Key benefits

• »Rapid post-publication assessment: key articles highlighted within days of publication
• »Time-saving: only the best articles are included
• »Authoritative: provides opinions from peer-nominated experts
• »Systematic & comprehensive: covering over 3500 journals, including more than 850 journal tables of contents that are scanned systematically for key articles in your areas of interest as well as in neighboring fields
• »Multidisciplinary: Multiple evaluations of single articles provide varied perspectives
• »Interactive: You can nominate articles for evaluation (if you are not an author of the article) and add your own comments
• »Clinically applicable: highlights articles that change clinical practice, as interpreted by respected leaders in the field

Key features of the F1000 evaluation service

• »F1000 evaluations of the key articles identified by the Faculty can be viewed by registered subscribers, active trialists and authors of recently evaluated articles (who are offered complimentary 3-month subscriptions).
• »F1000 Factors immediately indicate the rating of any evaluated article within F1000, based on its own merit as judged by the Faculty and not the journal's impact factor.
• »F1000 Article Rankings are calculated from the F1000 Factors and used to identify the top articles in each Faculty or Section. Journal rankings will be introduced soon, followed by author and institutional rankings.
• »Hidden Jewels lists are found under Rankings, the 'Hidden Jewel' notation highlights important articles published in specialist journals within each Faculty or Section.
• »Dissenting opinions can be posted by Faculty Members if they feel an article should not have been included in F1000 or that a more critical opinion is warranted.
• »User comments can be made by registered subscribers and authors of recently evaluated articles. Comments by the evaluating Faculty Member and the author will be flagged as such.
• »MyF1000 enables you to set up and customize your own page to display the most recently evaluated articles within your areas of interest and also store searches, set up customized email alerts and review your user comments.

Other features of F1000

• »F1000 Reports are open access review journals publishing peer-reviewed reports on emerging themes in biology and medicine. F1000 Section Heads ensure coverage of the latest advances by selecting topics and nominating experts to provide context for the evaluated literature.
• »F1000 Posters is an open access repository of conference posters and oral presentation slides in biology and medicine, providing a permanent, structured environment for the deposition of posters and presentations.