Reflections of Peer Review Week 2018

Peer Review

Well, what a week it has been! It is fair to say that each and every corner of the scholarly publishing world has been abuzz with questions, conversations, and debates, helping to bring a new level of transparency to the state of peer review in 2018. Here at F1000, we pride ourselves on openness and…

Where are all the reviewers? Interacting with F1000Research’s global peer reviewers using Plotly

Plotly

This week is Peer Review week, and given this year’s theme of ‘Diversity and Inclusion’ we took the opportunity to evaluate just how diverse and inclusive our peer review model is, looking at the geographical spread of F1000Research reviewers; the equal opportunities we provide for early career researchers; and the gender balance among F1000Research published reviewers.

F1000 supports EC’s plan for full and immediate open access (Plan S)

Plan S and cOAlition

F1000 group welcomes the important announcement “‘Plan S’ and ‘cOAlition S’” We have been some of the initiators of the Open Access approach to publishing research, and have been concerned by the limited adoption of full Open Access by publishers and the appearance of “hybrid OA”. This forceful and imaginative announcement may, we very much…

“It is a privilege to care for patients.”

Wafik El-Deiry

Our Faculty Member of the month is Wafik El-Deiry, a Professor of Oncology at Fox Chase Cancer Center in Philadelphia, who specialises in the care of patients with colorectal cancer and those with rare genetic drivers of other tumour types. In this Q&A he talks to us about his preclinical and clinical therapeutics research.