Faculty of 1000's F1000Prime article recommendation service has partnered with Public Library of Science (PLOS), to provide enhanced information to researchers on the impact of their published articles.
'F1000Prime recommended' badges and scores have been added to all PLOS journal articles that have been selected for inclusion in F1000Prime by F1000's Faculty of peer-nominated life scientists and clinicians. Adding F1000Prime scores to PLOS's sophisticated article-level metrics (ALMs) gives authors of important articles more information on the impact of their work and its recognition by respected scientists, and will help guide readers to expert commentaries on important papers.
ALMs offer a rapid and broad view of the reach and impact of research articles through an ever- increasing range of metrics. These metrics include traditional citation data, through to article downloads, discussions on science blogs, and usage of articles on a variety of social media and online bookmarking services.
More than 3,000 articles published in PLOS journals have so far been selected for inclusion in F1000Prime – a directory of important articles in biology and medicine. PLOS have also introduced new classifications for their ALMs, which make distinctions between scholarly metrics such as F1000 recommendations, and social media discussions about research, which includes non-scientists.
Research by the Medical Research Council has shown that articles recommended by F1000Prime are more likely to be highly cited, and there are many other ways ALMs can help understanding of the diverse impact of research. PLOS and Faculty of 1000 will be working together to study associations between F1000 recommendations and other measures of research impact.
Faculty of 1000 and PLOS are both supporters of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA), which launched in May 2013, and promotes the use of more scientific ways, than the Journal Impact Factor, to assess individual research articles and authors.
