Tool Articles. Hollydawn Murray, Publishing Editor for F1000Research, shares with you highlights from some of the 16 new articles published since then. The tools cover a wide range of subjects in life sciences and medicine written in various programming languages.
The Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) are guidelines to facilitate transparent and unbiased reporting of randomized controlled trials (RCTs). Adherence to CONSORT guidelines ensures the inclusion of key information, so that readers can properly assess the validity and generalizability of RCTs and apply it to their patient population. The inclusion of key information so…
