INTRODUCTION TO F1000RESEARCH

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OVERVIEW

• What is F1000Research?

• Transparent post-publication peer review

• Data sharing and publication

• Article types and article collections

• General information

• Other services from F1000

WHAT IS F1000RESEARCH?

WHAT IS F1000RESEARCH?

•F1000Research is an Open Science publishing platform for life scientists, offering immediate publication and transparent refereeing, avoiding editorial bias and ensuring the inclusion of all source data.

•F1000Research has a prestigious international Advisory Board of more than 1300 of the most eminent names in biology and medicine.

KEY FEATURES OF F1000RESEARCH

• Immediate publication

• Transparent refereeing

• No editorial bias

• Data included

• Indexed in PubMed

WHAT OUR AUTHORS ARE SAYING

TRANSPARENT POST-PUBLICATION PEER REVIEW

THE PUBLICATION PROCESS

•Most journals publish articles after they pass peer review. •The peer review process can take months – sometimes years.•After rejection, start over again with another journal. •This delays publication.

PUBLICATION DELAY IS A PROBLEM

• Can be scooped during review process

• No recent published work to show for funding applications

• Lab members leave during revision process, and paper may never be published if the project is abandoned.

• Slows down research progress

• Frustrating...

THE PUBLICATION PROCESS

•F1000Research articles are published online after an in-house pre-refereeing check, on average, within 7 days.•Peer review and revisions are carried out publicly.•Invited referees judge whether the work is scientifically sound. •Articles with sufficient positive referee reports are indexed in PubMed.

REFEREE REPORTS ARE PUBLIC

Referee names are visible.

Referee reports and author comments are

visible to anyone. Referee reports are citable with a DOI.

View count shows how many people read the referee report

BENEFITS OF TRANSPARENT REVIEW

• Visible discussion between referees and authors puts article in context.

• Referees can’t hide behind anonymity.

• Referees can take credit for their hard work and demonstrate experience as a reviewer.

• Studies suggest open refereeing improves quality of review. – (See e.g. http://f1000.com/posters/browse/summary/1094564 for

supporting evidence)

VERSIONSDifferent versions of the

article are tracked

REFEREE SCORES

Approved

Approved with reservations

Not approved

INDEXED ARTICLES

• Articles with sufficient positive evaluations are indexed in PubMed, Scopus, and Embase.

• Articles that haven’t yet reached this threshold can always be revised and re-reviewed.

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Minimal requirements for indexing

CITING F1000RESEARCH ARTICLES

– Citations to F1000Research articles point to a particular version.

Example citation:Spence J, Titov N, Johnston L et al. (2013) Internet-delivered eye movement desensitization and

reprocessing (iEMDR): an open trial [v2; ref status: indexed, http://f1000r.es/zr] F1000Research 2013, 2:79 (doi: 10.12688/f1000research.2-79.v2)

– If an article has been updated since it was cited, and readers land on an outdated version, a pop-up message on the article page makes readers aware that there is a newer version available:

TYPES OF AMENDMENTS

Authors of an F1000Research article can always update their article, even after it has been indexed. Each version will be sent out to referees for peer review, and all versions of a paper are linked to each other.

Amended papers have one of two possible labels:

Authors responded to referee or community feedback and amended their article resulting in a new version.

Authors updated the article following minor developments.(For example, papers about software can be updated when the software itself is updated.)

DATA SHARING AND PUBLICATION

DATA SHARING IMPROVES REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESEARCH

“[W]e evaluated the replication of data analyses in 18 articles on microarray-based gene expression profiling published in Nature Genetics in 2005–2006...We reproduced two analyses in principle and six partially or with some discrepancies; ten could not be reproduced. The main reason for failure to reproduce was data unavailability.”

Ioannidis, J. P. A. et al. Repeatability of published microarray gene expression analyses. Nature Genetics 41, 149–55 (2009)

WHY SHARE YOUR DATA?

• Reproduction/validation of research

• Getting priority on the data (prove that you found it first)

• Testing additional hypotheses

• Teaching

• Integration with other data sets

• Increase efficiency, drive new knowledge discovery

• Funder requirement

• Academic credit

F1000RESEARCH REQUIRES ALL DATA TO BE INCLUDED

All research articles published by F1000Research are accompanied by the data on which the reported results are based.

“We’re not isolated. You work with everybody’s data, and that’s why you publish it: So you can make the results of your lab available to other people, so they can build on your studies.”

 Suzanne Scarlata – Stony Brook University

FULL DATA INTEGRATION WITH RESEARCH ARTICLES

FULL DATA INTEGRATION WITH RESEARCH ARTICLES

Data sets within articleare citable anddownloadable.

ARTICLE TYPES AND ARTICLE COLLECTIONS

ARTICLE TYPES ACCEPTED BY F1000RESEARCH• Research Articles

• Incl. Null/negative findings and replication/refutation findings• Data Notes

• A dataset (or set of datasets) together with the associated methods/protocol• Case Reports • Method Articles • Clinical Practice Articles• Software Tools• Observation Articles• Research Notes• Correspondence • Opinion Articles• Study Protocols• Reviews • Systematic Reviews

ARTICLE COLLECTIONS

An F1000Research Article Collection relates to a specific community, institution, academic society or conference and can be personalized for the relevant community it serves, and cited as a whole.

Article collections can be continuously updated.

GENERAL INFORMATION

Regular Discounts

• 50% discount on APCs for referees (within 12 months after refereeing)

• 20% discount for articles that are part of an Article Collection

• 10% discount for subscribers (personal or via institute) to F1000Prime

• Institutional agreements available• HINARI/AGORA waivers for low-income

countries

ARTICLE PROCESSING CHARGES

Article type APC

Data Notes; Case Reports; Correspondence US $250

Clinical Practice Articles; Software Tools; Observation Articles; Opinion

Articles; Research NotesUS $500

Research Articles; Method Articles; Study Protocols; Reviews; Systematic

ReviewsUS $1000

WHY PUBLISH WITH F1000RESEARCH?

• Immediate publicationF1000Research uses an author-led process, publishing all scientific research within a few days. Open, invited peer review is conducted after publication, focusing on scientific soundness rather than novelty or impact.

• Transparent refereeingSigned referee reports and author responses are published alongside each article.

• No editorial biasF1000Research encourages the publication of all findings, including null/negative results, small findings, case reports, data notes and observation articles.

• Data includedAll research articles are accompanied by the data on which the reported results are based.

F1000RESEARCH BLOG

• http://blog.f1000research.com

• News from the journal

• Discussions about open access, open science, and peer review

• Interviews with scientists

FOLLOW F1000RESEARCH

@F1000Research

https://www.facebook.com/F1000Research

http://google.com/+F1000Research

http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4267793

http://youtube.com/F1000Research

F1000 SPECIALISTS

F1000 Specialists - a global network of science communication enthusiasts helping to develop innovative publishing tools and educate life science researchers about novel tools from F1000.

To find out more and to apply visit http://f1000.com/specialists

OTHER SERVICES FROM F1000

F1000POSTERS

F1000Posters (http://f1000.com/posters) is a unique open access repository for posters and slide presentations in biology and medicine. This permanent, structured environment keeps researchers’ work visible long after a meeting has ended and maximizes the return on the time, effort and money invested in creating each presentation. •Free to access and free to deposit•Visibility for your research beyond scientific meetings•Enables peers to provide feedback on early work•The majority of leading publishers do not consider posters deposited in F1000Posters to be prior publication, so you can still publish the work as a paper. See: http://f1000.com/posters/journalresponses

F1000PRIME

• F1000Prime (http://f1000.com/prime) is a literature discovery service highlighting the best research articles in biology and medicine.

• Our Faculty of over 6,000 expert scientists and clinical researchers, assisted by their associates, recommend the top articles in over 40 disciplines

• Articles are rated and expert commentaries explain their importance.

• On average, 1,500 new recommendations are contributed by the Faculty each month.

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