It’s the second year of Peer Review Week and in 2016 the theme is Recognition for Review. Our aim in marking the week is to explore the various aspects of how those who spent time on review should be recognised for their contribution.
Peer review. What’s left that has not already been said about peer review? It’s the best system we have. It’s flawed. All of the research community spend time and energy doing it, in the belief that they are contributing to their chosen field. Here at F1000, one of our objectives is to clean up the…
As part of International Data Week, F1000Research joins data professionals and researchers from all disciplines in exploring how best to exploit the data revolution to improve our knowledge and benefit society through data-driven research and innovation. “The new kingmakers” Researchers, funders, universities, and publishers are often recognised as the key players in the Open Data movement. …
I am excited to be presenting at the first GODAN Summit in New York on 15-16th September in conjunction with the 71st Session of the UN General Assembly. GODAN (Global Open Data in Agriculture and Nutrition) is a high-level initiative to make agriculture and nutrition research data publicly available, so that the insights and knowledge they…
A guest blog by David C. Norris, who together with Andrew Wilson recently published ‘Early-childhood housing mobility and subsequent PTSD in adolescence: a Moving to Opportunity reanalysis’ in our Preclinical Reproducibility and Robustness channel. In the 1990s, Congress mandated the ‘Moving To Opportunity for Fair Housing Demonstration’ (MTO)—a randomized, controlled social experiment. MTO…
A guest post by Manuel Corpas, Scientific Lead at Repositive, formerly of The Earlham Institute & ELIXIR-UK. We all recognise the fact that good practices when developing code are a positive thing. But when reality hits home, the rush of moving on to something else strikes or simply when the all too common procrastination thought “I…
As for many of you, our summer break is over, we are back into the swing of things, and the month ahead is packed with conferences. In this blog, we are giving you a roundup of where our F1000Research team is going and where we’ll be speaking.
It has been half a year since the Preclinical Reproducibility & Robustness (PRR) channel was launched. PRR provides a venue for researchers to publish both confirmatory and non-confirmatory studies to help improve reproducibility of results, mitigate publication bias towards positive results and to promote open dialogue between scientists. A number of invaluable replication attempts have…
Guest post by Alex Holcombe, Nicholas Brown, Patrick Goodbourn, Alexander Etz and Sebastian Geukes
In response to the widespread outbreak of the Zika virus in Brazil, some health experts published an open letter in May, calling for the upcoming Olympics to be postponed or moved. Although the World Health Organization released a statement that the risk of Zika spreading by the Olympics would be low, some athletes have dropped out.…
