A recent study by Timothy Vines et al investigated the availability of scientific research data from 516 papers between 2 and 22 years of age1. They report that the older a paper is, the less likely it is that the data are accessible, with odds of accessible data falling by 17% per year after publication.…
A round up of the week’s most popular tweets from @F1000, as well the other interesting bits and bobs from the rest of Twitter.
On 22nd April this year, four distinguished experts — F1000Prime International Advisory Board Member Bruce Alberts of the University of California, San Francisco, Marc W. Kirschner of Harvard Medical School, Shirley Tilghman of Princeton University, and Harold Varmus of the National Cancer Institute — issued a call to action. Their perspective article, ‘Rescuing US biomedical…
Last week on Twitter we had a very interesting conversation that discussed archiving research before publication in preprint servers and other repositories as part of Faculty of 1000′s #F1000Talks series of discussions around topics relevant to researchers. Our special guests for the discussion were Mark Hahnel and Ethan White. It was an engaging discussion, which…
Here are this week’s most popular tweets on the @F1000 feed, as well as some other interesting picks from the rest of Twitter…
As our sister journal F1000Research publishes the full experimental results of Kenneth Lee’s attempts to replicate the notorious STAP cell research, we thought we’d chart the story so far…
Update: We have also interviewed Kenneth Lee, here. Many of you will have been following the STAP stem cell saga: In January, researchers from Japan announced in Nature that they had produced induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells) by bathing somatic cells in acid. Other researchers were sceptical of these claims, and tried to reproduce…
When projects end, people move on, equipment may be re-homed, and funders may encourage the next phase of research to move in a different direction. Perhaps the data did not show the expected trend, or perhaps more work is required to fully analyse the dataset. This is a common experience in fields such as biochemistry,…
If you’re finding that keyword searches alone aren’t giving you accurate enough results in your literature searches, an F1000 SmartSearch might be what you need. Use the SmartSearch button, which appears on any article recommendation in F1000Prime, to create an intelligent search. A SmartSearch will provide you with highly accurate results matching your area of…
Here are the week’s most popular tweets from @F1000, along with some other interesting stories we spotted on Twitter…
