HEAL1000

1. What topic areas does the gateway publish in (Aims and Scope)?

The Gateway will publish in all fields of research, including computer science & engineering, humanities, economics & business, health, natural, environmental, and social sciences.

2. What are the advantages of submitting to the Gateway?

It’s an innovative venue of publishing by adopting open practices from the submission till the publishing of the article. All articles that pass peer review are indexed in a variety of major databases, including Scopus, Google Scholar and PubMed, where relevant, ensuring the discoverability and the academic record. Articles are published rapidly after submission, thus accelerating the knowledge sharing, while various article-based metrics are available such as citations, views, downloads, shares etc. to demonstrate impact. The compliance with funder open access mandates is ensured and a wide range of article types for publication is supported.

3. Am I eligible to publish and is there a cost to publish on the HEAL1000 Gateway?

Only corresponding authors affiliated with an institution-member of HEAL-Link are regarded as eligible to publish free of charge on the HEAL1000 Gateway. The authors must use their institutional email address and clearly state their institutional affiliation in the submission form. Thirty (30) publications per year are covered by HEAL-Link, on a first come first served basis.

Should this number have been exceeded during the year, then the authors must agree to pay the respective article processing fee that will be incurred as a result of submission.

4. What can I publish on the HEAL1000 Gateway and under what license?

The following article types are eligible: Research Articles, Brief Reports, Data Notes, Genome Notes, Policy Briefs, Case Studies, Case Reports, Clinical Practice Articles, Software Tool Articles, Method Articles, Study Protocols, Registered Reports, Reviews, Systematic Reviews, Living Systematic Reviews, Opinion Articles, Correspondence, Editorials. Only the CC-BY license is available for use.

5. How does the F1000 publishing model differ from other platforms and pre-print servers?

F1000Research is a peer reviewed publishing platform. Part of its workflow is like that of a preprint server: Articles are published before peer review and labelled a preprint on PubMed Central (EPMC), but with full editorial services already having been applied. However, the important distinction is that publication is always automatically followed by invited transparent open peer review. F1000Research manages the typesetting ahead of publications and the peer review service once the article is published, thus completing the publication process.

F1000Research only accepts articles that have not been published before and are not being considered for publication elsewhere. Any articles published on F1000Research cannot be submitted to other journals for consideration.

Articles previously posted on a preprint server, such as ArXiv, bioRxiv, agriRxiv or PeerJ PrePrints can be submitted for publication in F1000Research.

6. What are the gateway’s article preparation/editorial requirements?

Articles submitted to HEAL1000 will be reviewed by the F1000Research editorial team to ensure that they adhere to the F1000Research editorial principles.

The following standards must be met by articles submitted to the gateway:

• The work must be original. The manuscript (or significant portions of it) must not have been previously published or be under consideration or review by another journal. There must be no plagiarism in the article.
• All underlying data relevant to the study should be made public and uploaded to a suitable repository. See the next section for more information on open data.
• Until at least two reports have been received, authors must agree to actively recommend appropriate peer reviewers for their manuscript.
• The manuscript for the article and any supporting data should be prepared in clear English. Full author and affiliation information, as well as a conflict-of-interest declaration, must be included in the paper.
• The article must correspond to community standards and reporting rules. For additional information on reporting rules, we highly advise you to review our editorial policies and article guidelines.
• Studies must have acquired proper ethical approval and agreement from participants, and the paper must include a statement to that effect.

7. What is the publication Process after article submission?

Articles are carefully checked by F1000 in-house editorial team who ensure that each submitted article is (co-)authored by a qualified researcher or clinician and is appropriate in terms of content, quality, tone and format. The article submissions must be complete, not plagiarized, and they must meet ethical standards. Finally, F1000 team supports authors by making sure that citations to all supporting data are included with the article, that the methods section contains adequate protocol information to make the data useful, the writing is understandable, and that all requirements in F1000 article guidelines are met.

8. How does open invited peer review of articles after publication work?

The peer review is conducted after publication to remove the delay in others being able to benefit from accessing the work during the reviewing period. Closed (and sometimes biased) review processes can often take many months, sometimes even years, and may allow competing papers to be published first. The F1000Research model removes the possibility of a paper being deliberately blocked or held up by a single editor or reviewer. It also allows other scientists in the field to judge the work for themselves and start building on it, perhaps repeat the analysis for themselves, while expert reviewers assess it.

9. Why do I need to suggest peer reviewers for my paper?

There are no academic editors at F1000Research who make choices about whether to accept or reject manuscripts or who find acceptable reviewers. Instead, the authors, who are responsible for suggesting reviewers for their work, lead our peer-review process. Authors are in the best position to discover experts in their area who can evaluate their work while also satisfying our review standards. There is a Reviewer Finder Tool, which can be accessible via a link next to submitted or published papers in their My Research, and a series of guidelines for writers on how to identify acceptable reviewers for their work.

10. What is research data?

Textual, numerical, database, geographic, picture, audio-visual recordings, and data created by machines or equipment are all examples of research data. Research data can be referred to as primary materials, research materials, source materials, sources, resources, or evidence in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

The following are some examples of Social Science research data:

• Fieldnotes, case study notes, or observations
• Audio and video interviews or focus groups
• Linguistic corpora
• Census and longitudinal surveys
• More information about research data can be found in F1000 data guidelines.

11. What are the benefits of making research data open?

Open Data allows readers of your article to delve further into your research to access the supporting materials. This makes your research more transparent and also potentially reproducible. By posting your data in a repository and linking it to your paper it gives another access point to your research and the potential for more citations and recognition. Sharing data in this way opens you up to new connections and collaborations as your data can be used by others (with appropriate recognition and citation) to accelerate the pace of research in your area.

You are encouraged to use HARDMIN, the research data repository of HEAL-Link, to host your research data in a secure, trustworthy, visible and linked way. More details about the data policy on this platform can be found at https://f1000research.com/for-authors/data-guidelines.

12. Whom should I contact in case I need more information?

You may contact the library of your institution or Scholarly Communication Unit/HEAL-Link at scholarly@heal-link.gr