In this blog post, Robert F. Terry, manager of Research Policy at TDR and Phaikyeong Cheah, coordinator of the Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit Data Access Committee and Amanda Blatch-Jones, Senior Research fellow at the NIHR, explore the importance of data sharing, the scepticism surrounding this practice and what needs to happen in order for it to become second nature.
Using open research to develop a high-quality network of laboratories to survey, control and eliminate neglected tropical diseases. Laura Dean and Imelda Bates, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, discuss their work on the first critical step to developing this important network and the benefit of open access for its accessibility and transparency.
How to get the credit you deserve? This week our Peer Review Experts take you though the several ways to claim credit for the work you put into your peer review report.
Jeniffer Jeykumar, F1000Research, discusses memory and highlights a few articles published on F1000Research looking into the processes involved and what we can do to improve our working memory. Memory is something which we all rely on, often without thinking much about the specifics, and how we’re able to store, process and retrieve information on a…
What is a living systematic review? James Barker, Senior Assistant Editor at F1000, introduces us to this novel article type explaining how it can help us keep up to date with the latest evidence.
This week, Charlie Vickers, Senior Editorial Assistant at F1000Research is talking about the benefits of co-reviewing. As an early career researcher, reviewing your first article can be a daunting task and it is important to get it right. If it also happens to be open peer review, this means that your work will be on show for all to see. One of the best ways to share the workload is to collaborate with a colleague who already has some experience of peer review, by co-reviewing the article together.
This week, our Peer Review Experts tackle structuring a review. Planning out your report’s structure can be a great way for you to clearly lay out your ideas and make sure you don’t miss any of the points you want to make, and it’s also a big help to the authors to have a coherent and organised review.
We know receiving a peer review request can, at times, be overwhelming and it can be hard to decide when you should accept a request. So, we’ve put together a handy guide to help make this decision easier for you next time you receive an invitation to review.
We know there is a lot to process when faced with writing your first review and so we’ve collated several useful tips and examples from our own peer review team, for you to consider when preparing to write a review.
Celebrating Peer Review Week 2019 and being a proud member of the industry-wide Peer Review Week committee, has afforded us a welcome opportunity to reflect upon and discuss this year’s theme of ‘quality in the peer review process.’
