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The Unhappy Postdoc: a Survey Based Study

The Unhappy Postdoc: a Survey Based Study

In this study, among a large number of factors that can enhance life satisfaction for postdocs (e.g., publication productivity, resources available to them) only one stood out as significant: the degree to which atmosphere in the lab is pleasant and collegial.

Building Links with BioRxiv: Expanding the Choice for Researchers

Building Links with BioRxiv: Expanding the Choice for Researchers

Researchers can submit their work directly from bioRxiv to F1000Research offering more choice and flexibility to authors in deciding when to set preprints to under invited peer review.

Interactivity in Scientific Figures Is a Key Tool for Data Exploration and the Scientific Process

Interactivity in Scientific Figures Is a Key Tool for Data Exploration and the Scientific Process

Last summer we launched our interactive figures initiative with plotly. Since then, we have published 22 interactives figures in seven articles across two platforms. In this post authors describe their figures and share why they wanted to make them interactive.

Badges for Sharing Data and Code at Biostatistics

Badges for Sharing Data and Code at Biostatistics

Reproducible research includes sharing data and code.  The reproducibility policy at the journal Biostatistics rewards articles with badges for data and code sharing.  This study investigates the effect of badges at increasing reproducible research, specifically, data and code sharing, at Biostatistics.

When Evaluating Research, Different Metrics Tell Us Different Things

When Evaluating Research, Different Metrics Tell Us Different Things

Metrics from different sources are compared in two studies published as preprints. The research indicated that altmetrics, as currently framed, are significantly weaker indicators of research quality - as measured by expert peers’ assessments - than traditional metrics.

A Multi-Disciplinary Perspective on Emergent and Future Innovations in Peer Review

A Multi-Disciplinary Perspective on Emergent and Future Innovations in Peer Review

Emerging models of peer review from a range of disciplines and venues, and to ask how they might address some of the issues with our current systems of peer review.

Nightmares in the Lab: Chilling Tales for This Halloween

Nightmares in the Lab: Chilling Tales for This Halloween

Have you ever crossed international borders with protein crystals in a big Styrofoam hand luggage, set your hair on fire, or forgotten to use the extractor and nearly gassed your co-workers?

From Ideas to Action: Discussion on How to Write a Grant Proposal

From Ideas to Action: Discussion on How to Write a Grant Proposal

From ideas to action: discussion on how to write a grant proposal

TrialsTracker

A tool was produced that identifies all completed trials from clinicaltrials.gov, searches for results in the clinicaltrials.gov registry and on PubMed, and presents summary statistics for each sponsor online. Since Jan 2006, trial sponsors included in our dataset have completed 25,927 eligible trials, of which 11,714 (45.2%) have failed to make results available.

“We see it as our jobs to not only understand the open science movement, but to drive it.”

“We see it as our jobs to not only understand the open science movement, but to drive it.”

Interview with Rusty Speidel, Marketing Director at the Center for Open Science (COS).

Where are the female science professors?

Where are the female science professors?

Almost 300 years after Laura Maria Caterina Bassi became the first woman to earn a professorship at a university in Europe, women still comprise less than one fifth of professors across the continent.

Call for papers: publish your confirmatory and non-confirmatory results

Call for papers: publish your confirmatory and non-confirmatory results

In response to rising concerns about irreproducible science and the lack of somewhere to openly discuss these issues, we recently launched the Preclinical Reproducibility and Robustness Channel.

Work smart with Workspace, our new platform for writing papers

Work smart with Workspace, our new platform for writing papers

[8]F1000Workspace offers scientists a comprehensive suite of software and services to write and collaborate on papers, annotate and share references and articles, as well as easily discover and save relevant new articles.

A comparison of the quality of reviewer in journals operating on open or closed peer review models

A comparison of the quality of reviewer in journals operating on open or closed peer review models

Report quality is significantly higher on the open peer review model for questions relating to comments on the methods and study design, supplying evidence to substantiate comments and constructiveness.