F1000 (publisher)
Template:Short description {{#invoke:other uses|otheruses}} Template:Infobox publisher F1000 (formerly "Faculty of 1000") is an open research publisher for scientists, scholars, and clinical researchers. F1000 offers a different research evaluation service from standard academic journals by offering peer-review after, rather than before, publishing a research article.<ref name="Martin 2014 p. 70">Template:Cite book</ref> Initially, F1000 was named after the 1,000 faculty members who performed peer-reviews, but over time F1000 expanded to more than 8,000 members. When F1000 was acquired by Taylor & Francis Group in January 2020, it kept the publishing services.<ref name="LJinfodocket_TF_acquires">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> F1000Prime (AKA Faculty Opinions) and F1000 Workspace (AKA Sciwheel) were acquired by different brands.<ref name=":0" /><ref name="Landi 2022" />
History
Faculty of 1000 was founded in 2000 by publishing entrepreneur Vitek Tracz in London.<ref name="science">Template:Cite journal</ref> Initially, it was named after the 1,000 experts it had reviewing academic works, but over time F1000 expanded to more than 8,000 members.<ref name="overview">Template:Cite journal</ref> In 2002, it introduced F1000Prime (later known as Faculty Opinions), which recommended scientific articles selected by its experts.<ref name="Brody McGraw Renner p">Template:Cite journal</ref> At first, F1000 was focused on biology, but later expanded to additional scientific fields over time, including a focus on medicine beginning in 2006.<ref name="post">Template:Cite journal</ref><ref name="council">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="Snyder Mayes Spencer 2010 p. 182">Template:Cite book</ref>
The company was part of the Science Navigation Group until its acquisition by Taylor & Francis in January 2020.<ref name=":0">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> As part of the deal, founder Vitek Tracz remained the owner of Prime and Workspace, leaving the new F1000 (and F1000Research) owned by Taylor & Francis.<ref name=":0" /> Faculty Opinions (F1000Prime) was later acquired by a tech company called H1 in February 2022.<ref name="Landi 2022">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> F1000 now only provides publishing and related services.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Services
F1000 is an open research publisher for academic works.<ref name="overview" /> Its model focuses on publishing findings quickly using a post-publication peer-review system.<ref name="Brody McGraw Renner p" /> Authors submit an article and all of its underlying data.<ref name="science" /> F1000 does a prepublication check and publishes the article, usually within a couple weeks.<ref name="overview" /><ref name="Woodsworth Penniman p.">Template:Cite book</ref> After the article is published, an expert is assigned to conduct a peer-review of the work. The peer-review is done publicly, online, and on an ongoing basis.<ref name="overview" /> The expert conducting the peer review discloses their name and any vested interests, abandoning the double-blind, anonymous peer-review system that is typical in academic publishing.<ref name="science" /><ref name="overview" /> Additionally, other organizations like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (platform Gates Open Research<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>) and the European Commission (platform Open Research Europe<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>) contract out the development and support of their own open-access publishing systems to F1000.<ref name="Kelly 2020">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="Nature 2016">Template:Cite journal</ref>
It publishes articles and "collections" of other research content such as presentations. Users can filter articles to see only those that have passed peer review.<ref name="Woodsworth Penniman p. "/> In January 2020, the publisher Taylor & Francis bought F1000Research.<ref name="LJinfodocket_TF_acquires" />
Previous services
F1000 used to operate Faculty Opinions, formerly known as F1000Prime, until F1000 was acquired by Taylor & Francis in 2020. The founder of F1000 remained the owner of Prime, which he subsequently sold to tech company H1 in February 2022.<ref name=":0" /><ref name="Landi 2022" /> Faculty Opinions drew attention to scientific works that are well-rated by F1000's experts. The Faculty Opinions ranking system further provided an alternative article highlighting system from the use of article impact metrics like total citation count.<ref name="overview" /> Faculty Opinions experts nominated primary research papers they felt were important or interesting, wrote a description of the work's significance, then linked to where the work was originally published.<ref name="overview" /><ref name="post" /> This helped pinpoint papers.
No new expert articles recommendations have been added to H1Connect. Previous evaluations are listed as archived (see H1). It appears the evaluation and recommendation service has been discontinued.
Sciwheel, formerly F1000Workspace, was a citation manager platform previously operated by F1000. SciWheel also offered article recommendations based on a user's existing reference library.<ref name="overview" /> After the acquisition, it was owned by F1000 founder Vitek Tracz,<ref name=":0" /> before being acquired by SAGE Publishing in 2022.<ref name="STM Publishing News 2022">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>