A review on peer review in science

A guest post from Yajing Xu, a Neuroscience PhD student at UCL, funded by the Wellcome Trust Programme. Her research interests focus on the role of microglia in the postnatal development of the dorsal horn pain circuitries. She is keen to learn more about open science and how to improve the way we are doing science.

More reviews of post-publication peer review

“Do you know any online resource which captures specialists’ knowledge and makes it available to the wide audience of researchers? I do, it’s called Faculty of 1000.” — Yulia Aspinall, PhD Product reviews are, it seems, like buses. In January we learned that F1000Prime had been ranked in the top 10% of more than 800…

F1000Prime in top 10% of online library resources

An independent review in a leading journal for information professionals has ranked F1000Prime in the top 10% of more than 800 online library resources. F1000Prime scored 4.5 out of a possible maximum of 5 stars and was most highly praised for the quality of the content in the database. The review was published in the…