Faculty of 1000
Encyclopedia
Faculty of 1000 is a service for researchers and clinicians that provides ratings of and commentary on scientific research papers. The service acts as a filter, identifying and evaluating the most significant articles from biomedical research publications. A peer-nominated 'Faculty' of scientists and clinicians rate the articles they read and explain their importance.
Launched in 2002, F1000 was conceived as a collaboration of 1000 international Faculty Members. The Faculty now numbers more than 10,000. Faculty Members and their evaluations are organized into over 40 Faculties (subjects), which are further subdivided into over 300 Sections (sub-topics). As of January 2011, F1000 contains over 100,000 evaluations for papers from over 3000 different journals.
Faculty members select and evaluate important papers in their areas of expertise, usually tagging them as well to further classify papers as Clinical Trials, Novel Drug Targets etc.
F1000 rates research articles on their own merits rather than according to the prestige or Impact factor
of the journal in which they are published.
The Faculty of 1000 service also includes F1000 Biology Reports and F1000 Medicine Reports journals, which present peer-reviewed commentaries on emerging themes in biology and medicine. These open access journal
s are currently indexed and/or abstracted by Scopus, Embase, Global Health, CAB Abstracts and PubMed Central.
In 2010, F1000 Posters (F1000Posters.com), an open access repository of posters and presentations from international conferences across biology and medicine was added to the F1000 service, and in 2011 F1000 launched a new journal ranking system. The F1000 Journal Factor (FFj) is a measure of how well an individual journal is performing on F1000. It is calculated from the individual FFa values and normalized according to the total number of eligible articles each journal has published. Journals are ranked by FFj down to Section (specialty) level.
Faculty of 1000 previously existed as two sister sites, F1000 Biology and F1000 Medicine. In 2010, these services were combined and launched as F1000.com.
On average, 1500 new evaluations are published on the F1000 site each month and over 3,000 journals are represented.
Launched in 2002, F1000 was conceived as a collaboration of 1000 international Faculty Members. The Faculty now numbers more than 10,000. Faculty Members and their evaluations are organized into over 40 Faculties (subjects), which are further subdivided into over 300 Sections (sub-topics). As of January 2011, F1000 contains over 100,000 evaluations for papers from over 3000 different journals.
Faculty members select and evaluate important papers in their areas of expertise, usually tagging them as well to further classify papers as Clinical Trials, Novel Drug Targets etc.
F1000 rates research articles on their own merits rather than according to the prestige or Impact factor
Impact factor
The impact factor, often abbreviated IF, is a measure reflecting the average number of citations to articles published in science and social science journals. It is frequently used as a proxy for the relative importance of a journal within its field, with journals with higher impact factors deemed...
of the journal in which they are published.
The Faculty of 1000 service also includes F1000 Biology Reports and F1000 Medicine Reports journals, which present peer-reviewed commentaries on emerging themes in biology and medicine. These open access journal
Open access journal
Open access journals are scholarly journals that are available online to the reader "without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself." Some are subsidized, and some require payment on behalf of the author.Subsidized journals...
s are currently indexed and/or abstracted by Scopus, Embase, Global Health, CAB Abstracts and PubMed Central.
In 2010, F1000 Posters (F1000Posters.com), an open access repository of posters and presentations from international conferences across biology and medicine was added to the F1000 service, and in 2011 F1000 launched a new journal ranking system. The F1000 Journal Factor (FFj) is a measure of how well an individual journal is performing on F1000. It is calculated from the individual FFa values and normalized according to the total number of eligible articles each journal has published. Journals are ranked by FFj down to Section (specialty) level.
History
Faculty of 1000 was founded by publishing entrepreneur Vitek Tracz. The company is part of Science Navigation Group, which also owns, Global DataPoint, Postcode Gazette, Current BioData, and Web of Stories.Faculty of 1000 previously existed as two sister sites, F1000 Biology and F1000 Medicine. In 2010, these services were combined and launched as F1000.com.
On average, 1500 new evaluations are published on the F1000 site each month and over 3,000 journals are represented.
Faculty Members
The Faculty includes 5 Nobel prize winners, 81 fellows of The Royal Society, 12 Lasker Award winners, 136 members of NAS and 97 members of the Institute of Medicine.External links
- Faculty of 1000 website
- Faculty of 1000 wins ALPSP Award for publishing innovation
- Telegraph article on F1000 evaluation
- F1000 in the BBC article "Science enters the age of Web 2.0"
- MRC Article "F1000 evaluation of MRC publication output"
- "Looking for Landmarks: The Role of Expert Review and Bibliometric Analysis in Evaluating Scientific Publication Outputs" Featuring F1000