Illume Talents

Who can publish their work on the Illume talents Gateway?

Two types of Qualifying Authors, including students and educators recommended by Illume Research, are eligible to submit content to the Illume Talents Gateway.

How is the Illume Talents Gateway managed?

The Illume Talents Gateway will be managed by F1000 and operates in the same way as other academic publishing resources. Submissions are made online, and all editorial processes and decisions are handled by F1000.

The independent editorial services provided by F1000 ensure that published articles are of appropriate quality, and are peer reviewed and indexed (subject to peer review) in Scopus to maximize the impact of your research. The peer review is undertaken by experts in the relevant field without a conflict-of-interest connection to the authors.

What can I publish on the Illume Talents Gateway?

The Illume Talents Gateway will accept a broad range of peer reviewed article types including:

• Research Articles
• Date Notes
• Method Articles
• Software Tool Articles
• Study Protocols
• Reviews

A full list of peer-reviewed article types can be found here.

In addition, you can publish other types of research outputs such as posters slides and documents  including end-of-grant reports, policy documents, briefings and Impact reports on the Gateway.

In line with FAIR Data Principles all articles should include links to the underlying raw data to support the broadest reuse of research data. F1000-approved repositories support an extensive range of data types such as spreadsheet, images, software source code, imaging and sequence and omics data which are compliant with the F1000 open access policy (see the data guidelines).

Are submissions checked for quality before they are published?

Articles move straight to formal peer review once published, so we follow rigorous editorial pre-publication checks to ensure articles adhere to our ethical and editorial policies, including our open data and software policies. We check for the following:

• Scope
• CRediT authorship contributions included 
• Plagiarism
• Data adheres to FAIR principles with data deposited in a community repository with a DOI to access this included in the manuscript
• Ethics and Consent checks
• Language checks for readability and clear methodology
• Adheres to reporting standards such as CONSORT, PRISMA, ARRIVE or other appropriate reporting standards. 

This ensures content can be fully assessed by invited peer reviewers and readers. Articles are then typeset and given a DOI, prior to publishing and starting the formal peer review process. 

How does the F1000 publishing model differ from other platforms and preprint 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 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.

How are peer reviewers chosen?

The peer review process for F1000Research is led by the authors, which means authors are responsible for identifying appropriate experts from relevant fields. Our in-house team will check referees against our criteria, including checking for competing interests and that geographically diverse reviewers have been suggested. If the referees suggested by authors do not meet our criteria, the team will ask for further suggestions.

We also provide a reviewer finding algorithm for each submission, which scans the article and reference list to identify researchers who may be suitable to review the article. Authors can suggest appropriate reviewers from this automatically generated list or suggest their own. Authors are expected to continue suggesting reviewers until sufficient reviews have been received.

We will ensure our reviewer criteria are met and liaise with reviewers. To ensure balance and to facilitate the peer review process the team may also suggest suitable reviewers when required.

If you would like to become part of our reviewer pool, please fill in the F1000Research Reviewer Volunteer Form.

What are the advantages of publishing on the Illume Talents Gateway?

There are many benefits to publishing on the Illume Talents Gateway including:

• Rapid publication which saves time, speeds up the sharing of new findings and increases the time articles are available for citation.
• Authors decide when and what they wish to publish. The decision to publish is done without restrictions on word limits or the content bias found when publishing in journals that have a specific focus. This ensures that it is the integrity of the work itself that is the main criteria for publication.
• Publication of a wide range of outputs is supported from standard research articles to software tool articles, new insights to confirmatory or null findings, and short papers describing a data set. For a detailed description of each article type, please see our article guidelines.
• Authors can suggest reviewers most appropriate to their subject, whose opinions they value and whose comments they can subsequently cite to demonstrate the quality of their work. Publishing peer reviewer reports alongside the research also supports recognition of reviewers as well as improving transparency.
• The inclusion of references and links to supporting data enables other researchers to reanalyse, replicate and reuse, and thus improves reproducibility and increases impact.
• The use of research indicators that allow authors and users to gauge the interest, reach, and use of their research outputs.

Under what license are posters and slides published?

Most posters and slides are published under a CC BY license, but other CC licenses may apply, as indicated on each research output’s published page under the image.

Does the Illume Talents Gateway have an Impact Factor?

No. Content published in the Illume Talents Gateway will be immediately indexed on Google Scholar and, once passed peer review, indexed across a number of international bibliographic indexers and aggregation sites, including PubMed, DOAJ, Scopus and Crossref.

The Gateway is not currently indexed in Web of Science and therefore does not have an Impact Factor. Illume Talents believes in the intrinsic value of research and supports the view that all research outputs should be judged on their own merit regardless of the venue of publication. Thus a variety of qualitative and quantitative metrics article-based metrics are available for all content published on the Illume Talents Gateway allowing a view of interest, access, use and re-use of the research (including Altmetrics Attention Score, views, downloads and citations).

Illume Talents Gateway on F1000Research offers an alternative approach to traditional journal publishing. However, it is fully embedded in the established scholarly publication framework, ensuring all publishing standards are adhered to.