We are feeling all loved up at F1000 and we’ve been inspired by the Male Bowerbird to get you some lovely presents this Valentines Day. Also our usual top three articles for the month; and our Hidden Jewels. Click on the images for full access to the recommendations.
Stefano Bellentani is January’s Faculty Member of the Month. He is a Chief Of Gastroenterology and Hepatology Service at Clinica Santa Chiara in Switzerland and Chief of the Scientific Committee of the Italian Liver Center in Italy. The clinical epidemiology of chronic liver disease is his main area of research.
As it is Lover your Liver month, we wanted to get some advice straight from the expert and find out a little bit more about his career in this Q&A.
Leprosy may sound like an archaic disease but unfortunately it is not confined to the history books. For World Leprosy Day we have rounded up some of most recommended articles on the subject. Also our usual top three articles for the month; and our Hidden Jewels. Click on the images for full access to the recommendations.
Today we launched the UCL Child Health gateway and to mark the occasion we interviewed John Achermann, one of the first authors to publish on this gateway. He tells us more about his research on hormone development and fetal growth, and the importance of publishing negative results.
We were sad to learn that Stephen Katz, Head of the Dermatology Faculty at F1000Prime and Director of National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), NIH, passed away on the 20th of December. We will miss him greatly.
In support of International Data Week, Hollydawn Murray introduces our newly overhauled data guidelines. These guidelines have been rolled out across the F1000 platforms including: Wellcome Open Research, Gates Open Research, HRB Open Research, MNI Open Research, and AMRC Open Research.
This October we are proud to present Martine Extermann as our Faculty Member of the month. She is Associate Professor of Oncology and Medicine, University of South Florida, US, and Attending Physician in the Senior Oncology Program at H Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, US. In this Q&A, Martine shares the highlights of working as clinical…
Research published in F1000Research highlights an important issue regarding animal experiments, especially behavioural ones. The results of these studies could be flawed because unforeseen environmental changes are often not considered, even though they could influence the experimental results. We invited one of the authors of the article, Rupshi Mitra (RM), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and…
Liz Allen introduces our Science Policy Research gateway, a collection that brings together research on all aspects of the research system, building an evidence base for the science of science.
Imelda Bates, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, talks about her research on peer review and ways of guiding good practise for panels. In this blog, she discusses the benefits and challenges research consortia present.