What is F1000Prime?
The core directory is updated daily and includes over 100,000 recommendations of the top published articles in biology and medicine.
Articles recommended by F1000Prime are selected, scored, and evaluated by our Faculty of more than 5,000 expert scientists and clinical researchers, assisted by 5,000 associates, who between them cover over 3,500 peer-reviewed journals.
The Faculty
Composed of 5,000 Heads of Faculty, Heads of Section and Faculty Members, and 5,000 Associate Faculty Members.
Nobel Laureates, Lasker Award winners and Fellows of the Royal Society.
Highly respected in their chosen fields and nominated by their peers.
Article Recommendations
- Article recommendations are collated by Faculty and Section (subspecialty), cross-indexed, and tagged – making them easy to search and browse.
- Faculty Members and their Associate Faculty Members select, evaluate and recommend the best articles they have read in their specialties.
- Evaluations are brief, accessible reviews, highlighting the key findings and putting the work into context, accompanied by star ratings.
Star ratings and rankings
- All articles on F1000Prime are recommended, but the Faculty Members rate them as either Good (
), Very Good (), or Exceptional (). - Combined star ratings from multiple recommendations of the same article are used to rank the articles within each Faculty.
- The highest-ranked articles are listed for all of biology and medicine, and for each of the Faculty subject areas. Categories include All Time and Current Top 10s, Hidden Jewels, as well as All Time and Current Most Viewed.
F1000Prime Reports
- Open access review journals publishing peer-reviewed reports on emerging themes in biology and medicine, putting the evaluated literature into context.
- F1000 Section Heads ensure coverage of the latest advances by selecting topics and nominating experts to provide context for the evaluated literature.
- Indexed and/or abstracted by PubMed, PubMed Central, Scopus, Embase, Global Health, and CAB Abstracts.
Blog
- Highlights exciting research featured in F1000Prime, along with interviews and videos of the people behind it.
- Edgy and entertaining commentary on the members of the Faculty, what they read, what they dissent, and the authors they evaluate.
- An inside look at the conversation around biology and medicine's most viewed and most highly rated articles.
MyF1000
Customize F1000Prime for quick access to the content that interests you
- Favorite Sections: select the Sections in F1000Prime that cover your areas of interest/specialty. All articles recommended in those Sections will be filtered into Favorite Sections.
- Stored Searches: save your Recommended Article searches, PubMed searches and F1000 SmartSearches - easily refined and re-run any time.
- Saved Articles: click "Save to MyF1000" on any browse or article page to store the article details in My Saved Articles. You can also save article details from PubMed searches run on F1000Prime.
- My Email Alerts: manage alerts from your Favorite Sections feed and your Stored Searches.
Other services from F1000
An open access repository of conference posters and oral presentations from across biology and medicine that provides a permanent, structured environment as well as a venue for ongoing discussion and development of the information being presented.
F1000Research is a revolutionary open access publishing program in biology and medicine that offers immediate publication; open and attributed formal peer review, post-publication; open revision of work; and requires full data deposition and sharing.
New from Faculty of 1000: beta-launching in Spring 2013
F1000Trials comprehensively identifies all clinical trials and systematic reviews published in over 300 key general medical and specialist journals. In addition, Faculty Members rate and comment on the most significant trials within days of publication.
What to do next?
New Visitors
Take out an individual subscription for $9.95 per month, the first month of your subscription will be free of charge:
- » Read the Faculty recommendations and evaluations
- » Discuss the articles with your peers
- » View the F1000Prime Rankings to see the top scoring articles
- » Tailor MyF1000 to your research interests
- » Set up customized email alerts of new content
- » Nominate notable articles for inclusion in F1000Prime
You can also recommend a free institutional trial to your librarian.
Institutional Subscribers
All content is immediately accessible to institutional subscribers without logging in.
We encourage you to register with F1000Prime to be able to fully interact with the site:
- » Discuss the articles with your peers
- » Tailor MyF1000 to your research interests
- » Set up customized email alerts of new content
- » Nominate notable articles for inclusion in F1000Prime
