Just published your Research Article? Why stop there?
Visibility and openness of research is essential for academic development and discovery. As well as the traditional Research Article, F1000Research offers 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
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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 F1000Research 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
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