It has been half a year since the Preclinical Reproducibility & Robustness (PRR) channel was launched. PRR provides a venue for researchers to publish both confirmatory and non-confirmatory studies to help improve reproducibility of results, mitigate publication bias towards positive results and to promote open dialogue between scientists. A number of invaluable replication attempts have…
Guest post by Alex Holcombe, Nicholas Brown, Patrick Goodbourn, Alexander Etz and Sebastian Geukes
Gary McDowell is August’s “F1000 Specialist of the Month”. He is the Executive Director of the Future of Research nonprofit and a resident at the Manylabs open science skunkworks in San Francisco, where he works to support junior scientists advocating for changes to the scientific system.
In response to the widespread outbreak of the Zika virus in Brazil, some health experts published an open letter in May, calling for the upcoming Olympics to be postponed or moved. Although the World Health Organization released a statement that the risk of Zika spreading by the Olympics would be low, some athletes have dropped out.…
Vinodh Ilangovan is July’s “F1000 Specialist of the Month”. He currently works as a Graduate Research Fellow in the Department of Genes and Behavior at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Goettingen, Germany. In addition to being an F1000 Specialist, he also acts as an Open Access Ambassador at the Max Planck Society.
Today is World Hepatitis Day. This year sees the first ever World Health Organization’s Global Strategy for Viral Hepatitis, which sets a goal of eliminating viral hepatitis as a public health threat by 2030. In light of this, we spoke to Leena Menghaney and Jessica Burry of the MSF Access Campaign about the barriers to…
Following recent discussion and comments on the F1000Research publication criteria, we want to explain our reasoning for why we have developed them. We want to engage the scientific community in discussing these criteria and hear of alternative suggestions. Introduction Research articles published in traditional journals go through an opaque and often secretive process of selection…
Following the success of last year’s inaugural event, we are delighted to announce that the 2nd Peer Review Week will be held from 19th to 25th September 2016. Peer Review Week is a global event celebrating the essential role that peer review plays in maintaining scientific quality. The event brings together individuals, institutions, and organizations…
Since the Bioconductor project began 15 years ago, it has grown into vast source of indispensable analytical tools for researchers working with high-throughput genomic data. Their open source, open development philosophy naturally aligns with our open science publishing model, and so we were thrilled to collaborate with Bioconductor to launch its own channel a year ago this month.
F1000Prime celebrates its 15th birthday and so, to celebrate this auspicious occasion, Steven Lokwan, Director of Operations, takes a nostalgic trip down memory lane to reminisce on how we got to where we are today. My, how quickly time passes! It’s hard to believe, but there was a time before F1000Prime or, as we knew it…
