Refreshing the F1000 model: transitioning to editorial-led peer reviewer selection - F1000

"When F1000Research first launched in 2013, it set out to rethink how research is communicated, with the aim of greatly accelerating the sharing of new findings, bringing control of the process back to the authors and the research community, and providing transparency across the full process, from underlying research data and code through to open peer review. These remain crucial principles on which all the F1000 platforms are based.

However, with now over ten years’ experience of running this model, as well as observing a plethora of related experiments that have sprung up across the ecosystem during this time, we have taken the opportunity to review elements of the model.

We will be making a series of tweaks and adjustments based on feedback from our authors, reviewers, and partners, analysis of current process outcomes, and successes with alternative approaches being tested elsewhere that we can learn from...."