Guest Post — “We are ready to move forward”: A Professional Society’s Route to Open Access
The President of the American Nuclear Society explains why the Nelson Memo may cause trepidation but bring opportunity.
Publishers Invest in Preprints
Major scholarly publishers have made substantial investments in preprints in recent years, integrating preprint deposit into manuscript submission workflows.
Wellcome Money — Involvement with F1000 Opens Door on Sketchy Peer Review, COIs, and Spending Decisions
With a new partnership with F1000, Wellcome embraces sketchy peer review standards, deep conflicts of interest, and financial support of a private, commercial enterprise. Worse, the entire thing seems redundant, avoidable, and unnecessary.
Visualizing Article Performance — Altmetrics Searches for Appropriate Display
The design and construction of article performance measures can reveal deeply held biases.
Seeking Acceptance at F1000 Research — Early Problems With Identity and Outsourced Authority
Articles are published before they’re reviewed; doubts about a paper are viewed as a positive status; papers only need to contain “science;” review and revision can continue forever; and PubMed Central is their certifying entity. Welcome to the world of F1000 Research.
How Rigorous Is the Post-publication Review Process at F1000 Research?
Comparing the length of post-publication peer reviews in F1000 Research to those done pre-publication in four major medical journals shows authors are less likely to receive constructive or substantial criticism with F1000 Research reviews, despite a highly academic reviewer pool.
Can F1000 Recommendations Predict Future Citations?
Expert ratings have poorer predictive power than journal citation metrics, study reveals.
An Interview With Keith Collier, Co-Founder of Rubriq
With the creation of Rubriq, co-founders Shashi Mudunuri and Keith Collier have broken new ground. Rubriq is an attempt to provide peer-review independent from journals.
Size and Discipline Bias in F1000 Journal Rankings
The rankings of journals based on F1000 scores reveals a strong bias against larger journals and those with little disciplinary overlap with the biosciences.
F1000 Journal Rankings — The Map Is Not the Territory
Does the release of a journal ranking metric signal a change in vision for post-publication peer review?
Post-Publication Review: Does It Add Anything New and Useful?
Post-publication review is spotty, unreliable, and may suffer from cronyism, several studies reveal.