Research Synergy Foundation

What subject areas does the gateway publish in?
The Research Synergy Foundation gateway will publish in all research fields including Social Science, Economics, Business, Management, Humanities, Engineering, and Medical Studies.

What are the benefits for researchers submitting to the RSF Gateway?
Researchers will have opportunity to be part of RSF Global Research Ecosystem. You will be invited for several scientific projects (such as joint paper writing, keynote speaker, workshop coach, reviewer, scientific committee etc.). See more at our website https://www.researchsynergy.org

How can I find out more about RSF?
If you have further queries, please do not hesitate to contact us. You can send email to contact@researchsynergy.org or send message through Whatsapp number +62 811 227 479

How can I publish on the RSF gateway?
Articles published on the RSF gateway must first have gone through the RSF’s publication preparation process. Once an article has completed this process, the authors will receive an email inviting them to submit to the RSF gateway. Submitting authors will be required to upload this email as a cover letter along with their submission in order to be eligible to publish on the gateway.

What are the gateway’s editorial requirements?
Articles submitted to the RSF gateway will undergo some checks by the F1000Research Editorial team to ensure that it conforms to the F1000Research editorial policies.
Articles submitted to the gateway must meet the following requirements:

1. Articles must be submitted with an email from the RSF to confirm that the article has undergone their publication preparation process.
2. The work must be original. The manuscript (or substantial parts of it) must not have been published previously, or be under consideration or review by another journal. The article must not contain any plagiarism.
3. Authors must meet F1000Research’s authorship criteria.
4. All relevant underlying data to the study must be openly available and uploaded to a suitable repository. Please see below for more detail on open data.
5. Authors must agree to actively suggest suitable peer reviewers for their article until at least 2 reports have been received.
6. The article manuscript and accompanying data should be written in clear english. Information about copyediting services can be found here.
7. The manuscript must include full author and affiliation information, and a conflict of interest statement.
8. The reported study must meet all applicable research and publication standards and all methodological details must be made available to allow others to replicate the study
9. The manuscript must adhere to appropriate reporting guidelines and community standards. We strongly recommend that you consult our editorial policies and article guidelines for more detail on reporting guidelines.
10. Studies must have received appropriate ethical approval and consent from participants, and a statement about this must be included in the article.
11. The authors must agree to pay any article processing charges applicable to the submission. Following submission, we will ask for the name and email address of the payer, the name of their institution and the country in which they are based.

Can I publish posters, slides and documents?
It is possible to publish posters, slides and documents, however, these must be submitted by a member of RSF staff. To publish your poster, slide or document, please contact the RSF.

My article has already been peer reviewed by the RSF, does it have to be peer reviewed again?
Yes. Our editorial policies require that all articles published in the RSF gateway undergo peer review following publication. This is also a requirement of indexing services such as Scopus.
The peer review processes used by the RSF and F1000Research are very different: RSF uses double-blind, closed peer review (where the authors’ and peer reviewers’ identities are not known to each other); whereas F1000Research uses an open peer review model (where the peer reviewers are named and their reports are published online). Because the peer reviewers for RSF have not agreed to make their identities known, it is not possible to use their reports on F1000Research.
There is also a high likelihood that an article will be revised between completing the RSF process and being published on F1000Research. Any peer review that happened prior to publication may therefore not be suitable for the published article.

Why do I have to suggest peer reviewers for my article?
F1000Research has no academic editors who make decisions to accept or reject articles or identify suitable reviewers. Instead, our peer-review process is led by the authors, who are responsible for suggesting reviewers for their article. Authors are best placed to identify those in their field who have the knowledge needed to review their article whilst meeting our reviewing criteria. We have written a set of tips for authors covering ways of finding suitable reviewers for their article, and in addition, we have created Reviewer Finder Tool, which can be accessed via a link next to submitted or published articles in their My Research.

What is research data?
Research data exist in many different forms: textual, numerical, databases, geospatial, images, audio-visual recordings, and data generated by machines or instruments. In the Humanities and Social Sciences, research data may be synonymous with: primary materials, research materials, source materials, sources, resources or evidence.
Examples of Social Science research data include:

• 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 our data guidelines.

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.

How do I share my data?
Best practice for sharing data is to find a suitable online repository to host your data.
Before uploading your data to an online repository, please make sure that the data is deidentified according to the Safe Harbor method.
Repositories can be subject specific, hosted at your institution or a general repository. The key thing is that they provide long-term preservation for your data and a persistent identifier (PID) so it can be found online (often a DOI). Once you have your identifier you can include this in the Data Availability Statement section of your manuscript, along with other pertinent information about your data and how it can be accessed.