We recently marked the first anniversary of the official launch of F1000Research; it’s been an eventful year, in which we published a few hundred papers on a range of topics in biology and medicine. Now we’d like to ask our readers, authors, and referees for a few minutes to fill in a survey about F1000Research.…
Last night, scientists on Twitter starting sharing six-word peer review reports, parodying particular types of referee reports. We were following along, and noticed that a lot of the #SixWordPeerReview tweets were mocking particular types of referee reports: the referees were asking for too many experiments, or the referees wanted the authors to cite their papers.…
Just before we broke up for the holidays at the end of last year we were lucky enough to have editorial board member and F1000Research author Professor Ali Mobasheri visit us in our London office. During the visit (and after the obligatory tea and biscuits!) we managed to capture on camera a brief overview of…
We are pleased to announce that a large proportion of our articles are now visible on PubMed and PubMed Central (PMC). We have been working closely for the past few months with the National Library of Medicine (NLM) on how best to represent our articles within PubMed and PMC due to our novel publishing model.…
Buddhika Wijerathne (left) and Geetha Rathnayake (right) have published two papers with F1000Research, so it was time to find out what made them return to us. Your most recent F1000Research paper covered the relationship between handedness and digital dermatoglyphic patterns. Can you tell us a bit about that? Buddhika Wijerathne: Our paper describes the association…
Vitek Tracz, our chairman, founder and all-round science publishing firebrand, has been interviewed by Science in their latest issue: Communication in Science Pressure and Predators. The interview provides an insight into the man who has become famous for his experimental approach to scientific publishing and his willingness to challenge the status quo. In the interview,…
Earlier this month I had the chance to be on the panel of one of Sense About Science’s peer review workshops. Sense About Science is an organisation that helps people make sense of scientific information. For example, they run campaigns to encourage people to ask for evidence when beauty products make scientific claims, but they…
One of the interesting aspects of F1000Research articles is that you can update them at any time. In February, Jasmina Kurepa and Jan Smalle, of the University of Kentucky, published a paper about an Arabidopsis 26S proteasome mutant that passed peer review within just a few weeks. However, in June, they updated their paper with…
For nearly 300 years, peer review has been the main arbiter of regulating scientific quality and maintaining academic integrity. Articles have to be evaluated and satisfy appointed reviewers before they are rubber-stamped into the scientific record, so peer review is unquestionably an indispensable step of the publishing process. As we know ‘peers’ are fellow scientists:…
Mautusi Mitra’s lab recently characterized two novel Chlamydomonas mutants that are defective in chlorophyll biosynthesis. You can read both her papers on F1000Research, but in this video she provides a quick summary of the work: In the video, Mitra also outlines the main reasons for submitting these papers to F1000Research, transcribed below. Speed was an…
