Brief Reports
Maximise the impact and reach of your research with a Brief Report
Visibility and openness of research is essential for academic development and discovery. As well as the traditional Research Article, F1000 and its platforms offer a range of alternative publishing formats, including Brief Reports, allowing you to gain credit for each step of your research journey.
Brief Reports are a highly flexible article type, suitable for many different kinds of research output, including:
Small, preliminary studies
Null or unexpected findings
Posters from conferences or internal meetings
Hate research waste?
So do we.
That’s why we offer a wide range of non-traditional article types, allowing you to tell the full story of your research.
When can I publish a Brief Report?
The versatility of a Brief Report goes beyond what you can publish to when you can publish. There are several stages within the research journey when a Brief Report could be published, including:
Planning
In the early stages of your research journey, you may conduct preliminary studies or gather smaller findings that, traditionally, would be hidden away within supplementary materials. A Brief Report allows you to report on these valuable research outputs, awarding you with a citable publication and enabling others to easily reuse your findings.
Data Collection
Publishing a Brief Report during the collection stage of your project allows you to analyse a subset of the data and validate it.
Analysis
If you have already published a Research Article using your data, following it up with a Brief Report is a great way to increase the visibility of your findings and data that fell outside the scope of the Research Article.
The Benefits
Publishing a Brief Report with an F1000 platform offers several benefits for you and the wider research community.
For you
Attaches a unique, persistent identifier to your findings, enabling them to be more easily discovered and cited in their own right
F1000’s rapid publication model allows for immediate impact
Minimise research waste with credit for null or unexpected findings
Can lead to new collaborations
For the community
Can lead to new, unexpected discoveries
Provides research material for those with little or no funding
Promotes innovation and potential new data uses
Encourages improvement and validation of research methods
Reduces duplication efforts
Why publish with F1000?
F1000 articles are published open access immediately, following rapid in-house editorial checks. Articles are usually published under a CC BY license, which permits unrestricted access, distribution, and reproduction.
The wide scope of F1000 platforms means all original research is welcome, with a range of article types available to authors to maximize reach and impact within subject communities. Our open peer review model facilitates an open dialogue between authors and reviewers, publishing comments and feedback alongside the published article. We advocate for transparency and reproducibility in research, opening potential for collaborative research, and reach beyond academia.
F1000 Platforms
F1000Research
F1000Research is an Open Research publishing platform for scientists, scholars and clinicians offering rapid publication of articles and other research outputs without editorial bias.
Open Research Europe
Open Research Europe is an open access publishing platform for the publication of research stemming from Horizon 2020, Horizon Europe and/or Euratom funding across all subject areas.
All researchers funded by a Horizon 2020 and/or Horizon Europe grant can publish original research related to their project on the platform for free.
Wellcome Open Research
Wellcome Open Research provides Wellcome-funded researchers with a place to rapidly publish any results they think are worth sharing.
The publication costs are covered through article processing charges, which are funded centrally by Wellcome. This means that researchers funded by Wellcome can publish on the platform for free.
Gates Open Research
Gates Open Research is a platform for rapid author-led publication and open peer review of research funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
The publication costs are covered through article processing charges (APCs), which are funded centrally by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. This means that researchers partially or wholly funded by the Gates Foundation can publish on the platform for free.
MedEdPublish
A new home for AMEE’s exciting, innovative approach to publishing in medical and health professions education.
HRB Open Research
An open research publishing venue from the Health Research Board offering rapid publication, open data, and open peer review for HRB-funded researchers.
The publication costs are covered through article processing charges, which are funded centrally by the HRB. This means that researchers who held an active HRB grant or were working on a HRB-funded/co-funded grant on or since 1 January 2017 can publish on the platform for free.
NIHR Open Research
An open research publishing platform that allows NIHR researchers to rapidly publish any research information they wish to share, supporting transparency and impact from publicly funded research.