We are pleased to announce that a large proportion of our articles are now visible on PubMed and PubMed Central (PMC). We have been working closely for the past few months with the National Library of Medicine (NLM) on how best to represent our articles within PubMed and PMC due to our novel publishing model.…
Buddhika Wijerathne (left) and Geetha Rathnayake (right) have published two papers with F1000Research, so it was time to find out what made them return to us. Your most recent F1000Research paper covered the relationship between handedness and digital dermatoglyphic patterns. Can you tell us a bit about that? Buddhika Wijerathne: Our paper describes the association…
One of the most popular themes around healthy foods is the emphasis on their anti-oxidant activity. Anti-oxidants remove reactive oxygen from cells, which minimizes damage to the cell. So, having associated “anti-oxidant” with “healthy” for so long, it was surprising to see an article about the anti-cancer properties of the pro-oxidant activity of dietary components.…
Earlier this week, we started a discussion on Twitter, using hashtag #scoopingsci, to talk about issues surrounding scooping in science. This is an interesting topic from our point of view, because we can help researchers in different ways, and from the ensuing Twitter discussion, it seems like all these angles are of interest to people:…
In September we published the latest version of an article called “Prevalence of antibiotic-resistant E. coli in retail chicken: comparing conventional, organic, kosher, and raised without antibiotics”. The study showed that Kosher chicken had higher levels of antibiotic-resistant E. coli than conventional, organic, or RWA chicken. This piqued the interest of several media outlets, and…
1. We’ve just attended a number of conferences and visited several institutes, so you might have already met us. Why not send us a paper, and be included in our first full calendar year of published articles? (SfN reception, 11/11/13 – photo by Cindy Chen.) 2. It’s a busy time of year, but…
F1000Research is excited to showcase a beta version of our new data plotting tool, which enables referees and readers to visualise and play with the data in our articles ‘on the fly’. This tool can be currently seen on two datasets within two different articles: https://f1000research.com/articles/2-150/v1#plot and https://f1000research.com/articles/1-70/v1#plot. One important aspect of publishing in F1000Research…
Last week we announced our three distinct amendment options for F1000Research articles. One of the options is a ‘follow-up’ article, which has been designed for authors who have published a paper that would benefit from regular additions to ensure that the content is both current and relevant to its readers. The need for this type…
As anyone familiar with the F1000Research model knows, all our articles can be amended by the authors following publication to produce new individually citable versions of that article. We have labelled such amendments to-date using a black ‘Updated’ badge at the start of the article title and in the article status summary box on the…
Providing open access to data and software source code associated with F1000Research publications is a central feature of our journal. To further facilitate open access to software, we are pleased to announce we have created an F1000Research collection at Zenodo and an F1000Research space within GitHub. GitHub is a popular software repository used by a…
