Winning the 2011 BioMed Central Research Award – what it meant to me by Áine McKnight - BioMed Central blog

abernard102@gmail.com 2013-01-29

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There’s just four days left to put your nominations in for BioMed Central’s 7th Annual Research Awards. Nominations close on January 31st 2013. Over the last six years BioMed Central’s Research Awards have been successfully highlighting the very best research that has been made available through open access publishing, chosen by you and selected by internationally renowned judges. This year we’ve taken a closer look at our ten category awards and refined subject areas . Each award now allows us to distinguish the articles that deserve recognition across several disciplines. In addition, special awards will be given to the following categories: • Case Report of the Year • Open Data Award, sponsored by LabArchives • Editor of the Year • Open Access Institute/Advocate of the Year ... Last years’ BioMed Central Research Award winner, Áine McKnight talks about what receiving the award has meant for her and her team in this guest blog.  Publishing our work in BioMed Central’s open access journalRetrovirology was, in itself, extremely rewarding and gave plenty of exposure for our research.  We found the procedure for publication with BioMed Central to be swift and easy.  Our paper, ‘A whole genome screen for HIV restriction factors Retrovirology 2011, 8:94 (14 November 2011)’, describes a screen of human genes (almost 20,000) for those that inhibit human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection.  By inactivating expression of each gene separately, using a specific siRNA library, and determining the effect on viral replication,  we identified over 100 genes with anti-HIV-1 activity.  Being able to follow the access metrics online for our paper was a real plus for us.  Within three days, our publication hit the top of the list of most accessed papers that month.  Winning the BioMed Central Research Awards 2011 gave our article a further boost, and raised the morale of my whole team. By the end of 2012, just a little over a year after the paper was published, it had been viewed almost 4000 times. This is reflected in a high citation rate! ..."

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01/29/2013, 16:52

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01/29/2013, 11:52